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 combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| W | Move up |
| D | Move right |
| A | Move left |
| S | Move down |
Basic interaction
| Key combination (Alternative) |
Effect | Description |
|---|---|---|
| E (Mouse button 4) |
Open character screen | |
| Left mouse button | Open object's GUI | |
| E (Mouse button 4) |
Confirm 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 | Flip blueprint horizontal | |
| G | Flip blueprint vertical | |
| 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 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. |
| Right mouse button | Reverse select | Activates Downgrade mode with the upgrade planner. |
| 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 + Left mouse button | Add train stop | Usable only in the locomotive GUI and map view. Hold this modifier while clicking a station in the locomotive GUI minimap or main map to add the station to the schedule. |
| CTRL + Left mouse button | Add temporary train stop | Usable only in the locomotive GUI and map view. Hold this modifier while clicking in the locomotive GUI minimap or main map to quickly go to that location by adding a temporary station to the schedule. |
| Left mouse button | Drag map | Usable only in 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 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 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 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 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 + L | Toggle personal logistics requests | |
| ALT + R | Toggle personal roboport |
Panels
| Key combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| F1 | Open character logistics |
| F2 | Open character crafting |
| ESC | Toggle menu |
| M | Toggle world map |
| T | Toggle technology screen |
| P | Toggle production statistics |
| L | Toggle logistic networks |
| B | Toggle blueprint library |
| O | Toggle train overview |
Miscellaneous
| 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. |
| F10 | Next player in replay | |
| CTRL + Left mouse button | Order to follow | Used with spidertron remote to force the connected spidertron follow the given target. |
Editor
| 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 | |
| SHIFT + Right mouse button | Set clone brush source | |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Set clone brush destination | |
| CTRL | Switch to surface # | Switches to the surface number pressed in combination with this hotkey: CTRL + 3 -> switches to surface 3. |
| SHIFT + Right mouse button | Remove scripting object |
Debug
| Key combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| CTRL + 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 + SHIFT + E | Open prototypes GUI |
| CTRL + SHIFT + F | Open prototype explorer GUI |
| CTRL + Numpad + | Increase UI scale |
| CTRL + Numpad - | Decrease UI scale |
| CTRL + Numpad 0 | Reset UI scale to automatic |