Minetest (Luanti): Connecting to and setting up your server

Here you’ll learn how to connect to your Minetest server (Luanti) and change the most important settings.

Connecting

Start the server on the server page with Start.
Wait until the status shows “running”. You can follow the progress in the Console.
In the game, under “Join Game”, enter the address and port from the server page, plus your player name and a password.
The address (IP:Port) is shown at the top of your server page.

You change these values in the Startup variables tab. Changes take effect on the next restart.

Server name (SERVER_NAME) – the name shown when joining and in the server list.
Admin player (SERVER_ADMIN_NAME) – whoever connects with this name is admin.
Server password (SERVER_PASSWORD) – new players must enter this password.
Show in server list (SERVER_ANNOUNCE) – automatically announces the server to the public server list.
World name (WORLD_NAME) and Game (DEFAULT_GAME) – the world and the game for new worlds. Only change the game if you have already uploaded it.
Load community game (COMMUNITY_DOWNLOAD) – downloads a game from content.minetest.net. For this, enter the Community game name (COMMUNITY_GAME_NAME) and Author (COMMUNITY_GAME_AUTOR) exactly as they appear in the address.

More settings can be found in the file .minetest/minetest.conf in the Files tab.