.\" Minetest man page
.TH minetest 6 "10 September 2013" "" ""

.SH NAME
minetest \- Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B minetest
[ OPTION ... ]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Minetest
is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired games (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multiplayer gameplay to a slightly different direction.
.PP
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 OPTIONS
.TP
\-\-address <value>
Address to connect to
.TP
\-\-config <value>
Load configuration from specified file
.TP
\-\-disable\-unittests
Disable unit tests
.TP
\-\-enable\-unittests
Enable unit tests
.TP
\-\-gameid <value>
Set gameid
.TP
\-\-go
Disable main menu
.TP
\-\-help
Show allowed options
.TP
\-\-version
Show version information
.TP
\-\-logfile <value>
Set logfile path (debug.txt)
.TP
\-\-map\-dir <value>
Same as \-\-world (deprecated)
.TP
\-\-name <value>
Set player name
.TP
\-\-password <value>
Set password
.TP
\-\-port <value>
Set network port (UDP) to use
.TP
\-\-random\-input
Enable random user input, for testing
.TP
\-\-server
Run dedicated server
.TP
\-\-speedtests
Run speed tests
.TP
\-\-videomodes
List available video modes
.TP
\-\-info
Print more information to console
.TP
\-\-verbose
Print even more information to console
.TP
\-\-trace
Print enormous amounts of information to console
.TP
\-\-world <value>
Set world path
.TP
\-\-migrate <value>
Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are sqlite3
and leveldb. Only works when using --server.

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

.TP
MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
Colon delimited list of directories to search for subgames.

.SH BUGS
Please report all bugs to Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>.

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>
and contributors.
.PP
This man page was originally written by
Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>.

.SH WWW
http://www.minetest.net/

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR minetestserver(6)