Controls
The Last Starship has a large number of keybinds and game controls that 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 - 50x game speed
In the save menu:
- Space - Sort save games into numeric/alphabetic order
Trade
- Ctrl + Left click - Buy/sell all stacks
Display
- - - Reduce UI size
- + - Increase UI size
- , / . - Rotate camera
- W A S D / ↑ ↓ ← → / 2 4 6 8 (numpad) - Pan camera
- Q / Scroll wheel up - Zoom camera in
- E / Scroll wheel down - Zoom camera out
- Y - Change background image
- [ / ] - Rotate background image
Ship
- U I O J K L - Fine control 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
- Right click - Set a destination
- Left click - Set a heading
- Page Up / Page Down - Main engine throttle
Debug
- J - Highlight buttons
- F6 - Open Sprite sheet editor