Keyboard Controls

Movement

Using the mouse, left click and hold when the mouse pointer-arrow is green to move in that direction.

You can also move around using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

Melee Combat Controls

Left click on an enemy when the mouse pointer-arrow turns red to attack that enemy with your equipped melee weapon.

With the keyboard, an attack is performed by holding CTRL, then pressing the arrow key for the direction you wish to attack in.

Ranged Combat Controls

Attacking with a bow, crossbow or sling consitutes ranged combat. Ranged combat uses auto-targeting.

To attack:

• CTRL+left click
• press CTRL+UP

To change targets, use either:

• TAB & SHIFT+TAB (spellcasters must use this)
• CTRL+LEFT & CTRL+RIGHT (only with ranged weapon equipped)

Spellcasting Controls

Spells (and special abilities) can be bound to the function keys: press Shift+C, then use the arrow keys to highlight the spell you want to bind, then hit the F-key you want to bind to, followed by ESC. You can also bind spells by pressing shift-F-key.

Spellcasting and combat

• binding a spell to F7 will let you cast it with just the right mouse button
• binding a spell to F8 will let you cast it with CTRL+right mouse button

• binding a spell to F1 will let you cast it with SHIFT+right mouse button, and with SHIFT+arrow key
• binding a spell to F2 will let you cast it with ALT+right mouse button, and with SHIFT+arrow key
• binding a spell to F3 will let you cast it with CTRL+SHIFT
• binding a spell to F4 will let you cast it with SHIFT+ALT
• binding a spell to F5 will let you cast it with CTRL+ALT
• binding a spell to F6 will let you cast it with CTRL+SHIFT+ALT

A good mage technique might be to bind Greater Harm to F8 and Lightning to F7, then cast Lightning at range with right mouse button, and Greater Harm with CTRL+right mouse button when the enemies get close.

Keyboard Quick Reference

There is a Keyboard Quick Reference available that you can download and print out. It covers all of the commands mentioned below and is suitable for use on all three servers. GRAPHIC IS OUT OF DATE, as of EUO 1.2, although most commands are still the same.

Go and turn it into a mouse mat.

Keyboard command list

For best results, TURN NUM-LOCK OFF if you plan on using the keypad!

Key	Command
? (shift /)	show a brief help screen
arrow keys, numeric keypad	move
ctrl+arrow keys / keypad	attack with melee weapon or bare hands
shift+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F1
alt+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F2
shift+ctrl+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F3
shift+alt+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F4
ctrl+alt+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F5
shift+ctrl+alt+arrow keys / keypad	fast cast spell/ability bound to F6
ctrl+up	attack with ranged weapon
tab and shift+tab	cycle ranged targets
ctrl+left/right	cycle ranged targets
ctrl+a/s	cycle ranged targets
a	drink from a fountain, or activate a switch
b	buy item(s) (must be near merchant) (or withdraw items from bank) - or get a res from a healer
shift+b	sell item(s) (or deposit into bank)
c	cast spell (using runic name for spell-e.g., AN for cure poison)
shift+c	cast spell/ability from list
d (+dir)	drop item
e	eat (select from menu)
shift+e (+dir)	offer food to a creature
g (+dir)	get item
shift+g (+dir)	get all the items piled on one map-square
h	get all items within reach
shift+h	attempt to hide
i	ignite a torch
j (+dir)	jimmy (use lockpick)
shift+j (+dir)	attempt disarm (use probe)
k (+dir)	k-limb (use grapple)
shift+k	remap keyboard
l (+dir)	look at something
shift+l (el)	learn a spell from a tome
m	meditate
shift+m	toggle music on and off
ctrl+m	toggle combat messages and off
o (+dir)	open chest
p	select a potion to drink
shift+p	select a potion to use in a direction
q	quit the game
shift+q	force quit the game (no confirmation prompt)
r	ready armour and weapons
shift+r	read a scroll
ctrl+r	reply to the last person who sent you a private message
s (+dir)	search
t (+dir)	talk to an NPC
shift+t	toggle target crosshairs (default is on)
u	use an item in inventory
shift+u	use a item in inventory in direction
v	view inventory
ctrl+x	x-it raft, mount or ship
shift+x	extinguish light source
z and shift+z	cycles through stats and character info
` (same key as ~) remappable	use bandage on self
shift+` remappable	use bandage on target
! (shift 1) remappable	hit this when you die to respawn in the town you're bound to
@ (shift 2) remappable	level up (only applies to the PD server)
# (shift 3)	cycle through mana, energy (not used) and rage bars
= remappable	set price on an item on your player merchant (buy from him first)
- remappable	volume down
= remappable	volume up
space	enter a towne or dungeon, or climb a ladder
enter	send a local message (only players within a small radius will hear you) - use /g msg, /p msg & /me msg for global, party and emote messages
/	begin a 'slash' command
\	party chat (shortcut for /p)
shift+enter	global chat (shortcut for /g)
pgup, pgdn	scroll through past messages
end	reset message screen to last message
insert	when chatting, press insert to scroll back through the things you have previously said
pgup	when chatting, press pgup to scroll forward through the things you have previously said
home, end	when typing a message, send cursor to beginning or end of line
del, pgdn	when typing a message, move cursor left and right
0-9	use bound item (bind by pressing 0-9 when viewing, readying or using items)
F1-F8	cast a prebound fast spell
shift F1-F8	bind a spell to F1-F8 for fast casting (must type runic name for spell-e.g. AN for cure poison)
F9	use the last used item in the last used direction (see skills)
shift-F9	continue using the last item used
F10	cast last spell cast
F11	make last item
shift+F11	continue creating items
F12	toggle fullscreen / windowed modes

Remapping Keys - NEW!

Since not all keyboards are the same (eg ` and ~ are dead keys on some layouts) certain functions can be remapped to non-default keys.

To change your keyboard mappings, press shift+r (R). Press ESC at any stage to not change an existing mapping. You can use the shift and/or alt and/or ctrl keys in your mappings.

To reset your custom mappings to the default values, delete keymap.dat in your EUO folder.

Laptop diagonal movement

Additionally, diagonal movement can be achieved without a numpad with the following keys ...

NW  NE
[   ]

SW  SE
;   '

Slash Commands

There is an extended list of Slash Commands here.

Buying, selling and transferring items

While banking, buying, selling or transferring to your player merchant ...

• press space to transfer/buy/sell 1 unit
• press shift-space to transfer/buy/sell 10 units
• press a to transfer/sell all units

The exceptions to these are gold & ammo; ammo (and bullets) has a base unit of 100, so pressing shift-space when buying/transferring ammo will move 1000 units. Gold has a base unit of 1000. When moving gold, shift-space will move 10000.

Filtering item lists

When viewing, dropping, banking, or anything that uses the scrolling item list, press one of the following keys to filter to subsets of items:

w: weapons
W: wearables
s: shields
p: potions
u: usables
j: jewellry
f: food
A or v: show everything
U: unidentified
h: hats/head slot
t: torso slot
b: boots slot
l: legs slot
g: gloves
r: rings
n: neck
S: scrolls and tomes 

You can also search for items. Press / and type part of the name of an item to search for it in the list (press esc to exit)

eg:

• to show all your vamp items type /vamp
• to show all your dex items type /dex

The match works on the item's full name - not the list name. Eg some long names in the list are shortened (eg BR is blackrock) - type blackrock, not BR.