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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: PetGreySquirrel on May 28, 2023, 05:45:39 pm
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Is there any way to set the game to be playable with only keyboard inputs in the new versions?
I spent a while looking in the options for a way to do so, but failed to find any way to remove dependency on the mouse cursor entirely.
I have been playing on-and-off since before z-levels were introduced, and was away from the game for a while, not having played since the 47.XX releases, and the new UI out of the box is just... completely unusable for me, because I can't seem to find a way to get rid of the mouse.
I have some manual dexterity and pain problems, and using the mouse this much means I can't play the new versions for more than a few minutes at a time without it becoming severely painful.
If not I'll probably just have to go back to playing older versions, dwarf fortress is a very important game to me, but as it is, I just... can't play the new versions.
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There's no way to entirely avoid the keyboard now. I think Putnam said in an interview that they want to make that less the case, but who knows how long that will take.
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In the meantime, have you tried mouse keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_keys)?
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In the meantime, have you tried mouse keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_keys)?
I have not, but I will look into it, this might be useful more generally for me even outside of making DF playable.