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The Pilot’s Book · First steps

Getting Started and Controls

Where you wake, what you carry and how to play on PC and phone.

Your first steps

You begin in the temple yard of Kestrelby, at level 1, with a club, a jacket, a bag, two cheeses and 20 gold. The yard is a protection zone: no creature comes in.

In your first hour, five tips appear once each: walking, attacking, picking up loot, talking to a merchant and using stairs. The rats in the village square are your first prey; then go down the grate north of the temple into the sewers, with a torch in hand.

To choose where to hunt, open the big map: each area shows its level range, in green when it suits you. See the hunting grounds.

On a computer

  • W, A, S, D or the arrow keys: walk. Your hero always faces the pointer, so you can walk sideways or backwards.
  • Left button (hold): attack towards the pointer. A click on an NPC, a body or a bag uses what is there.
  • Right button (hold): Sweep, a wide arc of a blow.
  • 1: Mend, a heal. 2: Fire Bolt, a ball of fire. 3: Weapon Throw, hurls your weapon. 4: Haste, run 30% faster for 10 seconds.
  • 5 and 6: use the item you dragged to those hotbar slots (a potion, food, a fishing rod or a rope).
  • Space: dodge, with two charges.
  • E: use whatever is nearest (a body, a door, stairs, a grate). F: pick up all the loot.
  • I inventory, K skills, N map, L quest log, O the Auto window, B turns Auto on and off.
  • Enter: chat. F1, F2, F3: offensive, balanced or defensive fighting. Esc: the menu, which pauses the game.
  • The mouse wheel zooms the camera in up to three times.

On a phone

The game runs in your phone’s browser, sideways or upright. Tap Play to begin.

The square of Kestrelby at noon, where you start
The square of Kestrelby at noon, where you start
  • Left thumb: a joystick that appears where you touch.
  • ATTACK: the biggest button, on the right. Hold it to attack; it aims at the creature you tapped or the nearest one.
  • DODGE: dodges, with two charges, like Space on a computer.
  • The SPELL buttons sit around ATTACK when the phone is sideways, and in a row when it is upright.
  • USE and LOOT appear only when they are needed. Holding LOOT loots every body in reach.
  • INV, AUTO and MENU sit by the minimap. A tap on AUTO starts the hunt; holding it opens the Auto window.
  • Tap the minimap to open the big map. Spread two fingers to zoom and drag to move.
  • To put an item on the hotbar, hold it in the inventory, slide it aside and drop it on To 5 or To 6.

In Settings you can make the interface bigger or hide the on-screen controls.