Tethers: Tethers are your lifeline to your oxygen and power supply, you can place one by pressing down on the D-pad or T on a keyboard.

Click on the orange arrows at the bottom to craft field equipment such as tethers, solar panels, and more. On Xbox, viewing your backpack enables Cursor Mode automatically, so right trigger becomes your select button.

Back pack: Press Y on Xbox or the Q key on PC to toggle the view of your backpack.

Cursor mode also works on the main menu for selecting different save files. Press the right trigger to pick up, drop, and snap items into place. This allows you to manipulate objects in the world, click buttons in your base, and move things into your backpack.

Cursor Mode (Xbox Only): Hold down the left trigger to enable cursor mode.

Make sure you holster your terrain tool after you're finished with it to get access to the regular movement controls. Use the right trigger or left click to fire. Use the ALT and CTRL keys to alternate between modes on PC. The left and right bumpers toggle between different terrain shaping modes, including dig terrain, add to terrain and flatten terrain.

Instead, the right joystick now aims the terrain tool. While deployed on Xbox, you lose access to the camera controls on the right joystick. Shape Terrain: Press X on your controller or E on your keyboard to deploy and holster your terrain shaping tool.On PC, it's right click to move the camera, W key to move forward, and Space to jump. Left joystick to move, right joystick to look, A button to jump. General movement: With your terrain shaper holstered, the controls are pretty standard for a third-person game.

One for the character, one for the cursor, and another one for the terrain morphing gun.

Astroneer has a few different control states, which can be confusing at first.

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