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Introduction

This page lets you play Minetest in your web browser. Note: Sorry, this might not work well on phones. It's mostly for people who have keyboards.

Problems with Browser Play 

There are many, many problems with the Browser Play feature. Read the list of problems:

• This feature might be temporary. We're not sure yet.

• Again, this might not work well with phones. It assumes that you have a keyboard. You can try it anyway.

• Only some web browsers will work. Chrome and Edge should work as long as hardware acceleration is turned on. There is more about that below.

• Your web browser must have something called hardware acceleration or WebGL turned on. It might already be that way. If Browser Play doesn't work, look for hardware acceleration in your browser settings and turn that setting on.

• The Browser Play screen supports High, Medium, and Low resolutions. High resolution might be too slow and Low resolution might not work well. Try setting resolution to Medium initially after startup.

• This feature uses a Minetest proxy run by Paradust of Dustlabs dot IO. The proxy will probably go away. We also can't take responsibility for security issues with the proxy.

If the proxy goes away, you should still be able to use Browser Play to create a small world and try it out.

• There is no way to save worlds that you create in Browser Play. They disappear on exit.

• If you use uBlock Origin or similar security filters, you may, or may not, need to tell them to whitelist the webpage that is linked further down.

• Play isn't very fast.

How to use Browser Play 

If you'd still like to try this feature, proceed as follows:

1. Go to the following link:

https://minetest.org/wasm/

If you'd like to use the arrow keys to move instead of the letter keys, use the following link instead:

https://minetest.org/awasm/

Note: Only the actual arrow keys will work at the 2nd link. The number-pad arrow keys won't work.

2. Some messages should appear.

If error messages about JavaScript exception appears or TypeError occur, you can disregard those messages as long as each only happens once.

After a minute, a Launch Minetest button should appear. If it doesn't appear, give up and close the window.

3. If the Launch Minetest button appears, press it and wait a minute. A Minetest GUI should appear. If GUI appears, click on the Join Game tab.

Browser Play Screenshot 

This is a screenshot of a visit to Woofworld in Chrome: