sample

Sample Minetest Server with Docker

Quick start

Quick start (assuming you have installed Docker already):

cd sample
./quickstart.sh

Suggested server building/hosting workflow

1. Create a local folder, for instance server
2. Create a data folder, for instance server/data and change the permissions with sudo chown 30000 ./data
3. Download the Dockerfile and minetest.conf and save them into server
4. Change to the server directory in your terminal
5. Build an image with docker build -t myserver:latest ./
6. Run the server with docker run -it --rm -v $PWD/data:/var/lib/minetest -p 30000:30000/udp -p 30000:30000/tcp myserver:latest
7. If you make changes to Dockerfile or minetest.conf, stop the container with CTRL+C and run the steps 5 and 6 again

Changing server config

Edit minetest.conf adding/changing the configuration values as desired. After that, run the steps 5 and 6 from the quick start reference.

Adding mods from ContentDB

To add new mods, edit Dockerfile and add more mods from ContentDB in the RUN statement, like this:

RUN contentdb install TenPlus1/ethereal

Then run the steps 5 and 6 again from the quick start reference. After you add the mod to the image, you also need to edit ./data/world/world.mt to load it, changing the load_mod_... = false to load_mod_... = true.