StarCraft keyboard controls 

StarCraft controls   

Zeynel -
3 years ago
- Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are essential for almost any real-time strategy player, as they allow to do repetitive actions quicker than mouse movements and clicks. In this shortcuts list, a few are specific to Remastered edition of the game, and they are indicated in parentheses.

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A

Anabolic Synthesis (Ultralisk Cavern)

0
A

Flyer Attack (Spire)

0
A

Apial Sensors (Fleet Beacon)

0
A

Air Armor (Cybernetics Core)

0
A

Ground Armor (Forge)

0
A

Infantry Armor (Engineering Bay)

0
A

Assimilator

0
A

Arbiter

0
A

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle the display of all panels

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T

High Templar

0
T

Templar Archives

0
T

Stasis Field (Arbiter)

0
T

Psionic Storm (High Templar)

0
T

Argus Talisman (Templar Archives) (Brood War)

0
T

Titan Reactor (Science Facility)

0
T

Stim Pack (Academy)

0
T

Missile Turret

0
T

Siege Tank

0
T

Stimpack (Marine, Firebat)

0

Move camera

0
W

Wraith

0
W

Vehicle Weapons (Armory)

0
W

Infantry Weapons (Engineering Bay)

0
W

Ground Weapons (Forge)

0
W

Air Weapons (Cybernetics Core)

0
W

Dark Swarm (Defiler)

0
W

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the unit panel

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E

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the statistics panel

0
E

Ensnare (Queen)

0
E

Ensnare (Queen's Nest)

0
E

Extractor

0
E

Maelstrom (Templar Archives) (Brood War)

0
E

Maelstrom (Dark Archon) (Brood War)

0
E

EMP Shockwave (Science Vessel)

0
E

EMP Shockwave (Science Facility)

0
E

Engineering Bay

0
N

Nuclear Silo (To Command Center)

0
N

Arm Nuclear Silo (Nuclear Silo)

0
N

Nuclear Strike (Ghost)

0
N

Nydus Canal

0
N

Place Nydus Canal

0
N

Nexus

0
J

Argus Jewel (Fleet Beacon) (Brood War)

0
P

Psionic Storm (Templar Archives)

0
P

Pylon

0
P

Probe

0
P

Toggle pause/play

0
P

Pneumatized Carapace (Lair, Hive)

0
P

Vehicle Plating (Armory)

0
P

Physics Lab (To Science Facility)

0
P

Patrol

0
K

Khaydarin Core (Arbiter Tribunal)

0
K

Dark Templar (Brood War)

0
K

Khaydarin Amulet (Templar Archives)

0
R

Recharge Shields (Shield Battery)

0
R

Build Scarab (Reaver)

0
R

Recall (Arbiter)

0
R

Merge to Dark Archon (Brood War)

0
R

Merge to Archon

Advertisement

0
R

Robotics Facility

0
R

Recall (Arbiter Tribunal)

0
R

Parasite (Queen)

0
R

Refinery

0
R

Set Rally Point

0
R

Restoration (Medic) (Brood War)

0
R

Restoration (Academy) (Brood War)

0
R

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the side panel

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H

Ship Plating (Armory)

0
H

Hold Position

0
H

Hatchery

0
H

Hive

0
H

Hydralisk

0
H

Hallucination (Templar Archives)

0
F5

Toggle remastered graphics (StarCraft: Remastered)

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Ctrl + R

Toggle multiplayer ranking mode if game type is Use Map Settings (UMS)

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Ctrl + R

(if game type is Use Map Settings (UMS)) Toggle multiplayer ranking mode

0
Esc

Cancel

0
or Esc
0
F6

Control zoom

-1
Ctrl + S

Toggle sound

0
Ctrl + C

Center screen on selected unit(s)

0
Ctrl + C

Center screen on selected units

0
Ctrl + X

Exit game

0
Ctrl + Y

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the replay panel

0
Ctrl + A

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle the display of all panels

0
Ctrl + Z

(StarCraft: Remastered) Open the diplomacy menu

0
Ctrl + F

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the production panel

0
F3

Control camera location

0
F3

Go to saved location

0
↑  Shift + F3

Save location

0
↑  Shift + F3

Control camera location

0
Ctrl + E

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the statistics panel

0
F4

Control camera location

0
F4

Go to saved location

0
Ctrl + W

(StarCraft: Remastered) Toggle display of the unit panel

0
F11

Open help and tips menu

1
Space

Go to last alert location

0
F2

Go to saved location

0
F2

Control camera location

0
Tab

Toggle minimap display

-1
Tab

Toggle whether to show terrain in minimap

0
Tab

Cycle through various buttons and input fields (use shift to reverse the order of cycling)

0
Ctrl + Q

Quit mission

0
⤶ Enter

Message prompt

0
M

Move

1
M

Spider Mines (Machine Shop)

1
M

Marine

0
M

Mind Control (Templar Archives) (Brood War)

0
M

Moebius Reactor (Covert Ops)

0
M

Mutalisk

0
M

Metabolic Boost (Spawning Pool)

0
M

Muscular Augments (Hydralisk Den)

0
M

Melee Attack (Evolution Chamber)

0
M

Metasynaptic Node (Defiler Mound)

0
L

Lurker Aspect (Hydralisk Den) (Brood War)

0
L

Morph to Lurker (Brood War)

0
L

Lair

0
L

Hallucination (High Templar)

0
L

Leg Enhancements (Citadel of Adun)

0
L

Lockdown (Covert Ops)

0
L

Lift/Land structure (Command Center, Barracks, Engineering Bay, Factory, Starport, Science Facility, Infested Command Center)

0
L

Lockdown (Ghost)

0
L

Load

0
F

Optical Flare (Academy) (Brood War)

0
F

Firebat

0
F

Factory

0
F

Optical Flare (Medic) (Brood War)

0
F

Feedback (Dark Archon) (Brood War)

0
F

Forge

0
F

Defiler

0
U

Unload All

0
U

U-238 Shells (Academy)

0
U

Bunker

0
U

Ultralisk

0
U

Increase game speed if unpaused (StarCraft: Remastered also supports this while paused)

0
U

Sunken Colony

0
U

Ultralisk Cavern

0
U

Burrow/Unburrow (Drone, Zergling, Hydralisk, Defiler, Infested Terran)

0
B

Spawn Broodling (Queen's Nest)

0
B

Spawn Broodling (Queen)

0
B

Burrow (Hatchery, Lair, Hive)

0
B

Shield Battery

0
B

Battlecruiser

2
B

Build Structure

0
B

Barracks

0
F10

Open main menu

0
F10

Open the game menu (i.e. same hotkeys as ingame)

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C

Return Cargo

0
C

Command Center

0
C

Terran (Ghost, Wraith)


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Program name: StarCraft StarCraft (Games - PC)

StarCraft is the first video game in the StarCraft real-time strategy game series. It was released on March 31, 1998. The game is set in a distant sector of the Milky Way galaxy. The story of the game revolves around the appearance of two alien races in Terran space and each race's attempts to survive and adapt over the others. StarCraft: Remastered, a remastered edition of the game was released on August 14, 2017.

Web page: starcraft.com

Last update: 7/20/2022 8:19 AM UTC

How easy to press shortcuts: 92%

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Updated: Updated program information. (2 updates.) 7/19/2022 12:34:46 PM New program added.
7/20/2022 8:19:10 AM Updated program information.

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