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The title screen or main menu is the first of Minecraft's several menu screens. Acting as an introductory interface, it permits access to gameplay and most other menu screens.

The game's logo is prominently displayed on the title screen, accompanied with a randomly-selected splash, and is also backed with a panorama which is changed every named update to match its theme. The version number and copyright are shown at the bottom of the screen.

Java Edition

Java Edition title screen, as of 26.2
Option Description
Singleplayer Select a world to play in singleplayer or create a new one.
Multiplayer Play in multiplayer by choosing a LAN world or joining a server.
Minecraft Realms Opens the main Minecraft Realms menu.
Opens language settings.
Options... Opens the main Options menu.
Quit Game Closes the game.
Opens accessibility settings.
Opens the Friends List.

Minceraft

The Minceraft Easter egg in the title screen

There is a 0.01% (1⁄10K) chance for the title screen to display "Minceraft" instead of "Minecraft".[1] Notch implemented this as an Easter egg, and kept it as a small secret, enjoying that he was the only one who knew of its existence. After stating a secret was in Minecraft undiscovered, the community sought to find it. Soon after, Notch posted "a post-mortem of Minceraft" on Reddit.[2]

Additionally, in crash logs, a reference to Minceraft may appear as a joke, stating "You should try our sister game, Minceraft!"

Getting Minceraft can be simulated by replacing the minecraft.png file with the minceraft.png file. The texture file for this logo is located in textures/gui/title/minceraft.png.

Welcome to Minecraft

The Welcome to Minecraft screen

When the user enters the game the first time, or if onboardAccessibility is true, a Welcome to Minecraft screen appears. "Press ⏎ Return to enable the narrator" is narrated on startup. This screen can also be viewed by deleting the options.txt file.

Button text Action
Language... Opens the language options.
Accessibility Settings... Opens the accessibility settings
Narrator Changes the Narrator setting.
Music & Sounds Opens the music & sounds options page.
Continue Opens the main title screen.

For accessibility, a button is always selected so a player without a mouse can navigate with the ↹ Tab and ⏎ Return keys.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition main menu on Windows, as of 26.44
Bedrock Edition main menu on PlayStation 4, with the "Editions" button
Option Description
Play Select a world or Realm to play, create one, or join a server.
Settings Opens the settings menu.
Opens the Minecraft Realms purchase screen.[note 1]
Marketplace Lets the player buy worlds, resource packs, skin packs, and other community-created content. The button is sometimes textured and animated, depending on what's currently being promoted on the Marketplace.
Editions Switches the game to Legacy Console Edition.[note 2]
Dressing Room Choose, or create a skin.
Sign In Lets the player sign in with their Microsoft account to unlock several online features.
Profile Shows the player's Minecraft profile, including their statistics, screenshots, and achievements. It also shows their profile on the Xbox network, such as their gamertag, online status, friends, and followers.
Inbox Opens the Inbox screen, which shows Realms invites from friends and news about the game. A red dot shows on this button when unread messages are available. The bell is animated on hover or first launch when there are unread messages.

Pressing Esc opens a menu with a button to close the game.

In-game live events and new featured experiences are sometimes available to join from the main menu with a button on the middle-left.

Example of a pop-up. This one is usually shown the second time after installing the game.

The first and second times after installing the game, and during certain events, a pop-up is shown on the main menu. Pop-ups can inform new players about the game, announce updates, news from official Marketplace collaborations, or Marketplace Pass updates. Most pop-ups can also be found in the inbox afterward.

Inbox

The Inbox screen

The Inbox is an in-game message center accessible from the main menu when signed in. Messages are sorted into five tabs: News, Invites, Realms, Marketplace Pass, and Feedback. News messages include updates, events, and some announcements, usually also shown on pop-ups. Realms and Marketplace Pass messages are often related to new content in the Marketplace Pass, when content becomes unavailable, and some announcements. The feedback tab shows external links to the feedback site and sometimes, a poll where the player can send in-game feedback to Mojang Studios.

These messages are sent by Minecraft, and may be delayed for certain regions. Messages are synced to the player's Xbox account and saved forever, although individual messages can be deleted. Each message can be opened to show the full content and images, and some also contain external links or buttons to Marketplace packs.

In the Invites tab, Realms invites from players are shown. Any player can send invites to players they have added as friends, which doesn't need to be confirmed. Accepting the invite adds the Realm to the play screen; declining the invite removes the option to accept and requires a new invite to be sent.

The inbox has a few settings accessible with a button on the top-right.

Option Description Default
Only show invites from friends Under the "Invites" tab, only Realms invites from friends are shown (not from removed friends).
Enable message batch alerts Enables a red dot when getting a message.
Enable invite badge alerts Enables a red dot when getting an invite.
Mark all messages as read The "unread" red dot of all messages disappears, and all messages are now marked as read.
Delete all read messages Deletes all the messages marked as read. A warning message pops up before deleting.
The Getting Started message, linking to How to Play Minecraft: Tips for Beginners

Every new player gets the following message in the Inbox after signing in:

Welcome to Minecraft, we're glad you're here! Since there's so much to do, it's easy to feel a little lost. Here are some basics for getting started.

There are two main ways to play Minecraft: Survival mode, and Creative mode. In Survival mode, you need to, well, survive. Gather resources by hand, keep yourself fed and sheltered, and ideally, get a bed made so you can sleep.


If you start your Minecraft journey in Survival mode, you may want to take the following to-do list and adapt it as your own:

-Punch trees to get logs. This is an important (and iconic) step.

-Open up your inventory. You'll see a 2x2 crafting interface in your inventory. (Note: this is only true for Minecraft on PC. If you're on a console, you have a fancy crafting button on your controller, and if you're on mobile, a fancy crafting icon on the screen!)

-Turn the logs into wooden planks. Grab the logs and put them in one of the 2x2 slots, turning them into planks.

-Place one of the wooden planks in each of the four slots in your crafting interface to make a crafting table.

-Place your crafting table down.

-Make your first set of wooden tools. To make them you'll need more wooden planks, some sticks, and the crafting table. You can create a pickaxe with two stickes placed in the bottom-middle and true-middle slots, and three wooden planks across the top three slots.


After you've made a wooden pickaxe, you can mine blocks like stone and coal. From there, you can make stone tools, which are even more durable than the wooden ones! You can also use stone to build your first shelter, and to make a furnace for smelting raw ores like iron and gold. With a set of stone tools, a furnace, and a shelter, you'll be well on your way to surviving like a pro.


If you start your Minecraft journey in Creative mode, you can throw out that list of objectives I just gave you. In Creative mode, you don't need to eat, you don't need to shelter from mobs, and you don't need to gather resources. Oh, yeah, you can also fly. Absolute power feels pretty good, doesn't it?


By opening your inventory, you'll see you have a limitless supply of every block in the game. Go nuts. Build castles, terraform a volcano, make a to-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, whatever you want.


Just a note: achievements are part of the game too, but only in pure Survival mode worlds. You can change a world from Survival mode to Creative mode and vice versa at any time, but the world will no longer be eligible for achievements.


And that's it! With these basics under your belt, I dub thee "ready to play". Go on and build your own masterpiece map, with my blocky blessing!

Quick world creation

The "Get started" main menu

Upon opening Bedrock Edition for the first time after installing, a variant of the main menu opens with an interface to quickly create a new world. The player can choose to create a new world with the options to select the game mode and the difficulty, while all other game settings remain in their default state. The player can then choose one of the nine default skins and select the touch control mode when playing on a touch device.

The quick world creation screen will not be shown again after pressing "More options" or after creating a world, which will show the regular main menu instead. It can be shown again by setting has_dismissed_new_player_flow in options.txt to 0, which only works if there are no saved worlds.

Worlds created through quick world creation do not default to random world seeds, they are limited to a predefined set of starter seeds. These seeds are notable for rare or unique world generation, with easy resources, different structures, outstanding terrain, and the largest biomes.

Sounds

History

Java Edition

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Java Edition Indev
0.3120100131-2156 The title screen was added.
20100206-2034The background of the title screen no longer scrolls.
Java Edition Infdev
20100327The "Generate new level..." button was replaced with the Single player button.
The "Load level.." button was replaced by a Multi player button, which wasn't playable at the time.
20100629 Added the "Loading..." screen.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.4 Replaced the "Loading..." screen with a Mojang splash screen.
v1.0.10The Multiplayer button was no longer grayed out as SMP was added, although it was only for testing at this stage.
Removed the spaces on the Singleplayer and Multiplayer buttons.
v1.0.13_01Changed the Minecraft logo from to in a reupload.
v1.0.14Reverted the Minecraft logo to the previous version.
v1.2.0previewRAM usage information no longer shows up on the top right corner.
v1.2.2 Replaced the "Play tutorial level" button with "Mods and Texture Packs".
Java Edition Beta
1.0 The "Options..." button was made much closer to the "Mods and Texture Packs" button.
Added the "Quit Game" button, however, it's not properly enabled and stays unused.
1.3 The "Quit Game" button is now properly enabled for launcher users. In web applet, it remains hidden.
1.4 Changed the logo.
1.8(preview) The background was replaced with a panorama.
The version tag was moved to the bottom left corner.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 Added the Minceraft easter egg.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 The "Mods and Texture Packs" button was changed to "Texture Packs".
1.111w49a Added the language selection button.
1.513w03a The "Texture Packs" button has been moved to the "Options..." screen.
2013 Music UpdateAdded menu music, which includes "Mutation", "Beginning 2", "Moog City 2" and "Floating Trees".
1.7.9 The "Minecraft Realms" button is moved to the main screen, taking the spot of the "Texture Packs" button.
1.12pre6Added the ability to view the credits when clicking the copyright text.
1.12.2pre1 Added "Java Edition" to the game logo.
1.1419w06aAdded loading bars while loading the game and reloading resources.
19w11aAdded ↹ Tab support for the title screen.
19w13a Added the "Accessibility Options" button to the title screen.
1.15.2pre1Clicking the "Multiplayer" button from the title screen now displays a disclaimer stating that "Online play is not rated".
1.1620w21a Changed the logo.
1.1721w03aHolding ⇧ Shift while clicking menu buttons now cycles through options in the reverse order.
1.19.423w03aAdded keyboard support for the title screen.
Added the Welcome to Minecraft screen.
1.2023w14a The Minecraft and the Minecraft Realms logos were changed.
The Minceraft easter egg now has its own logo texture. Before this change, slices of the logo texture were rendered in a shuffled order, swapping the right side of the E and C letters.
The format of the Invite icon was slightly changed.
pre2The game now displays a message box on startup if user enabled text-to-speech functionality, but it is not available.
26.1snap1Added the Music and Sounds button to the Welcome to Minecraft screen.
snap3Added an animated music icon to the Music and Sounds button.
26.2snap7 Added a "Friends" button to the title screen.
The Language and Accessibility buttons have been moved next to it, centered in a row beneath the "Minecraft Realms" button.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
Demo Added the title screen.
v0.1.0original Changed the title screen.
v0.1.0Touch Prototype Added a touchscreen version of the title screen.
v0.1.1 Changed the texture of the buttons.
v0.7.0 Replaced the dirt background with a new background.
The version tag was moved to the bottom left corner.
v0.7.1 The logo was changed.
The buttons were moved further down.
v0.7.3 Added the splash text.
Replaced the background with a panorama.
v0.7.6 Removed the "Play on Realms" button from the title screen.
v0.11.0build 1Renamed "Title screen" to "Main menu".
Added a language button to the main menu.
v0.13.1 Moved the skins button to the main menu.
The Options button no longer appears as a wrench icon but a label.
v0.14.0build 1 Changed the layout of the main menu.
v0.15.0build 1 Revamped the main menu.
The texture of the buttons has changed to white.
The Skin button now appears as a hanger icon below the player's model.
v0.15.0 Add a store button.
v0.16.0build 1 Changed the button sizes.
Renamed "Options" to "Settings".
build 4 Removed the language button.
Changed the signed-in button to link to feedback.minecraft.net instead of the Minecraft page in the Xbox app.
build 5 Moved Sign In/signed-in button, upscaled Skin button.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.2 The Sign In button size is now smaller.
Bedrock Edition
1.5.0beta 1.5.0.10 The main menu buttons were reorganized. The Store button was moved below the Settings button.
1.12.0beta 1.12.0.4 Renamed "Store" to "Marketplace".
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.9 The Sign In button is now larger, matching with Pocket Edition v0.16.0 Alpha.
beta 1.13.0.15 The Achievement and Skin buttons have been integrated and moved into a new "Profile" button.
1.16.200beta 1.16.200.55 Added a UI startup screen to inform players if they are on outdated graphics drivers.
1.17.30beta 1.17.30.20 The feedback button now appears at the bottom left as an icon.
Changed the logo.
The Achievement button is now individual again. It now appears, besides the feedback button, as a water bottle icon when signed in, along with the Invite button.
beta 1.17.30.22 Renamed "Profile" to "Dressing Room".
1.18.20Preview 1.18.20.22 Added the preview logo.
1.20.20Preview 1.20.20.20 Changed the preview logo.
1.20.60Preview 1.20.60.22 Changed the Invite button to the Inbox button, which has a bell icon.
Preview 1.20.60.25 Added a quick world creation feature for players that open Minecraft for the first time after installing.
1.20.80Preview 1.20.80.20 Removed the Feedback button when logged in.
1.21.0? A new Realms button now shows up in accent color when logged in.
1.21.20? The Achievement button is replaced by a new Profile button. This change is visible to previously-logged-in players who have logged out.
1.21.70?Added starter seeds for quick world creation.
release The "Friends" drawer is now accessible from the main menu, but only for certain devices.
1.21.90Preview 1.21.90.25 Expanded the quick world creation feature with options to select a default character.
Preview 26.0.25Added the "Social" drawer to the main menu to access parties.
26.40beta 26.40.26 Changed the beta logo.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
1.66.0016.0CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1 Added the menu screen.
1.66.0033.0 Removed the grayed-out "Multiplayer" button.
0.66.0054.0 Changed the logo.
Extended the menu buttons.
The button hint was moved.
Added menu music.
TU0Menu scroll sound was changed to a higher pitch.
TU1 Changed the button textures.
TU8 Renamed "Download Content" to "Minecraft Store".
TU14 Changed the logo.
TU36CU251.281.281.28Patch 7 Added mini games to the main menu.
TU57CU491.571.561.56Patch 271.0.7 Changed the button textures.
1.0.16 The "Download the latest version of Minecraft for FREE!" button was added.
CU58 Removed the "Download the latest version of Minecraft for FREE!" button from the menu and pause screen, but kept it in the options menu.
1.99 The "Launch New Minecraft" button was added.
1.842.061.84The ability to transfer worlds from PlayStation 3 Edition and PlayStation Vita Edition to the Legacy Console version of the PlayStation 4 has been removed.
CU59 Removed the "Download the latest version of Minecraft for FREE!" button from the options menu.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Changed the logo.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
v1.0.0v0.14.2 Added the main menu.
v0.16.0 Changed the buttons.
v1.0.21 Added the ? button to the main menu.
v1.0.27 Added the Quick Play button to the main menu.
v1.4 Removed the ? button.
v1.7 Added the Library and the Educator Resources buttons.
Added the talk button as the replacement of the ? button.
v1.9v1.8.0 Removed the apple from Educator Resources button.
Removed the "Beta" speech bubble next to the Library button indicating that it is a feature in beta testing.
v1.12.0 Replaced the Educator Resources and the Library buttons with the Switch Accounts button.
v1.14.70v1.14.60 Added the New & Featured button.
v1.17.30v1.17.30.2 Added the Hour of Code button, which replaces the New & Featured button.
v1.18.32v1.18.10.04 Replaced the talk button with the ? button, with a different texture compared to when it was first implemented.
Reverted the change in 1.17.30.

Issues

Issues relating to "Title Screen" or "Main Menu" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

  • The "Welcome to Minecraft" message shown when the game is opened for the first time
    The "Welcome to Minecraft" message shown when the game is opened for the first time
  • A named update pop-up
    A named update pop-up
  • The Inbox settings
    The Inbox settings
  • Example of a message details screen in the Inbox
    Example of a message details screen in the Inbox
  • A feedback poll in the Inbox
    A feedback poll in the Inbox
  • A Realm invite in the Inbox
    A Realm invite in the Inbox

Quick world creation

  • The game mode options
    The game mode options
  • The Survival difficulty options
    The Survival difficulty options
  • The default character options
    The default character options
  • The control mode screen
    The control mode screen
  • The final screen of quick world creation before a world can be generated
    The final screen of quick world creation before a world can be generated

Notes

  1. ↑ Not available when subscribed to Realms, in Preview or when not signed in with Microsoft.
  2. ↑ PlayStation 4 only. Appears only if Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition was previously owned.

References

  1. ↑ MC-44089 – resolved as "Works As Intended".
  2. ↑ "Minceraft, a post mortem" by Markus Persson – Reddit, 10 March 2012.

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