Options
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Minecraft’s user environment can be configured through the Options setting. A few additional options can only be changed by editing the options.txt file manually.
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[edit] PC
[edit] Options
Selecting Options brings up the main options page:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Music | Set the volume for the in-game music. Ranges from 0% (OFF) to 100% |
| Sound | Set the volume for sound effects and ambience. Ranges from 0% (OFF) to 100% |
| Invert Mouse | Invert the vertical direction the mouse moves the camera. |
| Sensitivity | Controls how responsive Minecraft is to mouse movement. Ranges from 0% (*yawn*) to 200% (HYPERSPEED!!!) |
| FOV | Controls how much of the game world is visible on the screen. Also known as Field of View. Ranges from 70° (Regular) to 110° (Quake Pro) |
| Difficulty | Set the Difficulty level from the choice of Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. (Note that the difficulty cannot be changed if playing Hardcore Mode) |
| Touchscreen | Allows the ability to hold down the mouse button to move items in your inventory |
[edit] Video settings
From the main options page you can click down to Video Settings:
| Video Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Fancy enables higher quality graphic effects, such as transparent leaves, shadows for players/mobs, 3D Rendering dropped for items, volumetric clouds, biome-colored side grass, 2-passed water rendering Fast disables those effects for better performance. |
| Render Distance | The maximum distance at which Minecraft will load chunks. For more info see render distance. |
| Smooth Lighting | Lighting is smoothed across the blocks, or each block has a distinctive light level. This setting does not change the gameplay in any way, but it has a slight effect on performance. |
| Performance | Limits the FPS (Frames Per Second): Power saver constantly limits to 35 FPS Balanced limits to 120 maximum FPS and Max FPS sets no limit to maximum FPS. |
| 3D Anaglyph | Enables the player to use 3D glasses. |
| View Bobbing | Toggles the "bobbing" motion of the camera as the player is walking. |
| GUI Scale | Controls the GUI (Graphical User Interface) scale. This also controls the HUD (Heads Up Display) size. Using the "Auto" GUI scale can set the normally un-obtainable "Larger" GUI scale, if playing with a large resolution. |
| Advanced OpenGL | Enables or disables occlusion culling (requires a graphics card supporting OpenGL 2.0 or better). Enabling it improves performance on computers with a fast GPU, as the game doesn't render what is obstructed. However, the "don't render what isn't in field of view" rule always applies (also known as view frustum culling). |
| Clouds | Controls if the clouds should be drawn. |
| Brightness | Dims down or lights up the game's surfaces. It has no effect on gameplay, it is only a visual effect. |
| Particles | |
| Server Textures | Allows Minecraft to download texture packs from Servers |
| Full Screen | Puts Minecraft into Full Screen Mode, keeping it off keeps it in a window. |
| Use VSync | Caps your FPS to Remove Screen Tear. Turn it off if you have no screen tear. Take caution however, as it tends to force FPS to a certain value, intensifying CPU use and FPS problems if a computer cannot handle it. |
[edit] Controls
- Main article: Controls
From the main Options page you can click down to Controls for configuring keyboard controls.
[edit] Pocket Edition
[edit] Android & iOS
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Username | Changes your public username (as seen when joining or leaving LAN parties) |
| Server visible by default | Changes whether or not LAN players can see your local server |
| Fancy graphics | Uses better, more resource-intensive graphics |
| Lower graphics quality | Disables fancy graphics and reduces render distance |
| Sensitivity | Increases or decreases touch sensitivity |
| Invert Y-axis | Inverts Y-axis input |
| Lefty | Places the directional pad on the right side of the screen |
| Split touch controls | Ideal control scheme for tablets; one side of the screen is reserved for the D-pad while the other side controls block placement/destruction/interaction |
| Use touch screen | Whether to use the touch screen as primary input or not (eg. using a gamepad) |
[edit] Xbox 360 Edition
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[edit] Video
[edit] History
| Beta | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | Smooth lighting was added. | |
| 1.8 | The Brightness setting was added. | |
| 1.9pre5 | The Clouds setting was added (however, texture packs were able to remove them before this option was introduced). | |
| Official release | ||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | The options menu was improved with a new "Chat Settings" menu. |
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings. |
| Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings. | ||
| 1.4.6pre | Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode. | |
| 1.5 | 13w09b | Moved Texture Packs setting from Menu Screen to options menu. |
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