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6 minetest, minetestserver - Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox
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10 minetest [--server SERVER OPTIONS | CLIENT OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS]
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13 minetestserver [SERVER OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS] [WORLD PATH]
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17 Minetest is one of the first InfiniMiner/Minecraft(/whatever) inspired
18 games (started October 2010), with a goal of taking the survival multi‐
19 player gameplay to a slightly different direction.
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21 The main design philosophy is to keep it technically simple, stable and
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27 --help Print allowed options and exit
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29 --version
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32 --config <value>
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36 Set logfile path (debug.txt)
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38 --info Print more information to console
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44 Print enormous amounts of information to console
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46 --gameid <value>
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53 Set world path or list worlds
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67 Address to connect to
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81 List available video modes (client only)
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84 Run speed tests
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89 Migrate from current map backend to another. Possible values are
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108 This man page was originally written by Juhani Numminen <juhaninummi‐
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