Luanti
Voxel game engine (formerly Minetest). Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.
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Still maintained? Yes: 303 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 5.18.0 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Luanti quick facts
- Health score
- 87/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 13,797
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 5.18.0, Oct 2026
Top alternatives to Luanti
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Luanti is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Luanti scores 87/100, #4 of 20 in Games: 303 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (5.18.0, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 13,797 stars add 16.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
303 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
5.18.0 released yesterday
- Stars 16.6 / 20
14k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 303
- Last 90 days
- 834
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Mindustry (#3) and Veloren (#5) .
Details
| Licence | LGPL-2.1, MIT, Zlib |
| Platforms | C++, Lua, deb |
| Latest release | 5.18.0 · yesterday |
| Stars | 13,797 |
| Open issues | 1,383 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | luanti-org/luanti ↗ |
Luanti vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Luanti (Games), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanti (this tool) | 87 | 14k | LGPL-2.1 | yesterday |
| Veloren | 79 | 2.4k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| The Battle for Wesnoth | 60 | 7k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| MTA:SA | 58 | 1.9k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Zero-K | 57 | 879 | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| piqueserver | 47 | 237 | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
Luanti: common questions
Is Luanti still maintained?
Luanti had 303 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 5.18.0, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.