Key codes

This is a list of key codes used by Minecraft, which are used in configuration files such as the options.txt file in the Minecraft directory.

Java Edition

Current

Value	In-game name	Description
key.keyboard.unknown	Not bound	Key is not bound
key.mouse.left	Left Button	Left mouse button
key.mouse.right	Right Button	Right mouse button
key.mouse.middle	Middle Button	Mouse scroll wheel
key.mouse.4	Button 4	Fourth mouse button
key.mouse.5	Button 5	Fifth mouse button
key.mouse.6	Button 6	Sixth mouse button
key.mouse.7	Button 7	Seventh mouse button
key.mouse.8	Button 8	Eighth mouse button
key.mouse.#	Button #	Mouse button of number #
key.keyboard.0	0
key.keyboard.1	1
key.keyboard.2	2
key.keyboard.3	3
key.keyboard.4	4
key.keyboard.5	5
key.keyboard.6	6
key.keyboard.7	7
key.keyboard.8	8
key.keyboard.9	9
key.keyboard.a	a
key.keyboard.b	b
key.keyboard.c	c
key.keyboard.d	d
key.keyboard.e	e
key.keyboard.f	f
key.keyboard.g	g
key.keyboard.h	h
key.keyboard.i	i
key.keyboard.j	j
key.keyboard.k	k
key.keyboard.l	l
key.keyboard.m	m
key.keyboard.n	n
key.keyboard.o	o
key.keyboard.p	p
key.keyboard.q	q
key.keyboard.r	r
key.keyboard.s	s
key.keyboard.t	t
key.keyboard.u	u
key.keyboard.v	v
key.keyboard.w	w
key.keyboard.x	x
key.keyboard.y	y
key.keyboard.z	z
key.keyboard.f1	F1
key.keyboard.f2	F2
key.keyboard.f3	F3
key.keyboard.f4	F4
key.keyboard.f5	F5
key.keyboard.f6	F6
key.keyboard.f7	F7
key.keyboard.f8	F8
key.keyboard.f9	F9
key.keyboard.f10	F10
key.keyboard.f11	F11
key.keyboard.f12	F12
key.keyboard.f13	F13
key.keyboard.f14	F14
key.keyboard.f15	F15
key.keyboard.f16	F16
key.keyboard.f17	F17
key.keyboard.f18	F18
key.keyboard.f19	F19
key.keyboard.f20	F20
key.keyboard.f21	F21
key.keyboard.f22	F22
key.keyboard.f23	F23
key.keyboard.f24	F24
key.keyboard.f25	F25
key.keyboard.num.lock	Num Lock
key.keyboard.keypad.0	Keypad 0
key.keyboard.keypad.1	Keypad 1
key.keyboard.keypad.2	Keypad 2
key.keyboard.keypad.3	Keypad 3
key.keyboard.keypad.4	Keypad 4
key.keyboard.keypad.5	Keypad 5
key.keyboard.keypad.6	Keypad 6
key.keyboard.keypad.7	Keypad 7
key.keyboard.keypad.8	Keypad 8
key.keyboard.keypad.9	Keypad 9
key.keyboard.keypad.add	Keypad +
key.keyboard.keypad.decimal	Keypad Decimal
key.keyboard.keypad.enter	Keypad Enter
key.keyboard.keypad.equal	Keypad =
key.keyboard.keypad.multiply	Keypad *
key.keyboard.keypad.divide	Keypad /
key.keyboard.keypad.subtract	Keypad -
key.keyboard.down	Down Arrow
key.keyboard.left	Left Arrow
key.keyboard.right	Right Arrow
key.keyboard.up	Up Arrow
key.keyboard.apostrophe	'
key.keyboard.backslash	\
key.keyboard.comma	,
key.keyboard.equal	=
key.keyboard.grave.accent	`
key.keyboard.left.bracket	[
key.keyboard.minus	-
key.keyboard.period	.
key.keyboard.right.bracket	]
key.keyboard.semicolon	;
key.keyboard.slash	/
key.keyboard.space	Space
key.keyboard.tab	Tab
key.keyboard.left.alt	Left Alt
key.keyboard.left.control	Left Control
key.keyboard.left.shift	Left Shift
key.keyboard.left.win	Left Win
key.keyboard.right.alt	Right Alt
key.keyboard.right.control	Right Control
key.keyboard.right.shift	Right Shift
key.keyboard.right.win	Right Win
key.keyboard.enter	Enter
key.keyboard.escape	Escape
key.keyboard.backspace	Backspace
key.keyboard.delete	Delete
key.keyboard.end	End
key.keyboard.home	Home
key.keyboard.insert	Insert
key.keyboard.page.down	Page Down
key.keyboard.page.up	Page Up
key.keyboard.caps.lock	Caps Lock
key.keyboard.pause	Pause
key.keyboard.scroll.lock	Scroll Lock
key.keyboard.menu	Menu
key.keyboard.print.screen	Print Screen
key.keyboard.world.1	World 1
key.keyboard.world.2	World 2
scancode.###	scancode.###	Untranslated

Before 1.13

Keyboard codes

Value Name Description 0 NONE 1 ESCAPE Escape 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 6 8 7 9 8 10 9 11 0 12 MINUS - 13 EQUALS = 14 BACK Backspace 15 TAB Tab 16 Q 17 W 18 E 19 R 20 T 21 Y 22 U 23 I 24 O 25 P 26 LBRACKET [ 27 RBRACKET ] 28 RETURN Enter 29 LCONTROL Left Control 30 A 31 S 32 D 33 F 34 G 35 H 36 J 37 K 38 L 39 SEMICOLON ; 40 APOSTROPHE ' 41 GRAVE ` 42 LSHIFT Left Shift 43 BACKSLASH \ 44 Z 45 X 46 C 47 V 48 B 49 N 50 M 51 COMMA , 52 PERIOD . 53 SLASH / 54 RSHIFT Right Shift 55 MULTIPLY 56 LMENU Left Menu/Alt 57 SPACE 58 CAPITAL Caps Lock 59 F1 60 F2 61 F3 62 F4

Value Name Description 63 F5 64 F6 65 F7 66 F8 67 F9 68 F10 69 NUMLOCK Number Lock 70 SCROLL Scroll Lock 71 NUMPAD7 72 NUMPAD8 73 NUMPAD9 74 SUBTRACT 75 NUMPAD4 76 NUMPAD5 77 NUMPAD6 78 ADD 79 NUMPAD1 80 NUMPAD2 81 NUMPAD3 82 NUMPAD0 83 DECIMAL 87 F11 88 F12 100 F13 101 F14 102 F15 112 KANA 121 CONVERT 123 NOCONVERT 125 YEN ¥ 141 NUMPADEQUALS 144 CIRCUMFLEX ^ 145 AT @ 146 COLON : 147 UNDERLINE _ 148 KANJI 149 STOP 150 AX 151 UNLABLED 156 NUMPADENTER 157 RCONTROL Right Control 179 NUMPADCOMMA 181 DIVIDE 183 SYSRQ 184 RMENU Right Menu/Alt 197 PAUSE 199 HOME 200 UP Up Arrow 201 PRIOR Page Up 203 LEFT Left Arrow 205 RIGHT Right Arrow 207 END 208 DOWN Down Arrow 209 NEXT Page Down 210 INSERT 211 DELETE 219 LMETA Left Meta/Super LWIN 220 RMETA Right Meta/Super RWIN 221 APPS 222 POWER 223 SLEEP

Mouse codes

LWJGL supports a maximum of 16 mouse buttons. The Minecraft game settings screen translates button 0 to "Button 1", button 1 to "Button 2", et cetera.

Value LWJGL Name Description LWJGL Minecraft 0 -100 BUTTON0 Left Click 1 -99 BUTTON1 Right Click 2 -98 BUTTON2 Middle Click 3 -97 BUTTON3 4 -96 BUTTON4 5 -95 BUTTON5 6 -94 BUTTON6 7 -93 BUTTON7

Value LWJGL Name Description LWJGL Minecraft 8 -92 BUTTON8 9 -91 BUTTON9 10 -90 BUTTON10 11 -89 BUTTON11 12 -88 BUTTON12 13 -87 BUTTON13 14 -86 BUTTON14 15 -85 BUTTON15

Bedrock Edition

Key Code	Key
0	That key has no keycode
3	break
8	backspace / delete
9	tab
12	clear
13	enter
16	shift
17	ctrl
18	alt
19	pause/break
20	caps lock
21	hangul
25	hanja
27	escape
28	conversion
29	non-conversion
32	spacebar
33	page up
34	page down
35	end
36	home
37	left arrow
38	up arrow
39	right arrow
40	down arrow
41	select
42	print
43	execute
44	Print Screen
45	insert
46	delete
47	help
48	0
49	1
50	2
51	3
52	4
53	5
54	6
55	7
56	8
57	9
58	:
59	semicolon (firefox), equals
60	<
61	equals (firefox)
63	ß
64	@ (firefox)
65	a
66	b
67	c
68	d
69	e
70	f
71	g
72	h
73	i
74	j
75	k
76	l
77	m
78	n
79	o
80	p
81	q
82	r
83	s
84	t
85	u
86	v
87	w
88	x
89	y
90	z
91	Windows Key / Left ⌘ / Chromebook Search key
92	right window key
93	Windows Menu / Right ⌘
95	sleep
96	numpad 0
97	numpad 1
98	numpad 2
99	numpad 3
100	numpad 4
101	numpad 5
102	numpad 6
103	numpad 7
104	numpad 8
105	numpad 9
106	multiply
107	add
108	numpad period (firefox)
109	subtract
110	decimal point
111	divide
112	f1
113	f2
114	f3
115	f4
116	f5
117	f6
118	f7
119	f8
120	f9
121	f10
122	f11
123	f12
124	f13
125	f14
126	f15
127	f16
128	f17
129	f18
130	f19
131	f20
132	f21
133	f22
134	f23
135	f24
136	f25
137	f26
138	f27
139	f28
140	f29
141	f30
142	f31
143	f32
144	num lock
145	scroll lock
151	airplane mode
160	^
161	!
162	؛ (arabic semicolon)
163	#
164	$
165	ù
166	page backward
167	page forward
168	refresh
169	closing paren (AZERTY)
170	*
171	~ + * key
172	home key
173	minus (firefox), mute/unmute
174	decrease volume level
175	increase volume level
176	next
177	previous
178	stop
179	play/pause
180	e-mail
181	mute/unmute (firefox)
182	decrease volume level (firefox)
183	increase volume level (firefox)
186	semi-colon / ñ
187	equal sign
188	comma
189	dash
190	period
191	forward slash / ç
192	grave accent / ñ / æ / ö
193	?, / or °
194	numpad period (chrome)
219	open bracket
220	back slash
221	close bracket / å
222	single quote / ø / ä
223	`
224	left or right ⌘ key (firefox)
225	altgr
226	< /git >, left back slash
230	GNOME Compose Key
231	ç
233	XF86Forward
234	XF86Back
235	non-conversion
240	alphanumeric
242	hiragana/katakana
243	half-width/full-width
244	kanji
251	unlock trackpad (Chrome/Edge)
255	toggle touchpad
-99	Mouse Left
-98	Mouse Right
-97	Mouse Middle
-94	Mouse Button 6
-95	Mouse Button 5