Unity command reference manual
On Foot - Menu commands
The menu commands are DIFFERENT when you are in your suit, or your ship. The ship menu commands are prefixed with the word “ship” and covered in a later section.
“Display Utilities” - Opens the quick menu and opens to the Utilities option.
“Summon Vehicle” - Opens the quick menu and opens to the Summon Vehicles option.
“Recharge Equipment” - Opens the quick menu and opens to the Recharge Equipment option. “Emergency recharge” – Opens the quick menu and recharges the 1st item (with the lowest charge) “Display Gestures” - Opens the quick menu and opens to the Gestures option.
“Summon creature” – Opens the quick menu and goes to the creature menu
“Close Inventory” - Will just close the open inventory screen.
“Open Inventory” - Will open the inventory screen ie Exosuit, Starship and Multi-tool.
“Open/Close Main menu” - Will display the main menu, giving access to Discoveries, Journey, Controls and options.
“Next tab/Previous tab” - Cycles through the main screens on the main menu or inventory.
“Open the quick menu” - Brings up the Quick Menu. Note: This menu auto closes.
“Open the build menu” - Brings up the Build Menu.
“Close quick menu” or “Close build menu” - Will close the open menu.
“Next/Previous option” - Moves along the Quick Menu.
“Select it” - Will select the currently highlighted option.
Binding a hot key allows you to quickly access gestures, recharge a weapon
“Bind to hot key [1..10]” - Will bind the the selected quick menu option to a number key.
“Select hot key [1..10]” - Will activate the hot key option on the quick menu.
“Display Photo mode” - Opens the quick menu and opens to the Photo mode option.
“Navigate up” - Moves up a level when in the build menu.
“Navigate down” - Moves down a level when in the build menu.
“Place it”- Will attempt to place the selected build item.
“Rotate item clockwise” - Rotates build object 90 degrees left.
“Rotate item counter clockwise” - Rotates build object 90 degrees right.
“Next/Previous Page” - Moves down/up pages when talking to vendors.
“Change view” - Changes the camera view.
Equipment slots
“Select Equipment slot one” - Takes you to recharge slot one.
“Select Equipment slot two” - Takes you to recharge slot two.
“Select Equipment slot three” - Takes you to recharge slot three.
On foot action commands
Tools and Equipment
“Scan the area” or “Perform a scan”- Scans the nearby area identifying and highlighting essential resources which you can harvest, nearby objects & locations.
“Torch on/off” - Will turn the torch on or off.
“Activate scanner” - Will bring up the analysis scanner. Closes after 20 seconds. (Customisable timer)
“Deactivate scanner” - Will close the analysis scanner.
“Scan item” - Will scan the object highlighted.
“Zoom in” - Cycles through the zoom while in using the analysis scanner.
“Harvest resource” - Fires a 3 second burst of the mining laser - if active. (Customisable timer) “Mine resource” - Fires a 1.5 second burst of the mining laser - if active. (Customisable timer) “Collect the plant” – Picks up the plant you are currently pointing at
“Collect ALL the plants” – Extended length command for larger groups of plants
“Increase/decrease tool size” – Changes the tool size when using the Terrain Manipulator. “Maximum/minimum tool size” – Max/min the tool size when using the Terrain Manipulator. “Change tool shape” - Increases the tool size when using the Terrain Manipulator.
“Enter the ship/vehicle” - Will enter the nearest ship/vehicle highlighted.
“Board ship and Take off“ - Will enter the cockpit of your nearest ship and take off
“Pick up portable equipment” / “Pick up refinery”
“Start the refinery”
Movement
“start/stop running” – stretches your legs a bit if trying to get somewhere faster
Combat commands
“Cycle weapon mode” - Will cycle through a weapons different modes - if it has any.
“Switch weapon” - Will cycle through your weapons.
“Reload weapon” - Will reload the active weapon, if you have the ammo/resources.
“Melee attack” - Will try and punch the closet object.
“Launch grenade” - Will fire one grenade.
“Fire grenade salvo” - Will fire grenades for 5 seconds.
Jetpack control
“I’m falling” - Will fire your thrusters to try and soften your landing. “Two/Five/Seven/ten second jump” - longer jumps (equipment upgrade dependent) “Stop jetpack” - Will cancel the jetpack commands.
Talk to NPC’s
Lets you talk to NPC’s. Must be in range. You can also say “Excuse me” or “I want to sell something”, “I want to buy something” and “Can you help?” depending on the NPC
“Option 1” to “Option 5” – Selects the option from a conversation dialog box
“Next message page” and “Close message page” – On popup dialog boxes that need you to click for the next part of the message, or click to close the message, performs the action for you
Interact with the environment
“Interact with item/object/terminal” - Interacts with objects, terminals, picks up resources from the ground etc.
“Search container” - Will search the container you’re pointing at. “Search/inspect the beacon” – Activates and searches a beacon “Feed creature” - Will attempt to feed the creature, if in range.
Voice commands – “in ship/vehicle”
Flight
“Increase/Decrease speed” - Increases or decreases engine speed for 2 seconds. (Customisable timer)
“Engage afterburners” - Will activate the afterburners untill you cancel them.
“Disengage afterburners” - Will deactive the afterburners. “Engage pulse engine” - Will active the pulse engines. “Disengage pulse engine” - Will deactive the pulse engines. “Land the ship” - Will land the ship, terrain/height permitting.
“Land the ship and disembark” - Will land the ship and exit you from the ship, terrain/height permitting.
“Take off” - Will launch the ship.
“Board ship and Take off” - Will board the ship and take off.
“Engage Warp Drive” - Will engage the jump drive.
“Select location” - Selects your current location.
“Next/previous destination” - Selects the next/previous option on the destination menu.
Map commands
“Open/Close Galactic” - Opens or closes the Galactic map. (Only works in space) “Select/deselect system” - Will select/deselect the highlighted system while in the map. “Minimise/Expand System Info” - Opens or closes the system information window. “Select targeted system” - Zooms in on the selected system.
“Minimise/expand System info” - Closes system information panel. “Engage warp drive” - Will jump to the selected system if possible. “Select Way point”- Will set a way point if possible.
“Select location” - Returns to your view to your current location.
“Next/previous destination” -Selects the next/previous option on destination menu.
”Next/previous filter” - Selects the next filter on the galactic map.
Ship functions
“Exit ship/vehicle” - Will leave the ship/vehicle.
“Honk the horn” - Will honk the vehicles horn. (Exocraft only)
“Next weapon” - Will cycle through your weapons.
“Scan the planet” - Will scan the highlighted planet. (Only works in space)
“Scan the system” - Will scan the system.
“Tag the target” - Marks the selected target.
“Next Target” - Will change to the next target.
“Previous Target” - Will change to the previous target.
“Next filter” - Selects the next filter on the galactic map.
“Previous filter” - Selects the previous filter on the galactic map.
Ship menu commands
ALL ship menu commands are prefixed with the word “ship”
“Ship summon anomaly”
“Ship utilities”
“Ship summon freighter” “Ship recharge equipment” “Ship emergency recharge” “Answer incoming call”