PILOT REFERENCE
Spaceflight Controls
One primary action and one interaction key across flight and planets. These are defaults; the Keys page shows your remapped controls.
At a glance
- Movement
- W/S thrust and brake; A/D strafe; R/F rise and descend
- Steering
- Mouse or arrow keys; Shift boosts
- Banking
- Alt+Q / Alt+E
- Use / dock / land
- E
- Primary tool
- Hold left mouse to fire or extract from a selected resource
- Target
- Right mouse or T selects beneath the reticle
- Cursor
- Ctrl releases the flight cursor
- Menu / back
- Native Escape; itch F8
- Legacy aliases
- Optional G for Use and M for mining
Field notes
Peaceful NPCs reject combat locks unless already hostile or open warfare permits a rival outside Sol. Right-click also selects normal asteroids, resources and stations. Menus and text entry prevent clicks from firing through into the scene.
Reference and coverage
Experimental 0.41.0-experimental.1; compiled game catalog and current gameplay source
Shared control and industry guidance covers the approved parity/fabrication update. Platform menu keys and launch/save integration remain different.