The Luanti Engine is developed by an independent community of volunteer developers. It is provided for everyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.
Access a library of 2000+ free and open source community developed mods to customize your EDU environment, and an accessible scripting system for you and your students to create your own!
Luanti has low system requirements, is compatible with previous generations of hardware, and allows crossplay from any supported device.
académie de Dijon – Julien Crémoux
School – Heritage Sites
Since 2019, more than 600 primary school students from 30 classes in 3 different countries have replicated heritage sites (like Notre-Dame de Paris, the medieval Louvre castle or the Besançon citadel), placed them on an interactive timeline and gave tours and presentations in the virtual world.
University of British Columbia – Paul Pickell
University – Digital Twin
A project funded by the University of British Columbia around the use of Luanti as a learning tool and for the production of digital twins of natural and human built environments. It has been used to organize virtual field trips in the context of Covid 19.
Praticable
School – Artistic Residency
Between November 2021 and June 2022, secondary school students from Aulney-sous-Bois in France have reinvented their neighborhood with Luanti. This project, coordinated by the IRI foundation and the teachers, allowed the students to explore the digital practice of cooperative and contributive construction. The projects created emphasized well-being and the neighborhood’s conviviality.
Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation
School – Urban Planning
The UNEJ project (Urbanités Numériques En Jeux) is a 4 years project where teachers and students discover about urban planning while building concrete proposals for their neighborhood’s development with the help of professionals from the sector. It is done in connection with the urban transformations carried out for the 2024 Olympics.
Thomate & Lemente
Citizen Participation
A Workshop for the city of Maubeuge in France where groups of young citizens between 10 and 16 years old shared ideas to improve their neighborhood. They then built them in an in-game map of their city, allowing urban planners to see what young people wanted for their local area and discuss current issues with them.
Monique Franzsen
School – ICT – Research
A 9 week project with two classes of Grade 3 students. Aside from learning how to play the game together and various ICT skills (screenshots, image manipulation and importing), I wanted my students to research, plan and design their building project and reflect on the process.
Miguel Guhlin
Guide
An article explaining why you should use Luanti for education, and a guide in doing so.
Paul Brown, OS Mag
Guide
Another article explaining why you should use Luanti for education, and a guide in doing so.
Teacher Squeaks
Guide – post-mortem
A 3-part post-mortem based on the author’s experience of using Minetest in a pre-school.
Luanti community
Guides
A trove of information, in multiple languages, with a space dedicated to education. Looking for more contributions!
Luanti community
To find Luanti mods
A database where modders can submit their mods, games, and texture packs to make them easily accessible. Includes features such as a tag system, reviews, and more.
Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg (LMZ)
To host servers
A dashboard to create worlds for future-oriented learning without hosting servers. Comes with support (in English/French/German), a wiki and workshops. It’s currently free to use.
BuckarooBanzai
To share builds
A website and mod that allows you to import or share Luanti constructions on an online library.
Luanti community
To host a server by yourself
The basics to host your multiplayer world locally or online.
rubenwardy
To learn how to make mods
Learn how to use Luanti’s Lua API to create mods and games.
Get involved with the wider Luanti community by joining one of the official social platforms.
There's an educator-led Discord for the discussion of Luanti in education.
Need a print version of this page? See the "Minetest in Education" leaflet.
Contribute back to the community by writing about your project and/or making your learning resources publicly available. Then, create an issue or contact rubenwardy.