How to install a texture pack

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Installing texture packs:

Put the texture pack folder in

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<minetest directory>/textures/

So that <minetest directory>/textures/ with it's contents looks like this (example packs "HDX" and "Misa"):

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textures/
├── HDX/
│ ├── info.txt
│ ├── screenshot.png
│ ├── default_wood.png
│ └── ...
└── Misa/
  ├── info.txt
  ├── screenshot.png
  ├── default_brick.png
  └── ...

Enabling texture packs

Select the entry in the Textures tab of the main menu.

Or

Put the textures without subfolders in any place you like, and add this configuration setting, with the proper path, in minetest.conf:

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texture_path = C:\path\to\texture\directory

However, keep in mind that 0.4 wants paths with the modname_ prefixes, while 0.3 cannot understand them.


More info

Some texture packs assume you will copy just everything over the original files. In such cases, you can either do that, or just copy them from the subfolders into either of the above places.

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Minetest 0.4.8 (or later than 2013-08-04):

Put the texture pack folder in

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<minetest directory>/textures/

So that <minetest directory>/textures/ with it's contents looks like this (example packs "HDX" and "Misa"):

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textures/
├── HDX/
│ ├── info.txt
│ ├── screenshot.png
│ ├── default_wood.png
│ └── ...
└── Misa/
  ├── info.txt
  ├── screenshot.png
  ├── default_brick.png
  └── ...

Minetest 0.4.dev-20120408, 0.4.0 and later:

Put the textures without subfolders in

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<minetest directory>/textures/all/

So that you have them like so:

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<minetest directory>/textures/all/default_grass.png
<minetest directory>/textures/all/fire_basic_flame.png

For installed Linux versions, <minetest directory> is ~/.minetest

Every Minetest version

Put the textures without subfolders in any place you like, and add this configuration setting, with the proper path, in minetest.conf:

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texture_path = C:\path\to\texture\directory

However, keep in mind that 0.4 wants paths with the modname_ prefixes, while 0.3 cannot understand them.

More info

Some texture packs assume you will copy just everything over the original files. In such cases, you can either do that, or just copy them from the subfolders into either of the above places.