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<h2>Getting started</h2>

<p>
  Are you a new user?
  Have a look at our <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Getting_Started">Getting Started</a>,
  <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/FAQ">FAQ</a>,
   and <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Tutorials">Tutorials</a> pages on our wiki.<br>
  Otherwise, feel free to look at the <a href="https://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.16_.E2.86.92_5.0.0">changelog</a>.
</p>

<p>
  You may also want to look at some
  <a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=15">games</a>.
  Games provide basic game play for the engine to run using Lua scripts.
  Different games have different objectives, such as survival, building or Player vs Player.
  Usually Minetest comes with
  <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game">Minetest Game</a>,
  to supply the default items and blocks.
  You can then add <a href="http://minetest.net/customize/#mods">mods</a> on
  top of a game in order to customize your experience further.
</p>

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    <h2>Windows</h2>

    <p>Works on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. May work on older versions, but not officially supported.</p>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.0/minetest-5.0.0-win64.zip">
            Minetest 5.0.0 - portable, 64-bit (recommended)</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.0/minetest-5.0.0-win32.zip">
            Minetest 5.0.0 - portable, 32-bit</a></li>
    </ul>

    <p>Stuck? See <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Getting_Started#Windows">
          help on getting Minetest on Windows.</a></p>

    <p>You can also get the latest development version of Minetest from
        <a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=42">builds made
            by community members</a>.
        These builds are more recent than the officially released builds
        and contain new features (at the cost of stability).</p>

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    <h2>Android</h2>

    <p>Android 4.0 or later is recommended.</p>

    <a href='https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.minetest.minetest&utm_source=website&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1'>
      <img style="max-height:7em;" alt='Get it on Google Play' src='/media/google-play-badge.png'/>
    </a>

    <p>
      Alternatively, install from
      <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.minetest.minetest/">F-Droid</a>
      <!-- or
      <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.0/Minetest-5.0.0.23.apk">download the APK</a> -->.
    </p>

    <p><strong>Note:</strong> We advise not to use unofficial builds commonly found on the Play Store.
        These may contain excessive advertisements, spyware or be distributed under proprietary terms.</p>
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    <h2><small>GNU/</small>Linux</h2>

    <h4>Packages</h4>

    <p>Those may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, you can build from source.</p>

    <ul>
      <li>Flatpak (all distributions) -
          <a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.minetest.Minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>Debian -
          <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>Ubuntu -
          <a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA) -
          <a href="https://launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/stable">Stable</a>,
          <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/daily-builds/+packages">Unstable</a></li>
      <li>Fedora -
          <a href="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>openSUSE -
          <a href="https://software.opensuse.org/package/minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>Mageia -
          <a href="https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/name/minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>Arch Linux -
          <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=minetest">Stable</a>,
          <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minetest-git-leveldb/">Unstable</a></li>
      <li>Gentoo -
          <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-action/minetest">Stable</a></li>
      <li>VoidLinux -
          <a href="https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/minetest">Stable</a></li>
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    <h2>FreeBSD</h2>

    <h4>Package manager</h4>

    <p>On FreeBSD 9.1 and newer, you can use the official pre-built packages:
        <code>pkg install minetest minetest_game</code></p>

    <h4>Compile using ports</h4>

    <p>You can compile minetest and choose easily minetest options using the FreeBSD port dialogs.</p>

    <pre>cd /usr/ports/games/minetest
make install
cd /usr/ports/games/minetest_game
make install</pre>
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    <h2>macOS</h2>

    <p>macOS 10.10 or later is recommended.</p>

    <ul>
      <li>Use <a href="https://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a> to get the stable version: <code>brew install minetest</code></li>
      <li><a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=9190">Daily unstable builds</a></li>
    </ul>
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    <h2>Source code</h2>

    <p>Get the latest <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tree/stable-5">stable</a>
    or <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest">development</a> source code from
    <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest">GitHub</a>.<br>
    You will probably want <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game">minetest_game</a> as well.
    Put the game in your games directory.</p>

    <p>See <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.md">README.md</a> for details on how to compile.</p>
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