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.TH minetest 6 "2 February 2019" "" ""
.SH NAME
minetest, minetestserver \- Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B minetest
[\fB--server SERVER OPTIONS\fR | \fBCLIENT OPTIONS\fR]
[\fBCOMMON OPTIONS\fR]
[\fBWORLD PATH\fR]
.B minetestserver
[\fBSERVER OPTIONS\fR]
[\fBCOMMON OPTIONS\fR]
[\fBWORLD PATH\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Minetest is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games
(started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay
in a slightly different direction.
.PP
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The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and
portable. It will be kept lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware.
.SH COMMON OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-help
Print allowed options and exit
.TP
.B \-\-version
Print version information and exit
.TP
.B \-\-config <value>
Load configuration from specified file
.TP
.B \-\-logfile <value>
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Set logfile path ('' for no logging)
.TP
.B \-\-info
Print more information to console
.TP
.B \-\-verbose
Print even more information to console
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.TP
.B \-\-trace
Print enormous amounts of information to console
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.TP
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.B \-\-quiet
Print only errors to console
.TP
.B \-\-color <value>
Colorize the logs ('always', 'never' or 'auto'), defaults to 'auto'
.TP
.B \-\-gameid <value> | list
Set gameid or list available ones
.TP
.B \-\-worldname <value>
Set world path by name
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.TP
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.B \-\-world <value>
Set world path
.TP
.B \-\-worldlist path | name | both
Get list of worlds ('path' lists paths, 'name' lists names, 'both' lists both)
.TP
.B \-\-map\-dir <value>
Same as \-\-world (deprecated)
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.TP
.B \-\-port <value>
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Set network port (UDP) to use
.TP
.B \-\-run\-unittests
Run unit tests and exit
.SH CLIENT OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-address <value>
Address to connect to
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.TP
.B \-\-go
Disable main menu
.TP
.B \-\-name <value>
Set player name
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.TP
.B \-\-password <value>
Set password
.TP
.B \-\-password\-file <value>
Set password from contents of file
.TP
.B \-\-random\-input
Enable random user input, for testing (client only)
.TP
.TP
.B \-\-speedtests
Run speed tests
.SH SERVER OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-migrate <value>
Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
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leveldb, redis, postgresql, and dummy.
.TP
.B \-\-migrate-auth <value>
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Migrate from current auth backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
leveldb, and files.
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.TP
.B \-\-migrate-players <value>
Migrate from current players backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3,
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leveldb, postgresql, dummy, and files.
.TP
.B \-\-migrate-mod-storage <value>
Migrate from current mod storage backend to another. Possible values are
sqlite3, dummy, and files.
.TP
.B \-\-terminal
Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
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Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.
.TP
.B MINETEST_MOD_PATH
Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.
.TP
.B MINETEST_USER_PATH
Path to Minetest user data directory.
.SH BUGS
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Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues.
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
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Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com> and contributors.
.PP
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This man page was originally written by
Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>.
.SH WWW
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http://www.minetest.net/