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 entire wielded itemstack
• Shift+Q: Drop single item of wielded itemstack
• 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 can be changed using minetest.conf settings.

• 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. Note: This key works only in debugging versions of Minetest, or by editing minetest.conf. Normal players don't need this feature.
• F5: Enable/disable debug screen which also shows your coordinates
• F6: Enable/disable profiler (only interesting for developers)
• F7: Toggle camera. Available are (in this order): first person view, third person view from the back, third person view from the front
• F8: Toggle cinematic mode. In cinematic mode, the camera will not immediately follow your movements, instead it will quickly “catch on”, so the movement of the camera looks a bit like the movement of an actual camera.
• Esc: In the game: Abort / close current window / open pause menu. In the main menu: Quit Minetest.
• + (numpad): Increase minimal viewing distance
• - (numpad): Decrease minimal viewing distance