General Discussion • In Windows, is there a luanti.exe argument to specify what the MINETEST_USER_PATH environment variable specifies?

Hi, in Windows 11, is there a luanti.exe argument to specify what the MINETEST_USER_PATH environment variable specifies? I want to install and use Luanti as a portable application, so I have downloaded the Windows .64bit .exe file and unzipped it in order to have RUN_IN_PLACE=0 (the Portable .zip file has RUN_IN_PLACE=1) Currently, I am using the environment variable MINETEST_USER_PATH to specify the Luanti data folder. This works fine.

But as I want to use it as a portable application, I would prefer to avoid relying on a Windows environment variable and use an argument to replace MINETEST_USER_PATH. I have not found one in the luanti doc. I have tried using --run-dir argument, but it does not work unfortunately.

How do you install Luanti as a portable app cleanly, ie, with the software files, the config and the data properly separated? Regards

Statistics: Posted by cris — Sun Mar 08, 2026 09:39