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Luanti v5.17.0

👉 Free and open source voxel game engine and sandbox game platform.

Luanti is a free and open source voxel game engine that lets you play, create, and share games in vast procedurally generated worlds. Formerly known as Minetest, Luanti provides an extensible sandbox environment with support for thousands of community-created games, mods, texture packs, and worlds through its integrated ContentDB. Whether you want to build creative worlds, survive in challenging adventures, develop your own game, or host multiplayer servers, Luanti offers a lightweight yet highly customizable platform suitable for both players and developers.

Designed with flexibility in mind, Luanti features Lua scripting for game development, powerful world generation, multiplayer support, customizable controls, and cross-platform compatibility. The engine emphasizes performance while remaining easy to modify, making it a popular choice for educators, hobbyists, and open source game developers alike.




Features:
• Play thousands of community-created games and mods
• Create nearly infinite procedurally generated voxel worlds
• Integrated ContentDB for downloading games, mods, and texture packs
• Single-player and multiplayer gameplay
• Powerful Lua API for game and mod development
• Built-in world editor and creative building tools
• Customizable texture packs and visual themes
• Cross-platform multiplayer compatibility
• Dedicated server support
• Lightweight engine with high performance
• Open source under the LGPL license
• Extensive documentation for developers and creators

Supported operating systems:
Supported operating systems:
• Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11
• macOS 12.3 or higher
• Linux
• Android 6.0 or higher
• FreeBSD

Supported languages:
• English, Čeština, Deutsch, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Português, Русский, slovenščina, Svenska, தமிழ், Українська, 中文

Changes:
v5.17.0 08-20-26
⚠️ This release fixes security vulnerabilities affecting both the client and server. We advise everyone to upgrade immediately. ⚠️
Client / Audiovisuals#
Dropdowns now accept selection by (Mouse) Down -> Drag -> Release.
Formspecs no longer close when focusing the window (SmallJoker)
Fix: Formspec model[] elements are again animated (Lars Mueller,cx384)
Implement basic gamepad support for in-game actions (not formspecs) (y5nw)
Support multi-track animations (glTF models) (Lars Müller)
E.g. models may now have several, independently controllable animations.
Fixed an case where the held item stack (e.g. when dragging) size was no longer displayed correctly (OgelGames)
The mouse cursor is no longer clamped to window bounds (Chase Bradley)
This becomes apparent with high DPI mice and (relatively) low FPS.
Shaders: Fix plants flickering when visual_scale > 1 (SmallJoker)
Chat: Pressing the Tab key now autocompletes to the next common part of the player name (SmallJoker)
The (main menu) progress bar now shows more media download details (cx384)
Formspec: Inventory slots and buttons now stay hovered on update (CrazyladMT)
Main menu: Mods are now sorted by their technical name (before: directory name) (SmallJoker)
Mostly fix the appearance of waving liquids (shader) below solid nodes (ZenonSeth)
Fix an issue where Luanti would not start in certain situations (sfan5)
Android: read-only access to Luanti’s data directory (Stvk imension)

World / Server / Environment#
Add dummy auth backend support (nerzhul)
Improved collision handling (SmallJoker)
Mapblocks in view now load more efficiently (lhofhansl)
The --debugger command line argument can now be used on luantiserver (SmallJoker)

Script API / Modding#
Add hideable HUD element field (cx384)
Detaching players now always happens before teleporting (keilogic)
Many Lua API documentation improvements (OgelGames, Wuzzy, SmallJoker)
Warnings are now logged when the “builtin” (main menu, utility) files do not match a checksum (Desour)
This helps to detect issues caused by partial or corrupted Luanti installations.
core.(de)compress now supports "raw_deflate" (Danny Ward)
core.get_craft_recipe and core.get_all_craft_recipes now … (SmallJoker, The4codeblocks)
return "fuel" recipes,
the fields time and replacements.
Dark theme for https://api.luanti.org/ (Wabio)
visual_scale no longer has any effect on unsupported drawtypes (DragonWrangler1)
Fixed a case where where core.get_natural_light could throw an error (Jürgen Rühle)
Formspec: Add hypertext support to tooltips (“hypertip”) (kilbith), improved by Wuzzy
Formspec: Fix text color and font not applying to field labels (OgelGames)
Formspec: Add alignment styles to label[], textarea[] and field[] (CrazyladMT)
Performance improvements related to texture modifiers and node visuals (sfan5)
SSCSM: Support for item/node definitions (ZenonSeth)

Misc / Maintenance#
Various stability or minor security fixes (JosiahWI, sfan5, Lars Mueller)
Build system maintenance and improvements (user333_, AFCMS, sfan5)
Debugging-related improvements (Desour sfan5)
Funding information is now available under FUNDING.yml (rubenwardy)
Code maintenance, improvements (SmallJoker, sfan5, Lars Mueller, cx384)
CPCSM/SSCSM fixes (nerzhul)
New policy for generative AI contributions (Vincent Robinson)
Multiple security fixes (sfan5, red-001, Lars Mueller, rubenwardy)



















Note:
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This download is for the Windows 64bit installer version (very bottom of page).
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Other Windows:
luanti-5.17.0-win64.zip
luanti-5.17.0-win32.zip
macOS:
luanti_5.16.1-macos12.3_arm64.zip
luanti_5.16.1-macos12.3_x86_64.zip
Linux:
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Android:
luanti-5.17.0-arm64-v8a.apk
luanti-5.17.0-armeabi-v7a.apk
luanti-5.17.0-x86_64.apk
luanti-5.17.0-x86.apk
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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
7,799 24,086 The Luanti Team Aug 30, 2026 - 14:10 5.17.0 11.58MB EXE 5/5, out of 92 Votes.
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