Beginners Guide to Oort

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    • #3594
      Rukio
      Member

      When you first start the game your UI should look like this while fullscreen (hit enter):


      At the bottom right there is an [i]. This is clickable to extend out the basic controls.

      Controls:

      Mouse move – Look
      Mouse left click – Break block
      Mouse right click – Place block
      Mouse scroll – Change quick bar item

      WASD – Move (double tap W and hold to run)
      Space – Jump
      1-9 – Change quick bar item
      Shift (hold) – Creep (player will not fall off ledges while holding)
      E – Open/close inventory window
      P – Pause menu. This also opens the server list. See below for details
      O – Options
      C – Third person view
      F – Selfie view
      Enter – Fullscreen
      I – Toggles infinite blocks

      Debugging/Compass/Altimeter/Coordinate controls:
      Tab – Toggle through debugging info

      Hitting [P] will bring up the server menu, allowing you to cross servers without having to find portals.

      Quick Tips!:
      – Hitting the expand arrows at the bottom right will full screen your game. As will the enter/return key.
      – Pressing the Esc or Enter key will return your screen to normal.
      [X] Sometimes it may take a few tries to return your browser to normal.

      Slope blocks

      Some blocks such as sand, gravel, ice, bouncy block and dirt are able to be sloped. Make pyramids or run up and down stairs without jumping! To check what a block is, hitting tab a few times and looking at the block will display the blocks name at the top left.

      Here is how they work. When you have one of the mentioned natural blocks in your hot bar, the shape/slope is determined on where it’s placed on your hot bar. You tap [R] and right click to place the altered block. This is a toggle, so remember to tap R again if you want to place normal cube blocks.

      From 2-6 it goes diagonal block, small corner block, large corner block, saddle shape, pyramid style corner block.

      Here is 2:

      Here is 3:

      Here is 4:

      Here is 5:

      Here is 6:

      Quick Tips!:
      – A sloped block’s direction is determined by the way you’re facing

      [X] Remember to hit R again to return too normal blocks
      [!] More natural blocks will be able to become altered/sloped over time!

      Portals!

      Portals are a mechanic in the game that allows the player to seamlessly cross in to other worlds. Eventually the player will be able to create these with the use of Oort stones. Currently they are static to display how they work.

    • #3626
      Austin
      Member

      Great job Rukio. Must have been getting tired of being asked how things work (including myself / placing angled blocks) Finally got the hang of it (I think anyways) 🙂

      • #5778
        Brook
        Member

        So far I’ve had no luck creating sloped blocks. Hitting the ‘R’ key does nothing special.

      • #5835
        dragyomony
        Member

        only certain blocks can slope, example is dirt or bounce blocks. put in 2 and tap r if it is a square tap r again and that should fix it.

      • #5838
        Brook
        Member

        I see where I went wrong–I was expecting the visual representation of the materials in the bar to change when I toggled in and out of sloped mode. When they didn’t I assumed it wasn’t working.

        Thank you!

    • #3627
      lsmoura
      Member

      Finally!! Now I can start building slopes! Thanks for that!

    • #5481
      Amelyth
      Participant

      Thanks for the little tutorial Rukio came in handy 🙂

    • #5486
      Zalsol
      Member

      Thanks much for the simple tutorial, Rukio. Great work!

      A couple of points that may be of interest from my experiences thus far …

      1) Here in the US it appears that the “.” key allows the HUD/Debug view change.

      * Using an older Microsoft 4000 Ergonomic keyboard and did change my keyboard option to “US” in the game’s Option settings.

      2) Using the “i” key allows for a “infinite block mode” providing unlimited building resources. This was pointed out to me by another player in game, and I am not sure if it is of “recommended” use or if it will remain available as the game progresses.

      • This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Zalsol.
    • #7140
      tvgold
      Participant

      thanks for this page, glad to see that somebody is doing a tutorial

    • #7158
      EchoDark
      Participant

      Tapping ‘R’ does not allow for slopes for me, no matter what slot the blocks are in.

      • #7173
        tvgold
        Participant

        could it be due to keyboard layout? it works fine on UK, and that’s what the dev team are uesing

    • #7230
      Brandon
      Participant

      Tapping R does nothing for me either. It used to then randomly stopped. I can no longer make slopes!

      • This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Brandon.
    • #7232
      Havok40k
      Participant

      Only certain blocks can be sloped. Also make sure you have the block in the 2-6 position on your action bar.

    • #7274
      EchoDark
      Participant

      I tried several blocks. And I tried all the ones that I saw were slopped in game and in the examples above.

    • #7275
      Brook
      Member

      Any chance of getting a video of it not working?

    • #7432
      Bootlegger
      Member

      Is there an easy in game way to screenshot?

    • #7433
      Mittekemuis
      Member

      Is there an easy in game way to screenshot?

      F12 when you log in through steam

      • #7436
        Bootlegger
        Member

        Thanks!
        and they then save to what location? someplace in the steam /common/ ??

      • #7437
        Ardos
        Member

        No, they’re somewhere within the userdata folder.

        If you click on the “View screenshot library” button within the steam client and then “Show on disk”, it will open to the right place.

    • #7915
      Xev
      Member

      Just want to say thanks for the guide, helped me out quite a bit 🙂

    • #7982
      Heurazio
      Member

      To Change the time of day press CTR + (1-0).

      CTR + 5 = Sunny Day
      CTR + 1 = Midnight

      This is only local for you. This does not Change the “Server day time”.

    • #8134
      Okkelinor
      Member

      How to return in normal daylight mode? After a time’s changing it has freezed in chosen moment.
      And how I can turn off the interface? I want to do screenshots without icons 🙂

      • #8181
        Xev
        Member

        I’ve found that once you leave the world, the time cycle resets to normal. Reloading the same world may work, just haven’t tried that yet.

      • #8182
        Okkelinor
        Member

        It’s work, but if I want to save my position in world… Not useful way to reload daytime. Thank you in any way 🙂

    • #8163
      Slynide
      Member

      Thanks for the guide!

    • #8165
      Mittekemuis
      Member

      @ okkelinor press “.” a few times

      • #8166
        Okkelinor
        Member

        A few times? Well, I’ll try it later. Thank you!

    • #8188
      Sheidlok
      Member

      I know it says that we have crafting and character races unlocked…. can we actually choose a race and craft in Oort yet?

      • #8189
        Ardos
        Member

        Not yet. Crafting is being worked on at the moment. Hopefully it will be going live in the not too distant future. I know a very early preview of races was shown off in a video a couple of months ago.

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