diff --git a/games/minetest/gcc11.patch b/games/minetest/gcc11.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bb37cdf31e..0000000000
--- a/games/minetest/gcc11.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-From 7c2826cbc0f36027d4a9781f433150d1c5d0d03f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: lhofhansl <larsh@apache.org>
-Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 10:24:30 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix build for newer versions of GCC (#11246)
-
----
- src/clientiface.h | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/src/clientiface.h b/src/clientiface.h
-index cc5292b71bf9..dfd97674137c 100644
---- a/src/clientiface.h
-+++ b/src/clientiface.h
-@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- #include <list>
- #include <vector>
- #include <set>
-+#include <memory>
- #include <mutex>
- 
- class MapBlock;
diff --git a/games/minetest/minetest.SlackBuild b/games/minetest/minetest.SlackBuild
index 4563795705..b335e58051 100644
--- a/games/minetest/minetest.SlackBuild
+++ b/games/minetest/minetest.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for minetest
 
-# Copyright 2014-2020  Dimitris Zlatanidis  Orestiada, Greece
+# Copyright 2014-2022  Dimitris Zlatanidis  Orestiada, Greece
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=minetest
-VERSION=${VERSION:-5.4.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.6.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-patch -p1 < $CWD/gcc11.patch
-
 # Fix man page path
 sed -i "s/share\/man/man/" CMakeLists.txt
 
diff --git a/games/minetest/minetest.info b/games/minetest/minetest.info
index 6aaa220910..817e25cf0c 100644
--- a/games/minetest/minetest.info
+++ b/games/minetest/minetest.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="minetest"
-VERSION="5.4.1"
+VERSION="5.6.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://minetest.net/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/5.4.1/minetest-5.4.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="1814139a9b82aa07ad89867095224b4d"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/5.6.1/minetest-5.6.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="3367f8261bde16944d148c6b16103c42"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES="irrlicht luajit jsoncpp"
+REQUIRES="irrlichtmt luajit jsoncpp"
 MAINTAINER="Dimitris Zlatanidis"
 EMAIL="d.zlatanidis@gmail.com"