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These keys of [[Minecraft:controls]] are no longer usable in the current versions of the game.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090520141329/http://www.mojang.com/notch/minecraft/ Archived page of Minecraft Classic from May 20th 2009
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== ''Java Edition'' ==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" data-description="Old PC version controls"
|-
! width="100" |Key
!Versions used
!Function
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|B}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.20a]]–[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20091223-1459]]
|Brought up the list of usable [[Minecraft:blocks]] in [[Minecraft:Java Edition Classic|Classic]] Creative, and the first two Creative [[Minecraft:Indev 0.31]] versions.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|B}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100128-2200]]-[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100129-1447]]
| Brought up the crafting GUI.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|I}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20091231-1856]]–[[Minecraft:Beta 1.3_01]]
|Brought up inventory before Beta 1.4 changed the key to {{key|E}}. (If preferred, this key can still be used by binding it in Options... → Controls... → Key Binds... → Inventory → Open/Close Inventory).
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Enter}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.14a_04]]–[[Minecraft:0.30]]
|Set [[Minecraft:spawn point]] in Classic Creative.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|R}}
|(Respawn above random<ref group="note">More specifically, the x and z coordinates were pseudorandom numbers from 0≤x<256 and the y coordinate was always 74</ref> points of the map) [[Minecraft:rd-132211]]–[[Minecraft:0.0.13a_03]] 
(Respawn at set spawn point) [[Minecraft:0.0.14a_04]]–[[Minecraft:0.30]]
|Moved the player to random points of the map, before [[Minecraft:0.0.14a_04]]. Respawned the player at set spawn point.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Tab}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Classic 0.24 SURVIVAL TEST]]-[[Minecraft:0.30]]
|Shot arrows.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F4}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Alpha v1.2.2]]
|Spawned a [[Minecraft:nether portal]]. Used for debug by [[Minecraft:Notch]] and removed in a second revision of the same version, without changing the version number.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F5}}
|[[Minecraft:0.26 SURVIVAL TEST]]–[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 20100207-1703]]
|Toggled rain in Classic and Indev. 
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F6}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Infdev 20100624]]–[[Minecraft:Alpha v1.1.2_01]]
|Shows lagometer if held down.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F3}}
|[[Minecraft:Alpha v1.1.1]]–[[Minecraft:Alpha v1.1.2_01]]
|Shows FPS, and debug info, if held down.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F6}}<br>and<br>{{key|F7}}
|[[Minecraft:Beta 1.8 Pre-release]]
| Moved the day/night cycle backward and forward, respectively (only in singleplayer).
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Esc}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.10a]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.12a_03]]
|On Windows, focuses on the icon of the window and freezes all of Minecraft's processes, thus stopping setting the location of the mouse to the center of the window and letting the cursor become visible, although the cursor bounds stay the same, allowing for review before taking a screenshot. Holding a movement key then toggling this on then off again makes that key stuck on, even if it is let go. Pressing the same movement key again stops it.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|←}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-132211]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Functioned the same way as {{key|A}}, would move the player left; WASD keys and arrow keys could be both used as movement.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|→}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-132211]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Functioned the same way as {{key|D}}, would move the player right; WASD keys and arrow keys could be both used as movement.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|↑}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-132211]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Functioned the same way as {{key|W}}, would move the player forward; WASD keys and arrow keys could be both used as movement.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|↓}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-132211]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Functioned the same way as {{key|S}}, would move the player backward; the WASD keys and arrow keys could be both used as movement. 
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Windows}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-132211]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Functioned the same way as {{key|Space}}, the Space key and Windows key could be both used as [[Minecraft:jump]].
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|G}}
|[[Minecraft:rd-160052]] – [[Minecraft:0.0.23a_01]]
|Spawned a [[Minecraft:Mob (entity)|mob]] in Pre-Classic and Classic Creative.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Y}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition pre-Classic mc-161616]]–[[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Inverted mouse in Classic Creative.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.12a]]–[[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
[[Minecraft:0.0.23a_01]]-[[Minecraft:Beta 1.7.3]]
|Toggled render distance (fog), changed to {{key|F3}} + {{key|F}} in Beta 1.8.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|M}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.22a_01]]-[[Minecraft:0.0.22a_05]]
|Toggled both sound and music.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|N}}
|[[Minecraft:0.0.12a]] - [[Minecraft:0.0.12a_03]]
|Generated a new map in Classic Creative.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F7}}
|[[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20091231-1856]] – [[Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 20100223]]
|Isometrically rendered a finite map in Minecraft Indev and 0.31 Indev.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|Shift}}<br>+<br>{{key|F2}}
|[[Minecraft:Beta 1.2_02]] – [[Minecraft:Beta 1.4_01]]
|Called an unfinished experimental screenshot function that attempted to generate a '''huge''' 645 megapixel TGA image with a resolution of 36,450×17,700 pixels.<ref>{{Tweet|notch|28553723806490624|I just realized shift+F2 will generate an almost 2 gb large screenshot in 1.2_02. Half-finished huge screenshot test code.|January 21, 2011}}</ref>

Pressing this key combination would cause Minecraft to either freeze for a while, displaying several clipped tiles of the current view or crash, depending on available RAM. During this time it would attempt to generate a file of 1.8 GB in size that may end up corrupt.
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F8}}
|[[Minecraft:Beta 1.3]]–[[Minecraft:12w08a]]
|Slowly pans the camera when moving. (Now must be configured in Options... → Controls... → Key Binds... → Miscellaneous → Toggle Cinematic Camera).
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F7}}
| rowspan="4" |[[Minecraft:13w47a]]–[[Minecraft:1.8.9]]
|Pause/unpause the Twitch stream
|-
| rowspan="2" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |Any Key<br>(defaults to '''NONE''') 
|Mute/unmute microphone, if applicable
|-
| Show stream commercials
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |{{key|F6}}
|Start/stop the Twitch stream
|}

=== Debugging controls ===
{{info needed section|Did these exist in the code for a specific version range and were only enabled in the three mentioned versions? If so, what was the first version they existed in, and when were they removed from the code, if at all?}}
These controls are used for debugging and were unintentionally left in-game in the following versions: [[Minecraft:Beta 1.8 Pre-release]] (pre-reupload only), [[Minecraft:Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5]] and snapshot [[Minecraft:12w08a]].<ref name="Pre5Unintended">{{Tweet|jeb|129585294214299648|As you know I always forget at least one thing when upload a release... The "camera controls" (F6 etc) are not supposed to be there {{=}}/|October 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Tweet|jeb|172982497104240640|I forgot to disable them in the snapshot|February 24, 2012}}</ref> The controls are called the [[Minecraft:Third person view|"deadmau5 camera"]].<ref name="deadmau5camera">{{Tweet|jeb|172983022038163456|They don't really.. They are called "deadmau5 camera" in the code and was only added for him. They were accidentally enabled|February 24, 2012}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" data-description="PC debug camera keys"
! width="100" | Key
! Function
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|Y}}
| Zooms in camera.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|H}}
| Zooms out camera.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|Y}} + {{key|H}}
| Resets the camera's zoom.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|N}}
| Rotates camera Counter-Clockwise.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|M}}
| Rotates camera Clockwise.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|N}} + {{key|M}}
| Resets the camera's rotation.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|U}}
| Pans camera forward.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|O}}
| Pans camera backward.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|I}}
| Slowly pans the camera up.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|K}}
| Slowly pans the camera down.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size medium; text-align:center" | {{key|J}}
| Slowly pans the camera left.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|L}}
| Slowly pans the camera right.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|F6}}
| Freezes the player's y-axis position if pressed once, and pressing it again unfreezes their y-axis position.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|-
| style="font-size:medium; text-align:center" | {{key|F9}}
| Freezes the player's camera in place.<ref name="Pre5Unintended" />
|}

== ''Bedrock Edition'' ==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" data-description="Old PE controls"
|-
! width="100" |Button
!Versions used
!Function
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" |Search Button
| Alpha [[Minecraft:Pocket Edition version history#A0.1.2|0.1.2]]
| The search button used to be able to change the camera to and from [[Minecraft:third person view]] on all Android devices (with a search button), but now this has to be done via the pause screen, since many devices do not have a search button. The Xperia PLAY retains this functionality.
|-
|[[File:Fly button.png|30px|center]]
| [[Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha|0.12.1]]-[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.20.70|1.20.70]]
|The button was used to disable fly mode in Creative mode. When double clicked, the player would stop flying, the button would revert to [[File:Jump button.png|30px]], and the [[File:Fly up button.png|30px]] and [[File:Fly down button.png|30px]] buttons would disappear.
|-
|[[File:Dismount Button.png|center|width=30x30]]
|[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.18.30|1.18.30]]-[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.21.80|1.21.80]]
|The button was used to dismount the player from rideable entities. The horse or camel jumped (Joystick only).
|-
|[[File:Mount Button.png|center|width=30x30]]
|[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.18.30|1.18.30]]-[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.21.80|1.21.80]]
|The button was used to dismount the player from horse or camel (Joystick only).
|-
| style="font-size: medium; text-align: center" | {{key|;}}
| [[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.16.200|1.16.200]]-[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.21.90|1.21.90]]
| (''for Windows only'') Toggles between [[Minecraft:RTX]] rendering and the default. This only works if there is an active RTX resource pack.
|}

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