How to turn off hints in Minecraft

This article is about survival mode hints. For user-created tutorials, see Tutorials. For the tutorial world that existed in Legacy Console Edition, see Legacy Console Edition tutorial. For the hints feature that existed in Legacy Console Edition, see Legacy Console Edition Hints.

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition. 

All the hints in order

An animation demonstrating the advancements bar (click to play)

Tutorial hints are tabs in the right-hand corner of the player's screen which show up when a player starts a world in Survival mode for the first time on a device. They are meant to guide new players who may not know the controls.

Contents

• 1 Interface
  • 1.1 options.txt
• 2 List of hints
• 3 History
• 4 Issues
• 5 See also

Interface[]

When a Survival world is generated for the first time on a device, the first tutorial hint appears: the movement hint. Each tutorial hint appears as a toast in the top right of the screen (much like new recipes and advancements). Each hint consists of the hint title, a description of how to complete it, and an image to describe it. Once the tutorial hint has been completed (for example, when the player harvests a tree's log), that tutorial hint disappears. After a certain amount of time, the next hint is shown automatically. Once the "craft wooden planks" hint is completed, tutorial hints never again appear in any world.

Tutorial hints are obtained by simply completing the task given. Each hint, minus the "Open your inventory" and the "Craft wooden planks" hint, have a progress bar that shows the player's progress on the current hint and fills up as it is being completed. For example, for the "Destroy the tree" hint, the progress bar begins emptying and starts filling up as the player harvests a log, so that when the log is destroyed, the bar is complete and the hint disappears.

In Creative mode, only the first two hints are displayed.

options.txt[]

The gameplay stages of the tutorial is stored as tutorialStep: in the options.txt file in the game directory, except the Social Interactions hint, which is stored as joinedFirstServer:, so they are kept per device and per directory (you can set up more profiles with different game directories in the launcher options). After the last guide is shown, the value none is saved. Changing TutorialStep to this value (the game must be closed beforehand) prevents the instructions from appearing.

Let’s be honest, tutorials are more annoying than anything for experienced players. In Minecraft we have a tutorial in the form of a tab in the upper right corner of the screen. It can be quite helpful for new players, but when it doesn’t help it just becomes something we want to get rid of. Just like flooded multiplayer chats.

For some reason, you can’t turn off the tutorial from the game menu. Instead, you can do it in two ways:

• by editing the option file
• by completing the tutorial

Editing the option file

WARNING: to follow this method you need to have Minecraft closed, don’t do this while the game is running!

By editing the option file you will remove the tutorial for good, even if you didn’t complete it. To find the option file do as follows:

• type %appdata% in the search bar in the left bottom corner of your screen, then open the folder that will appear
• in the AppData folder, go into the .minecraft folder (where you can also find the level.dat file)
• in the .minecraft folder, you will find the option txt file

If you are playing the Minecraft Windows 10 edition, you will need to follow a different path.

Once you find the option file, open it. There will be a long list of options. You need to find the tutorialStep option.

This option keeps track of the tutorial steps that you completed. If for example you are currently having the “Destroy the tree/Hold down Mine” hint showing while you are playing, in the option file you will see:

tutorialStep:punch_tree

The tutorialStep option can be, in order:

• movement
• find_tree
• punch_tree
• open_inventory
• craft_planks
• joinedFirstServer

To remove the tutorial hints for good, you just need to replace whatever is written with “none”, then save the file.

The next time that you will play Minecraft you won’t see any hint showing.

Completing the tutorials

The tutorials are quite short, they consist of just 6 hints, so completing them is actually an option to consider. If you have seen my Basics guide you will notice that 5 out of 6 hints can be completed by following only the first and second chapters of the guide, it’s no big deal.

Yes, maybe you are playing in a multiplayer server where, for some reason, there are no trees. This means that you can’t complete the “Destroy the tree/Hold down Mine” hint. If this is the case, all you have to do is to complete this hint in another game, like a singleplayer new world for example.

In fact, the 6 hints appear once per device. This means that you don’t need to complete the tutorial in a single game, you can do it across several games, both singleplayer worlds and multiplayers servers.