Beginners Guide to Oort

[Rukio]

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.

[Austin]

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) 🙂

[Brook]

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

[dragyomony]

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.

[Brook]

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!

[lsmoura]

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

[Amelyth]

Thanks for the little tutorial Rukio came in handy 🙂

[Zalsol]

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 10 years, 2 months ago by Zalsol.

[tvgold]

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

[EchoDark]

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

[tvgold]

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

[Brandon]

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

• This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by Brandon.

[Havok40k]

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

[EchoDark]

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

[Brook]

Any chance of getting a video of it not working?

[Bootlegger]

Is there an easy in game way to screenshot?

[Mittekemuis]

Is there an easy in game way to screenshot?

F12 when you log in through steam

[Bootlegger]

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

[Ardos]

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.

[Xev]

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

[Heurazio]

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”.

[Okkelinor]

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 🙂

[Xev]

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.

[Okkelinor]

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

[Slynide]

Thanks for the guide!

[Mittekemuis]

@ okkelinor press “.” a few times

[Okkelinor]

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

[Sheidlok]

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

[Ardos]

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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