Minecraft’s user environment can be configured through the Options setting.
Options
Selecting Options brings up the main options page:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Music | Set the volume for the in-game music. Ranges from 0%-100% |
| Sound | Set the volume for sound effects and ambience. Ranges from 0%-100% |
| Invert Mouse | Invert the vertical direction the mouse moves the camera. |
| Sensitivity | Controls how responsive Minecraft is to mouse movement. Ranges from 0%-200% |
| FOV | Controls how much of the game world is visible on the screen. Ranges from 70° (Normal) to 110° (Quake Pro) |
| Difficulty | Set the Difficulty level from the choice of Peaceful, Easy, Medium and Hard. |
Video Settings
From the main options page you can drill down to Video Settings:
| Video Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Fancy enables higher quality graphic effects, such as transparent leaves, shadows for players/mobs, volumetric clouds, biome-colored side grass, 2-passed water rendering Fast disables those effects for better performance. |
| Render Distance | 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. Contrary to popular belief, smooth lighting does not affect framed rate performance at all. |
| Performance | Limits the FPS (Frames Per Second): Power saver constantly limits to 40 FPS Balanced limits to 90 FPS when there are any chunk updates Max FPS limits to 200, in the same conditions as "Balanced". |
| 3D Anaglyph | Enables you to use 3D glasses |
| View Bobbing | Controls if the camera "bobs" as you’re walking. |
| GUI Scale | Controls the GUI (Graphical User Interface) scale. This also controls the HUD (Heads Up Display) size. |
| Advanced OpenGL | Enables or disables occlusion culling. Enabling it improves performance on most computers, 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). |
Controls
Main article: Controls
From the main options page you can drill down to Controls for configuring keyboard controls.
Trivia
- Setting the sensitivity to the minimum returns "*yawn*" and setting it to the maximum returns "HYPERSPEED!" in the slider field.
- The highest setting for FoV in the 1.8 update is "Quake Pro."
| Help |
| ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu screens |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Game customization | |||||||||||||||||||
| Editions |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||||||||||