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Features

Everything in Azure Client

The full list, grouped by what each feature is for. Default keys are shown where there is one; every key can be changed in the menu.

Menu & interface

Open the menu with Left Alt

  • Modern menu

    Glass category tiles under the title. Click one and its modules zoom out as cards with an icon, name and switch. Arrow keys turn the ring of tiles.

  • Classic menu

    Draggable windows per category. Right-click a header to collapse it, scroll to move all windows.

  • Search

    Start typing anywhere in the menu to find a module. Esc clears.

  • HUD editor

    Drag widgets, snap to screen edges, the center and other widgets, resize with the corner or mouse wheel. Arrow keys nudge 1 px (Shift for 10), G toggles a 10 px grid, Ctrl+Z undoes, Reset puts everything back.

  • Azure pause menu

    One card with your head, server, FPS, ping and session time, the vanilla buttons in two columns, and Azure shortcuts as round icons.

  • Title screen

    Rounded buttons on a layered sky with parallax and drifting clouds, a Join button for your last server, a now-playing card and your favorite servers.

  • Themes

    Azure, Midnight, Sakura and Sunset, or Auto, which follows your clock. Custom wallpapers too, and a different theme per server if you like.

  • Smooth Hotbar

    The selection glides to the slot you scroll to on a soft spring.

  • Loading screen art

    Azure art with short tips while the world loads.

  • Language

    English and Français. Module names stay in English.

  • Welcome card

    On first start, pick a starting setup (PvP, Builder or Minimal) and see the keys you need.

  • Key Conflicts

    Lists every key used by two things at once, so you can fix it.

HUD widgets

Each one resizable from 50 to 300%

  • FPS, Ping and Ping Graph

    Your ping over the last minute with now, average and max.

  • Coordinates

    With facing direction and the matching Nether or Overworld coordinates.

  • Minimap

    North-up map of loaded terrain in real biome colors, with your waypoints and friends.

  • Keystrokes and CPS

    Movement keys, mouse buttons and your clicks per second.

  • Armor Status

    Durability of each piece as bubbles or a list, with about how many hits it still takes.

  • Potion Effects

    Icon, level and time left. Blinks red under 10 seconds.

  • Cooldowns

    Ender pearls, shields, chorus fruit and wind charges coming back, plus an attack ring around the crosshair.

  • Target and Health

    Who you're fighting: name, distance, health bar, armor and held items. Your own health with absorption.

  • Elytra

    Only while you wear one: durability, flight time left, rockets, speed and height.

  • Safety

    Shows only when something is wrong: lava, fire or a drop ahead, low health, no totem, stuck in a block.

  • Server Info

    TPS, players online, world age and server software.

  • Speed and Inventory

    Blocks per second, and your 27 inventory slots on screen.

  • Watermark and Active Modules

    The Azure mark and the list of what's on.

  • One shared style

    HUD Opacity, HUD Rounded and HUD Accent Bar apply to every widget at once.

Music & lyrics

Lyrics from LRCLIB

  • Lyrics

    Synced lyrics for the song playing on your PC: Spotify, YouTube in a browser, or any app in Windows' media controls.

  • Three layouts

    Scatter (each word placed in the world at its own angle), Line (built word by word in front of you) or Subtitles (on screen).

  • Word-by-word highlight

    Each word lights up as it is sung; the next line waits under it, dimmer.

  • Music Player widget

    Cover art, title, artist, progress, previous, play/pause, next and system volume. Click it with chat or your inventory open.

  • Media keys

    Play/Pause, Next and Previous keys in game. Unbound by default.

  • Sync controls

    An offset from -2000 to +2000 ms, or Sync Earlier and Sync Later keys that fix one song by 100 ms a press.

  • Your own lyrics

    Drop .lrc files in config/aurora-lyrics/ and they win over LRCLIB.

  • Offline cache

    Lyrics you have played load instantly next time, even offline.

Azure Online

Off by default. What it stores

  • Azure Chat

    One chat for Azure players across servers. Shows who is on and which server they're on.

  • Shadow Mode

    Read the chat and see who's on while staying off the list yourself.

  • Friends

    Add from Azure Chat or with a friend code (AZ-XXXXXXXX). Both sides accept. Strangers can't message you or see your friends.

  • Private messages

    Only the two of you can read them.

  • Friends list with Join

    On the title screen: your friends, online first, with their server. Join connects you there.

  • Invite

    Send a friend an invite to the server you're on.

  • Azure Party

    A 6-letter code, up to 8 players. See each other's server, dimension and position.

    Party ping G marks a block for 30 seconds

  • Shared waypoints

    Waypoints for the whole party, drawn in everyone's world.

  • Profile cards

    Hours played, achievements and favorite server. Share Profile turns it off.

  • Verified names

    Accounts are checked with Mojang, so nobody can wear a cape under your name.

  • Server list extras

    Star your favorite servers, see a ping graph and how many Azure friends are on each one.

  • Do Not Disturb

    Hides friend, party and message pop-ups.

  • Chat Translate

    Off by default. Adds a translate button after chat lines.

Cosmetics

Seen by other Azure players

  • Free capes

    Azure, Midnight, Sakura, Peaks, Ocean and Ember.

  • Playtime capes

    Frost (10 h), Nebula (25 h), Aurora (50 h), Galaxy (75 h) and Crystal (100 h).

  • Together cape

    For bringing three new players to Azure.

  • Cape Preview

    Your real player in 3D wearing the cape, plus a flat card of it. Drag to turn.

  • Azure badges

    A small mark next to Azure players' names in the tab list and on name tags.

  • Emotes

    Wave, Dance, Clap, Cheer, Heart and Bow, played on your model. The camera turns to face you. No party needed.

    Emote wheel B

  • Skin Studio

    Paint a 64×64 skin with pencil, eraser, fill and picker, with undo and a 3D preview. Start from your own skin, Steve or Alex, then wear it or upload it to your account.

Creator tools

For clips, streams and screenshots

  • Clips

    Keeps the last 10 to 60 seconds at up to 24 fps. Saved to .minecraft/clips. Picture only, no sound yet. Off by default.

    Save a clip F8

  • Vertical Clips

    A 9:16 copy of each clip with a small Azure mark, ready for phones. The path is copied for you.

  • Screenshot gallery

    Your screenshots in game. Frame it saves a framed copy next to the original.

  • Clean Screenshots

    On by default. The saved picture has no Azure HUD, while you still see it.

    Screenshot F2

  • Streamer Mode

    One switch makes your screen look like plain Minecraft: hides the HUD, Azure chat lines and pop-ups, and coordinates.

  • Coords Hider

    Scrambles coordinates wherever Azure shows them and keeps them out of F3.

  • Session Stats

    Kills, deaths, K/D, hits, damage and best streak for this session. Save Image makes a card.

    Open J

Gameplay helpers

Quality of life

  • Zoom

    Hold to zoom 4x, scroll to zoom further. Smooth animation and slower mouse while zoomed.

    Hold Z

  • Freelook

    Look around with the camera while you keep walking straight. Distance 1 to 20 blocks.

    Hold V

  • Crosshair

    Cross, T, X, Circle, Dot, Square, or Custom: paint it on a 21×21 grid with mirroring and 12 colors.

  • Waypoints

    Per server and dimension, with a beam and distance. A Death waypoint is set when you die. Overworld points also show in the Nether at the right spot.

  • Coord Logger

    Remembers the path you walked and draws it in the world and on the minimap.

  • Schematic

    Load a build and see it as a see-through guide in the world.

  • Death Recap

    On death: what killed you, where, and what you lost.

  • Durability Alert

    A notification and sound when armor, an elytra or a tool gets low.

  • Hit Effects

    Colored sparks on hit and a small burst with a chime on a kill. Turns itself off under 40 FPS.

  • Totem Pop Notifier

    A pop-up when a player pops a totem, with their total.

  • Auto Sprint

    Sprint without holding the key.

  • Yaw Lock

    Turns you smoothly to the nearest straight direction and holds it.

  • Accurate Place

    Hold right-click and blocks go down as your crosshair reaches each new spot, for clean lines.

  • No View Bobbing and Clear Weather

    No screen sway while walking; rain fades out on your screen only.

Performance

Features that are off cost nothing

  • Entity and Chest Culling

    Mobs, players, items, chests, signs and banners hidden behind solid blocks aren't drawn.

  • Draw distances per type

    Mobs 96 blocks, items 48, armor stands 48, item frames 64. Players have no limit.

  • Particle Limit and Lag Guard

    At most 600 new particles per tick, and at most 8 items or frames drawn per block.

  • Unfocused FPS

    Caps the game at 15 FPS while it isn't the focused window.

  • FPS Booster

    One click for shorter distances, fewer particles and no clouds. Undo Booster restores your settings.

  • 100 FPS Floor

    On by default. Lifts Minecraft's 60 FPS menu cap and 30 FPS idle cap to 100.

  • Performance mods included

    The installer adds Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, EntityCulling, Iris and Mod Menu from Modrinth.

Setup & extras

Keep your setup, everywhere

  • Profiles

    Save named setups and load them, with an undo. Share one as a code, or load one automatically on a server.

  • Cloud Sync

    Your settings, profiles and stats on every PC. Encrypted with your sync code before upload.

  • In-game updates

    Azure asks when a new version is out and checks the download's SHA-256 before installing it.

  • Crash reports

    After a crash that involved Azure, it asks first. Your user name and folders are removed. Nothing is sent without your click.

  • Playtime stats

    Hours per server and a weekly recap.

  • Achievements

    Small goals like First Steps, Clipper and Party Starter.

  • Azure Games

    Star Catcher, Aim Trainer, Reaction, Memory and Orbit. Click the title logo to play.