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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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    Holding buttons should cycle them.

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    The new control scheme is not so useful and it's not very nice then the old controls. So I don't want it to be a feature of minecraft 1.19. It can also have both the old and new controls because many people don't like the new controls.
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    The new touch controls feel excellent, however a few things I don't quite like:

    • The touch buttons for jumping, crouching, etc. are pretty high up the screen. Fine on phones, terrible on my 10.4" tablet. Perhaps the default position of both these buttons and the joystick can be adjusted by the user?
    • The virtual joystick is a little big visually. I feel it could be made a little smaller without impacting the usability too much, considering how small the original virtual d-pad was.
    • The joystick is also ugly. Pretty ugly.
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    Pls add f5 and q buttons

     

     

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    Ive got multiple suggestions for mojang, could you make it customizable so u would be able to move all the controls anywhere, personally i really do like the fact that u can just sprint would u also be able to make a way to have the new joystick and the old buttons but for me i like it its just a bit difficult to use since there is no way to make the button smaller on my tablet.

     

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    Been trying out the new controls on Android , and let's just say , out of the box they're a massive upgrade , but there's still some polishing I'd like to see
    1. A way to customise the sizes and positions of all the buttons like most mobile games
    2. The current camera movement feels a bit slow , or just stiff , and moving up the sensitivity doesn't really help
    3. The left and right click buttons should activate even when there's no "Active Target" like pointing at mob or a block , basically the ability to tap and hold the button and move the finger and continuosly punch the air , if you get what I mean
    4. The designs looks a bit lack luster still , the circular feels a bit out of place and the buttons at the top (pause , emote , chat) and action buttons don't match in style
    5. I'd like to also see addition of a F1 , F5 and a pickblock button atleast , I feel like this would really "complete the set" in these new buttons

    Hope you'll be able to implement these ideas in a satisfactory way and thankyou mojang for considering us mobile peasants !

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    Make It So We Can Customise And Resize and move the buttons. Third person button with also come in handy if you add it ☺️

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    It would be great to have the ability to resize and relocate the controls individually. The current joystick also looks pixelated and blurry, which is quite ugly. The rest of the buttons, while nice, may not entirely fit in with the rest of the game's UI (especially the pause, chat, and emote buttons at the top of the screen).

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    Plz make them customizable by ourselves.                              Also the new joystick is perfect and excellent:D

     

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    I think the placement of the buttons should be customizeable and the joystick can be switched between the classic and new but the other action button still appear on the screen

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    please make a new UI button can be custom place, I can't use the current layout

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    Please add a button similar to the all new action buttons that allows u to switch between perspectives (First Person/Third Person Back/Third Person Front) you can think of it as a F5 Button but for mobile this change would be very big.

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    I'm gonna be honest it's ok. I think when this is released as a version please always keep the option to use the old ones. The joystick needs to be much much smaller. And maybe move the sprint and jump buttons to the lower part of the screen like the old ones. Personally prefer the old ones but I cant speak for others :)

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    Here is my suggestion:

    Some people from the OG Bedrock players (a.k.a. Pocket Edition), will use the old control design, maybe will have an upgrade like the dedicated use button bellow-right or above-right of the sneak/jump button(if swapped vice versa); use for off hand stuff.

    Is still has hold and tap mechanic in the classic controls, but just the dedicated use button. When tap, it will place, interact, or eat right at a dedicated crosshair.

    But the crosshair will be different. Instead of the " + " it will be just a " • " if you playing non-split controls.

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    It should be possible to autoattack by holding the attack button, but it would only perform 2 attacks per second! That would make things much more convenient

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    Trying out the new controls, I can say that it’s really good to get used to in single-player only. I’m a user who likes to play PVP games on servers, and these controls might require more fingers because it would be hard to turn around and then press a button to fight so therefore, only use the new controls on single-player.

    Also, I believe there needs to be an option to change the size of the joystick since it takes up half the screen, so that would be nice.

    Other than that, good controls!

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    Right now the sprint button being greyed out due to not moving is a bad design choice. If players press the sprint button without moving the joystick, they should simply sprint forward. A tiny joystick size for mobile is also preferable for easy buttonless sprinting.

    I prefer touch controls for building, but the missing action buttons can make crossbow-shooting and other interaction (feeding, riding, catching fish in bucket) more difficult. Having to hold-touch is very slow.

    We can have action buttons for touch as well, adding the best of both worlds; if you tap an enemy on the screen, you attack them. If you tap the action button, you attack the target on the center crosshair of the screen. If you tap a block, you build on that block. If you tap the action button, you build on the center crosshair of the screen. For me, this is the ideal control scheme for competitive play, along with the previously mentioned button position/size/opacity customization, additional hotbar slot buttons to quickly switch equipment to my sword on slot 3 for example, and "safe mode" toggle that prevents me from attacking/placing blocks/etc.

    Thanks a lot for improving touch controls by the way! It desperately needs an update.

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    It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to big. I also wish we could sneak while flying. I'm sick of making a bridge all the way to a chest, hopper, dispenser, ect falling down, sneaking, place a block, and then remove the bridge.

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    Can you make it an option to use the old or the new controls. And put the controlls in the same spot it was and be able to change the size of the joystick and fly up/fly down controls.

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    The controls on phone/device have always been garbage but work fine. The feel of nonexistent buttons is always going to be that way. I've adapted as most that put the effort in have as well. Double tapping to crouch is annoying but it locks the crouch so less falls. Double tapping to run very annoying and fat fingers happen when you really need to sprint so that hurts. Overall I'd say the controls are as good as they're going to get. Like it or not. We're not playing on a PC or game console so we're going to suffer. My 2 cents

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    I think the jump button should be at the original place but beside that everything is good.

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    One big thing I’m running into - I play primarily on my iPad and it’s quite difficult to reach the controls on the right hand side of the screen. Would it be possible to provide an option to move the controls around to a more comfortable position? Other than that they seem very cool - I like that there’s several options and having the faster option to crouch!

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    Here some of my suggestions:
    - Buttons layout customisation
    -Toggle sprint that is turn sprint mode on/off by a click
    -Buttons for changing perspective and trowing items

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    The best option for touch control issues would be for me to implement a way to customize the position and type of control for each thing and that the player himself can change the controls as best and most comfortable as he feels, an example is marked in this screenshot, which in my opinion it would be the best but that for me can not be 10000 more and they want another way

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    In already existing controller and keyboard and mouse controls there is the option to edit the actions according to the input for more comfort and I wondered why not put this same in touch control, that is, let the player select which buttons and where he wants these buttons to explain myself better change between the new stick or stay with the previous way of moving with the crouch in the middle and the jump button on the other side and be able to change these last two potions and be able to add the new destroy/attack and build/ interact on top of the jump or the movement or change their position or group them differently according to each player's preference

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    Please add the ability to change the positions and the size of the buttons.

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    1) Pls add spam attack on destroy/attack button in crosshair style
    2) pls add f1 and f5 button on screen
    3) ability to change position of buttons
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    3) buttons should bottom right instead of top right
    4) IMO you should add all the three styles so that any one can play in any of the style

    ❤️❤️good change❤️❤️

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    Please make so u can change between joystick and dpad

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    can you guys pls add an option that can edit the button pls

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    The joystick is way too big i request you to make it a bit smaller it takes like one third of our screen