Controls
Controls are set by left-clicking them and then pressing the desired key combination. They can be unbound by right-clicking them.
Game
| Key combination | Effect | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Removes wires from the selected electric pole, starting with electric wires and then circuit network wires. |
| SHIFT + Right mouse button | Copy entity settings | Copies settings from the selected entity. Note the entity needs to keep existing for them to be pasted onto another entity. |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Paste entity settings | Pastes settings from the previous copied entity. |
| Left mouse button | Select for blueprint | |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Select for cancel deconstruction | |
| Left mouse button | Open object's GUI | |
| ALT | Show info | Toggles showing additional information about built entities such as recipes in assembling machines and container contents. |
| Tab | Next weapon | Cycles to the next available weapon. |
| Q | Clear cursor | Returns the item in the cursor stack to the players inventory. Also cancels wire placement and rail planning. |
| Q | 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. |
| Z | Drop item | |
| 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 | |
| SPACE | Shoot enemy | Shoots at the nearest enemy within range. |
| C | Shoot selected | Shoots at whatever you have selected or if nothing is selected shoots in the direction of the mouse. |
| ENTER | Enter/Leave vehicle | Enters or exits a vehicle you're driving/standing next to. |
| 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. |
| Mouse wheel up | Zoom in | |
| 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 | |
| ESC | Toggle menu | |
| P | Production statistics | |
| K | Kill statistics | |
| L | Logistic networks | |
| M | Toggle world map | |
| B | Blueprint library | |
| TAB | Confirm message | |
| G | Connect train | Connects the train you're driving to any adjacent trains. |
| V | Disconnect train | Disconnects the rolling stock you're in from the rest of the rolling stock in the train. |
| SHIFT + SPACE | Pause game | |
| 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. |
| CTRL + f | Focus item search | |
| BACKSPACE | Select previous technology | |
| CTRL + t | Toggle research progress bar. | |
| GRAVE | Toggle Lua console | |
| Left mouse button | Drag map | |
| Right mouse button | Place a tag on the map | |
| SHIFT + SLASH | Toggle tips and tricks |
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 opened entity or if your player GUI is open - transfers the selected stack between the different player inventories. |
| CTRL + Left mouse button | Inventory transfer | Transfers all of the selected stack type to the opened entity or if your player GUI is open - transfers all of the selected stack type between the different player inventories. 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. |
| 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 | 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 opened entity or if your player GUI is open - transfers half of the selected stack between the different player inventories. |
| CTRL + Right mouse button | Inventory split | Transfers half of all of the stacks (rounded up) of the selected stack type to the opened entity or if your player GUI is open - transfers half of all of the selected stack type between the different player inventories. If an empty slot is clicked all items 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. |
| X | Change active quickbar | |
| Right mouse button | Open item's GUI |
Crafting
| Key combination | Effect | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Left mouse button | Craft 1 | Crafts 1 of a given recipe. |
| Right mouse button | Craft 5 | Crafts 5 of a given recipe. |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Craft all | Crafts as many as possible of a given recipe. |
| Left mouse button | Cancel crafting 1 | |
| Right mouse button | Cancel crafting 5 | |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Cancel crafting all |
Editor
| 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 |
Debug
| Key combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| F3 | Toggle atlas GUI |
| F4 | Toggle debug settings GUI |
| F5 | Toggle basic debug |
| F6 | Toggle detailed debug |
| F7 | Toggle full debug |
| F9 | Reset zoom level |
| CTRL + F5 | Toggle GUI debug |
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Resetting your keybindings
To reset your keybindings, enter the control menu and find the reset keybinds button.