There are several Keyboard Shortcuts in the games that can be of great assistance to the player. Many of the shortcuts for Creatures 3 and Docking Station are sadly unavailable to Mac users, though some can be restored with the help of the Arrows Patch.
Creatures 2 Shortcuts[edit]
| Key Commands
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Effect
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| CTRL + S
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Repeats the last phrase spoken by the hand.
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| SHIFT + Arrow keys
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Scroll around Albia in larger chunks than with the arrow keys alone.
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| TAB
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Cycles through creatures.
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| F1
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Opens the help files. Context-sensitive, so pressing it while in the Science Kit should bring up the Science Kit help.
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| F7
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Toggle the Standard toolbar on and off.
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| F8
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Toggle the Pointer toolbar on and off.
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| F9
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Toggle the Applets toolbar on and off.
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| F10
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Toggle the speech history and favourite places toolbar on and off.
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| F11
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Toggle the status bar on and off.
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| F12
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Toggle full screen mode on and off.
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Creatures 3/Docking Station Shortcuts[edit]
| Key Commands
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Effect
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| CTRL + Up, Down
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Cycles through recent phrases spoken by the hand.
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| CTRL + Left, Right
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Cycles through items in the Inventory.
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| CTRL + R
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Saves the game.
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| CTRL + S
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Repeats the last phrase spoken by the hand.
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| CTRL + I
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Moves whatever is in the hand into the inventory. Also works with: CTRL + Numpad0
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| CTRL + 1, 2, 3
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Slides the right hand menus in and out.
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| CTRL + PAUSE/BREAK
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Quits the game without saving.
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| CTRL + -
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Exports the currently selected creature.
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| CTRL + +
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Imports a creature.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + E
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Creates several Carrots, Lemons, and Justanuts. DS only.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + W, F, A
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Toggles Wolf Control options on and off.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + X
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Shows X/Y coordinates of the hand.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + R
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Shows the room number the hand is currently in.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + M
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Starts the Magic Profiler tool.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + P
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Starts the Frame Rater tool.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + H
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Finds the Hoverdoc (or reinjects it if it has been autokilled or deleted). DS only.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + C
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Opens/Closes the CAOS Command Line.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + T
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Shows the classifier number of any agent the hand hovers over. DS only.
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| CTRL + SHIFT + D
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Shows the tooltip classifier of an agent by default. navi.cos repurposes this keycode to tell a developer if a creature will prefer a lift or a door to help them move between two selected points on the game map.
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| SHIFT + ALT + ENTER
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Switches the game between windowed and full screen mode. The standard windowed mode allows players to use and view other applications at the same time, although on some systems, full screen mode is the only mode that can run on a 32-bit colour desktop (as opposed to using 16-bit colour).
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| TAB
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Cycles through creatures.
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| Page Up, Page Down
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Cycles through metarooms.
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| HOME
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In C3, returns to the Norn Terrarium. In DS, returns to the first metaroom in the Favorite Places listing, usually the Norn Meso.
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| END
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In C3, returns to the Jungle Terrarium. In DS, returns to the last metaroom in the Favorite Places listing.
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| PAUSE/BREAK
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Pauses or resumes the game. QuickPause changes this key's functionality.
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| INSERT
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While pressed, clicking a creature anywhere on its body will tickle/reward it.
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| DELETE
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While pressed, clicking a creature anywhere on its body will spank/punish it.
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| F1
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F1 turns agent help on and off.
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