Minetest Docker images

This repository provides Dockerfiles for building Docker images with a Minetest server. The built images are available on Docker Hub.

The images are based on Alpine Linux to keep the them as small as possible.

Quickstart

I assume that you are already quite familiar with Docker. However, please make sure you have proper security mechanisms set up on your host machine, as no system is error-free. Although Docker runs applications in isolation, it can till be abused to gain root access on your machine, if you don't secure your installation.

    $ sudo docker run \
      -p 30001:30000/udp \
      -v /home/webd97/minetest/worlds:/minetest/worlds \
      -v /home/webd97/minetest/minetest.conf:/minetest/minetest.conf \
      webd97/minetestserver:0.4.16

This will launch a stable 0.4.16 Minetest server with your host machine's /home/webd97/minetest/worlds mounted as world directory and /home/webd97/minetest/minetest.conf as minetest.conf (Make sure that this file exists before starting the server). The container's UDP port 30000 will be forwarded to your host's UDP port 30001.

What's included?

• LuaJIT is enabled
• minetest_game

For now, sqlite is the only supported database backend, additional ones might be available later.

Available tags

latest

Development build of the Minetest server with a development version of minetest_game. Updated manually. Please don't expect fresh commits to minetest/minetest to be available immediately.

$ sudo docker run -p 30000:30000/udp webd97/minetestserver:latest

0.4.16

Stable 0.4.16 build with minetest_game 0.4.16

$ sudo docker run -p 30000:30000/udp webd97/minetestserver:0.4.16

0.5.1

Stable 0.5.1 build with minetest_game 0.5.1

$ sudo docker run -p 30000:30000/udp webd97/minetestserver:0.4.16

Exposed ports

The images exposes port 30000/udp.

Volumes

The images expose the following volumes. Remember to mount a directory of your host machine to /minetest/worlds to persist your worlds!

• /minetest/minetest.conf for the configuration file (minetest.conf)
• /minetest/mods for mods
• /minetest/worlds for worlds
• /minetest/games for subgames