Tutorials

New to Minetest? Need help setting up a server or making a texture pack? Then you've come to the right place. On this page is a comprehensive list of all the tutorials/guides on the Minetest Wiki.

Beginner tutorials for Players

If you're new and do not know what to do, see below.

• Tutorial: Fully-playable tutorial game teaching the basics of common Minetest gameplay
• How to build your first house (Minetest Game)

General information

• Controls
• Server commands
• Privileges
• minetest.conf

Servers

Minetest offers a fun online multiplayer mode. With this guide you can set up your server and host it on the web.

• General information about servers
• Setting up a server

Mods

Mods are packages that may add or change something in a game. Each game for Minetest has its own ecosystem of mods that extend that particular game, or there are game-agnostic mods that support all games.

• Installing Mods
• Installing Client-Side Mods

Texture Packs

Texture packs change the look of Minetest. Tired of looking at the same old textures? ContentDB offers many texture packs for you to pick between.

• Installing texture packs
• Creating texture packs

Games

You can play different games on Minetest, each with unique gameplay aspects.

• Installing games
• Creating games

Maps

Maps are the creations of the Minetest community. Not only you create your own maps, you can also install other people's maps.

• Installing maps

3D Meshes

• Using Blender to create 3D meshes (for entities)