Sections
Getting started
Your first game, the controls, the interface, your first day and your first night.
Everything a new player needs, in the order you will need it: create a world, learn the keys, read the interface, make your first tools before the sun goes down.
Guide pages
How to play
- Getting startedFirst gameInstall the launcher, create your account and player, make a solo world (mode, terrain, seed) and step out at dawn on…
- Getting startedControlsEvery Openworld control with its default key: moving, digging, placing, inventory, chat and map. How to change a key,…
- Getting startedInterfaceRead the Openworld screen: health, food and air gauges, the item bar, the inventory in Survival and Creative, the…
- Getting startedFirst dayWhat to do from dawn to dusk in Openworld: punch a tree, make planks and sticks, craft wood then stone tools, then…
- Getting startedFirst nightWhat comes out at night in Openworld, how torches keep a base safe, how to shelter, how a bed skips the night, and…
- Getting startedProgress and wikiHow Openworld shows your progress: the path in your inventory, the main-path percentage and the advised next step, the…
Reference
The game's numbers
Default keys
| W | Move forward |
| S | Move back |
| A | Move left |
| D | Move right |
| Spacebar | Jump In flight: go up. In the air: open the paraglider. |
| Shift | Crouch Won’t fall off the edge. In flight: go down. |
| Ctrl | Sprint In free camera: move faster. |
| Spacebar ×2 | Fly (creative) |
| Left Click | Break · hit · shoot |
| Right Click | Place · use · eat Chests, doors, armor; aim with a weapon. |
| E | Inventory Also closes an open chest. |
| Wheel Down | Next item |
| Wheel Up | Previous item |
| Q | Drop an item One of what the hand holds; inventory open: of the slot under the mouse. |
| Ctrl + Q | Drop the stack |
| I | Item info The item under the mouse: its page of the wiki, every way to get it, everything it is used for. |
| Middle Click | Pick the aimed item Creative: puts what you aim at (a block, a piece, a device) in the hotbar. |
| 1 | Slot 1 |
| 2 | Slot 2 |
| 3 | Slot 3 |
| 4 | Slot 4 |
| 5 | Slot 5 |
| 6 | Slot 6 |
| 7 | Slot 7 |
| 8 | Slot 8 |
| 9 | Slot 9 |
| 0 | Slot 10 |
| - | Slot 11 |
| = | Slot 12 |
| V | Change view First person, behind, in front. |
| C | Free camera Look elsewhere while the player stays in place. |
| T | Chat |
| Tab | Player list While the key is held. |
| F3 | Debug information |
| F1 | Hide the interface |
| F5 | Survival / creative |
| M | Map Explored areas, checkpoints, space. |
| F8 | Report a bug A screenshot of the game, a description, sent to the team. |
| B | Ship bounds Space suit worn, in a ship: where you can build. |
| Esc | Pause, close whatever is open |
| / | Chat prefilled with a command |
| A | Left brake Held: the spiral dive. |
| D | Right brake |
| S | Both brakes Slow down, flare; held: the stall. |
| W | Speed bar |
| Shift | Big ears Descend fast, without speed. |
| Ctrl | Loop While the key is held. |
| Spacebar in the air | Open the paraglider |
| Spacebar ×2 | Release the wing |
| Wheel Up | Faster |
| Wheel Down | Slower |
| Wheel Up | Cinematic: smoother /gamemode cinematic; E opens its precise settings. |
| Wheel Down | Cinematic: sharper |
| Ctrl + Wheel Up | Cinematic: faster |
| Ctrl + Wheel Down | Cinematic: slower |
| Shift | More throttle While the key is held. |
| Ctrl | Less throttle |
| Z | Full throttle |
| X | Cut the throttle |
| W | Tilt forward As seen on the screen, from any view. |
| S | Tilt back |
| A | Tilt left |
| D | Tilt right |
| Spacebar | Engine on / off On the pad: lift-off. |
| P | Autopilot Flies to the destination by itself; steering takes the controls back. |
| G | Landing legs Fold or deploy. |
| F | Leave the cockpit |
| N | Destination Orbit, the Moon, a landing, back to Earth. |
| . | Time warp faster |
| , | Time warp slower |
| K | Ship: dock, leave |
| J | Ship: next dock |
| Up Arrow | Ship: nose up Seated at the pilot console, flying by hand. |
| Down Arrow | Ship: nose down |
| Left Arrow | Ship: turn left |
| Right Arrow | Ship: turn right |
| Q | Ship: roll left |
| E | Ship: roll right |
| V | Cockpit, behind, orbital map |
| Mouse · wheel | Look around · zoom behind and on the map |
| Left Click | Press the panel's button you aim at |
| Right Click | Central space dock in hand, in orbit: create your ship |
Sections
Other sections
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Survival
Health, food and calories, air, falls, difficulty, death and respawn.
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Mining & resources
Tools and their tiers, ores, veins, geodes, giant lodes, oil, liquids and buckets.
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Crafting & machines
The 3 × 3 grid, ingredient families, furnaces, smelting, alloys and every machine.
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Building
25 cm raw matter, 1 m blocks, shapes, doors and locks, the architect desk.
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Technology
Power, cables, pipes, conveyors, shafts, logic, sensors, radio and automation.
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Farming & animals
Crops, gathering, taming, breeding, shearing, milk, eggs and beehives.
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Creatures
The bestiary: every species, what it gives, how dangerous it is, and which ones you can tame and ride.
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World
Biomes, trees, terrain, the two world layouts, caves, weather, day and night.
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Combat & gear
Weapons, armor, projectiles, paraglider, wingsuit and base jump.
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Decoration
Furniture, textiles and dyes, lighting, ornaments and signs.
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Space
Rockets, the Moon and orbital stations, then the interplanetary ship, the nine worlds of the Solar System and the Sun.
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Multiplayer & servers
Solo worlds, LAN, the global network, servers, commands.