# Controls

> Every key in Zombye.

Zombye is played with a keyboard and mouse. The game window takes keyboard focus while it runs.

## Moving

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| **W A S D** | Walk |
| **Shift** (held) | Run. Fast and loud, and it uses up endurance. |
| **C** | Sneak on or off. Slow, quiet, and much harder to see. |
| **Mouse** | Face where the pointer is. Zombies only see you in a cone; so do you. |
| **Mouse wheel** | Zoom in and out |

Walk into an open or broken window to climb through it. Climbing is slow, and a broken one may cut you.

## Fighting

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Left mouse** | Swing what you hold, or punch with bare hands |
| **Space** | Shove the zombies in front of you. With a downed zombie at your feet, stomp it instead. |

Swings cost endurance. Below half endurance they get slower and weaker, and when it runs out you're winded and can't
run until you get some back.

## Doors, windows and things

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| **F** | Open or shut the door or window you face |
| **G** | Smash the window you face (loud; bare hands may get cut) |
| **E** | Pick up the item you face. With nothing on the floor in reach, search the cupboard, fridge or wardrobe you face. |
| **Tab** or **I** | The inventory panel: your hands, bags, what you wear, the open container and the floor. Click to move things, Alt-click (Option-click on a Mac) to move one, Ctrl-click to pick several, Shift-click to pick a range or "pick all" for a whole column, then send them all with the move-to row over the columns; `/` searches by name and the category chips (several at once) narrow the lists; right-click to equip, wear, eat or use. The Make list at the bottom is crafting. |
| **H** | The health panel: your wounds, and the treatments you can do with what you carry |
| **K** | The skills panel |
| **B** | Lie down to sleep (B again, or a movement key, to get up) |
| **Enter** | The chat line: type, **Tab** picks whisper, talk or shout, **Enter** says it, **Esc** drops it. Survivors near you hear it (talk carries 12 m, a shout 40 m, a whisper 3 m; much less through a wall, and muffled). So do zombies. |
| **V** | Wave |
| **U** | Hands up (U again lowers them) |
| **P** | Point the way you face |

## The game

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| **F5** | Quicksave |
| **F9** | Quickload |
| **M** | Mute |
| **R** (dead) | Start a new run in the same town |
| **Q** or **Esc** (dead) | Quit |

Closing the window autosaves. `--load autosave` starts from it next time.

## Developer keys

These are for testing and screenshots, not for playing fair.

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| **F1** | God mode: you take no damage |
| **F2** | Ignored: zombies can't see or hear you |
| **F3** | The light preview: a slider for the hour the light is drawn at |
| **T** | Skip an hour |
| **Z** | Spawn more zombies |
| **,** and **.** | Turn the camera a quarter turn (with `--rotate`) |