Options

Minecraft’s user environment can be configured through the Options setting.

Options
Selecting Options brings up the main options page:

Video Settings
From the main options page you can click down to Video Settings:

Controls
From the main Options page you can click down to Controls for configuring keyboard controls.

History

 * Smooth lighting was added in Beta 1.3, the Brightness setting was added in Beta 1.8, and the Clouds setting was added in Beta 1.9pre5 (however, texture packs were able to remove them before this option was introduced).
 * In snapshot 12w21a, the options menu was improved with a new "Chat Settings" menu.