Minetest 5.6.1

Features

Players

Choose from Multiple Games

• There are many games to choose from. You could survive in a harsh environment, build creatively, or fight other players. Just download a game or connect to a server.

Enormous Maps

• With 62,000 × 62,000 × 62,000 blocks, there's no running out of space. You can mine 31,000 blocks down, or build 31,000 blocks up.

Multiplayer Support

• Play by yourself, locally with your friends, or online with dozens of players on a server.

Texture Packs

• Not happy with the look of the textures? Change them!

Beautiful Map Generators

• Choose from many different fast map generators included in the engine, or install one as a mod.

Developers

Make a Game

• Create your own voxel game using our Lua API. No need to worry about tricky voxel rendering or networking; instead, write scripts to add items and control game play.

Modding API

• Use the same Lua API to make mods for any Minetest-based game. Publish your mods on the forums, and contribute to others' mods.

Large Collection of Existing Mods

• There are over 1,000 open source mods on our forums which are ready to be used, adapted or learned from.

Friendly Community

• You can find help with any problems on our forums or IRC channels.

Open Source

• The engine is open source and transparently developed. Submit an issue for anything you're missing, or get the source code and dig into it yourself.

Installation:

Extract the zip package somewhere. Run the executable found in the bin/ folder.

What's New

General

• Make 'place' and 'dig' keys freely configurable (only via minetest.conf for now: keymap_place and keymap_dig) (ANAND, Markus Koch)
• Freely bindable mouse buttons (only via minetest.conf for now: KEY_LBUTTON, KEY_MBUTTON, KEY_RBUTTON) (ANAND, Markus Koch)
• Add 'ores' global mapgen flag (Paramat)
• Mapgen Flat: Add caverns, disabled by default (Paramat)
• Semi-transparent background for nametags (Zughy, rubenwardy)
• Disable object selectionboxes by default (LoneWolfHT)
• Change crosshair when pointing to objects ("X" shape by default) (LoneWolfHT)
• Shaders for Android (GLES 2) (Vitaliy)
• Load media from subfolders (DS)
• Allow configuring block disk and net compression. Change default disk level. (Lars)

Main menu and ContentDB

• ContentDB: Add dependency resolution, update all, and download queues (rubenwardy)
• ContentDB: Add overwrite dialog when content is already installed (rubenwardy)
• ContentDB: Use icons for buttons (Zughy)
• Add open user data button to main menu (rubenwardy)
• Main menu: Add clear button and icon for search input (Andrey)
• Improve layout of main menu 'local' tab (Paramat)

Modding: GUI (Formspecs) / HUD

• Add sound effect style option (Pierre-Yves Rollo)
• Add 3d model formspec element (Jean-Patrick Guerrero, SmallJoker, Thomas--S)
• Add minimap and compass HUD elements (Pierre-Yves Rollo, Jean-Patrick Guerrero)
• Make bgcolor tint button background images (Hugues Ross)
• Add gradients and borders to FormSpec boxes (v-rob)
• Add font styling options (v-rob)
• Add set_focus[] to initially focus elements (v-rob)
• Make dropdowns optionally return event based on index, not value (v-rob)
• Avoid drawing clipped out formspec elements (EvidenceB)
• Darken tabheader background color (Kezi)
• Add inventory list styling: spacing, slot size, and noclip (v-rob)
• Add support for custom object crosshair image: object_crosshair.png (LoneWolfHT)

Modding: Other

• Add support for showing attached objects whilst in first person mode (Jordach)
• Add ability to cancel a minetest.after call after it was started (tenplus1)
• Add on_rightclickplayer callback (sorcerykid)
• Add on_deactivate callback for luaentities (hecks)
• Add minetest.get_objects_in_area (Elias Fleckenstein)
• Add ObjectRef:get_children() (Zughy)
• Add a short_description to be used by mods (DS)
• Add minetest.get_artificial_light and minetest.get_natural_light (HybridDog)
• Add register_on_chatcommand to SSM and CSM (Elijah Duffy)
• Add vector.offset (DS)
• Register missing get_texture_mod function (karamel59)
• content_cao: Support texture animation for upright_sprite (sfan5)
• Add PUT and DELETE request + specific method value to HTTP API (Lejo)
• Nodes are now allowed to have the "liquid" or "flowingliquid" drawtype for non-liquids (liquidtype=none) (Wuzzy)
• Play 'place_failed' sound if trying to place a node into an occupied space or it was an "attachable" node that failed to attach (Wuzzy)
• Implement grouped mode for find_nodes_in_area (sfan5)
• Clean up sound_fade (hecks)
• Chat commands: Show help message if func returns false without message (HybridDog)
• Node use_texture_alpha field supports now 3 modes "blend", "clip" and "opaque" (deprecated true/false values)
• Other enhancements and maintenance
• Cross-reference the node level manipulation functions (Oblomov)
• Update fallback fonts and mark additional locales as broken (sfan5)
• Clean up l_object.cpp (Zughy)
• Devtest: Improve various things (Paramat, HybridDog, Wuzzy)
• Android: Add CI with saving artifacts (Maksim)
• Add NetBSD cpu affinity support code (David CARLIER)
• Android: drop simple MainMenu (Maksim)
• Add support for Haiku OS (David CARLIER)

Bug fixes

Security

• Prevent players accessing inventories of other players (Lars Müller)
• Inventory: Protect Craft and Drop actions (SmallJoker)
• Prevent interacting with items out of the hotbar (Lejo)
• Fix inventory swapping not calling all callbacks (Lars Müller)
• Patch fast/teleport vulnerability when attached to an entity (Elias Fleckenstein)
• Prevent games from setting secure settings (rubenwardy)
• Prevent players from being able to modify ItemStack meta (luk3yx, rubenwardy)

Other

• Fix dropped craftitems/tools not using light_source values (LoneWolfHT)
• Fix when on_player_hpchange is called (SmallJoker)
• Use JSON for favorites list, fixing many bugs (rubenwardy)
• Fix hypertext and textarea elementing consuming scroll events (v-rob)
• Fix ESC in error dialog from closing Minetest (Yaman Qalieh)
• Remove null bytes from TOCLIENT_BLOCKDATA (luk3yx)
• Load system-wide texture packs too (Zughy)
• Fix Android support in bump version script (rubenwardy)
• ContentDB: Ignore content not installed from ContentDB (rubenwardy)
• Sanitize server IP field in mainmenu (Zughy)
• Fix item tooltip background color not working (Lars Mueller)
• Display Minetest header when menu_last_game value isn't available anymore (Zughy)
• Fix minetest.is_nan (Lars Mueller)
• Fix some minor code issues all over the place (sfan5)
• Minor profiler fixes. (Lars)
• Fix fallnode rotation of wallmounted nodebox/mesh (Wuzzy)
• Make installer create its own Minetest folder (LoneWolfHT)
• Implement mapblock camera offset correctly (hecks)
• Fix MSAA stripes (HybridDog)
• Fix certain connected nodeboxes crashing when falling (sfan5)
• Avoid generating the same chunk more than once with multiple emerge threads. (Lars)
• Fixed various issues with stars, sky, and clouds (numzero)
• Fix falling image of torchlike if paramtype2="none" (Wuzzy)
• Fix player sprite visibility in first person (sfan5)
• Fix object interaction distance not being checked (rubenwardy)
• Block attempts to connect to the client (red-001)
• Fix segfault in deprecation logging due to tail call, log by default (rubenwardy, SmallJoker)
• Player physics: Ensure larger dtime simulation steps (Lars Müller)
• Avoid resending near blocks unnecessarily. (Lars)
• Fix CSMs on arm64 (luk3yx)
• Fix Media... 0% on loading screen (Maksim)
• Implement unloading of static_save=false objects according to existing docs (sfan5)
• Decouple entity minimap markers from nametags replacing with show_on_minimap property (sfan5)
• Periodically release all mesh HW buffers to avoid an Irrlicht bottleneck. (Lars)
• Fix float argument check in minetest.set_timeofday() (Zughy)
• Avoid drawing invisible blocks on the client. (Lars)
• Fix scroll bar overlapping text (again) (random-geek)
• Reduce the FPS when the window is unfocused (HybridDog)
• Android: replace InputDialogActivity on simple dialog window (Maksim)
• Correct erroneous reported max lag with prometheus (Buckaroo Banzai)
• Fix horizontal/vertical merging bug of hardware-colored framed glass (Paramat)
• Fix chat/infotext overlap if many chat lines (Wuzzy)
• Settings: Fix crash on exit (SmallJoker)
• Record player existence in dummy database. (Lars)
• Darwin platform build fix (David CARLIER)
• Scale inventory image for scaled allfaces nodes (Wuzzy)
• Fix NetBSD build (David CARLIER)
• shaders: Fix transparency on GC7000L (mntmn)
• Fix MSVC compiler warnings (adrido)
• Fix light overflow of u8 if light is saturated at 255 (BenjaminRi)
• Fix missing translation call in hypertext (Pierre-Yves Rollo)
• Render nodeboxes with opaque material if possible (sfan5)
• Fix precision not working in hud_change (Lars Müller)
• Fix build for Visual Studio (explicitly cast pointers) (Seeker)
• Fix GCC class-memaccess warnings (Paul Ouellette)
• Falling: Fix error caused by missing param2 (SmallJoker)
• Allow starting local server using --go again (SmallJoker)
• decode_base64: Allow '=' padding character (SmallJoker)
• Sanitize world directory names on create. Keep original name separate (Hugues Ross)
• Improve bad/missing default inventory+wield images of node drawtypes, affecting: airlike, signlike, torchlike, raillike, plantlike, plantlike_rooted, firelike, flowingliquid (Wuzzy)
• Android: Fix ConfirmRegistration and PasswordChange input and scale size (Maksim)
• Formspecs: volume and key settings windows can now be closed by doubleclicking/tapping (Zughy)

Minetest Game

• Add crafting guide (Paul Ouellette)
• Added 5 wood variants of Mese Post Light (An0n3m0us)
• Add environment sounds for lava and active furnace (An0n3m0us)
• Change several block sounds (An0n3m0us)
• Fix players sleeping in an occupied bed (An0n3m0us, Wuzzy)
• Fix 'sleepwalking' in bed (An0n3m0us, Wuzzy)
• Fix sleeping player flying off the bed when damaged and flying far away from the bed after death (An0n3m0us)
• Fix sleeping player being immobilized and bed undiggable after death (An0n3m0us)
• Fix furnace infotext not always updating when removing item (orbea)
• New translation: Slovak (Daretmavi)
• New translation: Brazilian Portuguese (ronaldo)
• New translation: Lojban (admittedly not a very good translation) (robintown, Wuzzy and others)
• Update existing translations (various people)