Getting started

Terasology (previously known as Blockmania) is a free and open source Minecraft inspired game engine involving procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL.

Are you a new user? Have a look at our Getting Started, FAQ, and Tutorials pages on our wiki.
Otherwise, feel free to look at the changelog.

You may also want to look at some games. Games provide basic game play for the engine to run using Lua scripts. Different games have different objectives, such as survival, building or Player vs Player. Usually Minetest comes with Minetest Game, to supply the default items and blocks. You can then add mods on top of a game in order to customize your experience further.

Windows

Works on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. May work on older versions, but not officially supported.

Stuck? King of the hill movie. See help on getting Minetest on Windows.

You can also get the latest development version of Minetest from builds made by community members. These builds are more recent than the officially released builds and contain new features (at the cost of stability).

Android

Android 4.0 or later is recommended.

Alternatively, install from F-Droid .

Note: We advise not to use unofficial builds commonly found on the Play Store. They may contain excessive advertisements or spyware, or be distributed under proprietary terms.

Linux

Packages

Those may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, you can build from source.

• Flatpak (all distributions) - Stable
• Debian - Stable
• Ubuntu - Stable
• Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA) - Stable, Unstable
• Fedora - Stable
• openSUSE - Stable
• Mageia - Stable
• Arch Linux - Stable, Unstable
• Gentoo - Stable
• VoidLinux - Stable

FreeBSD

Package manager

On FreeBSD 9.1 and newer, you can use the official pre-built packages: pkg install minetest minetest_game

Compile using ports

You can compile Minetest and choose build options easily using the FreeBSD port dialogs.

macOS

macOS 10.10 or later is recommended.

• Use Homebrew to get the stable version:
  brew install minetest

Source code

Get the latest stable or development source code from GitHub.
You will probably want Minetest Game as well. Put the game in your games directory.

See README.md for details on how to compile Minetest from source.

Terasology Terasology Launcher

Terasology is a open-source survival and discovery game set in a voxel world inspired by Minecraft, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. The game offers a unique and enjoyable building and playing experience. Download Terasology free game and start your adventure.

Terasology project was born from a Minecraft-inspired tech demo and is becoming a stable platform for various types of gameplay settings in a voxel world. The creators and maintainers are a diverse mix of software developers, designers, game testers, graphic artists, and musicians. Terasology offers a lot of module to play with and you can add, update and download new ones through a simple GUI. When you start Terasology, a random world will be generated with trees, grass, snow, mountains or water. The first job for you is to collect wood, which you can turn into planks to make a crafting table. This way you will convert your leftover wood into a pickaxe. Now you can start digging down into the ground to collect coal and cobblestone available in free Terasology world.

Terasology System Requirements

Terasology Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Requirements:
  - CPU: Intel Core i3-3210 3.2 GHz / AMD A8-7600 APU 3.1 GHz or equivalent
• RAM: 2GB
• GPU (Integrated): Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge) or AMD Radeon R5 series (Kaveri line) with OpenGL 4.4*
• GPU (Discrete): Nvidia GeForce 400 Series or AMD Radeon HD 7000 series with OpenGL 4.4
• HDD: At least 1GB for game core, maps and other files
• OS:
  - Windows: Windows 7 and up
  Internet connectivity is required for downloading Minecraft files, afterwards offline play is possible.

Terasology Recommended Requirements:

• Recommended Requirements:
  - CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz / AMD A10-7800 APU 3.5 GHz or equivalent
• RAM: 4GB
• GPU: GeForce 700 Series or AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series (excluding integrated chipsets) with OpenGL 4.5
• HDD: 4GB (SSD is recommended)
• OS (recommended 64-bit):
  - Windows: Windows 10