Development Tools

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

Minetest development

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
Schematic Editor [schemedit]: Advanced tool for creating and placing schematics
Convert table schematic to .mts [saveschems]: Tool for converting schematics from Lua table format to MTS files
WorldEdit: Primarily a tool for editing large parts of the world, what's interesting for developers is that it includes a few basic schematic commands (//mtschemcreate, etc.)
List Items [listitems]: Server commands for listing and searching the IDs of registered items and entities
Find Biome [findbiome]: Server command for finding a biome and teleporting to it
Inventory Check [inventorycheck]: Investigate the inventory of any player
Stopwatch [stopwatch]: Benchmarking utility to quickly benchmark portions of Lua code