FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

i am curious, is there a way to login over terminal to a minetest server and not have to use the app. THe reason i ask is becasue i play alone on my server (8 core 3.0ghz, 64gb ram, 20TB HDD space) however alot of the mods i have use abms and such and i want to be able to log in a fake player who will basically be factory supervisors and keep the abm going, but at the same time i dont want to hae to open a bunch of minetest windows (my current method) it would be nice if it was as easy as a shell script that would allow me to automatically log in say 20 NPC type dummies who can supervise all my abms.

Ideas?

-T

Screenshot is of my smelter factory ;)

use the "anchor" in technic for keeping parts of the map activ permanently but beware it will add lag - as it indeed keeps all abm's of that region alive

thanks! gonna go check this out.. i got some serious hardware though so unless the core code of minetest will lag i dont think i should have problems ;) and like i say its only me locally playing