The commander’s guide
Controls and camera
Every Petalwar keyboard and mouse control: selection, orders, control groups, strategic zoom, camera movement and building commands.
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Controls
Every key below can be rebound in Options; the mouse buttons, Shift and Ctrl stay as they are.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| E | Select your engineers |
| I | Select your idle engineers |
| F | Select the army, aircraft and ships included |
| M | Move |
| Q | Attack-move (also Option+right-click) |
| T | Patrol, back and forth |
| H | Stop |
| G | Assist |
| U | Upgrade |
| X | Switch a building on or off |
| R | Repeat build: a factory queues each finished unit again |
| Y | Rally point |
| P | Pause (in a Skirmish) |
| = - | Game speed: half, normal, 1.5×, double or triple (in a Skirmish) |
| F10 | Play Together |
| Esc | Cancel a placement, order or selection, or open the menu |
- Select. Left-click selects and a double-click selects every unit of that type; left-drag draws a box and Shift adds to the selection.
- Order. Right-click, also on the minimap, to move, attack, assist or set a rally point. Shift queues orders, up to sixteen in a row.
- Control groups. Ctrl+1–9 stores a group, the number recalls it, and a second tap centres the camera on it.
- Camera. Your view looks from your base toward the enemy, so you push up the screen from any seat; on a south-facing seat the minimap turns with you and its compass names the top. Pan with a right or middle drag, a two-finger swipe on a trackpad, WASD, the arrow keys or the screen edge. Zoom towards the cursor with the wheel, a pinch, Shift and a two-finger scroll, or Page Up / Page Down.
- Strategic zoom. Zoom out past 900 metres and units and buildings turn into icons, so you can command the whole valley at once.
- Mine laying has no key: it is a switch in a mine layer’s command card.
- Demolish: Delete or Backspace twice on selected buildings. Refuel has no key either: leave aircraft idle over an air factory or a refuelling station. Jam radar is a button in a radar disruptor’s command card.
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