Note: While the Wii U Edition can not be played with a Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus, a Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus is required to play with a Classic Controller or Classic Controller Pro.

Being that Microsoft owns both Minecraft and Xbox, that’s another benefit. To use an Xbox controller, just have your controller connected and set Minecraft to be played with your controller instead of a mouse and keyboard. Use Steam to make your Xbox controller with Minecraft Java EditionGives players the ability to disable chatting with certain players, thus hiding any messages receiving from them. Whether a player is hidden resets when re-joining a server. Then, start the Minecraft game. Once it’s launched, open the Steam PC client and connect your controller. Once connected, select the Minecraft game in the left pane. You can map the controller’s buttons to your keyboard and mouse. You can also customize its sensitivity and map the buttons on the controller. Once you’ve mapped your controller correctly, you can play Minecraft on Windows 10. Does Java Minecraft have controller support? Additionally, you can also use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to play Minecraft, so long as you go through the appropriate steps. Some items have extra functionality, and these can be excecuted when tapping the interaction button, located on top of the hotbar. These are listed below:

This will take a little time since you have to configure each control set, but you only have to do it once.Select "Manage Shortcut" then "Controller Configuration" to allow you to configure the controller layout. You can either do it manually or use "Browse Configs" to browse presets from other users.

However, there are absolutely ways to connect, set up, and use controllers with these PC versions of the game, even if Mojang has not added any official support and has no current plans to add support. Here, you will have the opportunity to remap each button on the Xbox controller to a different function in the game, whether that may be functions from the mouse or keyboard.

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Note: the first-gen Xbox One controllers do not have Bluetooth. For those controllers you need an Wireless Adapter. Make sure that any Xbox One/Series X consoles is unplugged because the controller may turn on the Xbox. Once a player is done mapping their controller’s buttons, they need to save the layout by using the export config button and then saving the new personal binding. Currently, Java Minecraft does not support the PlayStation 4/5 controller. It will only support the Xbox controller if you have the full version of the game. For this reason, it is recommended that Java users buy the full version of the game. How do you use a USB controller on Minecraft PC? PMCBBCode [url=https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/how-to-play-minecraft-java-with-a-controller-in-2023][img]https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/image/minecraft/blog/2023/762/17000066-maxresdefault_l.jpg[/img] For Nintendo Switch Pro controllers and JoyCons, you need to install “ BetterJoy“ to convert them to XInput, which is what Controllable requires.