Autosave question - Discussion - Minecraft - Minecraft Forum (2025)

I haven't found the answer to this yet to forgive me if it has been answered. After the "Better Together" update I can not find how to turn off auto save. Can any one help me on this? Also the Exit w/o saving - is it just gone?

Thanks.

I'm assuming its gone now. Whether or not they intend to add it back I couldn't say. I'm hoping they do

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What platform are you playing on?

I'm playing on my computer (the old Win10). I hit Esc and the menu option "Save and Quit" is still there.

The game auto-saves every 2-3 seconds, and there never has been the option to turn if off... and you still can't. Even if you hit Esc to bring up the menu, then quit the game (click on the red "X" without hitting Save and Quit), the game still saves it at that point. In other words, if you want to turn off auto-save so if you mess up you can "go back", you can't.

BTW, for others reading this, there is no Pause. Hitting Esc only brings up the menu- the game keeps right on running unless you hit Save and Quit. (Maybe they'll add a true "pause" in the future).

I am on the Xbox One and in the Xbox One Edition, at least, there as always been an option to turn off auto-save. I always turn it off so that if a creeper blows up 1/2 my house or something I can just reload my last save instead of having to rebuild. There has also been a quit w/o saving which also seems to be gone.

Oh well, hope they add back the option to turn off auto-save. For now I think I'm going to go back and play the previous version on my Xbox One.

I hear ya, it is quite unfortunate. Since it's not technically a "bug", and more of a "removed feature" I don't have much hope that they will implement it into this new version. But rumor has it that they are adding a free cursor to the inventory interface on the next update, so they seem to be listening to people's complaints. They've always done a pretty good job at this, although sometimes it takes a while for them to respond, as per normal when you run a very busy company that has had Microsoft breathing down their necks since the takeover. *sigh* This is just my luck though. All my favorite games seem to get crapped on at some point. The saving grace with Minecraft, is that they are always working on it, whether it's improving or not is solely up to personal opinion.

Also, I tested the online/offline thing. It does actually pause the game if you are set to "offline". Stays live when you're online though, that sun just keeps on moving. This was tested on my XB1 edition, I'm not sure if you can do the same on other platforms.