Luanti 5.14.0

[Krock]

Luanti 5.14.0 has been released!

Blog post: https://blog.luanti.org/2025/10/05/5.14.0-released/

Highlights

• Digging particles are now sent to all palyers
• API to scale nametags based on the viewer's distance
• Supported database backends are now listed in --help
• For Lua mapgens: core.generate_decorations may now take the biome map into account.
• 3D models' bone interpolation works again
• Some API additions and improvements
• Many other bugfixes

Changelog: https://docs.luanti.org/about/changelog/#5130--5140
Source code: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/tree/5.14.0

Downloads

Refer to the Assets section on the GitHub release page.

Which file do I need to download?

• Windows: win64 (common), win32 (old systems)
• MacOS: macos*_arm64 (for Apple Silicon), macos*_x86_64 (for Intel systems)
• Android: arm64-v8a (common), armabi-v7a (older devices), x86 (ChromeOS, budget), x86_64 (ChromeOS)
• Linux: check for updates in your package manager (WIP)

[ROllerozxa]

Another nice highlight of 5.14.0 is that mapblocks that only contain a single node (e.g. an all-air mapblock or an all-stone mapblock) is stored much more compactly in memory now when running a dedicated server (08b7870). This could mean significant memory usage improvements depending on the map.

I have also gotten my builds of Luanti updated for 5.14.0, if anyone is using those:

• Luanti Windows RUN_IN_PLACE=0 builds
• Luanti Linux AppImage builds
• Luanti Linux headless server builds

[TenPlus1]

W00t! thanks devs, the single node mapblock saving space will be a good thing for huge maps :)))

[lemonzest]

I hope it saves on server memory, my 25 chunk view distance voxelibre server is currently eating 6.0GB rofl

[TenPlus1]

o.O Wow! that's some eagle eyed server settings lemonzest :p

[lemonzest]

o.O Wow! that's some eagle eyed server settings lemonzest :p

Yeah 25 Chunk (400 blocks) and 60Hz timer so the world builds fast and far! does not load the server too much, its a Haswell Refresh Xeon E3-1276 v3 with 32GB RAM and a NVMe SSD (All in a Optiplex 9020)

[MatyasP]

How can I as server owner turn off digging particles or turn off sending it to all players?

[lemonzest]

Anyone know when the flatpak is updated?

[Nininik]

Anyone know when the flatpak is updated?

Hasn't been since 5.8 so I doubt, js be sigma and compile (i compiled and got 5.15dev lmao)

[lemonzest]

Anyone know when the flatpak is updated?

Hasn't been since 5.8 so I doubt, js be sigma and compile (i compiled and got 5.15dev lmao)

The current flatpak release is 5.13 and gets updates often

https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/org.luanti.luanti

So I was just wondering when 5.14 will release on this store

[Krock]

How can I as server owner turn off digging particles or turn off sending it to all players?

Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of them is to remove this part from builtin (server-side): https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/bl ... #L572-L591

[Linuxdirk]

Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of them is to remove this part from builtin (server-side):

So this is just another hardcoded feature for games like Minetest Game?

[Wuzzy]

Yes, digging particles are currently hardcoded (and basically always have been). Here’s a list of all known hardcoded features:

https://docs.luanti.org/for-creators/li ... -features/

(but it's outdated. no longer hardcoded are: camera modes, WASD movement keys, mouse wheel bindings)

[Astrobe]

Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of them is to remove this part from builtin (server-side):

So this is just another hardcoded feature for games like Minetest Game?

Half-hardcoded I guess. I suppose one could "monkey-patch" this function from a mod. This was done before with some "builtin" item stuff, if I'm not mistaken.