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The world and its clansThe elves and the Ancient NanotechThe dark and the nightThe hamlet, towns and their peopleThe story: first hour, main arc, radiant questsItems with a storyCreatures of the worldThe Deep Tide
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every itemrecipes and stationscreatures, bosses, raids, spawnsbiomes, strata, tiersbuild piecesquests, dialogue hooks, hintsabilities and skillscontrols and settingsfarming, cooking, fishing, taming, vehicles, weather

Controls and settings

Printed from the live binding table (BINDING_DEFS, defaults of DEFAULT_BINDINGS). Keys can be rebound in Options; only Esc is locked. Pad bindings are fixed.

Movement

ActionIdKeysPad
Move forwardmoveForwardWLS_UP
Move backmoveBackSLS_DOWN
Move leftmoveLeftALS_LEFT
Move rightmoveRightDLS_RIGHT
Jump / glidejumpSpaceA
Sprint (hold)sprintShiftLS_PRESS
Walk togglewalkToggleCaps Lock
Crouch (hold to go prone)crouchCtrlB
DodgedodgeAltX_TAP

Combat

ActionIdKeysPad
Attack / drawprimaryLMBRT
Block / aim / braceadsRMBLT
Secondary attack / throw aimsecondaryMMBRB
Lock onlockOnMouse 4RS_PRESS
ReloadreloadRX
Swap weapon setweaponSwapXY

Abilities

ActionIdKeysPad
Ability 1ab1QLB+X
Ability 2ab2FLB+Y
Ability 3ab3GLB+B
Ability 4ab4TLB+A
BlessingblessingZLB+RB

Hotbar

ActionIdKeysPad
Hotbar 1hotbar11DPAD_LEFT
Hotbar 2hotbar22DPAD_UP
Hotbar 3hotbar33DPAD_RIGHT
Hotbar 4hotbar44DPAD_DOWN
Hotbar 5hotbar55LB+DPAD_LEFT
Hotbar 6hotbar66LB+DPAD_UP
Hotbar 7hotbar77LB+DPAD_RIGHT
Hotbar 8hotbar88LB+DPAD_DOWN

World

ActionIdKeysPad
Interact (tap: use, hold: second action)interactEX_HOLD
PingpingVDPAD_UP_HOLD

Interface

ActionIdKeysPad
InventoryinventoryTab / IBACK
MapmapMBACK_HOLD
Skills / spellbookskillsK
JournaljournalJ
Side panel: open / closesidePanelYRB_HOLD
ChatchatEnter
Menu / pausemenuEscSTART
Tiara: squad panel (Shift: next view level)tiaraL
Tiara: next view leveltiaraDetail

Building

ActionIdKeysPad
Rotate piece leftrotatePieceLeftWheel upLB
Rotate piece rightrotatePieceRightWheel downRB
Build menu (takes the Builder Mallet)buildB
Free placement (hold)buildFreeAltRS_PRESS

Settings

Per-device options, saved in the browser.

SettingDefaultRange or choices
mouseSensitivity10.1 to 5
invertYfalse
fovDeg6050 to 110
renderTierautoauto, igpu, dgpu
graphicsPresetautoauto, low, medium, high, ultra, custom
lightingQualityautoauto, low, medium, high, ultra
renderScale10.5 to 1
pixelSizeautoauto, 1, 2, 3, 4
showDamageNumbersfalse
cameraShake10 to 1
weaponMotion10 to 1
viewModethirdthird, first
hudScale10.5 to 2
colourblindHudfalse
chatEnabledtrue
tutorialHintstrue
skipTutorialfalse
masterVolume10 to 1
sfxVolume10 to 1
uiVolume0.80 to 1
ambienceVolume0.80 to 1
voiceVolume10 to 1
tiaraDetailminimalnone, minimal, full, panel
terrainPathmeshmesh, trace

World modifiers (host chooses when creating a world)

ModifierDefaultOptions
combatnormalveryEasy, easy, normal, hard, veryHard
deathPenaltynormalcasual, normal, hard, hardcore
resources10.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3
raidsnormaloff, fewer, normal, more
portalsnormalcasual, normal, hard
skillGain10.5, 1, 1.5, 2
corruptiontrue
partyTombstonesownerOnly
dayLengthS1800
seasonLengthDays6
cropWitheringfalse
lightningIgnitesBuildstrue
devToolsfalse
invisibilityVisualshimmershimmer, none
wardsfalse
fishStocktrue
gameModesurvivalsurvival, creative

Numbers every player should know

  • Move: walk 2, run 4, sprint 7 m/s (8 stamina/s), crouch 2, prone 1; swim 2.2, dive breath 30 s then 10 hp/s.
  • Pack: 10 x 5 grid (up to 7 rows with bags), 8 hotbar slots, 4 ability slots, 3 food slots, no carry weight.
  • Day: 30 minutes (options 20/30/45/60), season 6 days, a new world opens at 07:55 in a fair-weather window. A bed skips the night when every player is in bed.
  • Session: up to 10 players in the data (the squad design is 4 slots, see features); solo is an offline host; the pause only exists in solo.