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Default Keyboard Layout in Spring
Note: this page is currently incomplete
| Mouse Button 1 (left) | Select unit/s (also perform selected order, eg: build selected building) |
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| Mouse Button 2 (right) | Default order. Depending on target: - Move. (drag mouse for line formation) - Attack / Repair / Reclaim. (drag to target an area) - Build incomplete building or unit. - Guard. - If an order has been manually selected/hotkeyed, click to cancel. |
| Scroll Wheel | Zoom in/out |
| Mouse Button 3 (click scroll wheel) |
Move to point on minimap
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| L | (Duplicates middle click functionality) |
| SHIFT + (Mouse 1 or 2) |
- Queue order. Queue as many as you like.
(shift+drag to queue a line of buildings) |
| CTRL + Mouse 1 | Remove unit/s from group |
| [ and ] | Rotate building (first select something to build and then rotate) |
| A | Attack (attack unit/ground) |
| M | Move |
| F | Fight (as move, but units will stop to kill enemies along the way) |
| G | Guard |
| P | Patrol. (Moves back and forth between current position and patrol position) |
| S | Stop |
| E | Reclaim |
| R | Repair |
| D | D-Gun |
| X | On/Off. (as the unit on/off button) |
| K | Cloak on/off |
| CTRL + D | Self Destruct |
| SHIFT + W | Queue 'wait' command |
| W | Stop waiting |
| CTRL + number (1-0) | Assign group |
| number (1-0) | Select group |
| Double Click | Select all units of targetted type in view |
| CTRL + Z | Select all units of selected type on map. |
| CTRL + A | Select all units on map. |
| ALT + SHIFT (+ mouse click & drag) | Build a rectangular area of buildings. |
| SHIFT (+ mouse click & drag) | Build a line of buildings. |
| SHIFT + CTRL (+ mouse click & drag) | Build a line of buildings with fixed angles of 90 degrees. |
| CTRL + SHIFT (+ mouse click) | Build a circular area of buildings around some other building (must point on the building with mouse cursor). |
| TAB | Zooms out to see the whole map. |
| F1 | Shows heightmap |
| F2 | Shows areas where you can build (if the building what you want to build is selected) |
| F3 | Goes to the latest spot of action (also goes to the latest markers) |
| F4 | Shows metalmap |
| F5 | Hides User Interface |
| CTRL+F5 | Changes to a cooler camera mode |
| F6 | Turns sounds off (currently a bug causes sounds be on when zoomed in the spot where sound comes from (for example an explosion)) |
| F11 | Show list of Widgets, use to enable/disable Widgets, press ESC to close it. |
Multiplayer Communication | |
| ENTER | Chat |
| ALT + ENTER | Allied chat |
| SHIFT + ENTER | Spectator chat |
| CTRL + ENTER | Return to global chat |
| ` + Mouse Button 1 | Draw on map. (On a UK/US keyboard ` is to the key left of 1. The same functionality is mapped to the \ key) |
| ` + Mouse Button 2 | Erase markers and drawings |
| ` + Mouse Button 3 | Place marker |
| ` + Double Click | Place marker with annotation |
Changing bindings
Many keyboard bindings can be changed in SpringSettings (hotkeys tab). In case that doesn't work, this forum thread might be helpful.