Quickbar
The Quickbar is a user interface element designed to give quick access to commonly used items. It is always visible at the bottom of the screen. It shows between one and four bars of item slots from a maximum of ten total bars. Clicking any filled slot will give the player that item in their hand if it is in their inventory. If it is not, the game can be configured to instead provide an Entity ghost.
A shortcut to items, not an inventory
In previous versions of the game the Toolbelt was also an Inventory. The Quickbar is not. It can contain links to any item in the game, regardless of whether it is in the player's inventory. Items that are in the inventory will show a number underneath them, indicating the total quantity carried by the player. Items that are not present in the inventory will have no count and appear slightly dimmed.
Ten quickbars available
In total the player has 10 different quickbars they can use, providing space for up to 100 different items. To see all the quickbars at once, click the number against any visible quickbar.
Basic Usage
Setting the number of visible quickbars
The game defaults to showing two quickbars. This can be changed to between one and four visible at a time. To configure this go to Settings->Interface and change Active quickbars.
There is no research connected to the Quickbar; the player can access all quickbars from the beginning of the game.
What can be placed on a quickbar
- Any type of entity, including modded entities.
- Any Blueprint, Blueprint book, Deconstruction planner or Upgrade planner that you have in your inventory.
- Blueprints and Blueprint books directly from the blueprint library.
Adding and removing items
- Click Left mouse button on an empty slot to choose what goes in it from the Item Selection window.
- With an item in your hand you can click Left mouse button on any empty slot to place that item in that slot.
- To clear a filled slot, press Middle mouse button on it. You can now place a new item in that slot.
- On macOS the default binding is instead Command-Right-Click.
- You need to clear a slot before you can place a new item in it.
Accessing items
- Click with Left mouse button on any filled slot and, if you have that item in your inventory, you will get one stack in your hand.
- Click with Right mouse button to get half a stack.
- If you do not have an item in your inventory you can optionally receive an entity ghost. To enable this feature, select Pick ghost item if no items are available in Settings->Interface
Accessing multiple quickbars
With the mouse
You can click on the number next to any Quickbar to bring up the list of all 10 quickbars. If you then click the number against any other quickbar it will move into the position you originally selected.
With the keyboard
The game provides three different methods of manipulating the visible quickbars using the keyboard:
- Select quickbar shortcuts, defaulting to Shift-1 through Shift-0.
- Pressing one of these shortcuts will change the top visible quickbar to the bar selected by the shortcut.
- Next active quickbar and Previous active quickbar shortcuts. Not bound by default.
- Pressing Next active quickbar will change the top quickbar to the next highest number. For example if you have bar 3 in the top position, it will change to bar 4. If pressed when bar 10 is at the top, bar 1 is placed there.
- Pressing Previous active quickbar does the opposite; bar 3 would change to bar 2. If pressed when bar 1 is at the top, bar 10 is placed there.
- Rotate active quickbars, defaulting to X.
- This rotates all the visible quickbars down to the next position, and the bar at the bottom goes to the top. It does not change which quickbars are visible, only their relative positions.
Blueprints, blueprint books and planners on the quickbar
It is possible to pin blueprints, blueprint books, deconstruction planners and upgrade planners to the quickbar.
From the inventory
Any blueprint, blueprint book or planner currently in your inventory can be pinned to a quickbar slot. If the item in question is deleted or destroyed the quickbar link for it will be automatically removed. If you remove the item from your inventory, for example to place it in a chest, the quickbar link will remain but will not function until the blueprint returns to your inventory or the item is destroyed.
When on the quickbar you can Right mouse button on a blueprint, blueprint book or planner to open their edit windows in the same way as you can from the inventory.
Direct from the blueprint library
It is also possible to pin blueprints and blueprint books directly from your blueprint library. These appear differently to blueprints pinned from your inventory - they have a darker background, and no dotted border. There is no visual distinction between a blueprint book and a blueprint unless the tooltip is viewed.
The big advantage of pinning from the library is that you can have permanent quick access to the blueprints in question without needing to keep copies of them in your inventory. This saves inventory space for other purposes.
Clicking with Right mouse button on the quickbar link for a library blueprint or book will directly access the library copy. You can usually notice that this is the case because the blueprint library UI will also appear in the background, behind the UI for the item itself. Be careful when accessing library blueprints in this way - clicking the Delete button will permanently remove them from your library.
Selecting quickbar items with the keyboard
In addition to using the mouse to click on an item slot it is also possible to select items using keyboard shortcuts. Combined with the Select quickbar shortcuts for accessing specific bars, this allows for the possibility of selecting any one of 100 different items with at most two successive keyboard shortcuts.
Two sets of 10 hotkeys are provided - one set for accessing items on the top visible bar, the second set for the second visible bar.
Shortcut 1-10 (top bar)
- The keyboard shortcuts named Shortcut 1 to Shortcut 10 access the items on the top bar currently visible.
- The default bindings are 1 through 0 for items 1 to 10 respectively
Secondary Shortcut 1-10 (second bar)
- The keyboard shortcuts named Secondary Shortcut 1 to Secondary Shortcut 10 access the items on the second bar currently visible.
- These are not bound by default. An example binding would be Control-1 through Control-0
History
- 0.17.0:
- Introduced