Minecraft Web Guide

Getting started

Open Minecraft Web and wait for the runtime and game assets to load. The title screen provides the main entry points for starting a world, changing settings and opening optional project features.

On a desktop, use a mouse and keyboard. On a phone or tablet, the game exposes touch controls. A modern browser with hardware-accelerated WebGL is recommended because the world is rendered as a real-time 3D scene.

Desktop controls

• W A S D: move.
• Mouse: look around.
• Left click: mine or attack.
• Right click: use an item or place a block.
• E: open the inventory.
• T or /: open chat and commands.
• Esc: open the game menu and pause the world.

Touch controls

• Use the movement pad to walk.
• Drag across the look surface to turn the camera.
• Use the action buttons to jump, use items and break blocks.
• The inventory and crafting buttons provide quick access to the corresponding screens.
• The hotbar remains at the bottom of the screen and respects the phone's safe-area inset.

Survival and Creative

Survival

Survival is built around gathering resources and turning them into useful equipment. Explore different biomes, collect wood and stone, craft tools, smelt materials and manage encounters with hostile mobs. Structures such as villages and underground locations can provide additional resources and exploration goals.

Creative

Creative removes the normal resource-gathering loop so you can concentrate on construction and experimentation. It is useful for testing blocks, layouts and larger builds without waiting for materials.

World generation and exploration

Worlds contain multiple terrain and biome types, including forests, plains, deserts, savannas, snowy areas, swamps and oceans. Generated structures add locations to discover while underground systems provide additional exploration.

The project streams parts of larger worlds while you move. Rendering and level-of-detail systems are designed to reduce the amount of geometry that has to be processed at once, although the workload still depends on the device.

Inventory, crafting and building

Use the inventory to organize collected items and select blocks or tools from the hotbar. Crafting combines ingredients into equipment and building materials. Furnaces and other blocks provide additional processing systems.

When placing blocks, look at the target face and use the normal place action. When mining, hold the appropriate action until the block breaks. Combat uses the same general interaction surface, so camera direction and reach are important.

World saves

Minecraft Web stores worlds and settings locally in the browser on the device you are using. This means a world can remain available after closing the browser, but clearing the site's stored data can remove it. Local browser storage is not a cloud backup.

Install on your phone

Add Minecraft Web to your Home Screen and it opens full-screen like an app — no browser bars, more room to play.

Mobile performance tips

• Close other heavy browser tabs and apps when possible.
• Use a lower graphics or render-quality setting if your phone becomes hot or the frame rate drops.
• Large worlds with many entities, particles or visible structures require more processing.
• Landscape orientation gives the game more room for the HUD on many phones.

About the project

Minecraft Web is an independent browser-game project built with JavaScript and Three.js/WebGL. Its runtime, gameplay systems and web interface are maintained in the project's GitHub repository. The project is not an official Minecraft client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or associated with Mojang Studios or Microsoft.

For current implementation details, see the Minecraft Web source repository.