Options

The main options menu

The video settings menu

The music and sound options 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
FOV	Controls how much of the game world is visible on the screen. Also known as Field of View. Ranges from 30° to 110° (Quake Pro)
Difficulty	Set the difficulty level from the choice of Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. If the padlock is clicked and confirmed, the difficulty on that world cannot be changed without commands. (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.)

Skin Customization

Skin Customization Setting	Description
Cape	Toggles the cape. If set to off, the cape texture for wearing a pair of Elytra would also be deactivated.
Jacket	Toggles the body second layer.
Left Sleeve	Toggles the left arm second layer.
Right Sleeve	Toggles the right arm second layer.
Left Pants Leg	Toggles the left leg second layer.
Right Pants Leg	Toggles the right leg second layer.
Hat	Toggles the head second layer.
Main Hand	Switches the main hand, between left and right. Right is default.

Music & Sounds

Sound Setting	Description
Master Volume	The volume of all sounds.
Music	The volume of gameplay music.
Weather	The volume of rain and thunder.
Hostile Creatures	The volume of hostile and neutral mobs.
Players	The volume of players.
Jukebox/Noteblocks	The volume of music and sounds played from Jukeboxes and Note Blocks.
Blocks	The volume of blocks (anvils, chests, doors, etc.).
Friendly Creatures	The volume of passive mobs.
Ambient/Environment	The volume of cave sounds and fireworks.
Voice/Speech	The volume of speech in Minecraft (for map makers)

Video Settings

Video Setting	Description
Graphics	Fancy enables higher quality graphic effects. Graphic effects include transparent leaves, increased rain particles, a black vignette around the screen in darker areas, and the world border red warning vignette effect. Fast disables those effects for better performance.
Render Distance	The render distance controls how many chunks of the world are visible at once. The fewer chunks that are included, the faster each frame can be rendered, resulting in a higher FPS. The most distant terrain is faded into the sky color as if by fog, to avoid a sharp edge to the visible world; so this option is also known as "fog". Note: diameter = radius × 2 + 1 Name View distance (radius) Total count Blocks Chunks Sections 32 chunks ("Extreme") 512 4225 67,600 31 chunks 496 3969 63,504 30 chunks 480 3721 59,536 29 chunks 464 3481 55,696 28 chunks 448 3249 51,984 27 chunks 432 3025 48,400 26 chunks 416 2809 44,944 25 chunks 400 2601 41,616 24 chunks 384 2401 38,416 23 chunks 368 2209 35,344 22 chunks 352 2025 32,400 21 chunks 336 1849 29,584 20 chunks 320 1681 26,896 19 chunks 304 1521 24,336 18 chunks 288 1369 21,904 17 chunks 272 1225 19,600 16 chunks ("Far") 256 1089 17,424 15 chunks 240 961 15,376 14 chunks 224 841 13,456 13 chunks 208 729 11,664 12 chunks (default) 192 625 10,000 11 chunks 176 529 8464 10 chunks 160 441 7056 9 chunks 144 361 5776 8 chunks ("Normal") 128 289 4624 7 chunks 112 225 3600 6 chunks 96 169 2704 5 chunks 80 121 1936 4 chunks ("Short") 64 81 1296 3 chunks 48 49 784 2 chunks ("Tiny") 32 25 400
Smooth Lighting	Lighting is smoothed across the blocks (ambient occlusion), 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.
Max Framerate	Limits the FPS. Limiting the framerate to a multiple of your monitor's refresh rate can save processing power.
3D Anaglyph	Enables the player to use 3D glasses.
View Bobbing	Toggles the "bobbing" motion of the camera as the player is walking. Disabling it may increase performance.
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.
Clouds	Fancy causes the clouds to be rendered in 3D. Fast causes the clouds to be rendered flat. OFF causes no clouds to be rendered.
Brightness	Dims down or lights up the game's surfaces, even if fully dark. It has no effect on gameplay, it is only a visual effect. Works in any dimension and affects the Night Vision status effect.
Particles	Allows particles effects such as sprinting particles, falling particles and particles from lava and water drips. Block breaking particles are not affected. In "Minimal" particle setting, rain is silent and hearts appearing around mobs in Love Mode do not appear.
Fullscreen	Puts Minecraft into Fullscreen mode, keeping it off keeps it in a window. Can also be changed with F11.
Use VSync	Limits your frames per second to the screen's refresh rate, which is usually 60 Hz, 75 Hz on some CRT screens, or 120 to 144 Hz on some gaming-targeted screens. Enabling VSync fixes tearing, but increases input latency and causes stuttering if one's computer cannot draw enough frames per second.
Mipmap Levels	The higher the level, the more the textures look "smooth".
Use VBOs	Toggles vertex buffer objects.
Entity Shadows	Determines whether entities will display simple shadows.
Attack Indicator	OFF No attack indicator renders. Crosshair A little grey translucent bar appears below the crosshair displaying attack power Hotbar A little grey sword bar appears on the side of the hotbar (on the same side as the player's main hand) displaying attack power

Controls

Main article: Controls

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

Language

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Settings

Allows you to change the language that is viewed by your client.

Option	Description
Force Unicode font	ON Unicode Font. OFF Ascii font

Chat Settings

Option	Description
Chat	Shown enables your ability to see the chat on a server. Commands Only allows you to only see the output of commands in the chat. Hidden hides the chat on all servers.
Colors	ON allows you to see the chat in many different colors. OFF disables this function and only allows you to see the chat in a light gray color.
Web Links	ON allows you to see URLs and other links in the chat. OFF disables this function and blocks all URLs and other links.
Opacity	The opacity of the chat.
Prompt on Links	ON forces a prompt to appear on your screen whenever you click on a URL to makes sure that you wish to exit Minecraft and head to the website. OFF turns the prompt off.
Scale	How large the chat is shown.
Focused Height	The max height that the chat is allowed to appear when in focus (chat input and history open).
Unfocused Height	The max height that the chat is allowed to appear normally (chat input and history closed).
Width	The max width that the chat may appear.
Reduced Debug Info	Toggles reduced information on the debug screen.

Server options

Option	Description
Server Resource Packs	Allows Minecraft to download resource packs from the server.

Resource Packs

Allows you to change your Resource pack settings.

Snooper Settings

Snooper allows Mojang to collect information about your machine to help improve Minecraft by knowing what they can support and where the biggest problems are. All of this information is able to be viewed within the settings page. They promise they won't do anything bad with this data, but if you want to opt out then feel free to toggle it off!

Option	Description
Allow Snooper	ON enables snooper. OFF disables snooper.

Pocket Edition

Game

Option	Description
Username	Changes your public username (locked if signed in to Realms; can be changed through Xbox Live).
Sound Volume	Choose the level of sound volume.
Difficulty	Select difficulty (Total of 4 Difficulties, same as PC Version (As of Alpha 0.12.1)).
Third person view	Toggles third person view.
Multiplayer Game	Allow users to join the server.
Broadcast to LAN	Allow local users to join the server.

Controls

Option	Description
Sensitivity	Changes the sensitivity of the camera when turning.
Invert Y-Axis	Toggles inversion of camera when looking up/down.
Lefty	Toggles the D-pad being on the left/right side of the screen.
Split controls	Chooses whether to use the touchscreen to interact throughout the screen or use a crosshair.
Swap Jump and Sneak	Chooses whether to swap the position of jump and sneak buttons.
Button size	Changes the size of the buttons. Smaller buttons allow extra slots for the hotbar.
Auto Jump	Toggles the auto-jump feature.
Keyboard Layout	Chooses whether what keyboard layout will be used.
Controller Layout	Changes the action of buttons when pressed in a controller.

Feedback

Option	Description
Destroy block (vibrate)	Toggles vibration when destroying blocks. (Android only).

Graphics

Option	Description
Brightness	Adjusts the brightness of the game.
Render Distance	Changes the render distance. Available in 3-5 subsections on the slider (depending on the device). For low end devices (less than 512MB of available RAM). 4 chunks 6 chunks 8 chunks (Higher end) 10 chunks For top end devices 6 chunks 8 chunks 10 chunks 12 chunks 14 chunks
FOV	Changes the field of view.
View Bobbing	Chooses whether to show the bobbing when walking.
Fancy Graphics	Toggles fancy graphics. Note that clouds on fast graphics remain volumetric but become opaque.
Beautiful skies	Toggles the sun, moon, clouds, stars and sky color.
Animated water	Toggles animated texture for water, lava and fire.

Experimental

Option	Description
Hide GUI	Toggles if the HUD is displayed.
Limit worlds	Toggles whether a world is infinite or compressed to a 256x256 block area (Only available on supported low-end devices).
UI Profile	Changes the game UI style between classic (dekstop UI) and Pocket Edition UI.

Windows 10 Edition

As it is simply Pocket Edition ported to PC, it has only 2 different options from Pocket Edition Alpha 0.13.1

• Fullscreen
• View Distance
  • Has 6th slider on supported devices

Console Edition

There are settings for the music, sound, gamma, visibility on maps, vertical split screen, view bobbing, and sensitivity. The option to turn bedrock fog on or off was present until title update 31 - which removed bedrock fog entirely.

Render distance varies depending on device.

• On PS4 and Xbox One, the render distance is 18 chunks
• On PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U, the render distance is 10 chunks
• On PS Vita, the render distance is 5 chunks

Video

Note: This video dates from release 1.5, and so does not show all options currently available.

History

Classic
0.0.12a				New fog distance option.
0.23				Added the options page.
				New custom keymappings.
Beta
1.3				Smooth lighting was added.
1.8				The Brightness setting was added.
Official release
1.0.0		Beta 1.9-pre5		The Clouds setting was added (however, texture packs were able to remove them before this option was introduced).
1.3.1		12w21a		The options menu was improved with a new "Chat Settings" menu.
1.4.2		12w34a		Added new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings.
				Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings.
1.4.6		1.4.6-pre		Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.
1.5		13w09b		Moved Texture Packs setting from the main menu to the options menu.
1.7.2		13w36a		The options menu was revamped, including a brand new layout, new key binds and a "Super Secret Settings" button in the menu.
		13w36b		The "Super Secret Settings" button now plays a random sound when clicked.
		13w38a		The "Super Secret Settings" button now creates a shader effect on the game's display, in the following order: FXAA, Art, Bumpy, Blobs_2, Pencil, Color_Convolve, Deconverge, Flip, Invert, NTSC, Outline, Phosphor, Scan_Pincushion, Sobel, Bits, Desaturate, Green, Blur, Wobble, Blobs, Antialias, Default.
1.7.4		13w47a		Added "Twitch Broadcast Settings" and "Twitch Chat Settings" buttons.
1.7.6		1.7.6-pre1		Server Resource Packs option is now per-server, and has three settings: Prompt, Enabled, and Disabled.
1.8		14w25a		Dropped items now always render in 3D, rather then just while on fancy graphics
1.8.1				The option to enable entity shadows is now controlled separately from the standard fast and fancy graphics.
				The cloud's "fast" and "fancy" shape are controlled by the same option which enables clouds, rather then by the standard fast and fancy graphics.
1.9		15w31a		Removed "Super Secret Settings" and "Broadcast Settings".
				Removed Alternate Blocks from video settings.
				Added "Main Hand" to the skin settings.
		15w34a		Added "Attack Indicator" to the video settings.
		16w02a		added "Voice/Speech" to the music & sound settings.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.1				Added split screen option.
0.4.0				Added option for peaceful mode.
0.7.0				Redesigned options menu. There are now four sections in the menu, game, controls, graphics, and sound.
0.8.0				Removed option for smooth lighting. It is now always on.
				Added far (256 blocks) and farthest (400 blocks) render distances. Default is now far.
				By default, fancy graphics is now on.
0.9.3				View distance on Android is no longer limited to 3 sliders.
0.10.0				Added the brightness slider. It is located in the graphics menu.
0.11.0				Worlds can now be renamed.
				Gamemode can be changed in the world edit menu.
				On creative mode worlds the daylight cycle can be locked to day.
0.12.1				Added option to swap jump and sneak.
0.13.0				Multiplayer can now be disabled in the options menu.
0.13.1				Removed sound section in the options menu. The volume slider is now in the Game section.
				On the title screen the options icon is no longer a wrench.
				Made the options icon slightly bigger.
0.16.0		build 1		Redesigned options screen.

See also

• Heads-up display
• Third person view
• Debug screen