Field Guide
Welcome to Earthborn of Ymir
Explore, cultivate, craft and build a civilisation whose preparations
make the next frontier survivable. Signed in, your civilisation lives
in a shared world that keeps working while you are away; offline,
progress stays on this device until you return.
Move & survive
- WASD / Arrows
- Move
- Click / F
- Attack or use action
- E
- Interact
- Space
- Dodge
- Shift
- Sprint (hold)
- G
- Block: halves hits from the front (hold)
- T
- Lock on to the nearest foe; again for the next
- X
- Jump (a hop, just for show)
- Q
- Quick Use food, tonic or healing
- Middle-drag / H
- Look around / recentre camera
- Hold H
- Return to starting camp
Gear & abilities
- I
- Inventory and character
- C
- Crafting
- U
- Equipment upgrades
- K
- Skills
- V
- Civilisation, professions and knowledge
- 1–5
- Use hotbar skill
Explore
- M
- World map
- J
- Quest journal
- R
- Fishing rod
- Z
- Horse action
- P
- Pet team
Controller & touch
- Left stick
- Move
- A / screen
- Action
- X
- Interact
- B / D
- Dodge
- L3 / push stick to rim
- Sprint
- LT / BLK
- Block (hold)
- R3 / ◎
- Target lock
- Right stick / D-pad ↓
- Look around / recentre
- RB / USE
- Quick Use in the world
- Utility wheel
- Panels, map and building
Found & grow
- Found
- Follow the journey plaque: hearth, shelter, storehouse
- Prepare
- Eat food and tonics before expeditions — readiness beats gear
- Welcome
- Residents arrive while shelter, food and safety hold
- Delegate
- Talk to residents to assign work through the storehouse
Progress saves automatically every 30 seconds and when you leave.
Press F1 or tap ? to reopen this guide.
Rebind any control in Settings → Controls.
