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Adventure mode quick reference

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These are the keys used in Adventurer mode.

Key Bindings

  Movement
 
  • 82467913 - Move
  • Alt+(movement key) - Move carefully or enter dangerous terrain
  • Shift+(movement key) - Move in direction and upwards
  • Ctrl+(movement key) - Move in direction and downwards
  • < or Shift-5 (num lock off) - Ascend
  • > or Ctrl-5 (num lock off) - Descend
  • . - Wait for 10 instants
  • , - Wait for 1 instant
  • j - Jump. Sprint in movement options to run and jump.
  • h - Start climbing by grabbing hold of a wall or tree
  • s - Stand or lie down*
  • S - Movement Speed and Sneak settings
  • T - Fast Travel
  • m - Open movement preferences interface

*Use s to lay down, and then crawl past NPCs blocking your way.

  Combat
 
  • 82467913 - Random attack on adjacent creature
  • A - Attack an adjacent creature
  • f - Fire a projectile
  • t - Throw an item
  • C - Open combat preferences interface


  Environment
 
  • l - Look around
  • L - Search the nearby area very carefully (chance of discovering small creatures)
  • k - Talk to somebody
  • K - Display tracks
  • Alt-k - Describe tracks underfoot.
  • c - View companion interface
  • o - Describe odor.
  • O - Show strongest odor.
  • u - Interact with lever, building, furniture, or mechanism.
  • y - Assume or abandon a submissive position (yield).
  Items
 
  • i - Inventory
  • d - Drop an item
  • g - Grab/gather (pick up) an item
  • p - Put an item into a container
  • r - Remove an item you are wearing or from a container
  • w - Wear an item*
  • I - Interact with an object in inventory (unstick a weapon, refill waterskin etc)
  • x - Perform action (butcher, create item, spit at someone...)
  • b - Found a site and build
  • q - Sheathe your weapon

*If you want to get a specific item from your backpack to your hand (wield weapon), put current item into the backpack, and remove the other item from the backpack.

  Information
 
  • z - Status
  • Space - Advance/Clear Messages
  • a - View Announcements
  • Q - Adventure log (tasks, map, et cetera...)


  Food/Sleep
 
  • Z - Sleep*
  • e - Eat or drink something*

* obviously only applies if you hadn't already removed these dependencies from your character/s race/s to begin with

  Time/Weather
 
  • D - Date
  • P - Temperature
  • W - Weather and time of day


  Travel Keys
 
  • 82467913 - Move.
  • < or > - Move into/out of tunnel (respectively).
  • c - Start/stop cloud viewing.
  • d - Visit location.
  • h - Display/hide instructions
  • m - Display/hide map.
  • s - Sneak.
  • K - Display all nearby tracks and strongest odor.
  • Q - Adventure log/information.
  • Z - Sleep/wait.