Controls

Useful Key Bindings

There are a lot more key binding, this lists only the most important!

All the keys and key combinations can be found in the controls of the game option! Please look into that for further commands!

Key Bindings

Key Combination	Effect
ALT	Show extra info
T	Open Technology screen
Q	Next weapon OR clear cursor
R	Rotate entity
Z	Drop item on ground
F	Pick up items from ground
SPACE	Shoot targets enemy
C	Shoot towards cursor
ENTER	Enter/Exit vehicle
X	Change active tollbar
P	Production statistics (exit via esc or P)
M	World map (exit via esc or M)
G	Connect train (with wagon)
V	Disconnect last train wagon
SHIFT+SPACE	Pause game
Tilde	Open console
SHIFT+LMB	Transfer a stack between inventories
CTRL+LMB	Transfer all of an item to inventory
MiddleMouse	set filter on toolbelt
SHIFT+RMB	split stack of item in half
CTRL+LMB	Fetch all items into inventory without opening device
SHIFT+RMB	Set selected production building manufacturing as copy
SHIFT+LMB	places copy on other production building of same kind

There are some extra things you can do that are hard to explain in that table. Things like placing items in an inventory without opening it is a CTRL+LMB with the item in hand and clicking on the inventory. You can do the same thing with splitting a stack from an item in hand straight into an inventory. Experiment with it!

Crafting is another thing. LMB crafts 1, RMB crafts 5 and SHIFT+LMB crafts that maximum you are able to built.

List of all keyboard bindings

Game

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
W	Move up
D	Move right
A	Move left
S	Move down
E	Open character screen
T	Open technology screen
E	Close window
Right mouse button	Mine
Left mouse button	Build
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Build ghost
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Remove pole cables
SHIFT + Right mouse button	Copy entity settings
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Paste entity settings
Left mouse button	Select for Blueprint
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Select for cancel Deconstruction
Left mouse button	Open object's GUI
ALT	Show info
Q	Next weapon
Q	Clear cursor
Z	Drop item
R	Rotate
F	Pick up items on the ground
SPACE	Shoot enemy
C	Shoot selected
ENTER	Enter/Leave vehicle
SHIFT + Mouse wheel up	Blueprint book next
SHIFT + Mouse wheel down	Blueprint book previous
Mouse wheel up	Zoom in
Mouse wheel down	Zoom out
ESC	Toggle menu
P	Production statistics
M	Toggle world map
TAB	Confirm message
G	Connect train
V	Disconnect train
SHIFT + SPACE	Pause game
Numpad +	Larger terrain building area
Numpad -	Smaller terrain building area
CTRL + f	Focus item search
GRAVE	Toggle Lua console
Left mouse button	Drag map

Inventory

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
Left mouse button	Pick up item
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Stack transfer
CTRL + Left mouse button	Inventory transfer
CTRL + Left mouse button	Fast entity transfer
Middle mouse button	Toggle filter
1	Quickbar 1
2	Quickbar 2
3	Quickbar 3
4	Quickbar 4
5	Quickbar 5
SHIFT + 1	Quickbar 6
SHIFT + 2	Quickbar 7
SHIFT + 3	Quickbar 8
SHIFT + 4	Quickbar 9
SHIFT + 5	Quickbar 10
Right mouse button	Cursor split
SHIFT + Right mouse button	Stack split
CTRL + Right mouse button	Inventory split
CTRL + Right mouse button	Fast entity split
X	Change active quickbar

Crafting

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
Left mouse button	Craft 1
Right mouse button	Craft 5
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Craft all
Left mouse button	Cancel crafting 1
Right mouse button	Cancel crafting 5
SHIFT + Left mouse button	Cancel crafting all

Editor

Key bindings

Key combination	Effect
Left mouse button	Primary action
Right mouse button	Secondary action
X	Remove entity
T	Edit entity details
F8	Show all difficulties
F9	Show easy difficulty
F10	Show normal difficulty
F11	Show hard difficulty

Reset your keybindings

Show into Application Directory: you need to delete the configuration-file, at game start a new is created with the default settings.

See also

• Some tips for players with disabilities