Guide - General Tips

No spoilers here: just some general gameplay tips that will enhance your Forever Skies journey.

### Useful (default) Keybinds

> F - turns flashlight on/off
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> left control - crouch
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> space - jump
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> Look at ship's catwalk and press/hold E - option to climb aboard your ship if it's a bit too high to jump onto
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> R - hold while placing an item to rotate it with the mouse
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> R - while steering the ship locks the ship's speed at it's current setting, so you can then let go of the helm and move about the ship. NOTE: make sure you have a clear course, as the ship may take damage if it rams into something while you are doing other things.
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> Q - press/hold to pick something up (returns the whole item to your inventory to re-place)
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### Scanner tips

Some of the items to scan for new research can be picked up. If you pick them up, they are "scanned" and the researches added to your database, which can save charges on your scanner.

### The Studies Tab

This knowledge tab lists all the possible items to scan at any location visited, and notes which have been scanned. Check this before leaving any location, to make sure you scanned everything. If you miss something, don't worry! You can see where to find the item here, and re-visiting any location of that specific sub-type should have the missed scannable item so you can learn it.

### The Knowledge Base

This holds text entries for anything discovered so it can be referenced again. Check back in here if you need to look again at info you've already found, including:

* text of scanned items
* knowledge gained travelling the world (e.g. the knowledge of health parameters, ship damage, etc.)
* lore entries found (from data pads or laptops)
* all location types
* viruses encountered (and what cures them, if found)
* resources
* flora and fauna

### The Ship's Helm

There's a lot of information on the ship's helm that's easy to miss:

* Air Speed Indicator: big circle on the left
* Altimeter: big circle on the right
* Fuel left in tanks: bar above Speed circle on the left (shows a percentage left across all engines).
* Wind direction: small circle in lower left
* Docking indicator: "anchor" symbol in bottom middle (colored orange while docked, white when flying)
* Compass: bar at the bottom, with exact heading number above it, below the docking indicator

NOTE: The engines only burn fuel while the ship is moving. You do not need to turn them off while idle to conserve fuel.

### Resource Research

Many resources open an option to research how to craft that item from other, more basic resources, at the cost of one of the item for the research. Doing these researches as soon as possible gives the ability to craft more, if you can't find as many as you need.

### General world hints

There are a lot of hints in the world for necessary quest steps. Some common ones:

Power cables

If you need to power an item, follow the blue or orange power cables to the power box. Make note, though, as some power boxes control more than one thing: it may for example unlock a door as well as power a computer.

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Signs for Points of Interest

Many important quest locations have signs in front of them, or pointing the way to them.

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Chalk Arrows

Previous explorers of the Underdust left these on the floor to point the way back to the elevator.

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### Icon Hints

Icons appear in the lower right corner when you look at things, to hint what tool you need to interact with them:

(image needed here) Scanning this item will open new technologies to research (not visible when holding the scanner: scannable items glow)

(image needed here) The deck (or hand) extractor needed to gather this resource.

(image needed here) This requires a knife or a crossbow to break it.

This requires a knife to cut or remove it.

(image needed here) This requires a booster to get past it. The image will show the specific booster.

### Radar tips

There are tons of icons on the radar: a unique one for each type of location visited. To explore new locations, look for these two icons:

! - main questline location - this is where you need to go for your quest.

? - optional new location - this location doesn't advance the main quests, but may have new technologies you will find useful.

The radar may display multiples of each: any one of them will advance the quest or have any new technologies.