Skin, cape, authentication & sound fixes
Compatibility improvements so the client behaves like it would have in 2011.
- Slim-arm (Alex) skin support
- Reliable skin loading, with fixes for players showing as Steve or skins not loading in some regions
- Servers can supply their own skin and cape URLs
Proximity voice chat
Available on RetroMC and selected servers. Fully optional and can be disabled.
- Four transmission modes: Open Mic, Push to Talk, Toggle Mute, Always Muted
- Party Chat for talking to a group regardless of distance
- Separate volume sliders for your mic and for other players’ voices
- Mic self-test button
Modern controls & inventory
Quality-of-life features from newer versions, all optional.
- Full controller support, with Xbox/PlayStation icon sets, rebindable buttons and stick settings
- Raw mouse input
- Shift+click and right-click to equip armor, with equip sounds
- Ctrl+Q to drop a whole stack
- Drag items across inventory slots
- Held-item name and tool durability above the hotbar
- Left-handed player model and Alpha-style arm swing
Chat
A chat box that behaves like you expect.
- Chat history, cursor, clickable links, username tab-complete and color formatting
- Text-editor controls (Ctrl+Arrows, Home/End, Ctrl+Backspace/Delete)
- Condensed repeated messages
- Typing indicator showing which nearby players are typing
- Adjustable chat opacity and visible line count
- Chat in singleplayer
Customization & settings
Make the client yours.
- Searchable settings menu with an icon for every page
- All keybinds rebindable, including mouse buttons, and any can be set to “none”
- Modern-style player list (TAB), with country flags
- Colored player nametags with a rainbow mode
- Customizable F3 menu: drag components around, toggle them on and off, and add FPS graph, CPU and GPU info
- In-game changelog viewer
- Discord Rich Presence settings
- Optional mods bundled with the client, loaded through ModLoader: HowManyItems (HMI), Inventory Tweaks, Rei’s Minimap, Schematica
Visuals & cameras
Tune how the game looks.
- Support for 32x and higher texture packs, including HD fonts
- Brightness slider
- Fog distance controls (or no fog), void fog, and cloud height controls (or no clouds)
- Weather controls for rain, snow and lightning
- Client-side world time
- FOV and hand FOV, with separate hand and camera view bobbing toggles
- Camera zoom (like OptiFine)
- Isometric view with arrow-key rotation
- Cinematic camera
- Front-facing F5 mode
- Modern-style 3D dropped items
- Rainbow block outlines
- Disable overlays (e.g. pumpkin head)
- Invert-colors option, plus a red/blue channel swap for macOS
- Panoramic screenshots, with custom main menu panoramas
Performance
Smoother on modern hardware.
- Unlimited render distance with cached chunks (experimental)
- Optional VBO rendering, level of detail and culling (experimental)
- FPS limiter presets and a custom value
- Sign render distance limit
- Integrated GPU warning, which can be turned off
- LWJGL 3 engine with better input handling
RetroMC extras
Extras for players on RetroMC.
- Custom achievements, shown in-game and on the J-Stats website
- Statistics button that opens your J-Stats
- Streaming music discs
- Questy F3 component
- Grief alert menu
Platform & launcher
Runs where you play.
- Self-updating launcher
- Linux fixes: window sizing and XWayland toggle
- MultiMC/Prism manifest included
Bug fixes & stability
A variety of fixes to improve overall gameplay.
- Mob and entity packet lag fix
- Skin lag fix
- Quick mining fix
- Sign lag fix
- Netcode optimizations to improve latency
- Fix for the Beta 1.7.3 bug where the screen goes dark above Y=128
- Fix for the F11 crash
Staff & privileged features
Server-controlled tools. Access depends on the server’s permissions and rank, and nothing here works unless the server allows it.
Staff tools
- Flight, including an Elytra mode, with adjustable speed
- Noclip / Freecam
- X-Ray
- Fullbright
- Vanish
- Player collision toggle
- Tracers to draw lines to entities
- Client-side WorldEdit
Moderation & investigation
- LogBlock AR: highlight bulk query results in-game, create ghost blocks, and run rollback tools
- LMBD evidence uploading: upload evidence to the Legacy Minecraft Ban Database straight from the client, with screenshot collection
- Grief Alert menu: query, teleport to and update grief alerts
- Clipboard Teleport: copy a tppos command and teleport to it
- Quick Player Teleport: jump to random players, and teleport to any coordinates
- Global Staff Chat
Rank perks (RetroMC)
- Real-time color codes in chat and on signs as you type (Hero and up)
- Client-side world time, for permanent day or night (Mystic and up)
- Weather control: turn off rain, snow and lightning (Mystic and up)
- LogBlock Tool: shows the block you just queried (Mystic and up)
- Country flags on the tab list (Citizen and up)