Controls
Basic Controls
Movement
To move your character around, simply left click on the screen where you want to go. You can continuously move toward the direction of your cursor if you hold down the left click button on your mouse or touchpad.
To interact with things on the map, you quickly use right click. If you hold down right click, you'll be able to access all interaction options.
The Space key is used to toggle sprinting. Sprinting significantly lowers your stamina.
You can press the R key to sit down and rest. This will slowly restore stamina.
Camera Movement
To rotate your camera, use the WASD keys on your keyboard or hold and drag the middle mouse button. Note that the A and D are not shifting the character's perspective (i.e. clicking A does not bring things farther left into view), rather the opposite. However the S key does shift perspective down and the W key shifts perspective upward.
To zoom in or zoom out, scroll using the mouse wheel.
To reset your camera, press the Z key or click the middle mouse button.
Opening Panels
All of the main panels can be opened by clicking on their icon in the user interface.
Keyboard Shortcuts
- The F1 key opens the Known Issues screen.
- The V key opens the Vault, where you can customize your character's appearance, access titles, and store your transportation.
- The C key opens the Compendium, which tracks all your knowledge.
- The B key opens the Building menu.
- The H key opens the Character/Profession skills menu, where you can see your stats, equipment, and equipped tools for each profession.
- The I key opens the Inventory.
- The L key opens the Claim menu from anywhere, where you can check the status of your claim's remaining supplies.
- The Y key opens the Achievements screen, where you can see what you need to do to progress.
- The M key opens the World Map.
- As of Alpha 2, the F2 key toggles on the Empire Grid in both the map and the minimap.
- The Esc key opens the Settings menu if nothing else is open.
- To cancel your current action, you also use the Esc key.
Other Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
There are several keyboard shortcuts that help make everything a little bit easier.
- Alt + Enter allows you to toggle between fullscreen and windowed modes.
- Shift + E lets you eat the first food item in your inventory.
- Shift + V assembles your Default Vehicle from your Vault.
- Holding Alt + left click will open the Compendium to show the item your cursor is on in most windows. You can also right click the item to access this.
- Note: If your right Alt is set as a modifier key (known as AltGr), you will have to use the left Alt only.
Combat
- The Space key toggles sprinting.
With a Bow
- The 1 key is used for Quickshot - a quick shot that deals a low amount of damage. base stamina: 0. range: 6.
- The 2 key is used for Precision Shot - fully draw your bow and shoot a precise shot at your target. base stamina: 1. range: 8.
- The 3 key is used for Snap Shot - quickly fire an arrow at the target. base stamina: 1. range: 6.
Character Emotes
To make your character express an emote, you can either type the command into the chat, or you can press the key combination. To open the chat area, press the Enter key or click the icon in the bottom-left of the screen.
- Type /wave or press Shift + 1
- Type /cheer or press Shift + 2
- Type /beckon or press Shift + 3
- Type /point or press Shift + 4
- Type /pointdown or press Shift + 5
- Type /clap or press Shift + 6
- Type /wait or press Shift + 7
- Type /tired or press Shift + 8
As of Alpha 2, the following emotes were added and can only be used through the chat commands:
- Type /bask
- Type /bow
- Type /deepbow
- Type /hexsalute
- Type /kneel
- Type /regalwave
- Type /salute
Debugging Shortcuts
- F3 toggles between normal display, chunk border map overlay, and chunk border overlay.
- F5 toggles the player ghost tool. This displays the latency between various aspects of BitCraft's servers.
- F6 toggles displaying your current FPS.