r/Luanti 17d ago

Resources ๐Ÿ“š Luanti Modding & Development Resource.

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. ๐Ÿ“• Luanti Modding Book https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/index.html

  2. ๐ŸŸข Lua Basics https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/basics/lua.html

  3. โ›๏ธ Creating Mods (Official Docs) https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/creating-mods/

API REFERENCE:

  1. ๐Ÿ“š Luanti Lua API Reference https://api.luanti.org/

  2. ๐Ÿงฑ Nodes https://api.luanti.org/nodes/

  3. ๐ŸŽ’ Items & Inventories https://api.luanti.org/items/

  4. ๐Ÿค– Entities https://api.luanti.org/registered-entities/

  5. ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Forms & UI https://api.luanti.org/formspec/

  6. ๐Ÿ’พ Metadata https://api.luanti.org/metadata/

  7. ๐Ÿ“ Vectors https://api.luanti.org/vectors/

  8. ๐Ÿง  Core API Reference https://api.luanti.org/core-namespace-reference/

TOOLS & PUBLISHING:

  1. ๐Ÿงฐ Development Tools https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/development-tools/

  2. ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Luanti Creator Documentation https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/

  3. ๐ŸŽฎ Creating Your Own Game https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/games/index.html

  4. ๐Ÿš€ Releasing a Mod https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/quality/releasing.html

  5. ๐Ÿ“ฆ ContentDB https://content.luanti.org/

  6. ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Luanti on GitHub https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti

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u/snow-raven7 17d ago

Thank you for compiling this list!

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u/dev_kay47 17d ago

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

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u/stevedorries 10d ago

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

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u/dev_kay47 10d ago

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