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What is this?
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This online book will teach you how to create mods in easy chapters.
The chapters will explain a concept, give examples, and set tasks for you
to complete.

This documentation was created by the Minetest community in order to help
new modders gain a foothold.

* [GitHub](https://github.com/rubenwardy/minetest_doc).
* [Download for offline use](https://github.com/rubenwardy/minetest_doc/releases)
* [Forum Topic](https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10729)

What you will need:
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* A plain text editor (eg: NotePad+, ConTEXT, or GEdit)
* OR A Lua IDE such as Eclipse.
* A copy of Minetest in the 0.4 series. (eg: 0.4.10)

Contribution
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You can contribute to this project on [GitHub](https://github.com/rubenwardy/minetest_doc).
It uses Jekyll to turn Markdown into a website.

Book written by rubenwardy and contributers.\\
License: [CC-BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)