Installing Mods

Applies to recent versions of Minetest 0.4.

See Minetest-c55 Forums' Mod Releases and Modding General sections or the mods wiki page.

If you are running Microsoft Windows and downloaded the package distributed by celeron55, or use a RUN_IN_PLACE version, your mods folder is:

minetest-base-directory/mods/minetest/

If your minetest is a system-wide installed version on Linux your folder is something like (create if needed):

~/.minetest/mods/minetest/

Also you can put mods in (might be useful for adventure worlds or something)

your-world-directory/worldmods

Extract the mod to your mods folder. You're done!

The directory structure for mods looks like this (in this, there are mods bucket, default, experimental and give_initial_stuff, but they could be anything):

    mods base directory (eg. mods/minetest/ or whatever)
    ├── bucket
    │   ├── depends.txt
    │   ├── init.lua
    │   └── textures
    │       ├── bucket_lava.png
    │       ├── bucket.png
    │       └── bucket_water.png
    ├── default
    │   ├── init.lua
    │   └── textures
    │       ├── default_apple.png
    │       ├── default_book.png
    │       ├── ...
    │       ├── default_tree_top.png
    │       ├── default_water.png
    │       └── default_wood.png
    ├── experimental
    │   ├── depends.txt
    │   └── init.lua
    └── give_initial_stuff
        ├── depends.txt
        └── init.lua