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Keys and menus
The realm is built so you rarely need a command. Here is where everything lives.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| F2 | Your own menu: here and now, the people around you, your horses, houses, crafts, work & skills, faction, letters, character. Staff also find their tools here. |
| F3 | The emotes: play the lute or the flute, dance, bow, kneel, bless, cross yourself, raise your tankard, laugh, applaud, threaten... Also /e name. |
| F4 | Your dog's menu, if you have one (the dog perk of the KCD Points store): call a breed, tell it to stay, heel or roam, send it home. |
| F8 | The help menu: every command you may use, by category, and the guides. |
| E (the use key) | Talk to a townsperson with a sign over their head: their menu opens (the moneylender, the stable master, the town clerk, a stallholder...). Merchants open their trade screen. |
| T | Open the chat to speak or type a command. |
| V | Push-to-talk voice. |
| G | Hold for the emote wheel: wave, bow, cheer, clap, dance, come. |
| W S / Enter / Backspace | Move, pick and go back inside a menu. Esc closes it. |
Signs in the world
Every place of note has a keeper with a floating sign: their title in gold, and what can be done there. Walk around a town and you will find the bank, the stables, the market, the tavern and the rest. When a job or a menu shows you the way somewhere, a sign with the distance appears over it, seen from anywhere.