Installing Texture Packs

Minetest version 0.4.8 and higher

The following explanations assume that you have a minetest version 0.4.8 and higher like the one you find on this page: http://minetest.net/download
. It should display a Textures tab in the tab row in the upper part of the main menu. Download the texture pack. If it is zipped (it probably is), unzip it and move the folder from within the archive to one of the following locations.

Windows 5 (XP) - 8

You will find a folder called textures in your minetest base folder. Place the texture pack there.

Location of the Texture folder within the folder structure of a run-in-place installation of Minetest, including some of the folders Minetest adds after some usage as client and server, as well as the positions (...) that costum made content goes. Unrelevant folders are not expanded.

minetest/
├── bin/
├── builtin/
├── cache/
├── client/
├── doc/
├── fonts/
├── games/
│   ├── minetest_game/
│   ├── minimal/
│   └── ... (installed extra games)
├── locale/
├── mods/
│   └── ... (installed extra mods and modpacks)
├── textures/
│   ├── base/
│   │   └── pack/
│   └── ... (installed extra texturepacks)
└── worlds/
    └── ... (saved worlds. Some with exclusive world mods)

Linux (tested in Ubuntu, but probably is the same for most distributions)

Find the folder ~/.minetest (so ~ is your home directory and .minetest means it is a hidden folder within your home directory - you might have to access it by pasting that path to your directory browser's adress bar)
Place the texture pack within the ./textures folder.
If you create a server and want that the texture pack works not only for you, change the texture pack name to server.

Start Minetest and select a new style in the Textures tab!

Older Minetest versions

As above download the texture pack and extract it somewhere. You may wish to rename the resultant folder to something meaningful.

Minetest-0.3.x

Make a backup of your Minetest folder, then copy all the texture files to {your_minetest_folder}/data

Minetest-Classic

Make a backup of your Minetest folder, then copy all the texture files to {your_minetest_folder}/data/textures

Recent 0.4.x builds, up to 0.4.7 release (all game variants)

Either edit your Minetest configuration file by hand and point the "texture_path=" variable to the folder you keep your copy of the texture pack in, or copy all of the texture pack's image files into {your_minetest_folder}/textures/all .