How to start contributing

Mod contribution (in Lua)

 * Learn the API.
 * API documentation
 * Online Modding Tutorial Book
 * Intro modding on Wiki.
 * With these, you can make mods for Minetest. Interesting mods - or fixes to the default mods - may eventually get merged upstream.


 * Find ideas.
 * The forum above contains mod requests and ideas.

Core development (in C++)

 * Learn-about-the-engine.
 * These pages (each word links to a different page) explain how the engine works, how it structures data and how it is released.


 * Issues.
 * This is where you can report bugs or suggest improvements. Be aware that we have a lot of feature requests already.