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Settings Screen

The main options menu

File:Settingsscreen.png

The video settings menu

Minecraft’s user environment can be configured through the Options setting. A few additional options can only be changed by editing the options.txt file manually.

PC

Options

  Selecting Options brings up the main options page:  

Option Description
Music Set the volume for the in-game music. Ranges from 0% (OFF) to 100%
Sound Set the volume for sound effects and ambience. Ranges from 0% (OFF) to 100%. Setting this to OFF improves performance, especially when many sound-producing blocks (lava, flowing water) or mobs are nearby. However, doing so would mean that you could only detect hostile monsters if they appear within your lines of sight.
Invert Mouse Invert the vertical direction the mouse moves the camera.
Sensitivity Controls how responsive Minecraft is to mouse movement. Ranges from 0% (*yawn*) to 200% (HYPERSPEED!!!)
FOV Controls how much of the game world is visible on the screen. Also known as Field of View. Ranges from 70° (Regular) to 110° (Quake Pro)
Difficulty Set the Difficulty level from the choice of Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. (Note that the difficulty cannot be changed if playing Hardcore Mode. On a server, difficulty can only be changed by commands or editing the server.properties file.)
Touchscreen Allows the ability to hold down the mouse button to move items in your inventory

Video settings

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

Video Setting Description
Graphics Fancy enables higher quality graphic effects, such as transparent leaves, shadows for players/mobs, 3D Rendering for dropped items, volumetric clouds, biome-colored side grass, 2-passed water rendering
Fast disables those effects for better performance.
Render Distance The maximum distance at which Minecraft will load chunks. For more info 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, but it has a slight effect on performance.
Performance Limits the FPS (Frames Per Second):
Power saver constantly limits to 35 FPS
Balanced limits to 120 maximum FPS and
Max FPS sets no limit to maximum FPS.
3D Anaglyph Enables the player to use 3D glasses.
View Bobbing Toggles the "bobbing" motion of the camera as the player is walking.
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.
Advanced OpenGL Enables or disables occlusion culling (requires a graphics card supporting OpenGL 2.0 or better). Enabling it improves performance on computers with a fast GPU, 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).
Clouds Controls if the clouds should be drawn.
Brightness Dims down or lights up the game's surfaces. It has no effect on gameplay, it is only a visual effect.
Particles
Server Textures Allows Minecraft to download texture packs from Servers
Full Screen Puts Minecraft into Full Screen Mode, keeping it off keeps it in a window.
Use VSync Caps your FPS to Remove Screen Tear. Turn it off if you have no screen tear. Take caution however, as it tends to force FPS to a certain value, intensifying CPU use and FPS problems if a computer cannot handle it.

Controls

Main article: Controls

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

Pocket Edition

Android & iOS

Option Description
Username Changes your public username (as seen when joining or leaving LAN parties)
Server visible by default Changes whether or not LAN players can see your local server
Fancy graphics Uses better, more resource-intensive graphics
Lower graphics quality Disables fancy graphics and reduces render distance
Sensitivity Increases or decreases touch sensitivity
Invert Y-axis Inverts Y-axis input
Lefty Places the directional pad on the right side of the screen
Split touch controls Ideal control scheme for tablets; one side of the screen is reserved for the D-pad while the other side controls block placement/destruction/interaction
Use touch screen Whether to use the touch screen as primary input or not (eg. using a gamepad)

Xbox 360 Edition


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Video

Options/video

History

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1.3Smooth lighting was added.
1.8The Brightness setting was added.
1.9pre5The Clouds setting was added (however, texture packs were able to remove them before this option was introduced).
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1.3.112w21aThe options menu was improved with a new "Chat Settings" menu.
1.4.212w34aAdded new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings.
Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings.
1.4.6preAdded an option to toggle touchscreen mode.
1.513w09bMoved Texture Packs setting from Menu Screen to options menu.
1.713w36aThe options menu was revamped in the new snap shot, including a brand new layout, new key binds and a "Super Secret Settings" button in the menu.
13w36bThe "Super Secret Settings" button now plays a random sound when clicked.

See also

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