Tutorials/Menu screen

This tutorial will help you understand and navigate the menus of Minecraft. Although they are mostly self-explanatory, some things may need explaining. If you need help navigating the menu just find the appropriate section of this tutorial.

There are two menu groups in Minecraft: The Main Menu and the Pause Menu.

Main Menu
The main menu is what you see when you first turn on the game. It allows you to choose which game type and world to play as well as access Minecraft Realms and access the game Options. There is also a button that will allow you to quit your game.

Singleplayer
The Singleplayer button, located at the top of the group of buttons on the main menu, leads you to the screen to the right. In this menu you can access all your singleplayer worlds. As seen on the right, there are 2 different worlds. Both of the worlds have 3 lines of information on them. The first line tells you the name of your world. You can change the name of your worlds by clicking on the "Rename" button. The second line tells you what the world is saved as in your "saves" folder in the .minecraft folder, and the the date and time you were last on that world. Ex. (month/day/year Hour:Minutes AM/PM). The third line of text tells you what type of world you have. the 3 types of world you can have are Survival Mode, Creative Mode, or Hardcore Mode. When you make a hardcore world, the text will read "Hardcore Mode!" in red text. The third line also says if your world have cheats on or off. If cheats are off, there will be no extra text, but if you have cheats on, it will also display Cheats, as seen in the picture in the right.

Minecraft Realms
The third button on the main menu is labeled Minecraft Realms. This button allows you to, as it says, access Realms and perform all the functions that come with it.

The Realms Screen
The Minecraft Realms button will take you to the "Homepage" of Realms. Here you can perform all of the basic actions associated with Realms, which are as follows:


 * See all of the Realms you own / are invited to and information about them
 * Play on a Realm
 * Buy a new Realm
 * Configure your own Realm(s)
 * Leave a Realm
 * See new invitations
 * Find out more about Realms

The majority of these functions can be carried out by clicking on a Realm and using the button group at the bottom of the screen. Invitations can be accessed via the envelope next to the Realms logo. The What is Realms? link in the upper right hand corner takes you to the Realms website where you can learn more about the program.

There is a distinct difference between the server list in the Multiplayer screen and the Realms list. Here you can see all of the basic information about the Realm you may need. The exact layout is shown here:

1. Realm name 2. Realm description 3. Realm owner's name 4. Realm owner's face 5. Realm status 6. Online players count
 * Can be changed by the owner
 * Displays green of you're the owner of that Realm, white if it's someone else's Realm.
 * Can be changed by the owner
 * Shows the current chosen username of the owner (not their UUID)
 * Can be changed by the owner changing the face of his skin
 * Has three states: Green, Gray, and Red
 * Green: Realm is online
 * Gray: Realm is offline
 * Red: Realm has expired.
 * Updates constantly to show the number of players currently playing on the Realm

Invitations
Invitations can be accepted or declined via the envelope next to the Realms logo. If you have an invitation you will see a little number dancing on the envelope. If the little number is instead !!! then that means that you have more than five invitations! If you hover over the envelope a tooltip will appear. It will either say No pending invitations! or Pending invitations! If you click on this when you have some invitations, it will take to to a screen where you can accept or decline various invites.

The screenshot at right is a list of any and all Realms you have been invited to. The operations here are simple: You simply click on a Realm and you can either accept the invitation or decline it.

Once you have been invited to a Realm and accepted it the Realm will appear on your Realm list. At any time you can click on that Realm and click the "Leave Realm" button, which will uninvite you from that Realm until such time as you are invited again.

If you decline an invite your name is taken back off the invited list of that Realm, but keep in mind that he/she can re-invite you at any time. If you are getting spammed with an invite from a particular person and you don't want to see them again, email the support address and they may be able to help.

Realm Configuration
The owner of a Realm has the ability to configure his/her Realm from inside Minecraft. To access the configuration screen you simply click on your Realm and click the Configure button.

From this screen, you can completely manage your Realm and it's players. Written below is a detailed walk-through of everything you can do to manage your Realm.

Adding/Removing Players
When adding players to you realms the big "+" button and the type there username in the box. Once you have typed in there name, click the "Invite" button and they will have access to your realm. When removing players, you can press the red X button next to their name and then click "Yes" when it asks you if you want to un-invite that person. Once you un-invite someone, then no longer can see the realm when they click on the "Minecraft Realms" button on the main screen, and they will no be able to join the realm. Remember to keep your resource pack to default, for you may not see some important buttons like the X to un-invite people.

Promoting Players
To promote players, you click on the little badge next to then X button. Once you click it, it will turn yellow, and that player will have access to all the commands. Be careful who you promote, for if you promote a un-trust worthy friend, he/she could give them-self unlimited stuff, etc. Operators also can edit command block, witch it the person knows how to use, they can have a lot of power.