How To Change Fov In Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to change the camera angle between first person and third person perspective when you play the game.

When you create a new world in Minecraft, you will start in first person view. However, you can switch to third person mode and see your body in the game, either from the front or from behind.

This modscript works so you can change the Field Of View (FOV) by commands! If you make some videos on this mod, please try to put a reply with the link in this topic; For now, this mod is only available for android devices because I do not have apple devices, sorry. This is my first mod, enjooy:D; When restart blocklauncher, fov. A low FOV will look zoomed in, whereas a high FOV may distorted. You can change it back (70 is the default) with the upper left slider in your options menu. However, if Optifine still doesn’t let you zoom then it is recommended that you simply reduce your FOV to do so instead. You can then simply reset your FOV when you wish to zoom out again. Either way, you now know how to zoom in Minecraft with or without the help of Optifine. First, you can his escape to bring up the main menu and go to settings. Go to the gameplay tab and you’ll see an option for FOV. You can change the FOV to anything you want up to 120. Mess around with the settings until you get a configuration you think looks nice.

Views in Minecraft

These are the three different views in Minecraft. Let's explore each of them.

1. First Person View

With the first person view, you see the game from the player's perspective. The only part of the player that you see is the player's right hand or the item the player is holding.

2. Third Person Rear View

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With the third person rear view, you see the game as if you were standing behind the player. You will see the player's body from the back.

3. Third Person View

With the third person view, you see the game as if you were facing the player. You will see the player's body from the front.

Game Control to Change the View

In Minecraft, you can toggle between these three views (camera angles) using a game control. Here are the game controls to change between views on the Minecraft platforms:

PlatformGame Control to Toggle View
PC/MacPress F5 key
Pocket Edition (PE)Pause game, go to Settings, select Video button and change 'Camera Perspective' setting
PS3Press down on Left Stick (LS)
PS4Press down on Left Stick (LS)
Xbox 360Press down on Left Stick (LS)
Xbox OnePress down on Left Stick (LS)
Windows 10 EditionPress F5 key
Wii UPress down on Left Stick
Nintendo SwitchPress down on Left Joycon Stick
Education Edition (EDU)Press F5 key

Toggle Order for the View

When you toggle between views in Minecraft, here is the order of the camera angles:

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First PersonThird Person RearThird Person → back to First Person

When you press the game control to toggle the view, you will move to the next camera angle. Depending on which view you want, you might have to press the game control more than once.

Other Beginner Tutorials

Wondering how to zoom in on Minecraft?

With the pandemic running all over the world right now, Games have emerged as entertainment for all ages.

Minecraft is one of them.

In this game, you can build worlds of your own choice, and if you explore you can find new elements that you can use to build your world in different ways.

But this requires the breaking of the blocks with different items to create more complex things and hence this requires to zoom in.

In this article, I’ll help you to zoom in on Minecraft on PC Windows 10.

Method 1: Adjust your Field of View (FOV) to Zoom in on Minecraft

In Minecraft, there is an option available in which you can change what’s visible to your screen. It can be done by adjusting your Field of View. If the FOV value is higher, you’ll see more things in your view. So select your FOV value to low so that you can get a zoomed-in view of your world.

Follow the steps below to change your FOV value to low.

  • Open your Minecraft and enter the game.
  • When you are in-game, press the Esc button to open the game menu.
  • Select the Options… box in the game menu.
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  • In the options tab, slide the bar inside FOV to the left. In this way, you’ll be able to see lesser details by zooming in.

Your game will be now zoomed in.

Method 2: Zoom in on Minecraft by using Optifine MOD

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How do you zoom in and out on Minecraft?

Optifine is a zoom MOD for Minecraft. In order to run Optifine MOD First, you’ll need to download and install the Java SE Development kit 15 for your Windows/macOS/Linux.

Given are the links.

Download Optifine MOD

How do I install Optifine 2020?

  • Step 1: First download the Minecraft OptiFine Mod on your PC. To work with the latest update in Minecraft, go to the OptiFine Mod page to check the newest version; it is the most unique Minecraft 1.16.4.
  • Step 2: Open the .jar file corresponding to the OptiFine Mod and click on Install. After the installation is done, press OK. This will install the OptiFine Mod as a module inside Minecraft.
  • Step 3: Now start the Minecraft Launcher
  • Step 4: Make sure that you are loading OptiFine Mod on to the application. On the bottom left side of the Play option, you’ll be able to see OptiFine. If you can’t see that, tap the box next to the play option and select OptiFine (which will likely read ‘Latest release’).
  • Step 5: Now load the game by clicking on the PLAY button.
  • Step 6: Now whenever you want to zoom in just hold the ‘C’ key on your keyboard to zoom in to the object that’s located in the center of your screen.

Now you have successfully enabled the Optifine MOD.

( Warning: This is a MOD and it modifies the setting of the game )

Method 3: Use Zoomed out Maps

Change Field Of View Command Blocks - Minecraft Forum

Instead of using the zoom functionality, you can also use maps to navigate inside Minecraft.

Make Zoomed out Map

You’ll notice that your map is set to a certain zoom value. But you can also make a more zoomed-out map by expanding it to contain a larger view of your world.

  • Make sure you have created a map of your world.
  • To create a zoomed-out map first you need to collect 32 pieces of paper. We’ll create the zoomed out map in 4 levels and 8 pieces are required at every level.
  • Open your crafting table and place your map in the center.
  • Place each of the pieces of paper in the empty squares of the crafting grid.
  • Move the resulting map to your inventory
  • repeat the whole process 4 times. ( 3 more times after the first time)

How To Change The Camera View In Minecraft

Check out here how to make paper, compass, or map if you don’t know how to make them.

How To Change Fov In Minecraft

Hope this article helps you in zooming in on Minecraft and hope you are having a better gaming experience now.

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How to zoom in on Minecraft