Options


Info

The main options menu
The video settings menu
The music and sound options menu

Minecraft⃢₀ₙs user environment can be configured through the Options setting. A few additional options can only be changed by editing the options.txt options.txt is the file that stores all the options changeable in the in-game options menu and various other information the game needs to store after quitting. It is found in the .minecraft folder and can file manually.

Videos

Options

Selecting Options brings up the main options page:

Option Description
FOV Controls how much of the game world is visible on the screen. Also known as Field of View. Ranges from 30⃂₰ to 110⃂₰ (Quake Pro)
Difficulty Set the difficulty Mobs in full armor are a common sight in higher difficulty levels. Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay. Contents 1 World setting 1.1 Peaceful 1.2 minecraft level from the choice of Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. If the padlock is clicked and confirmed, the difficulty on that world cannot be changed without commands Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Tilde notation 1.2 Target selectors 1.2.1 Target selector variables 1.2.2 Target selector arguments 1.3 Data tags 1.4 Raw JSON text 1.5 Block/item names 2 Summary of commands 3 List of commands . (Note that the difficulty cannot be changed if playing Hardcore The Hardcore mode death screen. Java Edition Only Hardcore mode is a much more difficult variant of the Survival game mode. Contents 1 Features 2 Multiplayer 3 Video 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia 7 minecraft Mode. On a server, difficulty can only be changed by commands or editing the server.properties The default server.properties file. server.properties is the file which stores all the settings for a multiplayer (Minecraft or Minecraft Classic) server. If you are going to edit server.properties it is important that you use the minecraft file.)

Skin Customization

Skin Customization Setting Description
Cape Toggles the cape This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. Capes (previously known as cloaks) are extremely rare vanity items and minecraft . If set to off, the cape texture for wearing a pair of Elytra Elytra Type Transport Durability 431 Renewable No Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 443 hex: 1BB bin: 110111011 PE: dec: 444 hex: 1BC bin: 110111100 Name elytra “ Elytra! Soar through The End on your freshly-minted insectoid minecraft would also be deactivated.
Jacket Toggles the body second layer.
Left Sleeve Toggles the left arm second layer.
Right Sleeve Toggles the right arm second layer.
Left Pants Leg Toggles the left leg second layer.
Right Pants Leg Toggles the right leg second layer.
Hat Toggles the head second layer.
Main Hand Switches the main hand, between left and right. Right is default.

Music & Sounds

Sound Setting Description
Master Volume The volume of all sounds.
Music The volume of gameplay music.
Weather The volume of rain and thunder.
Hostile Creatures The volume of hostile and neutral mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of minecraft .
Players The volume of players.
Jukebox/Noteblocks The volume of music and sounds played from Jukeboxes Jukebox Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Hardness 2 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History Drops minecraft and Note Blocks Note Block Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 4 Hardness 0.8 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History minecraft .
Blocks The volume of blocks (anvils, chests, doors, etc.).
Friendly Creatures The volume of passive mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of minecraft .
Ambient/Environment The volume of cave sounds A dark cave. This is where one will most likely hear ambient sounds. Ambience (cave sounds in console edition and eerie noise according to subtitles) is a set of sounds that occasionally play when the minecraft and fireworks Firework Rocket Type Manufactured items‎ Durability 0 (one use) Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Internal ID 22 Network ID 76 Entity ID fireworks_rocket First appearances See History Data value dec: 401 hex: 191 bin: 110010001 Name fireworks Firework minecraft .
Voice/Speech The volume of speech in Minecraft (for map makers)

Video Settings

Video Setting Description
Graphics
Render Distance The render distance controls how many chunks Visualization of the ground portion of a single chunk. The entire chunk extends up to a height of 256. Chunks are 16 × 16 × 256 segments of the Minecraft worlds. Contents 1 Generation 1.1 minecraft of the world are visible at once. The fewer chunks that are included, the faster each frame can be rendered, resulting in a higher FPS.

The most distant terrain is faded into the sky color as if by fog, to avoid a sharp edge to the visible world; so this option is also known as "fog".

Note: diameter = radius ⃗ 2 + 1

Smooth Lighting Lighting is smoothed across the blocks (ambient occlusion), 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.
Max Framerate Limits the FPS. Limiting the framerate to a multiple of your monitor`s refresh rate can save processing power.
3D Anaglyph Enables the player to use 3D glasses.
View Bobbing Toggles the "bobbing" motion of the camera as the player is walking. Disabling it may increase performance.
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.
Clouds
  • Fancy causes the clouds to be rendered in 3D.
  • Fast causes the clouds to be rendered flat.
  • OFF causes no clouds to be rendered.
Brightness Dims down or lights Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2 minecraft up the game`s surfaces, even if fully dark. It has no effect on gameplay, it is only a visual effect. Works in any dimension and affects the Night Vision "Healing" redirects here. For health, see health. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Summary of effects 3 List of effects 3.1 Absorption 3.2 Bad Luck 3.3 Blindness 3.4 Fire Resistance 3.5 Glowing 3.6 Haste 3.7 Health Boost minecraft status effect.
Particles Allows particles effects such as sprinting particles, falling particles and particles from lava and water drips. Block breaking particles are not affected. In "Minimal" particle setting, rain is silent and hearts appearing around mobs in Love Mode do not appear.
Fullscreen Puts Minecraft into Fullscreen mode, keeping it off keeps it in a window. Can also be changed with F11.
Use VSync Limits your frames per second to the screen`s refresh rate, which is usually 60Hz, 75Hz on some CRT screens, or 120 to 144Hz on some gaming-targeted screens. Enabling VSync fixes tearing, but increases input latency and causes stuttering if one`s computer cannot draw enough frames per second.
Mipmap Levels The higher the level, the more the textures look "smooth".
Use VBOs Toggles vertex buffer objects.
Entity Shadows Determines whether entities will display simple shadows.
Attack Indicator
  • OFF No attack indicator renders.
  • Crosshair A little grey translucent bar appears below the crosshair displaying attack power
  • Hotbar A little grey sword bar appears on the side of the hotbar (on the same side as the player`s main hand) displaying attack power

Controls

Option Description
Sensitivity Changes the sensitivity of the camera when turning.
Invert Y-Axis Toggles inversion of camera when looking up/down.
Lefty Toggles the D-pad being on the left/right side of the screen.
Split controls Chooses whether to use the touchscreen to interact throughout the screen or use a crosshair.
Swap Jump and Sneak Chooses whether to swap the position of jump and sneak buttons.
Button size Changes the size of the buttons. Smaller buttons allow extra slots for the hotbar.
Auto Jump Toggles the auto-jump feature.
Keyboard Layout Chooses whether what keyboard layout will be used.
Controller Layout Changes the action of buttons when pressed in a controller.

Language

Settings

Allows you to change the language that is viewed by your client.

Option Description
Force Unicode font ON Unicode Font.
OFF Ascii font

Chat Settings

Option Description
Chat Shown enables your ability to see the chat on a server.
Commands Only allows you to only see the output of commands in the chat.
Hidden hides the chat on all servers.
Colors ON allows you to see the chat in many different colors.
OFF disables this function and only allows you to see the chat in a light gray color.
Web Links ON allows you to see URLs and other links in the chat.
OFF disables this function and blocks all URLs and other links.
Opacity The opacity of the chat.
Prompt on Links ON forces a prompt to appear on your screen whenever you click on a URL to makes sure that you wish to exit Minecraft and head to the website.
OFF turns the prompt off.
Scale How large the chat is shown.
Focused Height The max height that the chat is allowed to appear when in focus (chat input and history open).
Unfocused Height The max height that the chat is allowed to appear normally (chat input and history closed).
Width The max width that the chat may appear.
Reduced Debug Info Toggles reduced information on the debug screen Java Edition Only Screenshot showing the debug information "Debug" redirects here. For world type, see Debug mode. The debug screen is triggered when the F3 key is pressed. It shows the chunk cache, the memory minecraft .

Server options

Option Description
Server Resource Packs Allows Minecraft to download resource packs from the server.

Resource Packs

Allows you to change your Resource pack See the system to customize assets since 1.6.1. For the system used before 1.6.1, see Texture pack. The default textures, with a custom resource pack (DokuCraft) in the center. The resource pack minecraft settings.

Snooper Settings

Snooper allows Mojang to collect information about your machine to help improve Minecraft by knowing what they can support and where the biggest problems are. All of this information is able to be viewed within the settings page. They promise they won`t do anything bad with this data, but if you want to opt out then feel free to toggle it off!

Option Description
Allow Snooper ON enables snooper.
OFF disables snooper.

Game

Option Description
Username Changes your public username (locked if signed in to Realms Minecraft Realms Hosts Mojang Website http://minecraft.net/realms Subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/realms/ Support address https://help.mojang.com This article needs updating. Description: PCPersonal Computer and PE/Win10 Realms have a number of differences. 1] If you have questions that need official sources, feel minecraft ; can be changed through Xbox Live).
Sound Volume Choose the level of sound volume.
Difficulty Select difficulty (Total of 4 Difficulties, same as PC Version (As of Alpha 0.12.1)).
Third person view Toggles third person view.
Multiplayer Game Allow users to join the server.
Broadcast to LAN Allow local users to join the server.
Broadcast to Xbox Live Allow friends from Xbox Live to the join the server

Feedback

Option Description
Destroy block (vibrate) Toggles vibration when destroying blocks. (Android only).

Graphics

Option Description
Brightness Adjusts the brightness of the game.
Render Distance Changes the render distance. Available in 3-5 subsections on the slider (depending on the device).

For low end devices (less than 512MB of available RAM).

  • 4 chunks
  • 6 chunks
  • 8 chunks
  • (Higher end) 10 chunks

For top end devices

  • 6 chunks
  • 8 chunks
  • 10 chunks
  • 12 chunks
  • 14 chunks
FOV Changes the field of view.
View Bobbing Chooses whether to show the bobbing when walking.
Fancy Graphics Toggles fancy graphics.
Note that clouds on fast graphics remain volumetric but become opaque.
Beautiful skies Toggles the sun The sun. The sun is a celestial body that provides light and life for the Minecraft world. Contents 1 Daytime 2 Sunlight 2.1 Effects on mobs 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 Gallery 7 minecraft , moon A full moon. The moon is a celestial body that appears during the Minecraft night. Contents 1 Nighttime 1.1 Stars 2 Phases 2.1 Effects on mobs 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 Gallery 7 minecraft , clouds Clouds as they appear with Fancy graphics Clouds are graphical effects in the sky. They serve a solely aesthetic purpose. Contents 1 Appearance 2 Behavior 3 Video 4 History 5 Issues 6 Gallery 7 References minecraft , stars and sky color.
Animated water Toggles animated texture for water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 minecraft , lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still minecraft and fire Fire Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data value dec: 51 hex: 33 bin: 110011 Name fire Fire is a harmful non-solid block. Contents 1 minecraft .

Experimental

Option Description
Hide GUI Toggles if the HUD is displayed.
Limit worlds Toggles whether a world is infinite or compressed to a 256x256 block area
(Only available on supported low-end devices).

UI Profile

Changes the game UI style between classic (desktop UI) and Pocket Edition UI.

Windows 10 Edition

As it is simply Pocket Edition ported to PC, it has only 2 different options from Pocket Edition Alpha 0.13.1

  • Fullscreen
  • View Distance
    • Has 6th slider on supported devices

Console Edition

There are settings for the music, sound, gamma, visibility on maps, vertical split screen, view bobbing, and sensitivity. The option to turn bedrock fog on or off was present until title update 31 - which removed bedrock fog entirely.

Render distance varies depending on device and the number of players on the same console. Note that the implementation of fog is different on console, giving the appearance of a higher render distance at the cost of pop in.

Console Render distance
1P Mode 2P Mode 3P Mode 4P Mode
PS4 18 chunks 12 chunks 10 chunks 9 chunks
Xbox One
PS3 10 chunks 7 chunks 6 chunks 5 chunks
Xbox 360
Wii U
Switch (Docked)
Switch (Handheld) 7 chunks 5 chunks ??? ???
PS Vita 5 chunks N/A N/A N/A

Video

History

Classic Classic Starting version 0.0.9a (May 16, 2009) Latest version 0.30 (Dec. 22, 2009) Paid No Classic versions 0.0.11a to 0.0.13a_03, as well as version c0.30_01c are available to play in the launcher. Be that as it may, please note minecraft
0.0.12a This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the Minecraft website. For versions 1.11 and prior, please check the Mojang website. For versions prior to Beta 1.8, please minecraft New fog distance option.
0.23 This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the Minecraft website. For versions 1.11 and prior, please check the Mojang website. For versions prior to Beta 1.8, please minecraft Added the options page.
New custom keymappings.
Beta Beta Starting version Beta 1.0 (Dec. 20, 2010) Latest version Beta 1.9-pre6 (Nov. 13, 2011) Paid Yes These versions are available to play in the launcher. Be that as it may, please note that these versions contain bugs. You ll minecraft
1.3 Beta 1.3 Release date Feb. 22, 2011 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.3 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.2 ◄ Beta 1.2_02 Beta 1.3_01 ► Beta 1.4 ►► See the computer edition. minecraft Smooth lighting was added.
1.8 Beta 1.8 Official name Adventure Update (Part 1) Release date Sep. 15, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.8-pre1 Beta 1.8-pre2 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.8 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.7 ◄ minecraft The Brightness setting was added.
Official releaseAnnounce Minecraft 1.0 Starting version 1.0.0 (Nov. 18th, 2011) Latest version 1.12 Paid Yes Website http://www.minecraft.net/ See the official release of Minecraft for the PC. For the version, see 1.0.0. For the first minecraft
1.0.0 1.0.0 Type Release Release date Nov. 18, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.9-pre1 Beta 1.9-pre2 Beta 1.9-pre3 Beta 1.9-pre4 Beta 1.9-pre5 Beta 1.9-pre6 Release candidates 1.0.0-RC1 1.0.0-RC2 Download Client (.json) Server Other editions minecraft Beta 1.9-pre5 The Clouds setting was added (be that as it may, texture packs This page contains content that is no longer in the game. In 1.6.1, texture packs were replaced with resource packs. Be that as it may, texture packs still exist in the Console Edition. See custom world minecraft were able to remove them before this option was introduced).
1.3.1 1.3.1 Release date Aug. 1, 2012 Development versions View all Snapshots 12w15a 12w16a 12w17a 12w18a 12w19a 12w21a 12w21b 12w22a 12w23a 12w23b 12w24a 12w25a 12w26a 12w27a 12w30a 12w30b 12w30c 12w30d 12w30e Pre-releases 1.3-pre 1.3.1-pre Download Client minecraft 12w21a 12w21a Type Snapshot Release date May 24, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.3.1 Download Client Server .exe ◄◄ 1.2.5 ◄ 12w19a 12w21b ► 1.3.2 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see minecraft The options menu was improved with a new "Chat Settings" menu.
1.4.2 1.4.2 Official name Pretty Scary Update Release date Oct. 25, 2012 1] Development versions View all Snapshots 12w32a 12w34a 12w34b 12w36a 12w37a 12w38a 12w38b 12w39a 12w39b 12w40a 12w40b 12w41a 12w41b 12w42a 12w42b Pre-releases 1.4-pre 1.4.1-pre minecraft 12w34a 12w34a Type Snapshot Release date Aug. 23, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.4.2 Download Client Server .exe ◄◄ 1.3.2 ◄ 12w32a 12w34b ► 1.4.4 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see minecraft Added new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings.
Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings.
1.4.6 1.4.6-pre Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.
1.5 13w09b Moved Texture Packs setting from the main menu to the options menu.
1.7.2 13w36a The options menu was revamped, including a brand new layout, new key binds and a "Super Secret Settings" button in the menu.
13w36b The "Super Secret Settings" button now plays a random sound when clicked.
13w38a The "Super Secret Settings" button now creates a shader effect on the game`s display, in the following order: FXAA, Art, Bumpy, Blobs_2, Pencil, Color_Convolve, Deconverge, Flip, Invert, NTSC, Outline, Phosphor, Scan_Pincushion, Sobel, Bits, Desaturate, Green, Blur, Wobble, Blobs, Antialias, Default.
1.7.4 13w47a Added "Twitch Broadcast Settings" and "Twitch Chat Settings" buttons.
1.7.6 1.7.6-pre1 Server Resource Packs option is now per-server, and has three settings: Prompt, Enabled, and Disabled.
1.7.6-pre1 The minimum FOV setting is now 30 rather than 70.
1.8 Beta 1.8 Official name Adventure Update (Part 1) Release date Sep. 15, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.8-pre1 Beta 1.8-pre2 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.8 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.7 ◄ minecraft 14w25a Dropped items now always render in 3D, rather then just while on fancy graphics
1.8.1 The option to enable entity shadows is now controlled separately from the standard fast and fancy graphics.
The cloud`s "fast" and "fancy" shape are controlled by the same option which enables clouds, rather then by the standard fast and fancy graphics.
1.9 15w31a Removed "Super Secret Settings" and "Broadcast Settings".
Removed Alternate Blocks from video settings.
Added "Main Hand" to the skin settings.
15w34a Added "Attack Indicator" to the video settings.
16w02a added "Voice/Speech" to the music & sound settings.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.1 Added split screen option.
0.4.0 Added option for peaceful mode.
0.7.0 Redesigned options menu. There are now four sections in the menu, game, controls, graphics, and sound.
0.8.0 Removed option for smooth lighting. It is now always on.
Added far (256 blocks) and farthest (400 blocks) render distances. Default is now far.
By default, fancy graphics is now on.
0.9.3 View distance on Android is no longer limited to 3 sliders.
0.10.0 Added the brightness slider. It is located in the graphics menu.
0.11.0 Worlds can now be renamed.
Gamemode can be changed in the world edit menu.
On creative mode worlds the daylight cycle can be locked to day.
0.12.1 Added option to swap jump and sneak.
0.13.0 Multiplayer can now be disabled in the options menu.
0.13.1 Removed sound section in the options menu. The volume slider is now in the Game section.
On the title screen the options icon is no longer a wrench.
Made the options icon slightly bigger.
0.16.0 build 1 Redesigned options screen.