Blocks are the building blocks in Minetest. They have 16x16 textures and are seen by the player as one cubic meter. Blocks are also called Nodes in Minetest, which is relevant to Modding.
Naturally generated nodes
These nodes occurred naturally in the generated maps. Stairs are excluded from this list. See Stair to see the generated stairs.
Gases
Liquids
Dirt, etc.
Stone
Ores
See also: Ores
Dungeons
Plants and fungi
Trees
Insects
Background color key
The background color denotes the availability of the nodes. It tells you in which map generators these nodes may be generated.
- Yellow: Generated in all map generators
- White: Generated in all map generators except singlenode
- Gray: Generated in all map generators except v6 and singlenode
- Light blue: Only generated in valleys
Manufactured nodes
These nodes are not found naturally; these must be crafted or smelted by the player.
Building nodes
Barriers
Light
Transportation
Storage
Usable
Decoration
Slabs and Stairs
Grown nodes
These nodes are not found naturally. They have to be harvested or grown by the player.
Created by various events
Unused blocks
These blocks also exist in the vanilla Minetest game, but these don’t appear in usual gameplay. These blocks can only be obtained by unconventional means, for example, in creative mode or with the server command “/giveme
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Blocks in future versions
These blocks are in the development version of Minetest.
See also