Controls

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

General

• 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

Trade

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

Display

• - - 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

Ship

• 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

Construction

• Right click - Remove object

While placing hull or objects:

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

Tactical view

• 🖱️ Left click - Set a heading
• 🖱️ Right click - Set a destination
• Page Up / Page Down - Main engine throttle

Debug

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