Minecraft – Not Enough Items doesn’t have an options button

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Since I have installed quite a few of mods I decided to also install Not Enough Items so that I wouldn't have to look at the wiki of every mod when I want to craft something.

But my NEI doesn't show an options button when I press E. I only want to play on Survival mode, so all I need is recipe mode but it's locked on cheat mode. How can I fix this?

Best Answer

The Problem

You are in a scenario where you set the mode on other mode that cheat mode but you can't change it.

Solution

Try to click the button on the bottom left. If you click it, it will change the mode into the world mode. Now just go to the option to change cheat mode and recipe mode. You'll notice a W button in front of the mode selection. Now, click it so it disappears. There you go! Recipe mode!

What is World Mode?

To simply explains it, NEI can save your own setting in each world. Lots of people are getting this trouble too. So I suggest you to check that.

Related Solutions

Minecraft – n “inventory mod” that doesn’t allow cheating

NEI can be set to Recipe Mode. And if you think you'll still be too tempted to switch to cheat mode, open the file %appdata%\.minecraft\config\NEI.cfg and modify the following setting:

lockmode=0

This will make it impossible to switch to another mode ingame.

If you consider the ability to delete items (instead of having to burn them) no cheating, you could also set

lockmode=1
utility_actions=delete

to lock to utility mode, where the delete item icon is available in addition (I removed magnet, since that's already a cheat)

Minecraft – How to change NEI to cheat mode

This is a config option to lock NEI in Recipe Mode only. It's designed for people (like me) who want to commit to a Survival game, but can't help themselves when it's so easy to cheat in items. This option is on by default when you download NEI.

You can turn this off in the configuration file. Go to the config folder (probably C:/Users/YourName/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft/config) and find NEI.cfg. Open it with Notepad, and change the line that says lockmode=0 to lockmode=-1. This will unlock the option to switch to cheat mode in the options menu in-game.

If that doesn't work for whatever reason, cheat mode can be manually set by changing the line that says cheatmode=0 to cheatmode=2.