Controls

This page was last verified for Vintage Story version 1.19.7.

Vintage Story primarily uses mouse and keyboard input for controls. All controls listed here are defaults. These can be changed via the in-game settings.

Toggleable options

Two general options affect the Sneak and Sprint keys and extended mouse-clicking, for example Shift + click.

Option	Effect
Toggle Sprint	On: Sprinting is toggled using the Sprint key - tap once to enable, and tap again to disable sprinting. Off: The Sprint key must be held down to run. (Note: if you find it uncomfortable holding down the Ctrl key at the same time as W for movement, Sprint can be rebound to a different key, for example Q or R, see also mouse modifiers description following.)
Mouse modifiers locked to Sneak/Sprint	On: (Default) Shift + mouseclick actions are achieved by holding the Sneak key while clicking. Ctrl + mouseclick actions are achieved by holding the Sprint key. If Sneak is bound to the Shift key, and Sprint is bound to the Ctrl key, then this may be just fine. But if you re-bound Sneak or Sprint to something different - especially if you reversed them so that the Shift key is now Sprint as some people like to do - then it may be weird to press keys other than Shift and Ctrl with the mouse buttons, in which case this setting should be turned Off... Off: The mouseclick modifiers (i.e. the Shift and Ctrl keys) can be bound totally separately from the Sneak and Sprint keys. This allows Sneak and Sprint to be reconfigured without affecting Shift and Ctrl for mouseclicks. This setting can also be used, for example, to change over to using the keyboard right hand side R Shift and R Ctrl keys for mouseclicks, which may help accessibility for people who use the mouse in their left hand.

List of controls

Mouse controls

See Settings/Mouse for additional mouse-related settings

All of these are found under the "Mouse" tab in the Settings menu.

Key	Action
	Primary mouse button
	Secondary mouse button
	Middle mouse

The primary interaction key allows players to:

• Break blocks
• Use equipped tools
• Attack with equipped weapons
• Draw back ranged weapons (when held)
• Select objects in menu screens, such as the inventory, character inventory, and creative inventory

The secondary interaction key allows players to:

• Place blocks
• Open storage containers
• Open firepit menus
• Eat equipped items (when held)
• Place items in a fruit press
• Remove items from a forge
• Pick up objects on the ground, such as sticks, loose stones, and placed wearable containers

When modified by the Sneak key (or the Shift-click modifier), the secondary interaction key allows players to:

• Place loose stones, flint and obsidian for knapping
• Place clay on the ground for clay forming
• Place items in a forge
• Place wearable containers on the ground
• Extract honeycomb on a placed bowl

When modified by the Run key (or the Ctrl-click modifier) and the Sneak key (or the Shift-click modifier), the secondary interaction key allows players to lean applicable items against a two-block high wall.

Movement controls

Key	Action
W	Move forwards
S	Move backwards
A	Move left
D	Move right
Shift	Sneak
Ctrl	Run
Space	Jump
G	Sit down

The "sneak" control is also used to activate certain items in the off-hand slot, such as shields .

Mouse click modifiers

Only visible if "Mouse modifiers locked to Sneak/Sprint" is set to off.

Key	Action
Shift	Shift-click. Changing this sets a different modifier key that must be held for any Shift + Mouse button interaction, typically referred to as "shift-click" (some people think of it as "sneak-click").
Ctrl	Ctrl-click. Changing this sets a different modifier key that must be held for any Ctrl + Mouse button interaction, typically referred to as "ctrl-click" (some people think of it as "sprint-click").

Actions

Key	Action
E	Open backpack and crafting inventory
C	Open character inventory
Q	Drop one item from the active hotbar slot
Ctrl + Q	Drop all items from the active hotbar slot
F	Select tool/clayforming mode. Allows players to switch between different tool modes, such as the prospecting pick modes, or switch between different clayforming modes.

In-game help and overlays

Key	Action
Ctrl + V	Show/hide coordinates and compass
Ctrl + B	Show/hide block and entity info overlay
Ctrl + N	Show/hide interaction info overlay
F6	Show/hide minimap

User interface

Key	Action
Esc	Pause game and Settings
F4	Show/hide HUD
F5	Camera toggle. Switches between first-person, third-person and overhead camera
-	Zoom out. Only applies in third-person camera mode
+	Zoom in. Only applies in third-person camera mode
Left Alt	Lock/unlock mouse cursor
T	Chat: begin typing
.	Chat: begin typing a client command. See List of client commands
/	Chat: begin typing a server command. See List of server commands
Tab	Chat: show/hide chat dialog
Ctrl + M	Open macro editor
F11	Toggle fullscreen mode
F12	Take screenshot. By default, screenshots are saved in C:\Users\user\Pictures\Vintagestory as a .png file
Ctrl + F12	Take mega screenshot. A mega screenshot is doubled in resolution compared to a regular screenshot, and the filesize can be around ten times larger.

Hotkeys

Key	Action
X	Swap left/right hand contents. Swaps items between the equipped hotbar slot and the off-hand slot.
0-9	Select hotbar slot
Ctrl + 1-4	Select backpack slot 1-4

Stacks of items

Key	Action
Shift+	Transfer the whole stack from the container to your inventory and vice versa
	Take half of the stack
Ctrl+scroll	Take items one by one from the stack

Creative mode

These only apply when playing in creative mode.

Key	Action
F1	-1 fly/move speed
F2	+1 fly/move speed
Shift + F1	-0.1 fly/move speed
Shift + F2	+0.1 fly/move speed
F3	Cycle fly mode. These are no flying, flying, and flying with no collision (noclip).
Space + Space	Fly mode on/off (double tap)
F4	Show/hide meta blocks

Debug and macros

Note that a number of Alt + F... keys may be overridden by the Nvidia GeForce Experience app, if you use it. You may wish to change the key bindings for these if you find they don't work.

Key	Action
Alt + F3	FPS graph
Ctrl + F3	Debug screen and FPS graph
Ctrl + F1	Reload world
Alt + F1	Reload shaders
Alt + F2	Reload textures
Alt + F8	Compact large object heap
Alt + F9	Recompose all dialogs
Alt + F10	Cycle dialog outline modes
Ctrl + F10	Toggle tick profiler

See also

• Creative mode
• Macro