Game FAQ

So by this time, you've checked the Quickstart and have a basic understanding of what happens in game. But you've got more questions. Good thing you came here!

How do I speak on the radio?

Prefix your message with a ; eg. 'say ";Hello world!'.

If you have a job-specific headset such as engineering, medical or security you can speak on the job-specific channel by replacing ; with :h.

Cyborgs, the AI and humans with the correct implant can speak on the robot channel using :s.

If you are standing next to an intercom, you can use :i to speak through it.

I'm a traitor (or other antagonist), what do I do?

Remember that your objectives are just a suggestion. You can complete them if you want but it's fine to ignore your objectives completely and just murder people if you wish. However, it's probably best to adminhelp if you don't intend to do anything traitorous at all so that a new traitor can be appointed.

How do I open containers?

There are a few ways:

• Handheld containers: Drag the sprite to your character sprite. As mentioned further down, this is also how you loot other characters.
• Lockers and crates: Open and close by clicking on them. Standing on top of a locker while closing it will put you inside.
• Cigarette packs and pill bottles: Hold the item in one hand, click it with your other (empty) hand.
• Satchels: Special equipment that miners and botanists get. Drag an item (seed, fruit or ore) onto it and you will start pulling all items of that type adjacent to you into the satchel. Click the satchel to dump everything in it on your tile. Click a surface to dump it out there, or a suitable machine (the mining fabricator, mainly) to fill it with the contents.
  • Crates can be filled by dragging items on top of them, much like satchels.
• Sleepers, cryo chambers and genetic scanners accept people. Have one grabbed and click on the container to put them in, right-click it and select "Eject" to get them back out.
• The machines in Artlab accept large artifacts. Drag the artifact to the machine to put it in, drag from the machine to an adjacent tile to pull the artifact back out. You, the machine and the artifact all have to be adjacent for this to work.

How do I loot people or put items onto them?

Drag their sprite onto yours, click the item you want to remove. To add an item to them, hold the item in your active hand and click on the slot which the item fits in.

I was arrested, how do I remove handcuffs?

Click the resist button and wait a minute or so. Other people can also remove them for you using the method in the question above.

Why am I so slow?

The game sometimes slows down massively, making you (and everyone else) move at a pace of a few tiles every half minute. If it's not that, check the following:

• Are you wounded? That will slow you down.
• Are you cold? That will slow you down a lot. Being cold is also often caused by being near a hull breach, and hull breaches tend to slow down the game overall.
• Are you wearing some kind of emergency suit, or not wearing shoes? That'll do it.
• Did you accidentally click the "walk" button?

Are there any handy shortcut buttons?

• Alt+click to examine things. (AltGr also works.)
• Ctrl-click to pull things.

• Middle-click or Page Up will change your active hand.
• Page Down will "use" the thing in your active hand as if you clicked it.
• Home will drop any object in your active hand. (This also cancels any grabs made by that hand.)

• Ctrl-up/Ctrl-down will scroll through your command history.
• If you're wondering, End will make you walk southwest. No, you can't walk in the other three diagonal directions. Deal with it.

What do I do if my question isn't answered here?

Use the mentorhelp command in game. Mentors are community volunteers who know a lot and are happy to share their knowledge. If you run across a question in game, you can always use the mentorhelp command, and if a mentor or admin is on you can expect a quick and efficient answer. Mentorhelps also show up in the admin IRC so it's worth asking even if there are no mentors online, as someone might see it and answer.

Do not discuss anything identifying (such as your name or where you are) with your mentor. This is considered metagaming and is frowned upon. Acting on information about the current round gained via mentorhelp (such as the identity of antagonists) is not allowed.

For more details, see Mentorhelp.