For those who are new players, This guide will help you go through all the controls in Mad Island.
Controls Guide
The game is in early access, so somethings may change, such as bugs on controls that I will report here. This will assume you have never played a game, especially and H game, before, so please only look at the “advanced” controls if you know how to play a game, as it goes over special mechanics.
Directions are given as north (up), west (left), south (down), and east (right), though east and west will be interchanged with right and left respecively, north and south will not be interchanged with up and down for reasons involving a specific late game item.
Your character will “face” or aim in whatever direction you last moved in, though your sprite (along with all sprites/characters) will only face left or right. This can get a little confusing, so the best thing to do is simply wait to see what an NPC moves towoards or to move yourself in the direction of whatever you want to face.
The entire game can be played with solely a mouse, but it is not recommended, as this style of play is very hard.
Left click is interact and confirm, allowing you to commit to an automatic action, such as chasing and attacking, mining a rock or chopping a tree down, harvesting an interactable, opening the interaction dialogue with friendly NPCs and cetrain structures, and more.
Right click is the block or secondary action button (secondary action isnt used except with a specific item).
Middle mouse, or the scroll wheel, will allow you to zoom in or out by scrolling up or down respectively, as well as adjust camera positioning by clicking and dragging with middle mouse, allowing you to pan around the screen, keeping your played character on screen.
The entire game can be played with the keyboard, though it is recommended to play with both keyboard and mouse.
W= move north at “speed”
A= move west at “speed”
S= move south at “speed”
D= move east at “speed”
W and S cancel eachother out, and A and D cancel eachother out. Pressing W and A, W and D, S and A, or S and D will move you North West, North East, South West, and South East respectively. Your maximum speed is “speed”, or roughly one meter at game start.
Q is the party interaft button, and must be held down to interact with it with a mouse. The Dance (0) emote will increase others love of you, and sometimes the morale will increase. The Dance (1) is a special dance that will increase the love of those who like you, and decrease the love of those who are at negative moral and less than 50 love or anyone with negative love. The intimidate (2) will decrease love and possibly morale, though imI have a hard time getting NPCs to interact with this one. The sit (3) allows you to sit down as you do in cutscenes, which can look funny sometimes, and I am uncertain any NPCs interact with this one.
E is the Auto button, allowing interaction with the nearest object of interest. Enemies are prioritized and clare chansed and attacked, but beyond that priority, ai do not know. You will be able to interact with crafting tables, though navigating with the keyboard is impossible. You will mine, cut, harvest, or chase and attack an animal if they are the nearest thing to you. You can open up NPCs interaction dialogue if they are friendly with you, though I do not believe you can navigate any of their dialogue boxes without clicking.
H is the quick discard button. hovering over an item in the inventory or equipement spaces will automatically take the item out of your inventory and set it out on the ground as though you dragged it out of your inventory. great for quickly undressing the dead or clearing your inventory of garbage, which is rare to have garbage.
All number keys link to the respective first 10 inventory slots you have.
R is the grab button, only useful to removing a single female combatant from battle with both enemies and allies, and is only recommended if they are alone in order to prevent damage to yourself or if you really want them and your allies might kill them otherwise.
F is the heavy attack button, allowing you to deal your heavy attack damage, starting at twice the time it takes to attack normally to deal twice as much damage. Some weapons have an alternative attack in place of a heavy attack or in addition to it, but these are mid and late game items.
Shifting while moving will make you run, moving significantly faster than before.
X is the run toggle fast select. this will make it so you always run or only run when shifting.
M will open your map, showing you where you are and where you have been. You must fill out the map yourself, so exploration is important.
Tab will open the settings menu, allowing you to easily see the different settings and interact with them with the mouse button.
X will work no matter the menu or cutscene, meaning when inputing cheats and commands, accidentally pressing while talking to an NPC, or when in inventory, it will toggle the run button.
Opening the Map with the console active will disable all movement except automove via E and mouse controls, disallowing any use of the console or recovery into it, as well as the inability to interact with your inventory outside of opening it.
Thanks to Baron Bloodsnow for their excellent guide; all credit belongs to their effort. If this guide helps you, please support and rate it here. Enjoy the game.
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