Difference between revisions of "How to start contributing"

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Learn the API.
- Lua API Documentation
- 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.

Learn about the engine.
- These pages 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.

Rough overview of merge chances per code area

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-==Mod contribution==
+== Mod contribution (in Lua) ==
-* [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt Learn the api].
-* [http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2434 Find Ideas].
-==Core Development==
+* '''Learn the API'''.
-* Learn about the engine.
+** [[Lua API Documentation]]
-* [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues?state=open Issues].
+** [http://dev.minetest.net/Intro 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.
+* [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2434 '''Find ideas'''].
+** The forum above contains mod requests and ideas.
+== Core development (in C++) ==
+* '''[[Engine|Learn about the engine]]'''.
+** These pages explain how the engine works, how it structures data and how it is released.
+* [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues?state=open '''Issues'''].
+** This is where you can report bugs or suggest improvements. Be aware that we have a lot of feature requests already.
+[[Category:Rules and Guidelines]]
+[[File:Merge Chance Complexity Diagram.png|thumbnail|Rough overview of merge chances per code area]]