diff --git a/srcpkgs/minetest/template b/srcpkgs/minetest/template
index 761c8f4548a..965e09e6139 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/minetest/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/minetest/template
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ short_desc="An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://www.minetest.org"
+update_site="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tags"
+update_pattern='archive/\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'
 hostmakedepends="cmake pkg-config git"
 makedepends="
  sqlite-devel libcurl-devel lua-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel