Playing Goanna

Goanna is an alternative Luanti client. You use the same account, servers, games and worlds as with Luanti's own client. A server does not need to know about Goanna for ordinary play.

What it looks like

These are representative Goanna renders from the current development build. They are illustrative rather than a promise that every server, shader pack or GPU will produce identical results.

Where to start

• Installing Goanna: what it needs, how it finds or installs Luanti and a game, and how it keeps itself up to date.
• Starting and joining: new worlds, Terrain Diffusion worlds, joining a server and the enhanced materials.
• Controls, and game controllers.
• Settings: graphics quality, the interface style and the rendering options.
• Accessibility: reading aloud, the keyboard and voice typing.
• Local multiplayer: splitscreen on one machine.
• System requirements: what hardware it wants, measured.
• Release notes: what changed in each version.

Current limitations

The project is alpha quality. Known gaps include some dropped-item models, animated inventory icons, parts of particle behaviour, connected textures and the long tail of game-specific formspec and drawtype behaviour. Shader-pack support currently covers the screen-space composite/final path, not the full world gbuffers pipeline. Controller support is untested on real hardware.

When reporting a problem, include the game and server, whether it is a new or existing world, your view/far distances, the performance overlay and a screenshot if the issue is visual.