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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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    The touch control is good. But it certainly needs change. Firstly, Please add an option where we can change the size, opacity and position of each an every joystick. And the opacity of joystick are independent to one and other (E.g. The movement joystick has opacity of 60% and jump joystick has opacity of 40%)
    Secondly, Please add more sensitivity options like x-axis and y-axis sensitivity.
    Thirdly, Please add Gyroscope with its own separate sensitivity options.
    Fourthly, Please add and an option where we can have multiple joystick of same type (e.g. there should be place and break joystick on the left side of the screen as well as right side of the screen) there way there be 2 place joystick and 2 brake joystick, if someone wants 1 joystick of place and break then they should be able to remove the others.
    Fifthly, Please add an drop item joystick.
    Sixth, Please add Toggle Crouch option just like in Java Edition. (Which is basically hold or tap or even mixed)
    That all, and thank you to all the developers for their dedication and hard work.

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    So far, I hate it. Even though the joystick did feel smooth, I hated having to jump with my other hand. I want movement to be with one hand, like the touchpad is now. Joystick also had an ugly texture. Overall, I think the buttons are a good idea, they are just not in the correct location whatsoever. So either move them or allow them to be moved.

    In summary: joystick bad, touchpad good. Buttons wrong spot.

    This was played on an ipad

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    I don't suppose you could ever revisit the last Wii U builds of the game and give that the proper controls it so desperately begs for: inventory always displayed and able to be touch controlled on the Gamepad while you can freely move and play on the main screen. You all once mentioned you'd make such an update and never did. And now the Wii U shop will close in a year, you have time, but you must act quick. Please! I know there aren't a lot of Wii U Minecraft players out there, but we do exist and we would truly love and appreciate such an update.

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    The latency when moving your camera in first person. The sensitivity is either too high or too low.

    • Device: iPhone 13 mini

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    Make It so that you can customize all the buttons for example allowing players to add them or remove some of them , i also Hope you can make so that While pressing a Button you can also change direction of where you are looking at so that in pvp you can move almost as fast as pc players!

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    I overall like the new design and think it fits in with the minecraft style. Here are some of my suggestions to make it better.

    Joystick

    The joystick needs to be smaller. Make it more squary.

    Jump/Crouch Buttons

    They need to be more accessible on tablet screens. I would recommend putting it on the bottom right corner. Also, making it something like a vertical slider you be nice as you can hold the slider thing right at the top to continuously jump and hold it to continuously crouch.

    Destroy/Attack Button

    Make it easier to access on tablet screens, It would be better if it changed the art on it depending on the tool you are using. 

    Use Button

    Make it easier to access on tablet screens.

    Summary of The Most Important Points

    • Move the jump/crouch/destroy/use buttons to the bottom right
    • Make the joystick smaller/more square by default
    • Make the jump/crouch buttons a slider
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    The new controls are great but i have few suggestions:

    Add the ability to make a custom scheme by combining the classic and new control schemes. Eg. Classic D-pad with the interact and attack button alongside with the  jump button.

    Add the single tap crouch feature to the classic controls also if possible holding the jump button is the same as holding space on a keyboard. 

    Customizable  controls mainly new controls or lower the new control buttons to match classic controls positon(too high for me)

    A problem i noticed is the movement is slow even though i have max sensitivity.

     

     

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    I think the button placement should be adjusted, the bottons on the right should be further to the right in my opinion. Also, i would like old controls as an option to use.

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    If you press, hold and drag the attack button, you should be able to move your camera while attacking, it would lessen the advantage console and windows 10 players have in pvp.

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    I think these controls are actually pretty great and easy to transition to, and I've been using the old controls since 2012! They feel natural, and there's lots of potential to add buttons for various functions that were previously not available for mobile devices, such as pick-block, or off-hand.
    One thing I did notice, however, is that I kept finding myself wanting to switch back and forth between crosshair and touch. There should be a button that allows you to toggle whether you are using crosshair or not (or at least have that button as an option). This way we can easily change how we're playing depending on the situation in-game.
    Similarly, I wish there was a button to toggle sprint always being on, without having to go into the settings. Some in-game situations may warrant automatically sprinting, while others may not, and being given the option to just switch that whenever without having to go into the settings would be nice.

    I'm quite excited about these new controls, keep up the great work!

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    We should also be able to connect keyboard and mouse to mobile

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    It would be nice to add an optional button to change the player's camera perspective

    Another optional button that hides the coordinates would also be nice

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    Having an option to sprint when moving the joystick forward twice, similar to the console controller.

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    I like it, but can you add a setting where we can move the buttons please.

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    It's a really awesome idea, but I have one suggestion, add a control locator, so we can customize the button location however we like.

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    Dude the new touch control seems perfect and legit. But i suggest that we can edit the touch layout in (settings) so it can much easier to us to use. And other thing is been a bother for me, for the past years. Can u add the throw item button? So we can throw an item one by one. Just like from java edition well since the java parity has been added on BE. Since i tried the new touch layout control called "touch", and  " Crosshair" Feature i can't jump while running at the same time that's why i suggest the "edit touch control layout" So we can customize in our own way or our POV. Some of the players we're bit complaining about this including me it's a bit hard for me to use. Even the joystick is a bit big i can't really use it well. The Joystick is smooth and all but probably the "Edit Touch Control Layout" or "Customization", or whatever u gonna call it. That's  Probably the best choice For this new feature.

    As for the Running while using a Joystick. i think would be better if u move ur hand a bit far from the Joystick u will start running that would be a good idea. I wanna know about the others opinion about this one

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    jugué la beta en una tablet (Huawei MediaPad T3 10 para ser más específico) y sinceramente los controles son desastrozamente incómodos, lo cuál supongo que no sucede en teléfonos al ser una pantalla más pequeña. Propongo añadir una interfaz de personalización para los controles, es decir, añadir la posibilidad de que se puedan cambiar de posición, tamaño, etc. De igual manera, estaría muy bien añadir la utilidad de la mano izquierda, es decir, que el jugador toque la pantalla (si es que juega la versión móvil) en la parte izquierda y entre en acción la mano izquierda, usando o colocando el ítem que posea, y lo mismo del lado derecho

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    The looking movement speed is a bit too slow even at max sensitivity

    And as for the buttons I’ve found it very difficult to easily press multiple buttons (like jumping while attacking, or crouching while placing) while having a good amount of space to sweep across the screen, and even when I did, my fingers would slide off the buttons because of how I was forced to position my fingers in relation to said sweeping finger

    In some way it would be nice to be able to jump and sneak easily while having the separate ability to attack and interact without affecting or being affected by your looking around finger

     

    Additional things

    pick block (especially for structure blocks)

    switching 1 and 3 and 3 person

    a button that auto completes and cycles up and down through the list of possible command based on what you typed

    a button for cycling through messages/commands you previously sent

    a button for instantly crafting all items in a slot (64 logs > press the button once > 4 stacks of planks) very very useful for gold farms and certain mini games

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    When tapping and holding to break blocks there is a pause before it starts to break and it’s the same with interacting, for instance when tapping and holding to use a spyglass the sound plays, than half a second later it zooms in.

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    There should be an option to move the buttons in different places like we can move the attack button on the left corner

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    我希望可以让玩家可以自定义按键的位置、大小及透明度等。

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     This seems to be a very useful feature. I have not playen it yet since I do no have access to beta. From seeing it though the button might get in the way.

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    Im looking forward to this a costumizable controller would be great for us Mobile players

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    Joystick controls and action buttons are great addition ! It made controls more rational for us who play other mobile games too
    But still some important improvements would make our lives much easier
    1.customising the size,location,opaqueness of every individual buttons
    2.Adding a pick(select block) option to bring blocks from inventory to hotbar
    3.An easier way to transfer multiple stacks of items from player inventory to chests and viceversa
    4.Ability to crouch while flying in creating to place blocks for example over hopper without opening it
    5.Auto sprint option like other mobile games

    Other than this , current changes are very good in many aspects and helpful as follows
    1.Allows for easier take off with elytra (use button for rocket)
    2.Precise use of ender pearls (use button) previously it would spam multiple pearls
    3.Restricted attack button is very helpful as we won't accidentally punch villagers/pigman
    And many more

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    New controls are perfect. A few suggestions though

    -Add option to move the buttons around the screen as others have suggested 

    -Thumbstick should be available while riding boat aswell on the old controls 

    -Jumping should be persistent while holding down on it 

    -Add a transparency slider on the old control arrows 

    -Add gyroscope to projectile items/weapons 

    -Move the thumbstick closer the edge of the screen, and make it smaller

    These new controls should also make the offhand feature possible too. Good job

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Touch control feedback his position can be customized to modify the position?

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    It would be great if there was a setting that can change the size of the joystick and also the position of the touch buttons

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    I think the joystick is so big that my screen is barely visible!

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    I think it's a bit difficult to operate because I'm still used to the old one

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    Since you guys are reworking the Touch controls, it would be cool if there was an f5 button on touch controls to easy change perspective without needing to go to settings.