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How do you install and enable mods on a server accessed through ssh and Filezilla?

Also, is there a way to install textures on a server as well?

Hello, and welcome!

You just need to put the mods into the mods directory (`~/.minetest/mods` for system-wide installs, `<mtdir>/mods` for run-in-place builds).

You then need to enable them by editing `<worlddir>/world.mt`. If you have a mod named `foo`, then you add the following line to `world.mt`:


Alternatively, install the mods into `<worlddir>/worldmods` and they will be available automatically without the need to enable them individually.

Thank you very much! I'd looked high and low on the forums and wiki and just couldn't find that information. Plus for some reason the search excludes "mod" from the searches, so searching "install mod server" didn't do much good for me. Thank you again.

About the textures.... texturepacks aren't supported for a server. But if you replace textures on your server in the mod folders... they will be served to the clients. Don't forget the textures within the default mod. Also if the players have texturepaks installed in their clients, your custom textures will not be used. It's a bit of a pain to maintain using this method.

Okay, thanks for clearing that up.

ExeterDad wrote:About the textures.... texturepacks aren't supported for a server. But if you replace textures on your server in the mod folders... they will be served to the clients. Don't forget the textures within the default mod. Also if the players have texturepaks installed in their clients, your custom textures will not be used. It's a bit of a pain to maintain using this method.

Texture packs do work on servers. You need to put textures in the “server” folder of the “textures” folder (create if needed).

Calinou wrote:

ExeterDad wrote:About the textures.... texturepacks aren't supported for a server. But if you replace textures on your server in the mod folders... they will be served to the clients. Don't forget the textures within the default mod. Also if the players have texturepaks installed in their clients, your custom textures will not be used. It's a bit of a pain to maintain using this method.

Texture packs do work on servers. You need to put textures in the “server” folder of the “textures” folder (create if needed).

Well I'll be @!%# I stand corrected!
Miss VanessaE mislead me months ago when I was asking this same question! Where is this documented Calinou? I definitely want to do this.

Calinou wrote:

ExeterDad wrote:About the textures.... texturepacks aren't supported for a server. But if you replace textures on your server in the mod folders... they will be served to the clients. Don't forget the textures within the default mod. Also if the players have texturepaks installed in their clients, your custom textures will not be used. It's a bit of a pain to maintain using this method.

Texture packs do work on servers. You need to put textures in the “server” folder of the “textures” folder (create if needed).

I'm glad to hear this. I just created ~.minetest/textures/server and then placed all the images in that and restarted minetestserver and it works perfectly.

ShowStopper wrote:

Calinou wrote:

ExeterDad wrote:About the textures.... texturepacks aren't supported for a server. But if you replace textures on your server in the mod folders... they will be served to the clients. Don't forget the textures within the default mod. Also if the players have texturepaks installed in their clients, your custom textures will not be used. It's a bit of a pain to maintain using this method.

Texture packs do work on servers. You need to put textures in the “server” folder of the “textures” folder (create if needed).

I'm glad to hear this. I just created ~.minetest/textures/server and then placed all the images in that and restarted minetestserver and it works perfectly.

This is excellent to know! I can't wait to get home and rework our server. Thanks so much Calinou for jumping in here and setting things straight.