Freeminer is an open source sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.

Freeminer is based on Minetest which is developed by a number of contributors from all over the globe.

It aims to make the game fun while trading off some bits of perfectionism.

• Android:

  • Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.freeminer.freeminer
  • F-droid - https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.freeminer.freeminer

• Windows: https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer/releases

• Ubuntu: Install http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_games and run:

   sudo apt-get install freeminer

• Arch Linux:

   yaourt -S freeminer

  ^{Stable version}

   yaourt -S freeminer-git

  ^{Development version}

• FreeBSD:

   cd /usr/ports/games/freeminer-default && sudo make install clean

• openSUSE: https://software.opensuse.org/package/freeminer

• Website: http://freeminer.org/
• Forums: http://forum.freeminer.org/

• W A S D: move
• Space: jump/climb
• Shift: sneak/go down
• Q: drop item
• I: inventory
• Mouse: turn/look
• Mouse left: dig/punch
• Mouse right: place/use
• Mouse wheel: select item
• Esc: pause menu
• T: chat
• Z: zoom
• Tab: player list
• ~: toggle console

Install dependencies. Here's an example for

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libgettextpo0 \
libsqlite3-dev libleveldb-dev libsnappy-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libgmp-dev libspatialindex-dev libboost-system-dev \
libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev
# First  - needed always
# Second - recommended for servers and singleplayer
# Third  - needed for client only

# optional:
sudo apt-get install libhiredis-dev cmake-curses-gui

Fedora:

# the first five is the closest to Debian/Ubuntu build-essential
sudo yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel cmake \
irrlicht-devel bzip2-libs libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel freetype-devel \
libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel sqlite-devel libvorbis-devel \
openal-soft-devel libcurl-devel luajit-devel leveldb-devel snappy-devel \
gettext-devel msgpack msgpack-devel spatialindex-devel bzip2-devel

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S curl irrlicht leveldb libvorbis luajit openal sqlite cmake msgpack-c freetype2

Gentoo/Funtoo:

emerge -av media-libs/libvorbis media-libs/openal dev-games/irrlicht \
dev-libs/msgpack dev-libs/leveldb sci-libs/libspatialindex

OS X:

brew install cmake freetype gettext hiredis irrlicht jpeg leveldb libogg \
libvorbis luajit msgpack

^{Recommended irrlicht version: 1.8.2}

Download source code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer.git
cd freeminer

^{Recommended minimum compiler version: gcc 4.8 or clang 3.3}

Build it (GNU/Linux):

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
nice make -j $(nproc || sysctl -n hw.ncpu || echo 2)

or for debian based:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freeminer/freeminer/master/build_tools/build.sh | sh

Build it (OS X):

mkdir _build && cd _build
cmake .. -DGETTEXT_LIBRARY=/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libgettextlib.dylib -DGETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/opt/gettext/include
make -j8 package

(if the make command doesn't work on OS X install bsdmake)

Build it (windows):

vs2013

vs2015

Play it!

cd ..
bin/freeminer

Luanti (formerly Minetest)

Luanti is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation.

Copyright (C) 2010-2025 Perttu Ahola celeron55@gmail.com and contributors (see source file comments and the version control log)

1. Further Documentation
2. Default Controls
3. Paths
4. Configuration File
5. Command-line Options
6. Compiling
7. Docker
8. Version Scheme

• Website: https://www.luanti.org/
• Luanti Documentation: https://docs.luanti.org/
• Forum: https://forum.luanti.org/
• GitHub: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/
• Developer documentation
• doc/ directory of source distribution

All controls are re-bindable using settings. Some can be changed in the key config dialog in the settings tab.

Locations:

• bin - Compiled binaries
• share - Distributed read-only data
• user - User-created modifiable data

Where each location is on each platform:

• Windows .zip / RUN_IN_PLACE source:
  • bin = bin
  • share = .
  • user = .
• Windows installed:
  • bin = C:\Program Files\Minetest\bin (Depends on the install location)
  • share = C:\Program Files\Minetest (Depends on the install location)
  • user = %APPDATA%\Minetest or %MINETEST_USER_PATH%
• Linux installed:
  • bin = /usr/bin
  • share = /usr/share/minetest
  • user = ~/.minetest or $MINETEST_USER_PATH
• macOS:
  • bin = Contents/MacOS
  • share = Contents/Resources
  • user = Contents/User or ~/Library/Application Support/minetest or $MINETEST_USER_PATH

Worlds can be found as separate folders in: user/worlds/

• Default location: user/minetest.conf
• This file is created by closing Luanti for the first time.
• A specific file can be specified on the command line: --config <path-to-file>
• A run-in-place build will look for the configuration file in location_of_exe/../minetest.conf and also location_of_exe/../../minetest.conf

• Use --help

• Compiling - common information
• Compiling on GNU/Linux
• Compiling on Windows
• Compiling on MacOS

• Developing minetestserver with Docker
• Running a server with Docker

We use major.minor.patch since 5.0.0-dev. Prior to that we used 0.major.minor.

• Major is incremented when the release contains breaking changes, all other numbers are set to 0.
• Minor is incremented when the release contains new non-breaking features, patch is set to 0.
• Patch is incremented when the release only contains bugfixes and very minor/trivial features considered necessary.

Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release, i.e.: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. Prior to that we used previous_version-dev.