Enshrouded 1.0 Controls: Full Default Keybind Tables for PC and Controller

Enshrouded 1.0 lists its controls in two places. Keyboard and mouse bindings are inside Settings, and controller bindings have their own screen in the pause menu. Some keys do several jobs depending on context. The 1.0 tips roundup suggests checking your key bindings first, and the tables below list every default.

Quick answer: Press Esc, then go to Settings > KEYBOARD & MOUSE (switch tabs with Q / E) > Keyboard & Mouse Bindings. For a gamepad, press Esc and choose Controller Bindings.

The core keyboard defaults are WASD to move, Space to jump and glide, Shift to sprint, C to sneak and E for the contextual action, which covers talking, picking up and harvesting. The Left Mouse Button uses the item in hand and the Right Mouse Button blocks and parries. Ctrl evades, R triggers the weapon’s special ability and Q readies a ranged weapon. Tab opens the Construction Hammer menu.

How to open the Enshrouded keybind screens

Each row lists the ACTION, two BINDINGS columns and a MODALITY. The first binding column is the main key and the second is an alternate. A dash means nothing is bound. The modality is one of Press, Tap, Hold, Release or Contextual.

Open Controller Bindings from the pause menu to view the dedicated controller layout screen. Its diagram has GENERAL GAMEPLAY and BUILDING MODE tabs; switch between them with Q / E, and close the screen with Esc.

In Settings, open the GAME tab and find the “Action Bar” group. It lists Hotkey Behavior (Consumables) and Hotkey Behavior (Non-Consumables).

Enshrouded keyboard and mouse controls: General Gameplay

These are the Preset A defaults on the GENERAL GAMEPLAY tab, listed in the order the game shows them.

Quick Item Wheel, Fire ranged weapon and Open Notification have no keyboard default in Preset A.

Building Mode keybinds (keyboard and mouse)

The BUILDING MODE tab covers the Construction Hammer. Many placement controls combine a held key with the mouse wheel.

In Building Mode, Raise and Shift Forward both use Q + Mouse Wheel Up. Q + Mouse Wheel Down is assigned to both Sink and Shift Backward. Scale uses G + Mouse Wheel Up and G + Mouse Wheel Down; those same combinations control Tilt Backward and Tilt Forward, respectively.

Menu, inventory, storage and map keybinds

The MENUS tab controls everything that happens inside a window, including inventory, storage chests, the map, the journal and crafting. Section rows note where each group applies.

Enshrouded controller bindings

The Controller Bindings screen in the pause menu is a diagram rather than a list, with button labels LT, LB, RT, RB and A, B, X, Y. Where one button carries two actions separated by a bar, the screen shows them that way.

Controller: General Gameplay

Controller: Building Mode

In Building Mode, RT works as a modifier for most placement controls.

Keyboard keys that do more than one thing

Preset A puts several actions on the same key:

• Space: Jump, Glider and Swim Up.
• C: Sneak [Toggle], Headfirst Dive, Start Diving and Swim Down.
• R: Drop Item and Special Ability, plus Rotate 90° in Building Mode.
• Tab: Construction Hammer Menu, Attune summoning staff and Open Camera Menu in a single row.
• 1 to 8: Action Bar Slots and Building Shape Slots.
• Mouse Wheel Up / Down: change the action bar slot, change the shape while building and cycle ammo.

Double Jump (Space twice)

There is no separate Double Jump key in the list. Double Jump is a skill: its card reads “Allows jumping a second time while airborne”, lists “Cost: 10 Stamina”, and it takes 2 skill points to unlock (see how to unlock Double Jump). Once it was unlocked, we pressed Space to jump and Space again in the air, and used that second jump to get up onto the raised stone platform of a Flame Shrine.

How to use the Glider (Space)

The Glider uses Space, the same key as Jump, and timing matters. With the Glider equipped, step off an edge and wait for the prompt “SPACE Start gliding” to appear while you’re falling, then press Space. Pressing Space before the prompt shows up doesn’t open the glider, and you just keep falling.

The glider may shut mid-flight if it hits terrain or an object such as a rock pillar. As you fall, the “SPACE Start gliding” prompt appears again; press Space to reopen the glider. During a glide, the display identifies Right Mouse Button as Cancel.

Hold E vs. tap E, and F / R at storage

Contextual Action (E) is listed with the modality Contextual, and in our play the right input depended on the prompt:

On the fallen stick, a tap did nothing at all; holding E picked it up (see the Twigs guide). Respawn on the death screen is covered in the death and dropped items guide.

Fast travel keys in Enshrouded

The altar order in that list can change when a new altar is added. In our game, Cinder Vault moved above HOME once it became an altar, so read the name before pressing F.

The map footer also offers “Fast Travel to last visited Altar” on a held R. Fast travel is not possible while you are in the Shroud. The fast travel guide walks through both routes.