Controls
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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) |
Close window | |
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. |
Right mouse button | Mine | |
Left mouse button | Build | |
SHIFT + Left mouse button | Build ghost | |
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 | Show info | 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 | |
Mouse wheel up | Alternative zoom in | Zoom with ability to zoom into world view from map view. |
Mouse wheel down | Alternative zoom out | Zoom with ability to zoom into map view from world view. |
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 |
---|---|---|
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. |
Left mouse button | Drag map | |
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. |
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 train GUI. Hold this modifier while clicking a station in the train GUI minimap to add the station to the schedule. |
CTRL | Temporary station modifier | Usable only in the train GUI. Hold this modifier while clicking in the train GUI minimap to quickly go to that location by adding a temporary station to the schedule. |
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 to the chat. |
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 |
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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 |
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X | Rotate active quickbar | |
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 |
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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, building of blueprints, manual mining and usage of 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 combination | Effect |
---|---|
ESC | Toggle menu |
M | Toggle world map |
T | Open technology screen |
P | Production statistics |
K | Kill statistics |
L | Logistic networks |
B | Blueprint library |
SHIFT + SLASH | Toggle tips and tricks |
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. |
Editor
Key combination | Effect |
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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 |
Debug
Key combination | Effect |
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F3 | Toggle atlas GUI |
F2 | Toggle autoplace GUI |
F4 | Toggle debug settings GUI |
F5 | Toggle basic debug |
F9 | Reset zoom level |
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 |