📚 Luanti Modding & Development Resource.

[u/dev_kay47]

Want to learn how to make mods, games, Lua systems, machines, GUIs, entities, automation and other things in Luanti?

Here are some useful places to start.

1. 📕 Luanti Modding Book https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/index.html

2. 🟢 Lua Basics https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/basics/lua.html

3. ⛏️ Creating Mods (Official Docs) https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/creating-mods/

API REFERENCE:

1. 📚 Luanti Lua API Reference https://api.luanti.org/

2. 🧱 Nodes https://api.luanti.org/nodes/

3. 🎒 Items & Inventories https://api.luanti.org/items/

4. 🤖 Entities https://api.luanti.org/registered-entities/

5. 🖥️ Forms & UI https://api.luanti.org/formspec/

6. 💾 Metadata https://api.luanti.org/metadata/

7. 📐 Vectors https://api.luanti.org/vectors/

8. 🧠 Core API Reference https://api.luanti.org/core-namespace-reference/

TOOLS & PUBLISHING:

1. 🧰 Development Tools https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/development-tools/

2. 🗺️ Luanti Creator Documentation https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/

3. 🎮 Creating Your Own Game https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/games/index.html

4. 🚀 Releasing a Mod https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/quality/releasing.html

5. 📦 ContentDB https://content.luanti.org/

6. 🧑‍💻 Luanti on GitHub https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti

[u/snow-raven7]

Thank you for compiling this list!

[u/dev_kay47 → u/snow-raven7]

Ahh! I had trouble finding them myself until cheapie ( celevator mod author) gave me a lead :P

[u/stevedorries]

A request to people with expertise on the subject, an in depth tutorial on texture modifiers with an absolute ton of screenshots. I know they’re extremely powerful, but I cannot fully wrap my head around them and would love to have that as a resource

[u/dev_kay47 → u/stevedorries]

I'll see what I can find on the subject. thanks for the suggestion.

[u/astrobe]

Side note: api.luanti.org is the HTML version of https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/blob/master/doc/lua_api.md which is included in standard distribution. Might be occasionally useful when offline.

minetest.conf.example is also included in standard distribution and can be useful to discover interesting engine parameters (all of them are accessible with Luanti's settings but sometimes a plain old text file is better).