World Options

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World name

My World

The name of the world, shown in all world lists, in the in-game player list, and for multiplayer connections. Allows a string from 1-30 characters.

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Game mode

Survival

Changes the default game mode, which is the game mode all players get when joining the world. Selecting Creative mode disables achievements.

• Survival

Explore a mysterious world where you build, collect, craftt, and fight monsters.

• Creative

Create, build, and explore without limits. You can fly, have endless materials, and can't be hurt by monsters.

• Adventure

You get to set your own rules through in-game commands on how you and other can interact with the game

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Difficulty

Normal

Changes the game's difficulty setting, which has a significant effect on Survival gameplay.

• Peaceful

No hostile mobs and only some neutral mobs spawn. Hunger bar doesn't deplete and health replenishes over time.

• Easy

Hostile mobs spawn but deal less damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to 5 hearts.

• Normal

Hostile mobs spawn and deal standard damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to half a heart.

• Hard

Hostile mobs spawn and deal more damage. Hunger bar depletes and can drain all health.

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Hardcore

You can't respawn if you die. Good luck! You'll need it.

Shows whether Hardcore mode is enabled, which cannot be changed.

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World size

Update to Infinite

Turn your old 256x256 block world into an Infinite world. This will automatically make a backup of your old world.

Only available for worlds created with the Old world type before 1.18.0. This removes the invisible bedrock boundary around the world and allows infinite chunk generation, as well as gameplay features from the latest version.

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File management

The first three options are not available on Realms. The last three options are exclusive to Realms.

• Duplicate world

Copies the world files and stores the new world locally with - Copy added to the name.

• Delete world

Are you sure? If you delete this world it will be gone forever..

Permenantly deletes the world, after confirmed a second time.

• Export world

Export a world and its settings such as game modes, or difficulty
Erasing the data is not available on a world with hardcore mode enabled.

Opens a menu to export the world files. Proceeding will export a copy of the world as .mcworld, opening the Windows file explorer to select where the world will be stored. It can be imported by opening the file with Minecraft or the import world feature. Only available on Windows.^[1][2] There is one setting for world exportation.

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Clear player data

This will erase all players cata completely, including chest contents, inventories, and locations.

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• Reset world

This will remove your current world from your Realm's active slot and replace it with a brand new world. Anyone currently playing will be temporarily disconnected.

Deletes all world data (except Saves) and activates a new, default world in the world slot. This does not allow world creation settings to be changed, which requires to replace it with a local world.

• Replace world

This will remove your current world from your Realm's active slot and let you choose a world to replace it with. Anyone currently playing will be temporarily disconnected.

Opens a list of local worlds. Selecting one will replace the world slot on the Realm with the world, overwriting the old world.

• Download world

Downloads the world and stores it locally on the device, with a name in the format [REALM NAME] - Copy.

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  The "File management" section for local worlds.
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  The "File management" section for Realms.

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World seed

Guides the algorithm that magically creates your world

This is the world seed, a random number which cannot be changed. In Realms, the value is not shown. A button on the right allows to copy the seed to the clipboard.

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Flat world

A flat world to build up or mine down into

Shows whether the Overworld generates with a flat world, cannot be changed.

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Flat world preset

Classic Flat

The layers of blocks that make up your flat world

When "Flat world" is enabled, this shows the selected flat world preset for the generation. Below the selected flat world preset, a list of blocks that make up the flat world is shown with the amount of layers for each block.

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Show coordinates

Display your current position

Shows the player's current coordinates on the HUD without decimals, applied for all players in the world.

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Show days played

Display the number of in-game days played

Shows the number of in-game days played on the HUD, applied for all players in the world.

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Recipe unlocking

Collect materials to unlock recipes in your recipe book

When enabled, crafting recipes need to be unlocked through gameplay before they appear in the recipe book. Locked recipes still function when items are put in the crafting grid without using the recipe book.

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Fire spreads

Fire can spread between entities

Controls whether fire can spread from block to block, between entities, and distinguish naturally.

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TNT explodes

Red box goes boom

Controls whether TNT and minecarts with TNT can explode.

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Mob loot

Mobs drop items when killed

Controls whether mobs can drop items when killed.

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Natural regeneration

Gain or lose health based on your hunger

Controls whether hunger can affect the player's health; a high hunger bar regenerating health or an empty hunger bar lowering the health.

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Tile drops

Blocks drop when they're broken

Controls whether blocks can drop items when they are broken.

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Skip night by sleeping

Sleeping in a bed will skip to morning

Controls whether sleeping in a bed at night or during thunderstorms skips to morning and clear weather.

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Required Sleeping Players

All (100%)

How many players must be in bed to skip the night?

Changes how many players are required to sleep before the night will be skipped, if "Skip night by sleeping" is enabled. Can be set between 0%, where the night will always be skipped if anyone sleeps in a bed, and 100% where all players need to be in bed before the night is skipped.

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Immediate respawn

Skip "You died!" menu and immediately respawn

Controls whether to skip the death screen and immediately respawn after the player has died. In Hardcore mode, the "Game over!" screen will be skipped and the player will instantly enter Spectator mode upon death.

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Respawn blocks explode

Respawn anchors and beds can explode

Controls whether beds and respawn anchors explode when used in the wrong dimension.

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Respawn radius

10

Respawn within this block radius when you die and no custom spawnpoint is set (max 128)

An integer input controlling the spread distance around the world spawn where players randomly spawn if they don't have a custom respawn point. Can be set between 0 and 128.

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Simulation distance

4 chunks

The game loads and applies changes within a range of 64x6464x64 blocks from the player

Allows the simulation distance to be changed, which determines the range of mob spawning/despawning, game ticks, and chunk updates. Can be set to 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 chunks. Some devices may limit the simulation distance option to 8 or 10 chunks.

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Starting map

Spawn with a blank map to explore your world

When a player spawns in the world for the first time, an empty locator map appears in their hotbar. This is grayed out and cannot be changed.

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Bonus chest

Spawn close to a chest with items to get you started

Shows whether a bonus chest generated near the world spawn during world generation, cannot be changed.

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Multiplayer game

Other players can join your world

Controls whether multiplayer is enabled in this world, not available in Realms. If enabled, the game is still considered singleplayer until other players join.

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Settings

The following settings are grayed out unless multiplayer is enabled.

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Player access / PlayStation™ Network friends

Friends

Determines who can join this world trough Minecraft's social network. Players can always join when they received an invite from the pause menu, and if enabled, the world shows as multiplayer world in the world list of friends, or the game can be joined from the profile. In Realms, this is a "Manage members" button located below the other options, which redirects to the Members tab of the Realm's settings, where players and default permissions can be changed.

• Invite players

Anyone you send a direct invite can join

• Friends

Anyone you've added as a Minecraft friend can join

• Friends of friends

Friends of your Minecraft friends can join

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Default player permissions

Member

The assigned player permissions to new players joining the game. These can always be customized per player from the pause menu. Not available in Realms.

• Visitor

Visitors can only observe your world, not interact with it

• Member

Members can build and mine, attack players and mobs, and interact with items and entities

• Operator

Operators can teleport and use commands, in addition to anything Members can do

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Visible to LAN players

Players on your local network can join your world

Controls whether the world is visible to any player on the same LAN network as a multiplayer game, regardless of the player access setting. Not available in Realms.

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Friendly fire

Players can damage each other

Controls whether players can directly damage each other, using melee attacks or projectiles.

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Locator bar

Shows the direction of nearby players in the world

Controls whether the locator bar is visible if multiple players are in the world.

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Cheats

Customize the game with cheat settings

Controls whether most commands are available for operators, unlocks the following cheat settings. Enabling this disables achievements, not available on Hardcore.

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Cheat settings

The following settings are grayed out unless cheats are enabled.

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Daylight cycle

Normal

Controls functionality of the daylight cycle. Always day is not available in Realms.

• Normal

In-game time passes normally, from day to night

• Always day

In-game time is locked to noon

• Lock time

In-game time is locked to current time

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Keep inventory

Keep all items in the inventory when you die

Controls whether players keep their inventory contents after dying.

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Mob spawning

Mobs spawn naturally

Controls whether mobs can spawn naturally.

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Mob griefing

Mobs can move and destroy blocks in your world

Controls whether certain mobs can move and destroy blocks, such as endermen and creepers.

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Entities drop loot

Non-mob entities, like paintings, drop items when destroyed

Controls whether non-mob entities can drop items when destroyed.

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Weather cycle

The possibility to get rain, snow and thunderstorms

Controls whether the weather can change between rain, snow, and thunderstorms over time, or is locked to the current weather.

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Command blocks

Use commands to program these blocks

Controls whether command blocks can execute commands and can be customized by operators.

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Minecraft Education features

Enables educational items like the chemistry kit

Controls whether to enable certain features from Minecraft Education. Not available in Realms.

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Random tick speed

1

Affects the behavior of certain blocks, like the speed of vegetation growth and decay (max 4096)

An integer input that controls the rate at which random events occur in the world caused by random ticks. Can be set between 0 and 4096, contains a quick reset button next to the box.

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Not available in Realms, can only be accessed from the Classic UI.

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Shared packs

Players are asked to download all local packs in order to join the game.

Controls whether resource packs on the world are optional or forced. When turned off, players can refuse to download and enable local resource packs, and select their own packs in the Global Resources settings. When turned on, players will download all enabled resource packs and global resource packs are disabled.

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Active

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Local

Lists all active local resource packs. When multiple resource packs are enabled that can conflict with each other, the highest resource pack in the list will overwrite donflicting features from other packs. Each pack can be dragged to any location in the list. A pack can be removed with the "Remove" button next to each pack, and the description can be shown by selecting the pack. For Marketplace packs, there is a button to open the purchase page in the Marketplace. For all packs, there is a button to open a menu with the technical details of the pack, such as the UUID, storage location, and error logs. Certain packs have a settings menu which allows to customize features from the pack and view custom information.

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Global

Lists all active global resource packs. The same details and links can be opened for global packs as for local packs, but they can only be enabled or disabled in the "Global Resources" tab in the main settings menu.

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Available

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Owned

A dropdown widget that lists available resource packs obtained from the Marketplace, imported custom packs, or stored manually in  development_resource_packs. Each pack can be activated by pressing the button on the right of the pack, and more information can be shown by selecting the pack. Marketplace packs also show a button to open the purchase screen in the Marketplace. Some packs may require downloading before they can be activated. Enabling a resource pack that is part of an add-on also enables the connected behavior pack if available.

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Marketplace Pass

A dropdown widget that lists available resource packs from Marketplace Pass. They can be opened the same way as packs in the "Owned" list. If the player is not subscribed to the Marketplace Pass, a button that opens the Marketplace Pass purchase screen shows instead.

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Get more packs

Hundreds of packs available in the Marketplace

Redirects to a Marketplace page featuring new resource packs.

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Not available in Realms, can only be accessed from the Classic UI.

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Active

A submenu that lists active behavior packs, sets of customized features that affect gameplay. Behavior packs can be opened similarly to resource packs, but are always connected to the world data and can't be disabled for players.

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Available

A submenu that lists available behavior packs obtained from the Marketplace, imported custom packs, or stored manually in  development_behavior_packs. Enabling a behavior pack that is part of an add-on also enables the connected resource pack if available.

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Experiments are potential new features. Be careful as things might break.

Allows the player to enable several experimental features, not available in Realms. After saving the world with experiments enabled, the experiments can't be toggled off again. See Experiments § Bedrock Edition for details about each experiment.

Gameplay

Change the way your game looks

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Villager Trade Rebalancing

Contains updated trades for villagers for the purpose of rebalancing

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Drop 1 of 2026

Make lots of tiny friends with a whole cast of cute new baby mobs

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Add-on creators

For creators of game packs and other add-ons

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Upcoming Creator Features

Includes actor properties and adjustable fog parameters

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Beta APIs

Use "-beta" versions of API modules in add-on packs

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Experimental Creator Camera Features

Enables the use of the latest custom camera features

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Render Dragon Features for Creators

Enable the deferred rendering pipeline. Requires a PBR-enabled resource pack and compatible hardware.

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World name

My World

Shows the world name, cannot be changed.

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Difficulty

Normal

Changes the game's difficulty setting, which has a significant effect on Survival gameplay.

• Peaceful

No hostile mobs and only some neutral mobs spawn. Hunger bar doesn't deplete and health replenishes over time.

• Easy

Hostile mobs spawn but deal less damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to 5 hearts.

• Normal

Hostile mobs spawn and deal standard damage. Hunger bar depletes and drains health down to half a heart.

• Hard

Hostile mobs spawn and deal more damage. Hunger bar depletes and can drain all health.

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Default game mode

Survival

Select a game mode for players entering your world

Changes the default game mode, which is the game mode all players get when joining the world.

• Survival

Explore a mysterious world where you build, collect, craftt, and fight monsters.

• Creative

Create, build, and explore without limits. You can fly, have endless materials, and can't be hurt by monsters.

• Adventure

Explore special worlds and play by the rules of their creator

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Personal game mode

Default

Select your preferred game mode

Similar to the game mode above, but is only applied to the player and not world-wide. There are two additional game modes available:

• Default

Whatever the default game mode is... that's what you get.

• Spectator

Fly around and observe without interacting with the world or being seen

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Hardcore mode

You can't respawn if you die. Good luck! You'll need it.

Shows whether the game has Hardcore enabled, but cannot be changed.

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World setup

Settings for worlds created by you

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Starting map

Spawn with a blank map to explore your world

Shows whether players that join for the first time spawn with an empty locator map in their first hotbar slot, but cannot be changed.

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Bonus chest

Spawn close to a chest with items to get you started

Shows whether the world has been generated with the bonus chest, but cannot be changed.

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Player permission when joining from invite

Member

The assigned player permissions to new players joining the game. These can always be customized per player from the pause menu.

• Visitor

Visitors can freely explore your world, but cannot interact with blocks, items, or entities. Trust Players Off.

• Member

Members are active players in your world who can break and create blocks, and attack mobs and other players.

• Operator

Operators are members who can set player permissions and use commands to have more control over your world.

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Flat world

A flat world to build up or mine down into

Shows whether the world has been created as a flat world, but cannot be changed.

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Seed

A mysterious series of numbers used to create your world

The world seed, a random number by default, used to determine how the world generation randomly creates the world, cannot be changed. The seed can be copied with the button on the right.

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Simulation Distance

4 chunks

The game loads and applies changes within a range of 64x6464x64 blocks from the player

Shows the simulation distance, which affects the range of blocks that receive ticks and chunk updates, but cannot be changed.

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World options

Make the world yours

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Friendly fire

Players can hurt each other

Controls whether players can directly damage each other, using melee attacks or projectiles.

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Show coordinates

Display your current position at all times

Shows the player's current coordinates on the HUD without decimals, applied for all players in the world.

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Locator bar

Shows the direction of nearby players in the world

Controls whether the locator bar is visible if multiple players are in the world.

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Show days played

Number of in-game days that have passed

Shows the number of in-game days played on the HUD, applied for all players in the world.

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Fire spreads

Might want to build with stone

Controls whether fire can spread from block to block, between entities, and extinguish naturally.

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Recipes unlocking

Collect materials to automatically unlock recipes

When enabled, crafting recipes need to be unlocked through gameplay before they appear in the recipe book. Locked recipes still function when items are put in the crafting grid without using the recipe book.

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TNT explodes

Red box goes boom

Controls whether TNT and minecarts with TNT can explode.

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Respawn blocks explode

Respawn anchors and beds can explode if poorly placed

Controls whether beds and respawn anchors explode when used in the wrong dimension.

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Mob loot

Mobs drop items when killed

Controls whether mobs can drop items when killed.

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Natural regeneration

Gain or lose health based on your hunger

Controls whether hunger can affect the player's health; a high hunger bar regenerating health or an empty hunger bar lowering the health.

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Tile drops

Blocks drop in the spot or tile where they're broken. When off, blocks are simply destroyed.

Controls whether blocks can drop items when they are broken.

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Skip night by sleeping

Sleeping in a bed at night will skip to morning

Controls whether sleeping in a bed at night or during thunderstorms skips to morning and clear weather.

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Required sleeping players

100%

Percentage of players that must be in bed to skip to morning

Changes how many players are required to sleep before the night will be skipped, if "Skip night by sleeping" is enabled. Can be set between 0%, where the night will always be skipped if anyone sleeps in a bed, and 100% where all players need to be in bed before the night is skipped.

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Immediate respawn

Skip "You died!" menu and respawn immediately

Controls whether to skip the death screen and immediately respawn after the player has died. In Hardcore mode, the "Game over!" screen will be skipped and the player will instantly enter Spectator mode upon death.

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Respawn radius in blocks

10

Randomly respawn somewhere within this many blocks of where you died (max 128)

An integer input controlling the spread distance around the world spawn where players randomly spawn if they don't have a custom respawn point. Can be set between 0 and 128.

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Experiments

Try out new features and in-game experiments. But heads up! These can't be turned off after world creation.

Shows all experiments that are enabled for the world, but cannot be changed. See Experiments § Bedrock Edition for details about each experiment.

Gameplay

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Villager Trade Rebalancing

Contains updated trades for villagers for the purpose of rebalancing

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Drop 1 of 2026

Make lots of tiny friends with a whole cast of cute new baby mobs

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Add-on creators

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Upcoming Creator Features

Includes actor properties and adjustable fog parameters

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Beta APIS

Use "-beta" versions of API modules in add-on packs

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Experimental Creator Camera Features

Enables the use of the latest custom camera features

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Render Dragon Features for Creators

Enable the deferred rendering pipeline. Requires a PBR-enabled resource pack and compatible hardware.

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Cheats

Sometimes you need to bend the rules

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Activate cheats

Get access to Minecraft's built-in cheat system

Controls whether most commands are available for operators, unlocks the following cheat settings. Enabling this disables achievements, not available on Hardcore.

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Education edition

Try out your world with Education edition's toolset

Controls whether to enable certain features from Minecraft Education.

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Normal Day/Night Cycle

Turn off to freeze the day/night cycle in its current phase

Whether the daylight cycle is active, or the time is locked to the current time.

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Always day

Night never comes, it is always noon

Locks the time to noon, disabling "Normal Day/Night Cycle".

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Keep inventory

Keep all items in the inventory when you die

Controls whether players keep their inventory contents after dying.

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Mobs spawn normally

Turn off to prevent mobs from spawning

Controls whether mobs can spawn naturally.

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Mob griefing

Mobs can break blocks and interfere with the environment

Controls whether certain mobs can move and destroy blocks, such as endermen and creepers.

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Entities drop loot

Non-mob entities, like paintings, drop items when destroyed

Controls whether non-mob entities can drop items when destroyed.

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Normal weather cycle

Like rain, snow, and thunderstorms

Controls whether the weather can change between rain, snow, and thunderstorms over time, or is locked to the current weather.

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Command blocks enabled

These are special programmable blocks

Controls whether command blocks can execute commands and can be customized by operators.

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Tick Speed

1

Changes the speed of the world and everything in it (max 4096)

An integer input that controls the rate at which random events occur in the world caused by random ticks (not ticks). Can be set between 0 and 4096, contains a quick reset button next to the box.

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The following settings are all grayed out.

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Enable Multiplayer

Allow other players to join your world

Shows whether multiplayer is enabled in this world. If enabled, the game is still considered singleplayer until other players join.

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Microsoft account privacy

Friends Only

Select who can join your multiplayer world

Shows who can join this world trough Minecraft's social network,. Players can always join when they received an invite from the pause menu, and if enabled, the world shows as multiplayer world in the world list of friends, or the game can be joined from the profile.

• Invite Only

Anyone you send a direct invite can join your world

• Friends Only

Anyone you've added as a Minecraft friend can join your world

• Friends of Friends

Friends of your Minecraft friends can join your world

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Visible to LAN players

Shows whether the world is visible to any player on the same LAN network as a multiplayer game, regardless of the player access setting.

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