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.
Game
| Key combination (Alternative) |
Effect | Description |
|---|---|---|
| W | Move up | |
| D | Move right | |
| A | Move left | |
| S | Move down | |
| E (Mouse button 4) |
Open character screen | |
| T | Open technology screen | |
| E (Mouse button 4) |
Close window | |
| Right mouse button | Mine | |
| Left mouse button | Build | |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Build ghost | |
| 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 | 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. |
| CTRL + X | Cut | |
| CTRL + C | Copy | |
| CTRL + V | Paste | |
| CTRL + Z | Undo | |
| Left mouse button (CTRL + 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. |
| SHIFT | Activate tooltip | |
| Q (Mouse button 5) |
Clear cursor | Returns the item in the cursor stack to the players 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. |
| 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. |
| SHIFT + Mouse wheel up | Next clipboard | |
| SHIFT + Mouse wheel down | Previous clipboard | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| BACKSPACE (Mouse button 4) |
Select previous mod | |
| GRAVE | Toggle Lua console | |
| Left mouse button | Drag map | |
| Right mouse button | Place a tag on the map | |
| SHIFT + Left mouse button | Place a tag in chat | |
| CTRL + ALT + Left mouse button | Ping a map location | |
| SHIFT + SLASH | Toggle tips and tricks | |
| SHIFT | Add station modifier | Usable in a train's map - shift-click a station to add a stop to the schedule |
| CTRL | Temporary station modifier | Usable in a train's map - ctrl-click near a rail to add a temporary stop |
| 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 |
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. |
| 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. |
| Middle mouse button | Toggle filter | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |