How to start contributing

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Mod contribution (in Lua)

• Learn the API.
  • API documentation Online Modding Tutorial Book Intro modding on Wiki.
  • With this, 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.