Keys and Controls

Escape From DayZ adds its own screens and shortcuts on top of DayZ's controls. These are the defaults. Change any of them under Options > Controls, where the server's keys are listed alongside the game's.

The ones you'll use every raid#

Key	What it does
I	Trade. Opens the trade screen in the safezone. Traders
O	Your tasks. Accept them anywhere. Quests / Tasks
/	Show or hide the task tracker, with up to three pinned tasks
J (hold)	The extract overview. Extracts
M	The map, with your GROUP page and your invite code. Groups
Numpad *	The flea market, where players trade with each other. Player market
Y	Your skills. Skills
Ctrl+L	Your stats and achievements

In your inventory#

Key	What it does
B (hover a gun)	Highlights every magazine, round and attachment that fits it
Ctrl+click	Moves an item between your gear and your stash
Alt + click a magazine	Unloads it into your inventory, a round at a time
H (hold)	Hover loot: point at items to pick them up

Loading a magazine needs no key: drag a pile of rounds onto it.

Your hotbar grows with what you wear. You start with 4 slots, plus one for each worn piece that carries gear: top, trousers, a vest or rig with pouches, chest rig, backpack and belt, up to 10. Armour with no pouches, ghillies, ponchos and armbands add none.

Moving, chat and the rest#

Key	What it does
' (apostrophe)	Changes chat channel: Direct, Group, Global. With chat open, , and . do it too
N	Earplugs. Each press turns the game's sounds down a step, to 50, 25 and 10 percent, then back to full. Voices and radio are never turned down
(no key)	MARK HERE: with a GPS, marks where you stand on your map. Only you see it
Z	Autorun
H	Opens or closes a door while you aim
\	Building placement mode: auto, snap only, free only. Building
Shift+R	Changes reticle, on optics that have more than one
Shift+T	Bipod, on guns that have one
Shift, Ctrl or Alt + F	Gun lights: left, right, top

MARK HERE has no key

N is the earplugs key, so MARK HERE starts unbound. Give it a key of your own under Options > Controls > EFD.

Chat commands#

Type these in chat. Nobody else sees them, and only you see the answer. Type !commands in game for the full list.

Command	What it does
`!help`	The player guide: ten short pages from your first hour to getting help. `!help extract` and the like jump to one topic
`!keys`	The keys on this page, in game
`!rules`	The rules screen you saw when you first joined
`!restart`	When the next restart is, and how long until it
`!online`	How many players are on
`!extract`, `!deploy`, `!traders`, `!money`, `!tasks`, `!levels`	A quick answer on each, in chat
`!stash`, `!container`, `!dying`, `!logout`, `!lab`, `!keycards`	The same
`!base`, `!groups`, `!safezone`	The same
`!discord`, `!guides`, `!report`, `!store`, `!clips`, `!socials`	Links, tickets and priority queue
`!roster`	Your group's roster, the reserve and when the next swap is allowed. The reserve has every roster command