Guides:Quickswitch hotkeys

Guides / Quickswitch hotkeys

The principles described on this page require the unstable client to work!

Description

This page has been written by me to act as an example of how powerful hotkeys can be in Wurm. Users may take what I have here and copy it in its entirety or they can adapt it to their own needs. At present most of this requires the unstable client and as such many people seem to know nothing about it. Hopefully that will change when the clients are merged, but in the meantime I will attempt to spread the word.

There are so many actions in wurm that binding them all would take up most of the keyboard. Listed in the #Files section below are the commands needed to allow you to quickly switch between jobs at the press of a button. Imping your tools and need to chop some wood? Easy.

The system below revolves around the use of W S A D and the mouse as movement controls. Q and E are easy take and drop access. Tab is used to activate. This leaves X and C as our quickswitch hotkeys. If I am imping then these are repair and improve respectively, in mining they are prospect and mine respectively, etc. I also use the Shift as a modifier, but Z and V could be used aswell. To switch between them you simply press the relevent button. For example woodcutting is Shift-F1. When combined with a toolbelt and its number shortcuts it becomes simple and efficient.

- miceless 10:32, 14 December 2009 (CST)

Files

Place the following files in your config directory. You will have to create some of them.

• autorun.txt

bind tab activate
bind q take
bind e drop

bind shift-F1 "exec wood.txt"
bind shift-F2 "exec dig.txt"
bind shift-F3 "exec mine.txt"
bind shift-F4 "exec imp.txt"
bind shift-F5 "exec farm.txt"

• wood.txt - Also includes pruning and sprout picking.

bind X CHOP_UP
bind SHIFT-X PRUNE
bind C CUT_DOWN
bind SHIFT-C PICK_SPROUT

• dig.txt

bind X DIG
bind SHIFT-X FLATTEN

• mine.txt

bind X PROSPECT
bind C MINE_FORWARD

• imp.txt

bind X REPAIR
bind C IMPROVE

• farm.txt - Includes grooming

bind x GROOM
bind C FARM
bind SHIFT-C HARVEST