Menu screen
This article is about the menu screen in Minecraft. For the Minecraft Dungeons menu, see Dungeons:Menu screen.
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Instructions: Add description on how menu screens generally work, including the different UIs and usage of UI elements
Instructions: Add description on how menu screens generally work, including the different UIs and usage of UI elements
There are related tutorial pages for this topic!Minecraft features a multitude of menu screens, which allow the player to navigate to worlds and servers, and change how the game looks.
Usage
- Title Screen – the menu shown upon game startup allowing for access to worlds.
- Server list – a menu which allows players to join and save the servers they visit.
- Pause menu – a menu accessible during gameplay which allows players to quit to title or disconnect from a server, access options, enable LAN – and etc.
- Select World – allowing one of multiple worlds to be accessed.
- Create New World – a menu allowing for the configuration of multiple aspects for a new world.
- Seed Templates – a menu to choose a preset seed with specific features or terrain in Bedrock Edition.
- World Options – a menu to manage the world settings and management.
- Create New World – a menu allowing for the configuration of multiple aspects for a new world.
- Options – which are configurable via a series of menus in Java Edition.
- Settings – which are configurable via a series of menus in Bedrock Edition.
- Controls – a subset of options, also given a dedicated menu.
- Super Secret Settings – which applies in-game shaders, removed after Java Edition 1.9.
- How to Play – a menu which shows built-in guides designed to help new players to Minecraft.
- Loading world screen – the menu shown while entering or leaving a world.
- Realms Stories – a social hub for members of a Realm in Bedrock Edition.
- Chat[note 1] – a messaging system to communicate with players and execute commands.
Sounds
See also: Music § Extras
Previews of tracks in Minecraft have been shortened to 30 seconds on this wiki in accordance with fair use rationale. "11" and "Magnetic Circuit" are exempt from this.
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| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| None | Music | While in the title screen | music | None | 1.0 [sound 1] | 1.0 | 16 | |
| None | UI | When a menu button is clicked | ui | None | 0.25 | 1.0 | 16 | |
- ↑ Except for "Below and Above", "Broken Clocks", "Fireflies", "Lilypad", and "O's Piano", which are 0.4
| Sounds | |||||||
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| Sound | Closed captions [upcoming: BE 26.0] | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key [upcoming: BE 26.0] | Volume | Pitch |
| ? | Music | While in the main menu | music | ? | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| ? | Sound | When a menu button is clicked | random | ? | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
History
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Java Edition
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| 0.31 | 20100131-2156 |  The title screen was added. | |||||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||||
| 20100327 | Added the Single player menu. | ||||||
| 20100629 |  Added the "Loading..." screen. | ||||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v1.0.4 |  Replaced the "Loading..." screen with a Mojang splash screen. | ||||||
| v1.0.10 | Added the Multiplayer menu. | ||||||
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| 1.14 | 19w06a | Added loading bars while loading the game and reloading resources. | |||||
| 1.15.2 | pre1 | Clicking the "Multiplayer" button from the title screen now displays a disclaimer stating that "Online play is not rated". | |||||
| 1.17 | 21w03a | Holding ⇧ Shift while clicking menu buttons now cycles through options in the reverse order. | |||||
| 1.18 | 21w42a | "Infinite Amethyst", "Left to Bloom", "One More Day", "Stand Tall" and "Wending" can now play in the menu screens. | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w16a | "Aerie", "Firebugs" and "Labyrinthine" can now play in the menu screens. | |||||
| "Infinite Amethyst", "Left to Bloom", "One More Day", "Stand Tall" and "Wending" can no longer play in the menu screens. | |||||||
| 1.20 | 23w17a | "A Familiar Room", "Bromeliad", "Crescent Dunes", and "Echo in the Wind" can now play in the menu screens. | |||||
| "Aerie", "Firebugs", and "Labyrinthine" can no longer play in the menu screens. | |||||||
| ? | Replaced the dirt background with a panorama in all menu screens. | ||||||
| 1.21 | 24w18a | "Deeper", "Featherfall", "Eld Unknown", "Endless", "pokopoko", "komorebi", "Puzzlebox", "Watcher", and "yakusoku" can now play in the menu screens. | |||||
| "A Familiar Room", "Bromeliad", "Crescent Dunes", and "Echo in the Wind" can no longer play in the menu screens. | |||||||
| 1.21.6 | 25w20a | "Below and Above", "Broken Clocks", "Fireflies", "Lilypad", and "O's piano" can now play in the menu screens. | |||||
| "Deeper", "Featherfall", "Eld Unknown", "Endless", "pokopoko", "komorebi", "Puzzlebox", "Watcher", and "yakusoku" can no longer play in the menu screens. | |||||||
| pre3 | The button clicking sound is now controlled by the "UI" source. | ||||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
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| Pre-release |  Added the title screen. | ||||||
| v0.7.3 |  | ||||||
| Replaced the background with a panorama. | |||||||
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Notes
- ↑ This is a menu screen only in Bedrock Edition. In Java Edition, the chat is part of the UI.
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