Controls

Controls are set by left-clicking them and then pressing the desired key combination. They can be unbound by right-clicking them. The keybindings can be reset in the controls settings menu.

Movement

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
W	Move up
D	Move right
A	Move left
S	Move down

Basic interaction

Key bindings

Key combination (Alternative)	Effect	Description
E (Mouse button 4)	Open character screen
Left mouse button	Open object's GUI
E (Mouse button 4)	Close window
Right mouse button	Mine
Left mouse button	Build
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Build ghost
Q (Mouse button 5)	Clear cursor	Returns the item in the cursor stack to the player's inventory. Also cancels wire placement and rail planning.
Q (Mouse button 5)	Pipette tool	Picks items from your inventory used to build the currently selected entity and places them in your cursor. For resources it will select the fastest available mining drill.
R	Rotate	Rotates (clockwise) the item held in the cursor or the selected entity.
SHIFT + R	Reverse rotate	Rotates (counter-clockwise) the item held in the cursor or the selected entity.
F	Pick up items on the ground
Z	Drop item	Drop one item of what you are holding on the ground, on a belt or into a machine.
ALT	Toggle "Alt-mode"	Toggles showing additional information about built entities such as recipes in assembling machines and container contents.
SPACE	Shoot enemy	Shoots at the nearest enemy to the cursor, or for some weapons shoots at the location of the cursor.
C	Shoot selected	Shoots at whatever you have selected, or for some weapons shoots at the location of the cursor.
Tab	Next weapon	Cycles to the next equipped weapon.
ENTER	Enter/Leave vehicle	Enters or exits a vehicle you're standing next to or driving.
Mouse wheel up (SHIFT + Mouse wheel up)	Zoom in
Mouse wheel down (SHIFT + Mouse wheel down)	Zoom out
GRAVE	Toggle chat (and Lua console)
SHIFT + Right mouse button	Copy entity settings	Copies settings from the selected entity. Note that for pasting to work, the source entity must still exist.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Paste entity settings	Pastes settings from the previous copied entity.

Advanced interaction

Key bindings

Key combination (Alternative)	Effect	Description
Left mouse button (CTRL + Left mouse button)	Select for blueprint	Select the entities for blueprinting, upgrading or deconstruction.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Select for cancel deconstruction	Select to cancel upgrading or deconstruction.
SHIFT + Mouse wheel up	Blueprint book next	When holding a blueprint book in the cursor, cycles the active blueprint to the next available blueprint.
SHIFT + Mouse wheel down	Blueprint book previous	When holding a blueprint book in the cursor, cycles the active blueprint to the previous available blueprint.
CTRL + f	Focus search
Numpad +	Larger tile building area	Increases the size of the placement area for tiles.
Numpad -	Smaller tile building area	Decreases the size of the placement area for tiles.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Remove pole cables	Removes wires from the selected electric pole, starting with electric wires and then circuit network wires.
CTRL + Left mouse button	Build with obstacle avoidance	Usable only for rail building. This is the same as ghost build mode, but trees, rocks and cliffs are avoided.
SHIFT	Add station modifier	Usable only in the locomotive GUI. Hold this modifier while clicking a station in the locomotive GUI minimap to add the station to the schedule.
CTRL	Temporary station modifier	Usable only in the locomotive GUI. Hold this modifier while clicking in the locomotive GUI minimap to quickly go to that location by adding a temporary station to the schedule.
Left mouse button	Drag map
Right mouse button	Place a tag on the map	Usable only in the map. Places an icon and/or text on the map.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Place a tag in chat	Usable only when the chat is open. Places a chat link to the selected item, recipe, map location, station or train.
CTRL + ALT  + Left mouse button	Ping a map location	Quickly create a map ping at the selected location and link it in the chat.
Mouse wheel up	Zoom into world	Usable only in the map. Zoom with ability to zoom into world view from map view.
Mouse wheel down	Zoom out of world	Usable only in the map. Zoom with ability to zoom into map view from world view.
SHIFT	Activate tooltip	Show the tooltip when the tooltip delay is set to a large value or "Never".

Crafting

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect	Description
Left mouse button	Craft 1	Usable only in the recipe GUI. Crafts 1 of a given recipe.
Right mouse button	Craft 5	Usable only in the recipe GUI. Crafts 5 of a given recipe.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Craft all	Usable only in the recipe GUI. Crafts as many as possible of a given recipe.
Left mouse button	Cancel crafting 1	Usable only in the crafting queue.
Right mouse button	Cancel crafting 5	Usable only in the crafting queue.
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Cancel crafting all	Usable only in the crafting queue.

Inventory

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect	Description
Left mouse button	Pick up/drop item stack
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Stack transfer	Transfers the selected stack to the other inventory.
CTRL + Left mouse button	Inventory transfer	Transfers all of the selected stack type to the other inventory. If an empty slot is clicked all items are transferred.
CTRL + Left mouse button	Fast entity transfer	Transfers the held stack into the selected entity or if the cursor is empty takes anything the entity has and transfers it to your player.
Right mouse button	Cursor split	Moves half the selected inventory slot into the cursor if empty. Places a single item from the cursor stack to the selected inventory slot when holding an item.
SHIFT + Right mouse button	Stack split	Transfers half of the selected stack to the other inventory.
CTRL + Right mouse button	Inventory split	Transfers half of all of the stacks (rounded up) of the selected stack type to the other inventory. If an empty slot is clicked half of all stacks are transferred.
CTRL + Right mouse button	Fast entity split	Transfers half of the held stack into the selected entity or if the cursor is empty takes half of anything the entity has and transfers it to your player.
Middle mouse button	Toggle filter	Create a filter for the selected inventory slot so only the selected item type can be placed in that slot.
Right mouse button	Open item's GUI

Quickbar

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect	Description
X	Rotate active quickbars
Not set	Next active quickbar	Selects the next quickbar for the top quickbar.
Not set	Previous active quickbar	Selects the previous quickbar for the top quickbar.
1	Shortcut 1
2	Shortcut 2
3	Shortcut 3
4	Shortcut 4
5	Shortcut 5
6	Shortcut 6
7	Shortcut 7
8	Shortcut 8
9	Shortcut 9
0	Shortcut 10
Not set	Secondary shortcut 1
Not set	Secondary shortcut 2
Not set	Secondary shortcut 3
Not set	Secondary shortcut 4
Not set	Secondary shortcut 5
Not set	Secondary shortcut 6
Not set	Secondary shortcut 7
Not set	Secondary shortcut 8
Not set	Secondary shortcut 9
Not set	Secondary shortcut 10
SHIFT + 1	Select quickbar 1
SHIFT + 2	Select quickbar 2
SHIFT + 3	Select quickbar 3
SHIFT + 4	Select quickbar 4
SHIFT + 5	Select quickbar 5
SHIFT + 6	Select quickbar 6
SHIFT + 7	Select quickbar 7
SHIFT + 8	Select quickbar 8
SHIFT + 9	Select quickbar 9
SHIFT + 0	Select quickbar 10

Tools

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect	Description
CTRL + C	Copy	Select an area of entities to be copied.
CTRL + X	Cut	Select an area of entities to be copied and marked for deconstruction.
CTRL + V	Paste	Paste the last copied entities.
SHIFT + Mouse wheel up	Next clipboard	Cycle the clipboard history while holding the paste tool.
SHIFT + Mouse wheel down	Previous clipboard	Cycle the clipboard history while holding the paste tool.
CTRL + Z	Undo	Undo some actions such as manual entity building/removal, placing of blueprints and usage of the deconstruction planner.
ALT + b	Make new blueprint
Not set	Make new blueprint book
ALT + d	Make new deconstruction planner
ALT + u	Make new upgrade planner
ALT + e	Toggle exoskeleton
ALT + r	Toggle personal roboport

Panels

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
ESC	Toggle menu
M	Toggle world map
T	Toggle technology screen
P	Toggle production statistics
K	Toggle kill statistics
L	Toggle logistic networks
B	Toggle blueprint library
SHIFT + SLASH	Toggle tips and tricks

Miscellaneous

Key bindings

Key combination (Alternative)	Effect	Description
SHIFT + SPACE	Pause game
TAB	Confirm message
BACKSPACE	Select previous technology	Usable only in the technology screen. Selects the technology you previously had selected.
BACKSPACE (Mouse button 4)	Select previous mod	Usable only in the mods GUI. Selects the mod you previously had selected.
G	Connect train	Connects the selected train or the train you're driving to any adjacent trains.
V	Disconnect train	Disconnects the selected rolling stock or the rolling stock you are in from the rest of the train.

Editor

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
Middle mouse button	Next variation
SHIFT + Middle mouse button	Previous variation
SHIFT + Middle mouse button	Clone item
CTRL + Middle mouse button	Delete item
Numpad 0	Toggle entity paused
Numpad .	Tick once
SHIFT + Numpad +	Increase game speed
SHIFT + Numpad -	Decrease game speed
SHIFT + Numpad *	Reset game speed to 1

Debug

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
F2	Toggle autoplace GUI
F3	Toggle atlas GUI
F4	Toggle debug settings GUI
F5	Toggle basic debug
F9	Reset zoom level
SHIFT + F9	Set zoom level to 2x
CTRL + F5	Toggle GUI debug
CTRL + F6	Toggle GUI style view
CTRL + F7	Toggle GUI shadows
CTRL + F8	Toggle GUI glows
CTRL + Numpad +	Increase UI scale
CTRL + Numpad -	Decrease UI scale
CTRL + Numpad 0	Reset UI scale to automatic

See also

• Some tips for players with disabilities
• Creating keybindings in mods
  • Keybinding prototype documentation