Luanti
| Luanti | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Perttu Ahola |
| Developer(s) | The Luanti Team |
| Initial release | 0.0.1 / November 2, 2010 |
| Stable release | 5.12.0
/ 23 May 2025 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++, Lua |
| Engine | Irrlicht (Irrlicht-MT fork) |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android |
| Type | Sandbox |
| License | 2013: LGPL-2.1-or-later 2010: GPL-2.0-or-later Original: Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Luanti (formerly and colloquially Minetest) is a free and open-source voxel game creation system. It is written primarily in C++ and makes use of a modified version of the Irrlicht Engine. Luanti uses a programming language named Lua allowing users to write their own games and mods. It is cross-platform, being available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, some BSD descendants, some GNU variants and Android.
An in-game browser lets users download games and modifications from the ContentDB website. The five most popular games by downloads are VoxeLibre, Minetest Game, Mineclonia, Backrooms Test, and NodeCore.
Over a decade of active development Luanti has garnered critical acclaim and gained in popularity; the games, mods and texturepacks on the ContentDB have over 14 million downloads combined, and the Android version of Luanti has over a million downloads on the Google Play store.
In October 2024 the name was changed from Minetest to Luanti. The new name is a word play using the name of the programming language Lua and the Finnish word "luonti" meaning "creation".