ContentDB #

ContentDB (short for “Content Database”) is the official source to download content such as mods, games and texture packs (collectively referred to as “packages”) that have been developed by the Luanti community. It’s the fastest and most convenient method to obtain those things, and is available both in the client and on the web.

But ContentDB isn’t just about supporting the in-game content downloader; it’s common for technical users to find and review packages using the ContentDB website, but install using Git rather than the in-game installer. ContentDB’s purpose is to be a well-formatted source of information about mods, games, and texture packs for Luanti.

In Luanti #

The content browser in the Luanti main menu makes use of ContentDB to fetch the list of content available as well as downloading content to be installed. It can be accessed from the Content tab in the main menu by pressing the “Browse Online Content” button.

Here you can browse and directly download and install the things you like to install. Everything you download here will be available instantly once it’s installed. Use the buttons on the top left to filter the content type, and use the search bar to search for packages by name.

Note that mods and games might receive updates by their respective authors. If an update is available there will be a number next to the Content tab in the main menu. Going into the content browser dialog will then show the installed packages that have new updates available.

The website #

The website of the ContentDB is at content.luanti.org.

The main advantage of the website is that it contains more information to read, more screenshots to admire and more links to click on. There are also features to review packages, add packages to personal collections, as well as a freely available API for developers to fetch information about Luanti content. You can also manually download content to install yourself, whether it be by cloning the source repository with Git or downloading a respective release archive.

On software freedom #

ContentDB generally only allows packages with content that is licensed under licenses that are considered Free by the FSF and/or the OSI. However there is currently at least an exception for non-free media licensed under Creative Commons licenses with restriction for non-commercial usage, which is allowed but will be hidden from the Luanti client by default and has appropriate warnings on its package page on the ContentDB website.

For more information, see the Non-free Licenses page on ContentDB as well as § 4. Licenses in the Package Inclusion Policy.