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InFactorio, efficiency is key to running a largescale, automated factory. As the factory grows, you’re required to adapt to the growing challenges, including mining additional resources,scaling smelting columns, and evenincorporating trains to meet supply demands. Before you know it, you’ll find yourself transporting oil, managing automation assemblies, and optimizing the factory layout to streamline production and processing requirements.
This is when keyboard shortcuts become incredibly useful, as they improve your ability to manage every aspect of your factory efficiently. Whether it’s inventory management, building complex railway systems, or working with robotics, using shortcuts inFactorioenables you to be quicker, smarter, and more precise at working with thousands of entities.
If you’re playing the game on macOS, the CTRL key is replaced by the Command key.
Character Control & Basic Interaction Keyboard Shortcuts
InFactorio, you’ll need to rely on your character to move around and interact with almost all entities in your factory. There are four keyboard keys that help you control your character and several shortcuts that assist you in interacting with various items in the game. The following table lists the fundamental shortcuts you should know as a beginner to the game:
Confirms choice and closes GUI.
Build Ghost
Shift+Left Click
Builds a transparent ghost instead of an actual entity for reference.
Ignores overlapping warnings and builds a blueprint.
Rotates an entity clockwise before or after building.
Rotates an entity counterclockwise before or after building.
Flips a blueprint or entity horizontally.
Flips a blueprint or entity vertically.
Pick Up Items From The Ground
F
Allows you to pick up items from the ground or conveyor belts.
Allows you to queue entities for construction or deconstruction.
`
Allows you to toggle the console and chat window.
Copies the entity, it’s orientation, and recipe.
Pastes the entity, it’s orientation, and recipe.
Targets and shoots an enemy.
Switches to the next equipped weapon.
Crafting & Inventory Management Keyboard Shortcuts
As you start connecting multiple entities to build a basic factory, you’ll be doing the majority of item crafting by hand, and knowing the associated shortcuts makes this arduous process bearable in the early game. To craft recipes, you’ll also need to gather the required materials, and along with that comes the necessity tomanage your inventory efficiently. The following shortcuts will help you craft recipes easily and manage the inventory without hassle:
Craft All
Crafts the maximum possible number of items of a selected recipe.
Pick Up/Drop Item Stack
Left Click
Pick up an item from the ground or drop an item from the inventory.
Cursor Split
Right Click
Transfers half of the selected items from the cursor to an entity.
Stack Split
Shift+Right Click
Transfer half of the item stack from one inventory to another.
Inventory Split
CTRL+Right Click
Transfers half the selected stack of items from one inventory to another. Selecting an empty slot transfers half of all available item stacks.
Fast Inventory Split
Transfers half of the held stack into an inventory or entity.
Creates or removes a filter from an inventory.
Switch Quickbar Slots
1-10
Allows you to quickly switch between items placed in the quickbar slots.
Switch Additional Quickbar Slots
Shift 1-10
Allows you to quickly switch between items placed in the secondary quickbar slots.
Switches between available active quickbars.
Tools & Panels Keyboard Shortcuts
InFactorio, tools provide finer controls over how you manage your entities in the factory, enabling you tocreate blueprints, manage clipboards, and wire circuits, which help you achieve granular control over production and inventory management. As the factory is equipped with advanced technologies, you’ll also have to interact with new dedicated panels to further optimize automation and production output. Here are all the shortcuts available to access tools and panels inFactorio:
Cut
CTRL+X
Cuts a selection from your factory, and marks the affected entities with a deconstruction mark.
Copper Wire Connection Mode
ALT+C
Allows you to connect one entity to another via circuits for finer control. Connects entities to a circuit chain separate from red and green circuits.
Discharge Defense Remote
ALT+Y
Allows you to release an electric shock from the armor to damage any nearby enemies.
Green Wire Connection Mode
ALT+G
Allows you to connect one entity to another via circuits for finer control. Connects entities to a circuit chain separate from copper and red circuits.
Red Wire Connection Mode
ALT+R
Allows you to connect one entity to another via circuits for finer control. Connects entities to a circuit chain separate from copper and green circuits.
Toggles between equipping or unequipping the exoskeleton.
Enables or disables item drop off into personal inventory.
Enables or disables the personal roboport.
Open Character Logistics/Info/Crafting Panel
F1, F2, F3
Opens a triple panel with the ability to manage character logistics, inventory, and craft items.
Pauses the game and opens the menu panel.
Opens and closes the world map.
Opens and closes the technology and research panel.
Opens and closes the production and efficiency panel.
Toggle Logistics Network
L
Zooms out the factory and shows logistics connections, including roboport range.
Opens and closes the blueprint library.
Toggle Train Overview
O
Opens and closes the train panel that shows all trains and stations.
Open Factoriopedia
ALT+Left Click
Clicking an entity with ALT+Left Click shows detailed and helpful info on its uses in the game.
ALT+Right Arrow Key
Cycles through any available next panels.
This list of shortcutsexcludes debug mode shortcuts, which are designed for developers and modders to analyze the game’s state.
Blueprint Manager And Other Miscellaneous Shortcuts
As you progress to the mid and late game inFactorio, you’ll inevitably startrelying on blueprints to expand and streamline your factory. Blueprints allow you to replicate a setup without all the manual work andlet robots take care of the construction and upgrade. Additionally, if you decide to install mods to enhance your experience, the game also includes additional shortcuts to help you better manage mods:
Connect a selected train or character-controlled train to adjacent trains.
Disconnect a selected train or character-controlled train from adjacent trains.
Next Variation
Middle-Click
Cycles the next variation of a selected entity in the map editor.
Previous Variation
Shift+Middle Click
Cycles to the previous variation of a selected entity in the map editor.
Clones an item or entity in the map editor.
Deletes an item or entity in the map editor.
Pauses or unpauses an entity in the map editor.
Tick Once
Numpad .
Performs one game tick and pauses the game in the map editor.
Reset Game Speed to 1
Shift+Numpad *
Resets the game speed to default speed in the map editor.
Set Clone Brush Source
Assigns an entity or recipe to the clone brush in map editor.
Set Clone Brush Destination
Pastes the entity or recipe set to the clone brush in map editor.
