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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T16:42:45.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It sounds like you download Luanti's .exe installer format. That's meant to be played as RUN_IN_PLACE=0, but you seem to be forcing it into RUN_IN_PLACE=1; this is a compile-time option too, so you're trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. We only recently started shipping this option recently**. Instead, download the .zip format file and create a shortcut to luanti-5.15.1-win64\\bin\\luanti.exe (directory name subject to change in later releases of course).\n\n\n\n> I would prefer to avoid relying on a Windows environment variable and use an argument to replace MINETEST_USER_PATH.\n\nNow, you should probably be using the zip as I mentioned, but rather than setting the environment variable globally through system settings, you could create a batch/.cmd file that launches the program with the environment variables set up as you like them, resolving relative paths if you have to. That's just how it goes with launching things with arguments in any complicated fashion - Windows' \".lnk\" shortcuts* can launch with a static list of arguments, but that's got the drive letters and so on baked-in.\n\n\n**unless you count a really long time ago\n\n*they really try hard to hide this file extension, it doesn't appear like most of them do after just turning off hiding extensions, but a registry edit or a view on the command line will show you the true extension.\n\nStatistics: Posted by Blockhead — Sun Mar 08, 2026 16:42\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: In Windows, is there a luanti.exe argument to specify what the MINETEST_USER_PATH environment variable specifies?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-08T16:42:45.000Z"
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