Games/Tutorial

Tutorial

The Tutorial is an unofficial subgame for Minetest which teaches the fundamental basics of Minetest. It is not shipped together with Minetest. It is not aimed to teach each and every weirdness of Minetest, not the specialties of other subgames. What the tutorial teaches should apply for all subgames for the Minetest engine. This article will guide you how to install and start the tutorial.

The tutorial is bundled together with a world, called “Tutorial World”. It only makes sense to play the Tutorial in Tutorial World.

Screenshot of Tutorial World:

Guide

How to install

To install the tutorial, follow these steps:

• Download the tutorial package, the link is in this forum thread: [1]
• Depending on your operating system, you have to extract the Zip archive in to the following directory:
  • GNU/Linux: $HOME/.minetest, where “$HOME” refers to your home directory.
  • Mac OS: $HOME/.minetest, where “$HOME” refers to your home directory.
  • Windows: ???

How to start

To start the tutorial, follow these steps:

• Start Minetest
• Select the tab “singleplayer”
• Click on the blue icon with a graduate cap labelled “Tutorial”.
• In the world list, select “Tutorial World [tutorial]”
• Make sure the checkbox “Creative Mode” is off and “Damage enabled” is on

The main menu should now look like this:

Finally, click on “Play”. Minetest will start and load the tutorial. If the loading is done, you should see something like this:

From this point on, the tutorial should guide you through the game.

Have fun with Minetest!

Links

• Forum thread and discussion