User:Twoelk/sandbox1

This shall be my sandbox

folder structure playtree

Folder structure examples

based on the run-in-place builts for Windows

File structure as installed by minetest-0.4.9-65d1cb8 compiled by sfan5 (2014-03-30)

minetest/
├── bin/
├── builtin/
├── client/
│   ├── serverlist/
│   └── shaders/
│       ├── alpha_shader/
│       ├── leaves_shader/
│       ├── liquids_shader/
│       ├── plants_shader/
│       └── solids_shader/
├── doc/
├── fonts/
├── games/
│   ├── minetest_game/
│   └── minimal/
├── locale/ 
│   └── (lots of language folders)
├── mods/ 
├── testsounds/
└── textures/
    └── base/
        └── pack/

File structure with the folders Minetest adds after some usage as client and server, as well as the positions (...) that costum made content goes.

minetest/
├── bin/
├── builtin/
├── cache/
│   ├── media/
│   └── tmp/
├── client/
│   ├── serverlist/
│   └── shaders/
│       ├── alpha_shader/
│       ├── leaves_shader/
│       ├── liquids_shader/
│       ├── plants_shader/
│       └── solids_shader/
├── doc/
├── fonts/
├── games/
│   ├── minetest_game/
│   ├── minimal/
│   └── ... (installed extra games)
├── locale/ (lots of language folders)
├── mods/
│   └── ... (installed extra mods and modpacks)
├── testsounds/ (soundpack folder)
├── textures/
│   ├── base/
│   │   └── pack/
│   └── ... (installed extra texturepacks)
└── worlds/
    └── ... (saved worlds. Some with exclusive world mods)

Folder structure with extra folders for screenshots and minetest-mapper

minetest/
├── bin/
├── builtin/
├── cache/
│   ├── media/
│   └── tmp/
├── client/
│   ├── serverlist/
│   └── shaders/
│       ├── alpha_shader/
│       ├── leaves_shader/
│       ├── liquids_shader/
│       ├── plants_shader/
│       └── solids_shader/
├── doc/
├── fonts/
├── games/
│   ├── minetest_game/
│   ├── minimal/
│   └── ... (installed extra games)
├── locale/ (lots of language folders)
├── mods/
│   └── ... (installed extra mods and modpacks)
├── screenshots/
├── testsounds/ (soundpack folder)
├── textures/
│   ├── base/
│   │   └── pack/
│   └── ... (installed extra texturepacks)
├── util/
│   └── mapper/
└── worlds/
    └── ... (saved worlds. Some with exclusive world mods)

Details of file structures within a mod

In this example the mods "carts" and "tnt" are installed:

    mods/
    ├── carts/
    │   ├── depends.txt
    │   ├── init.lua
    │   ├── functions.lua
    │   ├── README.txt
    │   ├── textures/
    │   │   ├── carts_top.png
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── models/
    │       ├── cart.x
    │       └── ...
    ├── tnt/
    │   ├── init.lua
    │   ├── depends.txt
    │   ├── README.txt
    │   ├── textures/
    │   │   ├── tnt_side.png
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── sounds/
    │       ├── tnt_explode.ogg
    │       └── ...
    └── modname/
        ├── bower.json (used by the Minetest-Bower project)
        ├── init.lua
        ├── depends.txt
        ├── description.txt 
        ├── mod.conf
        ├── README.txt or README.md
        ├── screenshot.png
        ├── textures/
        │   ├── modname_stuff.png
        │   ├── modname_something_else.png
        │   └── ...
        ├── sounds/
        │   ├── some_sound.ogg
        │   └── ...
        ├── media/
        │   ├── some_media
        │   └── ...
        ├── models/
        │   ├── some_model.x
        │   └── ...
        └── <custom data>/
            ├── some_data
            └── ...

Details of file structures within a game

This example has the default games "minetest_game" and "minimal" installed and shows a possible structure of an own game in "my_game":

    games/
    ├── minetest_game/
    │   ├── game.conf
    │   ├── README.txt
    │   ├── menu/
    │   │   ├── header.png
    │   │   └── icon.png
    │   └── mods/
    │       ├── some mod
    │       ├── some other mod 
    │       └── ...
    ├── minimal/
    │   ├── game.conf
    │   ├── menu/
    │   │   ├── background.png
    │   │   ├── icon.png
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── mods/
    │       ├── some mod
    │       ├── some other mod
    │       └── ...
    ├── my_game/
    │   ├── game.conf
    │   ├── minetest.conf
    │   ├── README.txt
    │   ├── license.txt
    │   ├── menu/
    │   │   ├── background.png
    │   │   ├── footer.png
    │   │   ├── header.png
    │   │   ├── icon.png
    │   │   ├── overlay.png
    │   │   └── ...
    │   └── mods/
    │       ├── license.txt
    │       ├── some mod
    │       ├── some other mod
    │       └── ...
    └── some more games

Details of file structures within a world

This commented example shows the location and structure of a world called "someworld":

    minetest/
    ├── bin/ (contains the executable program file)
    ├── builtin/
    ├── cache/
    ├── client/
    ├── doc/
    ├── fonts/
    ├── games/  (collection of mods tweacked or designed to work well together)
    │   ├── minetest_game/
    │   ├── minimal/
    │   └── … (installed extra games)
    ├── locale/ (language files)
    ├── mods/
    │   └── … (installed extra mods and modpacks)
    ├── textures/
    │   ├── base/
    │   │   └── pack/
    │   └── … (installed extra texturepacks)
    │
    ├── worlds/   (this folder will be created when the first local/singleplayer world is created
    │   ├── someworld  (the name given to the world by the user when it is created)
    │   │   ├── players/     (ingame data for each player)
    │   │   ├── worldmods/   (create this folder for world exclusive mods)
    │   │   ├── auth.txt     (player login data)
    │   │   ├── env_meta.txt (contains mostly time related information)
    │   │   ├── map.sqlite   (database containing the map. The name may differ depending on backend used)
    │   │   ├── map_meta.txt (defines which mapgen is used and how)
    │   │   └── world.mt     (should at least contain the subgame-id without which the world 
    │   │                     will not show up in the singleplayer tab)
    │   └── … (more saved worlds. Some with exclusive world mods)
    ├── minetest.conf   (will be created with first start of Minetest)
    └── minetest.conf.example   (a list of all possible settings)

Folder structure according to CMakeLists.txt

based on the building scripts in CMakeLists.txt on github

DirVariable	WIN32	APPLE	UNIX/Linux/BSD RUN_IN_PLACE	UNIX/Linux/BSD	Description
SHAREDIR	.	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${PROJECT_NAME}	.	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${PROJECT_NAME}	Directory to install data files into
BINDIR	bin	bin	bin	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin	Directory to install binaries into
DOCDIR	doc	share/doc/${PROJECT_NAME}	doc	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/doc/${PROJECT_NAME}	Directory to install documentation into
EXAMPLE_CONF_DIR	.	${DOCDIR}	.	${DOCDIR}	Directory to install example config file into
MANDIR			unix/man	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/man	Directory to install manpages into
XDG_APPS_DIR			unix/applications	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/applications	Directory to install .desktop files into
APPDATADIR				${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/appdata
ICONDIR			unix/icons	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/icons	Directory to install icons into
LOCALEDIR	locale	locale	locale	${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${PROJECT_NAME}/locale	Directory to install l10n files into

Category tree (as of early 2014)

Category:Minetest (Root Category)

Alphabet Blocks

Alphabet (alphabet) by cactuz_pl
Glowing letters A-Z + 0-9 (neon) by webdesigner97
minetest-teaching (teaching) by sfan5
Learn how to read (phonics) by Neuromancer
Letters (letters) by Amaz1
Abjphabet (abjphabet) by ABJ, integrated into Awesomepack

for Apple

~/Library/Application Support/minetest/mods/
~/Library/Application Support/minetest/games/
~/Library/Application Support/minetest/worlds/

source

Links to archived old Minetest related sites and files

Minetest Archives

name	stable version	mapversion	release
Minetest-c55	0.1.0	-	-
-	0.2.0	sqlite	22.09.2011
-	0.3.0	17	01.11.2011
-	0.3.1	17+	09.11.2011
-	0.4.0	23	-
Minetest-c55	0.4.4	23	04.12.2012
Minetest-c55	0.4.4-d1	24	02.01.2013
Minetest	0.4.5		03.04.2013
Minetest	0.4.6	-	03.04.2013
Minetest	0.4.7	-	06.06.2013
Minetest	0.4.8	-	24.11.2013
Minetest	0.4.9	-	01.01.2014
Minetest	0.4.10	-	06.07.2014
Minetest	0.4.11	24	24.12.2014
Minetest	0.4.12	24	18.02.2015
Minetest	0.4.13	25	20.08.2015
Minetest	0.4.14	-	15.05.2016
Minetest	0.4.15	-	22.12.2016
Minetest	0.4.16	27	03.06.2017
Minetest	0.4.17	-	03.06.2018
Minetest	0.4.17.1	-	10.06.2018
Minetest	5.0.0	-	2019

Notes

limit to the number of nodes types loaded = 32766 (as said on irc )

<categorytree>Blocks</categorytree>

Anonymous

Search

User:Twoelk/sandbox1

Namespaces

More

Page actions

Contents

Folder structure examples

Details of file structures within a mod

Details of file structures within a game

Details of file structures within a world

Folder structure according to CMakeLists.txt

Category tree (as of early 2014)

Alphabet Blocks

for Apple

Links to archived old Minetest related sites and files

Notes

Navigation

keepthisline

wiki navigation

other links

Wiki tools

Wiki tools

Anonymous

Search

User:Twoelk/sandbox1

Folder structure examples

Details of file structures within a mod

Details of file structures within a game

Details of file structures within a world

Folder structure according to CMakeLists.txt

Category tree (as of early 2014)

Alphabet Blocks

for Apple

Links to archived old Minetest related sites and files

Notes

Navigation

Wiki tools

Page tools

Categories