# Minecraft mouse issue **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 30, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713 "2013-05-30T14:54:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/1 "2013-05-30T14:54:27Z")
So I’m playing the game (a friend let me try one of his alt accounts) and it keeps going to the pause menu while I’m mining. What might cause this? It’s pretty irritating. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/2 "2013-05-30T15:55:37Z")
How is that a mouse issue? For me, the “escape” key pauses the game, not a mouse click. Do you have any mods loaded? Do you have any other programs running in the background? (Say, voice chat.) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/3 "2013-05-30T16:11:37Z")
Well, I mean I’m clicking the mouse to mine, and every few clicks it switches to the menu, sometimes putting the cursor up afterwards. And the escape key still pauses it. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/4 "2013-05-30T20:39:17Z")
I can’t say why it’s doing that. You may consider deleting the minecraft.jar file, (I believe that’s the name of the game file) and get a fresh download. (If you have any mods installed, those will go bye-bye.) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/5 "2013-06-01T17:23:19Z")
It may have nothing to do woth the mouse. Do you have access to a different keyboard? I’ve seen many keyboards that would intermittently generate phantom key presses. If it’s the escape key that’s glitchy you might not notice anywhere else, since a lot of apps ignore the escape key. ETA: WITH, not WOTH! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/6 "2013-06-01T18:14:07Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > It may have nothing to do woth the mouse. Do you have access to a different keyboard? I’ve seen many keyboards that would intermittently generate phantom key presses. If it’s the escape key that’s glitchy you might not notice anywhere else, since a lot of apps ignore the escape key. > > ETA: WITH, not WOTH! heck, you don’t even necessarily need another keyboard. Unplug it when you’re some where you don’t need it, and see if the problem goe away. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minecraft-mouse-issue/659713/7 "2013-06-03T15:46:41Z")
This weekend, I was browsing the [minecraft.net](http://minecraft.net) forums, and someone in there reported similar problems. (Unless that “someone” was also the OP…) I did not see a reply to that bug report post. (I can’t link it right now.)