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Revision as of 16:02, 23 April 2014
Downloading
Firstly, download Minetest for your operating system and extract it somewhere you can access it.
Installing
Installation will differ depending on your operating system. Here are instructions for each OS:
Windows Installation
Open the extracted folder and look for the bin folder. Open bin and run minetest.exe.
- Folder structure as installed by the run-in-place built for Windows minetest-0.4.9-65d1cb8 compiled by sfan5 (2014-03-30)
minetest/
├── bin/
├── builtin/
├── client/
│ ├── serverlist/
│ └── shaders/
│ ├── alpha_shader/
│ ├── leaves_shader/
│ ├── liquids_shader/
│ ├── plants_shader/
│ └── solids_shader/
├── doc/
├── fonts/
├── games/
│ ├── minetest_game/
│ └── minimal/
├── locale/
│ └── (lots of language folders)
├── mods/
└── textures/
└── base/
└── pack/
OS X Installation
Open the extracted folder and run the .app.
GNU/Linux Installation
If you can, download the version already compiled for your distribution of GNU/Linux. If you can't find one, you can compile it yourself from here. In this case, you should also install a so-called Minetest-Game.
Playing
Now that you have it installed you can either; play singleplayer, play on a local server or play online by connecting to a server.
Play Singleplayer
To play singleplayer simply create a world and click Play.
You can choose (or install) a Game or just use the Minimal development test game.
Play Online
To play online you must enter a username, a password for yourself, and the server address (and port). If it is your first time connecting to that server it will create a player for you with your chosen username. Using a password is strongly recommended to stop others griefing your character.
Creating a character is simply done by setting an username and optionally a password. If you set a password when joining a server for the first time, it will be required for further connections on the same server.
Basic Controls
Most of these can be changed in the “Change Keys” menu. For a more complete list of controls, see Controls.
The default and most important controls are:
- W/A/S/D: Move
- Space: Jump
- Left mouse button: Attack, mine blocks, move an item stack in an inventory
- Right mouse button: Use (e.g. open chest/furnace), place blocks, move one or split blocks/items in inventory
- Shift+Right mouse button: Place blocks
- Middle mouse button: Move 10 blocks/items in inventory
- Mouse wheel: Select block/item in hotbar
- 0-9: Select block/item in hotbar
- Q: Drop block/item
- I: open/close inventory menu
- T: open chat window
- Shift: Descend on ladders or sneak/walk slower
Gameplay
See this video for the basics about Minetest. It is a bit out-dated, however.
Here is a little tutorial: How to build your first house.
The following wiki pages explain some basic Minetest concepts more or less in-depth:
If you want to play online, you should read the gameplay notes for multiplayer servers.
As soon as you grasped the basics, you may want to look up which blocks and items are available and get an overview about farming.
Just want to build? Try creative mode!
If you want more, consider trying new mods and games.
Advanced topics: