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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."
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