Controls

The Last Starship has many keybinds and game controls, some of which are not currently described in-game.

GeneralEdit

  • Esc - Toggle Main Menu or close currently open window
  • T - Toggle Tactical view
  • M - Toggle Sector Map
  • Home - Re-center view on current ship


Game speed:

  • Space - Toggle game speed to/from slowest
  • 1 - 5 - 1-5x game speed
  • 6 - 10x game speed
  • 7 - 20x game speed
  • 8 - 30x game speed
  • 9 - 40x game speed
  • 0 - 0.5x game speed


In the save menu:

  • Space - Sort save games into numeric/alphabetic order

TradeEdit

  • Ctrl + 🖱️ Left click - Buy/sell all stacks
  • Shift + 🖱️ Left click - Buy/sell stack of 5

DisplayEdit

  • - - Reduce UI size
  • + - Increase UI size
  • , / . - Rotate camera
  • W A S D / / 2 4 6 8 (numpad) / 🖱️ Click and drag scroll wheel - Pan camera
  • Q / 🖱️ Scroll wheel up - Zoom camera in
  • E / 🖱️ Scroll wheel down - Zoom camera out
  • Y - Change background image
  • [ / ] - Rotate background image

ShipEdit

  • Page Up / Page Down - Main engine throttle
  • I J K L - Fine control directional movement of the ship with Thrusters
  • U O - Fine control rotatation of the ship with Thrusters
  • 🖱️ Left click / 🖱️ Right click - Increase/decrease power to subsystems in Powergrid window

ConstructionEdit

  • Right click - Remove object


While placing hull or objects:

  • R - Rotate the cursor (cycles corner pieces for hull)

Tactical viewEdit

Main article: Tactical
  • 🖱️ Left click - Set a heading
  • 🖱️ Right click - Set a destination

DebugEdit

  • J - Highlight buttons
  • F6 - Open Sprite sheet editor