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Updated Touch Controls Feedback [Bedrock Beta]

Hello everyone!   
 
We heard your long-awaited desire for the controls to be updated and now, we are pleased to introduce to you two new WIP controller Interaction Models: 
 
Touch - Like the existing, 'Classic' control scheme on mobile, but with a new touch joystick and updated buttons for jumping, crouching, and sprinting. 

Crosshair - Like Touch, except it feels more like a console experience, allowing players to interact with the world at the point of the crosshair in the middle using action buttons for placement and interaction. 

Please play around with the new Touch and Crosshair controls, including the added settings:  
 
 - Static Joystick - Keeps the Joystick in the same place rather than appearing where your left-thumb touches. 

- Show Action Buttons (Crosshair only) - When off, the (left click / right click) action buttons are removed.  Screen taps function like Touch, except at the point of the crosshair. 

- Sprint on Movement - The sprint button is removed.  Maximum movement on the left thumbstick triggers sprint. 

The team prepared a few short questions and we would love your feedback to help us improve the controls: 

  • What do you like and not like about the new 'Crosshair' control Interaction Model in Creative, Survival, and Server play? 
  • What do you like and not like about the new 'Touch' control Interaction Model in Creative, Survival, and Server play? 
  • How did the controls feel on Touch?  On Crosshair? 

Thank you all for your help guiding the future of Minecraft! 

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    After trying this out I doubt I'll ever use this because the old ones are just better but I'll share my thoughts. I don't understand what is going on with the buttons, why would you want the jump and crouch buttons to be near the top of the screen. The floating joystick doesn't work with any control scheme besides the crosshairs one because it stops you from pressing on half of the screen. The Joystick itself also just doesn't look good but that is a minor complaint since you can make it mostly transparent. Also, something seems to have been done to the way you turn the screen which makes it much harder to spin around. In all it seems to me like this control scheme was put together almost entirely with cross hair controls in mind (specifically because the buttons now take up most of the screen) which is silly because that is definetly the most inefficient way of controlling on a mobile device. In the current iteration I really dislike the new controls but I'm sure than can improve. However, it sort of seems like a strange step to me to try and remake the controls from scratch if there was any improvement we needed it was just to allow more options and customization, for instance to allow us to reposition the directional and jump controls to different areas on the screen and/or to have option for more buttons for specific controls kind of like the ones added in this beta.

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    I Like Right Click Button And Left Click Button But I Don't Like Jump And Crouch/Sneak Button Position. I Prefer The Old Movement Button I Am Like Button Instead Joystick. Its Hard To Use Joystick. I Would Like If There Is A Option To Use Button Instead Joystick.

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    The new controls are great! Love the joystick option and I've turned the transparency down to not make it as impeding. Auto sprint is fantastic but I'm a little scared of using it in caves so im using the old style double slide up to sprint. Great in creative though!!
    I've had to turn the sensitivity on max but it still feels like I look up and down too slowly in comparison to left and right.
    The crosshair, I don't play with much but to use it feels better and smoother than previous.
    Very much appreciated for the static joystick option being able to use it wherever you want to on the screen.

    My biggest suggestion is to move the jump and crouch buttons. I felt it was nice being on the bottom right. Especially tablet users would struggle as it'd be at the top of the screen. Flying is strange with it being at the top.
    Would it also be possible to have in one button- hold and lock for crouch, tap for jump and double tap to fly, which then brought up and down on screen.

    Hope this helps out but overall, I'm very appreciative of this update to the controls with the joystick. Much smoother experience! Thank you team for giving us something new and refreshed

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    I loved the button system😃😃, I think now you can implement the second hand system😋

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    just make it customizable (add, resize, and move it).

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    Please for the love of… Make it customizable, Don’t mess this up please! You have no idea how desperate I am for better control system in this mobile game. I’ve been suggesting for 5 years, PLEASE MAKE IT CUSTOMIZABLE!

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    I have a problem with the new buttons, I like them as they are but they are very big since they don't let me change the size of the buttons or the sensitivity, Another thing is that I feel that when moving the screen they get in the way a lot, I think it would be better to add an option to change the location of the controls so that everyone could be comfortable Without having to struggle with the new design that is nice but badly placed, thank you very much for reading my comment.

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    I feel it's a good change I like the ability to use a break and fight button but there must be added control to adjust size and move buttons

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    Poder editar a posição e poder diminuir/aumentar a opacidade e tamanho dos controles é ideal, além de uma opção de arrastar o joystick até certo ponto para fazer o personagem correr.

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    Make an option to customize the entire button layout, such as position, size & opacity of each button/joystick. This is a must-have for many mobile games! I prefer to use 4 fingers (thumbs & index finger), and I'd like buttons on the upper corners.

    Adding optional buttons to quick-switch items in the hotbar is also welcome, as right now it's extremely difficult in mobile. In PC, you can use the 1-9 buttons. Have an add-button option that allows me to quickly select my crossbow on slot 2, for example. (Please fix fireworks crossbow on Bedrock, it doesn't explode on impact!)

    An optional "safe mode" toggle button which prevents the player from interacting is VERY welcome, especially on touch controls. I always hit villagers & place blocks accidentally.

    For the old touch controls, I often find myself trying to move my character, but ended up stopping & looking around. It's bad touch controls; if you slide your finger too far away from the D-pad, you'll end up not moving. I hope this issue is fixed. Having to "target" an NPC to interact is also unintuitive, such as feeding cats/parrots (try it!). NPCs in front of the player should be easily interactable.

    Add optional action buttons for touch controls as well. Having to hold-touch to shoot crossbows & catching fish in a bucket is very slow/wonky.

    Add an auto-sprint option when not crouching. Players will almost-always sprint instead of walk, and having to use a sprint button (or pushing the joystick far away) can be annoying.

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    I would like to be able to change the position of the icons in the new controls system for mobile devices. Also I would like to be able to change the size of the joystick. Overall, is a very good change to mobile devices.

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    Add the ability to customizing the touch control layout..
    And maybe the ability to crouch while flying in creative mode..

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    I hope this stay as an option, and not the new one and only format for controls. It seems good, but I would prefer to keep playing the way I have been, and not have to relearn the controls. I am sure that there are lots of other people who would prefer to continue using the classic controls, too.

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    Sprinting should be when you're joystick is at the edge of the circle

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    It’s all great but please add customization and the ability to move where the icons are on the screen.

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    New Bug:

    When using New Touch Controls and you place scaffoldings and walk inside, into the scaffolding. New new Touch option only allows you to go up and not down. 

    Expected to also go down but instead got stuck and just continued sneaking on the way.

     

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    I don't think a circle joystick is a good fit for Minecraft, and having a separate sprint button is a very inconvenient thing . please keep the split controls don't replace it with crosshair, I like how just taping wherever you want on the screen can attack and place blocks and allowing a combat mechanic suggestion to be possible  + the buttons are too high on the screen, making it lower and size adjustable would be a great thing. 

    (combat mechanic suggestion of touch control: tap and hold the screen while holding  weapon will spam click the weapon allowing you to move the courser while attacking)  

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    Seems quite interesting, I think we should have a customization feature to it, on iPad the buttons are all really high up and if someone were to have a 12.9” device it would be hard on their fingers, moving the buttons around would be a nice addition. Maybe combining buttons to the touch layout as well, such as a break button, so we can tap & hold to place blocks. This would be very helpful for the non split pvp community, as the touch controls will be quite underpowered when it comes to pvp. 

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    The new button should help realize as many deputy items as the Java version. I hope it can be realized as soon as possible.

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    Regarding the change in the use of the deputy's items, my idea is that on the basis of the new button, there will be no mistaken touch, so you can click on the screen to use the deputy's things anywhere (if there is something that can be used by the deputy), and then clicking the new button is still to use the items in the main hand, so that there is no need to add two buttons.

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    a customize option would be great. I'm using the safe zone and the action buttons are a bit high ( which make sense ). being able to move the action buttons and changing the size of the joystick would be great. overall, Everything looks great and clean <3

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    ! If it is easier to achieve more deputy functions Regarding the change in the use of the deputy's items, my idea is that on the basis of the new button, there will be no mistaken touch, so you can click on the screen to use the deputy's things anywhere (if there is something that can be used by the deputy), and then clicking the new button is still to use the items in the main hand, so that there is no need to add two buttons.

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    The only thing I would change is to have the buttons in the top right of the screen (like jump, etc.) to be lower and more in the bottom left where jump used to be. Other than that, everything seems very good, and I like the new joystick much better than the old system for moving, and I like how much people can customize how they play with different modes and controls. I think there should also be a way of changing the size because some people seem to think the joystick is too big and takes up too much of their screen. Finally, I like that the classic mode is still available as one of the 3 options to let players who want to continue using it use it. 

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    Can you also add a pickblock button to the right side buttons. Would be very useful.

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    Honestly, I didn't think it was very cool. I hope you change the design of the buttons, make it more beautiful in the same style as the current bedrock, and also change the design of the joystick make it a little smaller.An option to modify the positions of the buttons would be nice.

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    I absolutely am I big fan of this change as a guy that does pvp on mobile and I think it's quite perfect. However if it will ever be changed or stuff gets added I think these ideas should be somewhat considered

    • customizable placement of the controls
    • being able to change the position of each individual hotbar slots
    • buttons to scroll through the hotbar
    • customizable placement of screen displays such as the xp bar, hunger bar, scoreboards, health and the chat
    • a 3rd person button

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    Please add cusmize ability

    You can go to settings then press custom hud
    then you can individually customise each and every button on screen
    where to place the button on screen
    set transparency for every button
    increase or decrease size for every button SEPERATELY...

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    Gyroscope should be a great option

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    I loved the crosshair type new control but please add button size to new controls and please add a new joystick like moving joystick to view because rotating the view is too hard and yes add a new key to camera perspective. Thank you

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    The new touch controls are great but please add button customization so that we can do our own layouts for the controls, oh and also add a toggle perspective button