Darkfall Wiki

Emotes

Current Darkfall emotes, as listed in-game through /list_emotes

/air_guitar
/doh
/drink
/greetings
/laugh
/mock
/no_no
/point_back
/point_front
/point_right
/point_left
/show_off
/shrug
/sneeze
/taunt_03
/taunt_04
/taunt_05
/thinking
/thumb_down
/thumb_up
/wave
/yawn

Party
commands

  • Create a party: /party_create (or you can form a
    party by pressing the alternative use key in front of a player—the default key
    for this is G)
  • Invite a player to your party: /invite firstname
    lastname (or press the alternative use key in front of the player—the
    default key for this is G)
  • Waypoint: /waypoint (sets the waypoint for the
    party to your current position); /party_remove_waypoint (removes the party waypoint)
  • Party chat: /party
  • Leave a party: /party_leave
  • Players in the same party have a visual marker to identify each other, which
    can be toggled by: /party_toggle_display

Chat commands

  • Public chat channel: /say (will display to those
    in your close vicinity; if you write something in the text box it will default
    to this command)
  • Race channel: /race (will send a chat message to
    all members of your race)
  • Race alliance chat channel: /alliance (will send a
    chat message to all members of your racial alliance—e.g. a human using it will
    send a message to Humans, Dwarves and Mirdain, while an Ork using it will send a
    message to Orks and Mahirim)
  • Clan alliance chat channel: /calliance (will send
    a chat message to all Clans where both your clan and the other clan has declared
    each other as Allies)
  • Clan chat channel: /clan
  • Clan officers chat channel: /officers
  • Party chat channel: /party
  • Private message: /tell firstname lastname
  • Rename a chat window: /chat_rename_window
  • /ignore now works for all chat
  • Colored text: CTRL+K, then press the letter associated with the color as
    shown in the popup window

Movement

  • W,A,S,D movement: forward, strafe left, backwards,
    strafe right
  • Mouselook is controlled by your mouse movement
  • Sprint: Left SHIFT key (sprint consumes stamina
    but you run much faster)
  • Crouch: C (NPCs have more trouble spotting you;
    when in water the C key will make you dive)
  • Use/Action key: F (interact with vendors, mounts,
    ships, guns, vehicles, looting tombstones; you must have your weapon sheathed
    for this command to work)
  • Jump: SPACE key
  • Auto run: Numlock key
  • Walking: CTRL + W,A,S,D

General
commands

  • You can TAB through chat commands. Typing /par and
    then TAB will take you through the options for party
    commands
  • Players in the same party have a visual marker to identify each other, which
    can be toggled by: /party_toggle_display
  • GUI: right mouse button (access the graphical user
    interface to open windows such as your Backpack, Paperdoll, World Map, Clan
    interface and your Darkfall character's Journal)
  • GUI setup: /gui_persist_save will save your
    current GUI setup (note: this will not include your key bindings—this will be
    included in a later patch)
  • Hotbar slots: 0-9 activates the corresponding
    Hotbar slot (you can put spells, powers, weapons, armor or food in your Hotbar
    slots by dragging their icons into the Hotbar)
  • Switch Hotbars: SHIFT 0-9 (will switch between Hotbars 0-9)
  • Open Paperdoll: P
  • Open Bag: B (SHIFT-drag a stack of items to break
    them up into smaller stacks)
  • Open World Map: M
  • Open Bank: F (press G
    when you're at a bank to access the clan bank)
  • Trade: G (to trade with another player, walk up to
    them and press G)

Swimming

  • W,A,S,D: forward, left, backwards, right
  • Dive: C
  • Swim upwards: SPACE bar
  • Drift upwards: stop moving underwater to drift upward
  • Crawl-stroke swimming: hold left SHIFT key +
    movement key to swim faster

Combat

  • Sheath or Unsheath any equipped weapon or staff: R
  • Fire/Attack: left mouse button
  • Block with shield/Parry with weapon: V (this uses
    stamina)
  • Switch the slash direction of your weapon strikes between horizontal and
    vertical attacks: T (remember to use vertical attacks
    during close combat to help avoid hitting friendly targets next to you)
  • Revive: Z, then press left mouse button/attack
    bind to use this power (to revive a character you need to have your weapon
    sheathed)
  • Gank: X (hold down left mouse button/attack bind
    to use this power over an incapacitated player, then release your mouse button)
  • Release: hitting SPACE will release you before the
    timer runs out when you're incapacitated, sending you back to your clanstone

Mount Controls

  • Mount/Dismount: F
  • Sheathe/Unsheathe a weapon when mounted: R
  • W,A,S,D movement: move forward, turn left, move
    backwards, turn right
  • Mouselook is controlled by your mouse movement
  • Lean left, right: Q,E
  • Jump: SPACE
  • Walking mount: CTRL + movement keys W,A,S,D
  • Autorun: Numlock
  • Mount attacks forward: left mouse button when
    mount is standing still
  • Mount attacks backward: left mouse button + S when
    mount is standing still
  • Weapon attack when mount is in motion: left mouse button
    + W,A,D

Ship Controls

  • W,A,S,D movement: move forward, turn left, move
    backwards, turn right
  • Mouselook is controlled by your mouse movement
  • Autorun: Numlock

Cannon
controls

  • Aim: controlled by your mouse movement
  • Fire cannon: left mouse button

Warhulk controls

  • Change Camera Mode: F12
  • W,A,S,D movement: move forward, turn left, move
    backwards, turn right
  • If warhulk has a cannon for the driver: left mouse
    button to fire cannon
  • Mouse rotates camera in secondary camera mode. If driver has a cannon, it
    rotates the cannon

Annotations on the map

  • /annotation_add "text" (your annotations will be
    wiped when we do a character wipe)
  • /annotation_list
  • /annotation_remove ID (use /annotation_list to get
    the ID)