Movement and view
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| WASD | Move |
| Mouse; arrow keys | Look |
| Ctrl; double-tap W | Sprint |
| Shift | Crouch and avoid walking off ledges; descend in flight or water |
| Space | Jump; swim upward; fly upward |
| Ctrl+F; double-tap Space | Toggle Creator flight |
| Ctrl + mouse wheel while flying | Adjust Creator flight speed, 0.25×–4× |
| Mouse wheel in Immortal | Adjust observation flight speed |
| V; F5 | Cycle first person, rear view and front view |
Interacting with the world
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Hold left mouse | Mine or attack |
| Right mouse | Contextual use, placement, food/drink, devices and conversations |
| Shift + right mouse | Place against an interactive block; alternate actions such as pet waiting |
| F | Swap the selected hotbar stack and offhand |
| L | Fit, operate or remove an inside door latch as appropriate |
| E | Inventory, library, equipment and crafting grid |
| 1–9; mouse wheel | Select hotbar slot |
| Q | Throw one selected item |
| Ctrl+Q | Throw the selected stack |
| Hold R | Eat or drink; drink from aimed water |
| T; slash | Open world chat or a command |
| J | Companion panel |
| H; F1 | Show/hide HUD |
| P; F2; Print Screen | Screenshot |
| G; F3 | Diagnostics |
| F6 | Start/stop a local gameplay recording |
| Escape | Open the world menu or close an interface; wake from a bed |
| F11 | Fullscreen |
Right-click is contextual: a door, container, deck, animal or resident can take priority over eating or placing. Move your aim away, or use Shift-right-click when you specifically want to place against an interactive object. A filled water bucket aimed at a block pours water; aim away from a block to drink from a wooden vessel.
Inventory
Left-click picks up, swaps or merges stacks. Right-click splits a stack or places one item. Shift-click transfers between inventory and an open container. Holding left mouse and sweeping over cells shares a held stack across them; right-drag places one in each visited cell. Releasing a held stack outside the inventory panel drops it into the world. Click the offhand slot to exchange it with the cursor.
Travel and tools
Right-click a rowboat or cart to board. WASD rows a boat; Shift leaves it. On a coal cart, hold W to raise throttle and S to lower it; Shift dismounts. Right-click a coal cart with coal to fuel it. Right-click with a fishing rod to cast, then right-click on a bite to reel.
Right-click a tamed horse with a saddle, then right-click the saddled horse to mount. Shift dismounts when there is safe space beside it. Right-click with a hoe to till soil, and right-click farmland with a seed to plant it.
With a bow selected, hold right mouse to draw and release to fire. A crossbow fires on right-click. Both use arrows in finite modes. Hold right mouse with a shield and face the threat to block.
Chat and pause
Press Enter to submit a chat message or command. Escape closes chat without sending. Up/Down recalls input history, Home/End moves the cursor, and Page Up/Page Down or the wheel scrolls chat.
The world continues while the Escape menu, settings, wardrobe, chat, inventory, containers or companion panel is open. Your player is not protected merely by opening a menu: hunger, thirst, breath, gravity and nearby hazards can continue. To stop this world's simulation, choose Save & return to title or save and close the game. The old /freeze_all command is retained as a menu-opening alias; it does not freeze the current implementation.