Keyboard and mouse
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| W A S D | Walk. Shift to sprint, Space to jump or swim up. |
| Mouse | Turns the camera. The wheel moves it closer and further. |
| Left click | Swing what you hold. A blow lands hardest once the weapon has recovered from the last. |
| Right click | Hold to raise your shield, if you carry one. It takes most of a blow from the front; you walk slowly behind it. |
| E | The one hand: talk, chop, mine, mount a horse, pick things up, take things down. |
| X | Next tool. 1–9 pick one directly. |
| F | Light or douse your torch. |
| M | Menu: inventory, journal, land, forge, shop, blueprints. |
| J | Map. |
| G | Show the land grid. |
| B / V | Buy the parcel you are standing on / give it up. |
| Tab | Build mode — the tools, on screen. |
| Q | Build the piece you have chosen. |
| O | Stuck in the scenery? Squeezes you free — and out of a building’s stonework onto the nearest open ground. |
| Enter | Chat. Enter again says it; Esc lets it go. |
| / | A command, typed into the chat — see below. |
| Esc | Release the mouse. Also cancels what you are shaping. |
The chat, and its commands
Lines rise from the bottom-left corner and fade after a while; the Chat button in that corner opens it for a mouse or a thumb. The chat also says, in grey, whenever somebody joins or leaves the world. Start a line with a slash and it is a command instead of something said:
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/spawn | The Landing, where everybody starts. |
/home | Your own doorstep, once you have rested at an inn. |
/back | Where you stood before your last hop. |
/workshop | The workshop’s free bench — or back from it. |
/stuck | The same as O. |
/help | The list, in the chat. |
Home, Back and Spawn are also buttons on the map page of the menu.
Controller
A pad works throughout, and it builds too.
| Control | Does |
|---|---|
| Left stick | Walk. Click it to sprint. |
| Right stick | Camera — and the pointer, once you are building. |
| Press right stick | Build mode on and off. |
| A | Jump. While building, it is the click. |
| X | The one hand, as E. |
| Shoulders | Change tool. While building, they change build tool. |
| Left trigger + right stick | While building, swings the view instead of moving the pointer. |
| Start | Menu. |