SWARM MMO

Controls & Shortcuts

Mouse and keyboard

InputAction
Drag planetLaunch swarm
Send dialLocks on at 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and from one planet at the send that takes the target, or on a planet of your own, the send for its next level
Drag planet → sunAttack sun (100 probes = 1 super-probe)
Drag planet → empty cellRaise a neutral base
Hold 1-9 + dragQuick-send 10%-90%
Hold 0 + dragQuick-send 100%
Hold C + dragSend exactly enough to take the target, or on a planet of your own, exactly enough for its next level, without opening the dial
Hold SPACE + dragSet attack automation
Send dial: 1-9, 0Send 10%-90%, or all of it
Send dial: CSend exactly enough to take the target, or on a planet of your own, exactly enough for its next level
Send dial: EnterSend the amount the dial is set to
Click own planetPlanet menu (upgrade / auto / give / select), or the group send target with a selection live
Click own baseBase menu (upgrade / give / select)
Select in menuAdd planet, sun or black hole to selection
Box button, or BBox-select mode: drag empty space to select. B toggles it on and off; the button cycles off, replace, add
Shift + box dragAdd the box to the selection instead of replacing it
Ctrl / Cmd + dragBox-select without switching the mode on
Drag sunLaunch sun swarm
Drag sun → black holeAttack black hole (100 super-probes = 1 megaprobe)
Click own sunSun menu (give / select), or the group send target with a selection live
Click own black holeBlack hole menu (give / select, or collapse at 1,000 megaprobes with every sun in the galaxy held by you or an ally)
EscapeClose the open menu; again to clear the selection
WASD / ArrowsPan camera
Scroll / + / - / zoom buttonsZoom in / out
Drag empty spacePan camera
Edge of screenPan while dragging a swarm
Focus buttonOpen the Focus panel: quick-jump to your largest holding, or browse and jump to any of your planets, suns, black holes, bases, meteorites, and probe movements in flight

Touch

Every action is reachable with a finger. The modifier keys are not, so the send dial carries what they do: drag from your planet to the target and release without a modifier, and the dial opens with the percentage arc, a takes it mark and an Auto button.

GestureAction
Tap a bodyIts menu, or the target of a group send when you have a selection
Press and hold a targetWith a selection live, shows which of your bodies would fire at it and how much would arrive, before you let go
Drag from your planetLaunch swarm; release on the target to open the dial
Drag empty spacePan camera
PinchZoom, anchored between your fingers
Zoom buttonsZoom in or out; hold to keep zooming
Dial takes it / levels up markSend exactly enough to take the target, or on a planet of your own, exactly enough for its next level (what holding C does)
Dial Auto buttonSet attack automation, then drag the dial for the threshold (what holding SPACE does)
Box buttonTap to cycle off, replace, add. Add is Shift's job on a keyboard
Top barScrolls sideways when the buttons do not all fit
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