Part of the 0 A.D. Gameplay Manual

Hotkeys

A list of the various default HotKeys available within the game.
For information about configuring your own HotKeys, refer to the bottom of the page.

Global

Alt + F4: Close the game, without confirmation.
Alt + Enter or Return: Toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.
Alt + F: Show/hide frame counter (FPS).
F11: Enable/disable real-time profiler (toggles through the displays of information).
Shift + F11: Save current profiler data to "logs/profile.txt".
F2: Take screenshot (in .png format, location is displayed in the top left of the GUI after the file has been saved, and can also be seen in the console/logs if you miss it there).
Shift + F2: Take huge screenshot (6400px by 4800px, in .bmp format, location is displayed in the top left of the GUI after the file has been saved, and can also be seen in the console/logs if you miss it there).
Tab, Alt + S: Switch to the next tab.
Shift + Tab, Alt + W: Switch to the previous tab.
Shift + Alt + H: Open/switch to the Civilization Info ("History") GUI
Shift + Alt + T: Open/switch to the Structure Tree

When entering text

Ctrl + C: Copy the selected text.
Ctrl + X: Cut the selected text and put it into clipboard.
Ctrl + V: Paste what's in the clipboard (it might be copied from text entered previously in-game or from another program).
Ctrl + Backspace: Delete the word to the left of the cursor.
Ctrl + Delete: Delete the word to the right of the cursor.
Ctrl + [left]: Move the cursor to the start of the word to the left of the cursor.
Ctrl + [right]: Move the cursor to the start of the word to the right of the cursor.
Tab: Autocomplete usernames.

In Game

Double Left Click: On unit: select all of your units of the same kind on the screen (even if they are different ranks).
Triple Left Click: On unit: select all of your units of the same kind and the same rank on the screen.
Alt + Double Left Click: On unit: select all your units of the same kind on the entire map (even if they are different ranks).
Alt + Triple Left Click: On unit: select all your units of the same kind and rank on the entire map.
F10: Open/close menu.
Shift + F5: Quicksave.
Shift + F8: Quickload.
F12: Show time elapsed since the beginning of the game.
ESC: Close all dialogs (chat, menu) or clear selected units.
Enter or Return: Open chat box/send chat message.
T: Send team chat.
L: Chat with the previously selected private chat partner.
Pause: Pause/resume the game.
Delete: Delete currently selected units/buildings.
Shift + Delete: Delete currently selected units/buildings without confirmation.
Ctrl + 1 (- 0): Create control group 1 from the selected unit/units/building/buildings.
1 (- 0): Select control group 1 (- 0).
Shift + 1 (- 0): Add control group 1 (- 0) to the current selection.
H: Stop (halt) the currently selected units.
Y: The unit will go back to work.
U: Unload the garrisoned units of the selected buildings.
/ (Slash): Select idle fighter.
Shift + /: Add idle fighter to selection.
Alt + /: Select all idle fighters.
. (Period): Select idle worker (including citizen soldiers).
Shift + .: Add idle worker to selection (including citizen soldiers).
Alt + .: Select all idle workers (including citizen soldiers).
\ (Backslash): Select idle unit.
Shift + \: Add idle unit to selection.
Alt + \: Select all idle units.
Z, X, C, V, B, N, M, ,: With training buildings selected. Add the 1st, 2nd, ... unit shown to the training queue for all the selected buildings.
PageUp: With units selected: highlights the units/buildings guarded by the selection.
PageDown: With units/buildings selected: highlights the units guarding the selection.
Tab: Toggle the display of all status bars (which would also show the building progress).
Ctrl + Tab: Toggle summary window.
Alt + L: Show the multiplayer lobby in a dialog window.
Ctrl + B: Toggle in-game barter/trade page.
Ctrl + P: Toggle in-game tutorial panel.

Modify mouse action

Ctrl + Right Click: On building: Garrison.
J + Right Click: On building: Repair.
P + Right Click: Patrol.
Alt + Any Order: Only one unit from the current selection receives the order, and is unselected.
Shift + Right Click or Left Click: When placing buildings: Queue the move/build/gather/etc order.
Shift + Left Click: When training units: Add units in batches (the batch size is 5 by default and can be changed in the options).
Shift + Left Click: On garrisoned unit/s: Ungarrison all units of the same type.
Shift + Left Click: On market barter icons: Buy/sell resources in increments of 500.
Shift + Left Click or Left Drag: Over unit on map: Add unit to selection.
Ctrl + Left Click or Left Drag: Over unit on map: Remove unit from selection.
Alt + Left Drag: Over units on map: Only select military units.
Alt + Y + Left Drag: Over units on map: Only select non-military units.
I + Left Drag: Over units on map: Only select idle units.
O + Left Drag: Over units on map: Only select wounded units.
Ctrl + Left Click: On unit/group icon with multiple units selected: Deselect.
Right Click: With a building/buildings selected: sets a rally point for units created/ungarrisoned from that building.
Right Click: On the selected building with a building/buildings selected: unsets the rally point of these buildings.
Right Drag: With units selected: when the mouse is released, the units will spread out on your drawn line. Same modification options like normal move command.
Ctrl + Right Click: On the selected building with a building/buildings selected: sets the rally point for units created from that building to garrison inside the building.
Ctrl + Right Click: With units selected:

• If the cursor is over an allied structure: Garrison.
  
• If the cursor is over a non-allied unit or building: Attack (instead of capture or gather).
  
• Otherwise: Attack-move (by default, enemies units and structures are targeted during Attack-move.
  To target only units, press also Q, i.e. Ctrl + Q + Right Click).
  
  

G + Right Click: On a unit/building with units selected: the selected units will guard/escort the unit/building.
Left Click: On a group icon: select the members of the group.
Double Left Click: On a group icon: focus the members of the group.
Right Click: On a group icon: disband the group.

Overlays and developer options

Alt + G: Hide/show the GUI.
Alt + D: Show/hide developer overlay (with developer options).
Alt + Shift + W: Toggle wireframe mode (press once to get wireframes overlaid over the textured models, twice to get just the wireframes colored by the textures, thrice to get back to normal textured mode).
Alt + Shift + S: Toggle unit silhouettes (might give a small performance boost).
Alt + Z: Hide/show sky.
Alt + V: Toggle aura range visualizations of selected units and structures.
Alt + B: Toggle heal range visualizations of selected units.
Space: If timewarp mode enabled (in the developer overlay), speed up the game.
Backspace: If timewarp mode enabled (in the developer overlay), go back to an earlier point in the game.
Alt + K: Show the 0 A.D. logo and copyright notice as a watermark for images.
~ or F9: Show/hide the Javascript console.

Camera manipulation

W or [up]: Pan screen up.
S or [down]: Pan screen down.
A or [left]: Pan screen left.
D or [right]: Pan screen right.
Ctrl + W or [up]: Rotate camera to look upward.
Ctrl + S or [down]: Rotate camera to look downward.
Ctrl + A or [left]: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain.
Ctrl + D or [right]: Rotate camera counter-clockwise around terrain.
Q: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain.
E: Rotate camera counter-clockwise around terrain.
Shift + Mouse Wheel Rotate Up: Rotate camera clockwise around terrain.
Shift + Mouse Wheel Rotate Down: Rotate camera counter-clockwise around terrain.
F: Follow the selected unit (move the camera to stop it from following the unit).
R: Reset camera zoom/rotation.
= or +: Zoom in (keep pressed for continuous zoom).
-: Zoom out (keep pressed for continuous zoom).
Alt + W: Toggle through wireframe modes.
Middle Mouse Button: Keep pressed and move the mouse to pan.

During Building Placement

[: Rotate building 15 degrees counter-clockwise.
]: Rotate building 15 degrees clockwise.
Left Drag: Rotate building using mouse (foundation will be placed on mouse release).

When loading a saved game

Delete: Delete the selected saved game, asking for confirmation.
Shift: Do not ask confirmation when deleting a saved game.

Custom HotKeys

You can configure custom HotKeys, but you have to edit the configuration file for that, as this functionality isn't available from within the game yet.

You can check out the ​default configuration to see how to configure HotKeys. Then copy the relevant section you want to change into ​your personal configuration file and adjusted the associated keys.