Overview
The client ships with one set of default keys. Most of them are actions you can move to another key in the keybind panel (/keybinds, or Open keybinds on the Controls tab of /settings); a few are fixed because the game or the chat window depends on them. Bindings are stored on your account, not the character, so every character you play shares them, and a reset button puts everything back to the defaults on this page.
Keys are listed as they appear on a UK or US keyboard. If a key on this page does nothing for you, check the panel first: a key that is already used by another action is refused with a message naming the action that has it, and a row that shares its key with something else shows a warning.
The panel groups the actions under General, Wheels and Vehicle (Lock Vehicle / Property sits in the Vehicle group). A search box finds an action by name or by key, a row you have changed shows its default next to it, and "Clear this key" leaves an action with no key at all.
Table
Actions you can rebind. The Panel name column is what the Controls tab calls the action.
Key | Panel name | What it does |
|---|---|---|
I | Open Inventory | Opens your inventory. Also |
L | Lock Vehicle / Property | Locks or unlocks the nearest vehicle you hold keys for, or the property door you are standing at. |
K | Toggle Engine | Starts or stops the engine of the vehicle you are driving. |
E | Interact | The general use key: doors, markers, shop counters, pumps, prompts on screen. Where two prompts overlap, E opens a small "Choose an action" menu so you can click the one you want. |
Left Alt | Target | Holds the targeting eye for context actions on people, vehicles and objects. |
M | Open Phone | Opens and closes your phone. |
F3 | Toggle Cursor | Frees the mouse so you can click on the phone, panels and menus without closing them. |
C | Clothing Store | Opens the clothing menu when you are inside a clothing shop. |
F | Cancel Action / Animation | Stops the current emote, animation or scripted action. |
Left | Left Indicator | Vehicle left indicator. |
Right | Right Indicator | Vehicle right indicator. |
Down | Hazard Lights | Vehicle hazard lights. |
H | Vehicle Lights | Toggles high beams while driving. At a fuel pump, H opens the kiosk. |
V | Heli Vision Mode | Cycles the helicopter camera between normal, night vision and thermal. |
G | Heli Spotlight / Enter Vehicle | Toggles the helicopter spotlight; on foot, some vehicles use it as the enter key. |
H | Heli Autopilot | Holds the helicopter position from the camera view. Shares the key with Vehicle Lights because the two never apply at the same time. |
Backspace | Exit Heli Camera | Leaves the helicopter camera. |
F2 | Support | Opens the support centre with the report form, your open reports and the command list. |
F6 | Open MDC | Opens the Mobile Data Computer for on-duty law enforcement. |
Tab | Weapon Wheel | The weapon wheel. |
U | Action Wheel | The radial action wheel: emotes, vehicle controls, quick actions. You choose what sits on each spoke in the Controls tab. |
unbound | Interaction Wheel | A second wheel for interactions, unbound by default so it does not clash with anything. Give it a key if you want it. |
H | Hunting tracking mode | Toggles tracking mode while you are on a hunting ground with a licence. |
F1 | Open the wiki | Opens the wiki reader in game: search, the page tree and every published guide, without leaving the server. |
O | Player list | The player list. |
F10 | Open Games Night | Hides or brings back your Games Night controller while you are playing a party game on a TV. |
Fixed keys. These are the same for everyone and cannot be given to another action.
Key | What it does |
|---|---|
T | Opens the chat input. Reserved. |
Enter | Sends the chat line, confirms a prompt. Reserved. |
Escape | Closes the open panel, the phone or the chat input. Reserved. |
Backspace | Cancels or steps back. |
F7 | Screenshot mode: hides the HUD, chat, nametags, prompts and the minimap until you press it again. Prompts you switched off in |
Y and N | Accept or decline when someone offers to help you up after you go down. |
Activity keys. The Fixed keys tab of the keybind panel lists keys that belong to an activity. They cannot be changed and only do anything while that activity is on screen.
Key | What it does | When |
|---|---|---|
Space | Continue field dressing | Hunting |
H | Follow the trail | Hunting, while tracking |
G | Advance the hunting tutorial | Hunting, the first time |
Q and E | Rotate what you are placing | Placing a stand or feeder |
K | Toggle the sonar | On a fishing boat |
G | Drop or haul a pot | On a fishing boat |
V, G and H | Camera vision mode, spotlight and hold position | Helicopter camera |
G | Pick up a casing | Forensics |
H | Ask the driver to stop | Riding as a passenger |
X | Cancel | Building a race track |
Binding a chat command to a key
The keybind panel has a second tab, Command Bindings, for commands rather than actions. Add Binding, type the command without the slash (for example engine, pinv or setstation 17) and press the key you want. The command runs exactly as if you had typed it, so anything that works in chat works on a key, arguments included. The only keys you cannot use are the reserved ones above and anything already taken by an action.
Command bindings are handy for things you type twenty times an evening: a /me you use in every scene, /lock on a key nearer your hand, /wiki on a spare function key.
Related commands
/keybindsEveryoneOpen keybind customization UI.
/settingsEveryoneOpen player settings UI.
/helpEveryoneOpen the wiki (same as F1).
/wikiEveryoneSearch the Roleplay Project wiki or open the F1 reader
See also
Settings and keybinds for the short tour of the settings panel
Radio and settings for every setting, tab by tab
Command reference for every command you can put on a key