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Starting Guide

Welcome to FortressCraft Evolved

Creative Mode

Welcome to our Creative Mode! Controls are below, tool guides follow on next pages.

Controls

W,A,S,D: Movement
Space: Jump
Space x 2: Activate Jetpack Mode
Q: Fly Down
Shift: Boost
Land to turn off
Esc: Pause Menu
H: Help Screen

Z: Zoom
X: Build Gun
C: Weather Staff
N: Paint Gun
F10: Enter SuperBuild Mode
F11: Enter Copy/Paste Mode
=: Block Selection Screen
F1-F7: Select Hotbar Tab
1-10: Select Hotbar Slot

Left Mouse: Build/Primary tool function
Right Mouse: Delete/Alternative tool function
Middle Mouse: Sample Currently Highlighted Block
Mouse Wheel: Next/Previous Block or cycle tool function
CTRL + Left Mouse: Build-to-Me
CTRL + Right Mouse: Super Dig

Creative build tools

In FortressCraft Evolved, you have several powerful tools for creative building. Below we briefly describe each tool and will in future contain a link to the specific guide for using that tool.

Build Gun

When using the build gun (select by pressing 'X'), the Left mouse button builds the selected block and the Right mouse button deletes. You have a long build reach, so you can build blocks up to 64 meters away.

Super Dig

Holding CTRL while digging activates Super Dig mode. This will greatly speed up the dig speed, which is good for quickly clearing out spaces. Take care where you aim though, it's very easy to accidentally dig up your own work.

Build-to-Me

Holding CTRL while building triggers Build-to-Me. The selected block will be built from the highlighted face back towards your position in a straight line.

The Workshop

The Workshop is the most powerful creative tool in your FortressCraft Evolved arsenal for building detailed creations. Using it you can design your own blocks by building large scale designs which shrink down to the size of a block.
Workshops can be built anywhere in the world. To make one, you start by opening the Block Select Panel ('press '=') and selecting the Workshop Placement block:

Then you pick a place to build the workshop. In order to define a workshop you only need to place 2 (two) Workshop placement blocks. You place them so that they're in opposing corners on the floor of where you want the workshop to be. To put that in simple instructions:

1. Choose a flat area. Place down the first Workshop Placement block.

2. From there, go diagonally in any direction while staying on the same level.

3. Place the second block where you want to other corner of your workshop to be.

4. If the two blocks are on a diagonal and within 7 blocks of each other, a workshop will be created using Reinforced Rock and Reinforced Wood

Workshops can be created in sizes ranging from 2x2 (two blocks directly diagonal) to 8x8 (6 empty blocks between the first and second block).

Creating a detail block design in the workshop

Once you have built your first workshop, enter it to start creating your first detail block design. When you are in the workshop, two things happen: The outline of the workshop glows with sparkly particles, and the workshop overlay appears.

There are some keys that are used for selecting functions in the workshop:
Y: Start New Design
U: Use Current (not yet implemented)
I: Show Detail Window
O: Show Behaviour Window (currently turned off)
[: Previous Design
]: Next Design

When you enter a new workshop, a new design is automatically started, so pressing 'Y' will only do something once you've created your first design.

To design your first detail block, simply start building in the highlighted workshop area. The wall made from Reinforced Wood will be the front of your block. You can use any block you want to construct your design, but any blocks that have models will not show up in the detail block. Painted blocks will remain painted.

Once you're happy with your design, simply exiting the workshop will save it and create the detail block to build with. To select it, open up your Block Select screen ('=') and select your new design to a hotbar slot. You can quickly find all detail block designs by filtering for 'detail block' in the filter list. You can now start a new design in the workshop by pressing 'Y', or by building a new workshop. You can have up to 16384 detail block designs in one world!

Placing detail blocks

To place a detail block, build it like you would any other block. The design will attach to the face you have selected, and be rotated to face towards you. This allows you to place detail blocks in any orientation you want.

If you use thousands of detail blocks in the same area, you will notice significant performance drops. This is because all those details have to be rendered by your graphics card. To alleviate this, use detail blocks of lower resolutions and use normal blocks where ever you can.

Super Build

Pressing F8 will open the Super Build panel on the right side of your screen

This allows you to quickly build simple geometric shapes using any block you have selected. To use the Super Build, first select a shape to build using F9. With F10 you can select if it should build a solid or hollow shape. With F11 you toggle the build mode. Instant will get you the fastest result, but can result in some holes for very large shapes. End toggles between the anchor of the shape being centered or on the bottom middle of the shape.

X, Y and Z allow you to change the size of the shape. Pressing them increases that dimension by 1. Hold shift and press X, Y or Z to decrease by one. You can additionally hold ALT to change the size by 16 at a time.

Once you've chosen a shape, size and location, press Ins to build the shape, or Del to dig it out. You will then have to reselect a shape to dig or build again.

Copy Paste

The Copy Paste tool allows you to quickly copy part of a design you've made, rotate or flip it around, and paste it back into the world in whatever place you want. Open the copy paste panel by pressing F11.
The Copy Paste panel is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION, which is why it doesn't look like the rest of the interface.

Copy Paste Controls

Press Ins to place the first corner of the rectangular part you want to copy.

Press Del to place the second corner of the rectangular part you want to copy. The area to be copied will now be highlighted.

Once an area has been selected, you can press End to grab it. At this point, a preview of the copied area will be shown on top of your block selection.

With an area grabbed, there are three things you can do to alter the way the area is pasted: Rotate with R, move anchor point with Shift, flip with CTRL.

'R' will rotate the grabbed area 90 degrees clockwise.

pressing Shift once will allow you to alter the anchor point with the X, Y and Z keys. Pressing SHIFT + X, Y or Z will decrease anchor position

pressing CTRL once will allow you to flip the design with the X, Y and Z keys. Each button will flip the design along that axis.

And finally, pressing Home will paste the area in the selected position.

Storing Copy Paste Schematics