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Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and game engine that is heavily inspired by Minecraft and InfiniMiner.

Installation

USE flags

Note
Support for minetest server is now enabled via the server USE flag.

USE flags for games-engines/minetest A free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation

`client`	Build Minetest client
`curl`	Add support for client-side URL transfer library
`doc`	Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
`leveldb`	Enable LevelDB backend
`ncurses`	Add ncurses support (console display library)
`nls`	Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
`postgres`	Add support for the postgresql database
`prometheus`	Enable prometheus client support
`redis`	Enable redis backend via dev-libs/hiredis
`server`	Build Minetest server
`sound`	Enable sound support
`spatial`	Enable SpatialIndex AreaStore backend
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask games-engines/minetest

Configuration

Files

/etc/minetest/minetest.conf - Location of configuration file necessary to successfully start a minetest server (this file must be created!).
/etc/init.d/minetest-server - Run script for OpenRC.
/etc/conf.d/minetest-server - Configuration run script for OpenRC.

minetest.conf

Creating the /etc/minetest/minetest.conf is necessary in order to proceed with running a minetest server.

Service

The services instructions are for systems that will be running a server. Users who are connecting to a server can proceed to the usage section below.

Important
A configuration file must be created at /etc/minetest/minetest.conf before the minetest service will start.

OpenRC

root #rc-service minetest-server start

To start the minetest server at system boot:

root #rc-update add minetest-server default

systemd

To start the server, issue the following:

root #systemctl start minetest-server

If the minetest server should automatically start when the system reboots, run:

root #systemctl enable minetest-server

Troubleshooting

The server is not running

If the server is not running, the server status should be checked.

OpenRC:

root #rc-service minetest-server status

systemd:

root #systemctl status minetest-server

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose games-engines/minetest