Controls

The Last Starship has a large number of keybinds and game controls that are not currently described in-game.

General

• Esc - Menu
• T - Toggle Tactical view
• M - Toggle Sector Map

Game speed

• Space bar - 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 bar - Sort save games into numeric/alphabetic order

Trade

• Ctrl + Left click - Buy/sell all stacks

Display

• - - Reduce UI size
• + - Increase UI size

• , or . - Rotate camera
• W A S D / Up Down Left Right / 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
• [ or ] - 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

Debug

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