Minetest Launcher

NOTE: Here be dragons. This is very early in development, and is not production-ready.

This is an alternative Minetest launcher written as a Tauri application (Electron, but fast) with SvelteKit.

This currently is only guaranteed to work on Windows. MacOS only has a public Minetest build for 5.6.0 and there are no trusted AppImage files for Linux (that I know of).

Requirements

• Follow https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites/
• Install NodeJs 16.14 or higher

From source

git clone ...
cd mtlauncher
npm install
npm run dev

Use npm run build to build a self-contained binary for your current distribution. Cross builds do not work in Tauri at the moment.

How does it work

• Tauri apps use a native web view component to load the application (which is actually just a fancy webpage)
• Downloads go to a specific directory (see more below)
• The frontend just politely requests the Tauri backend to launch Minetest

Does this support custom installations?

(not in this exact build bc i had to rewrite like half of the version logic borpaSpin) Yes, but only if:

• the installation is in your versions/ directory
• the installation contains the following sub-directories: bin/, games/, mods/, textures/, screenshots/, worlds/

licensing

this project uses a few external things:

• feather icons - licensed under the MIT license
• quicksand font - licensed under the OFL
• svelte-headless-table - licensed under the MIT license

this project also modifies the minetest logo which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. the modified logo is used in the following locations, and as such are licensed as CC-BY-SA 3.0:

• src-tauri/icons/*
• src/lib/icon/Logo.svelte