Minecraft’s Nintendo Switch 2 edition is getting mouse controls. The latest closed beta build lets you use a Joy-Con 2 as a mouse, steering the camera and the menu cursor and placing or breaking blocks.
The Switch 2 edition launched without a mouse mode, and players had been asking for one. It is the version that adds Mojang’s Vibrant Visuals graphics upgrade and a Super Mario Mash-Up Pack made for Nintendo’s console, so mouse aiming is one more reason to pick it over the original.
In the beta, the settings let you pick which of the two Joy-Con 2 controllers does the mousing; the right one is the default. Camera sensitivity and cursor sensitivity are separate sliders, and the Minecraft Wiki lists both at a default of 50. The triggers work as clicks: ZL places a block and ZR breaks one, and the button layout can be changed in the settings.
The mouse mode is only in the closed beta, and no date has been given for the normal game. Owners of the original Switch version who bought it digitally can take the free Switch 2 upgrade until 31 January 2027, and people with a physical copy get a discount on the Ultimate Collection upgrade instead.
The settings also let you hide the controller cursor in inventories and reset every mouse option and button mapping to its original value, and a separate tab holds every mouse button mapping.
That upgrade window gives anyone planning to move over about two and a half months, counted from today’s date, before the free offer ends.
