RDPMouse

Minecraft reads raw relative mouse input, which Windows does not pass through a Remote Desktop session. As soon as a player attempts to look around, the camera can start spinning out of control. RDPMouse swaps that raw input for absolute cursor position tracking, so mouse movement turns the camera within the window bounds as it would locally. Hold Alt to release the cursor and recenter it, and release Alt to resume; arrow keys are available as an alternative to the mouse. The bug has been open since 2018 under MC-107122 and MC-126875, and the mod does not change anything on the server.

RDPMouse is useful for anyone who checks a running game from another room, tests mods remotely or runs Minecraft on a more capable machine elsewhere. It was first aimed at Windows sessions, and the author has since found the same problem under Xvnc on Linux, where RDPMouse also works. Press F8 to switch RDP Mode off and on; a message confirms the current state. Because RDP adds latency and compresses cursor movement, raising mouse sensitivity in Minecraft's settings helps compensate, and the bindings can be changed under Options, Controls, RDP Mouse.

The mod is available for Fabric and NeoForge, released under the MIT License, and is open source. Files exist for 26.2, with the 26.2-fabric-1.0.0 and 26.2-neoforge-1.0.0 builds both dated 2026-06-16, and older builds cover 1.21.1 and 1.21.11.