Development Tools

This article lists various tools which help in development of Minetest and mods for Minetest.

Minetest development

• /minetest/util: Various maintenance utilities

Mod development

Standalone software

• NodeBoxEditor: Build node boxes by dragging their edges.

Mods

• LuaCmd [luacmd]: luacmd server command which allows you to run a single Lua statement
• QA-Block [qa_block]: Adds a Quality Assurance block which you use to run various checker scripts like listing items with missing description (including your own) and browse the global Lua namespace
• L-System Tree Utility [ltool]: Helps you creating L-system trees which you can spawn with minetest.spawn_tree
• List Items [listitems]: Server commands for listing and searching the IDs of registered items and entities
• Inventory Check [inventorycheck]: Investigate the inventory of any player