Controls

Configurable Controls

These keyboard and mouse controls can be changed in the “Change Keys” menu.

Movement

• W: Move forwards
• A: Move to the left
• D: Move to the right
• S: Move backwards
• J: Toggle fast mode (requires “fast” privilege)
• K: Toggle fly mode (requires “fly” privilege)
• H: Toggle noclip mode, only works if fly mode is also on (requires “noclip” privilege)
• E: Walk fast (only works if fast mode is on)

While standing on solid ground

• Space: Jump
• Shift: Walk slower and sneak (walking to the edge of a node without risking falling down)

When “fly mode” is activated

• Space: Rise
• Shift: Fall

While on a ladder

• Space: Climb uphill
• Shift: Climb downhill

While in a liquid

• Space: Swim upwards
• Shift: Swim downwards

World interaction

• Left mouse button: Attack; mine blocks; collect items
• Right mouse button: Use if applicable (e.g. open chest/furnace); build blocks otherwise
• Shift+Right mouse button: Build blocks; never use
• Mouse wheel: Select block/item in hotbar
• 0-9: Select block/item in hotbar
• Q: Drop wielded block/item
• I: Show/hide inventory menu

Inventory interaction

See Inventory#Controls.

Server interaction

• T: Open chat window (You require the “shout” privilege to chat.)
• /: Start issuing a server command

Technical

• R: Toggle far view (disables all fog and allows viewing far away, may cause massive FPS drop)
• F10: open/close console/chat log
• F12: Take a screenshot (as a PNG image)
• P: Write current stacktraces into the file “debug.txt”. This feature is only interesting for developers.

Fixed Controls

These controls cannot be changed in the “Change Keys” menu.

• Moving the mouse around: Look around
• F1: Show/hide HUD
• F2: Show/hide chat and the text “Minetest” along with the version number at the upper left part of the screen
• F3: Enable/disable fog
• F4: Enable/disable camera updates. Warning: Players normally don’t want this to be disabled. If this is disabled, the world around you won’t be updated anymore and you will start to notice it if you move away from the position where you disabled camera updates.
• F5: Enable/disable debug screen which also shows your coordinates
• F6: Enable/disable profiler (only interesting for developers)
• F7: (comes in version 4.9.10): Toggle camera. Available are (in this order): first person view, third person view from the back, third person view from the front
• + (numpad): Increase minimal viewing distance
• - (numpad): Decrease minimal viewing distance