Controls and settings

Default keys

Menus and movement

Esc gives priority to an open menu or service window. It closes that window before opening the game menu. The game menu offers Return to sea, Switch character, Disconnect, Settings and Quit game. Choose Switch character, then Yes, switch character to save and leave the current character and return to the harbor character menu. Steam remains signed in. Switching is blocked during combat or an unfinished activity. Service windows leave the sea active; sailing away can close the service and invalidate an unfinished interaction.

Gameplay shortcuts do not fire while typing in a field, while a blocking menu owns the input, or when the key event has already been handled. Quantity prompts shown in the chat area are local inputs rather than messages to other sailors.

Keyboard focus stays styled to match the naval interface. The character menu keeps focus within its controls, including name input and visible navigation buttons. Browser and operating-system shortcuts remain unchanged.

Follow tutorial and island-quest dialogue using the visible buttons. After the sanctuary’s final lesson, click the harbour gate’s wooden doors to depart. T remains the Home Passage control afterward.

The default full M chart view centers all nine regions on their playable area. Decorative boundary rocks may be cropped at the edge of the chart; their outer extent does not shift the region’s center.

Arrows mark the actual passage openings on the M chart and minimap. Click an arrow to open the neighbouring region’s chart. This only browses the map: it does not sail your ship or replace your waypoint.

Click navigable water beyond a regional boundary to sail towards it through the existing passage openings. The route follows connected passages; it cannot cross the rock walls. Normal combat and travel restrictions still apply at each crossing.

Close buttons sit at the upper-right of the map and treasure windows. The red cross on a treasure chart marks the search area and is not a close button.

Steam launcher 0.16.7 removes a Windows compatibility setting associated with duplicate Alt-Tab game previews.

The sanctuary minimap and M chart show the actual island, your moving ship, services, fishing area and exit gate. Zoom eases between settings. F appears when the fishing setup is usable; an equipped tool alone does not allow fishing outside a marked area.

Press M to toggle the world chart. Hover a Captain skill in Combat to see its description. Your zone indicator appears with the buffs and debuffs, and the XP table sits to the left of the stats.

Settings

Settings has Graphics, Audio, Display and Keybindings pages. It contains Quality, Balanced and Low effects presets, a boat-motion switch, music and effects volumes and mute. Low effects reduces environmental and boat presentation effects. In the updated desktop launcher, Display offers Windowed, Windowed fullscreen (borderless) and Fullscreen. Apply and restart saves the local preference and restarts the game.

Select an action in Keybindings, then press a single replacement key. Duplicate assignments are rejected. Settings are saved locally; Restore default keys returns to the defaults. Esc stays reserved, and Tab or Shift+Tab has no game action and cannot be assigned. F12 and Print Screen are reserved for desktop screenshots; an older F12 gameplay binding moves to a free default while other custom bindings are preserved.

Entering the Wilderness from outside it asks for confirmation before travel continues. Leaving it for a god region and moving between Wilderness regions do not ask for entry confirmation. No, close or Escape declines the crossing. You may choose Don’t show this message again and then Yes to remember that choice for this captain on this device. It does not remove the Wilderness combat and item-loss rules.

On the desktop client, press F12 or Print Screen (Druck) to capture the game content. A PNG is saved in Pictures/Korsaros Online/Screenshots and copied to the clipboard. Open screenshot folder in Settings opens that location. A failed clipboard copy does not remove the saved PNG.

On a fresh installation the game starts in exclusive fullscreen. You can change the display mode in Settings.

Choose a monitor, set your interface scale and frame limit, or adjust shadows, anti-aliasing and 3D render scale. After changing display mode or monitor, choose Keep within 15 seconds to save the preview.

Settings → Keybindings contains Rotate camera with right mouse (on by default) and Rotate camera with left mouse hold (off by default). An existing saved right-mouse preference is preserved. Middle-mouse dragging, WASD and arrow-key rotation remain available independently of either option; the camera stays centred on your ship.

With left-mouse rotation enabled, a short click keeps its normal action. Hold for at least 0.3 seconds before dragging to rotate. Releasing that camera drag does not issue a sailing command. With the option disabled, normal left-mouse navigation is unchanged. Right-clicking water never sends a sailing command, while short right-clicks on objects retain their usual action.

Interface scale follows your game window automatically at 100%. Use Settings → Display → Interface scale to choose 75% to 175%. Small windows cap enlargement to keep controls on screen. Your chosen scale is saved.