Controls & camera

Movement and posture

Flight mods reward players who stop and hover more often than they sprint. If your craft drifts, small taps on your movement keys are easier to read than long holds. If you play on a laptop trackpad, consider a real mouse: camera micro-adjustments are much cheaper with a comfortable surface and a few spare centimeters to move.

Some packs add sprint, carry, and utility keys that fight for the same fingers as mod actions. Open your control menu once a week and ask: is anything doubled up? A duplicate bind is a recipe for “why did the game do that?” in the air. The Compatibility page has notes when common mods take over keys you might want free.

Camera, FOV, and comfort

Field of view (FOV) is personal, but a very wide FOV can make it harder to judge distance when placing blocks on a long hull. Try a moderate FOV for building and a slightly wider one for flight if the game or your mod menu lets you switch profiles. If you get motion-sick, lower mouse sensitivity, turn off bouncy view bobbing if your pack exposes it, and add short breaks: ten minutes in the air, two minutes on the ground looking at the horizon.

Rebinding mod actions

Many mod-specific actions end up in the same Options → Controls list as the base game, sometimes under a separate category named after the mod. Read each line: some actions only matter in vehicles, some only in the creative hand, and some are safety toggles you should not hide behind awkward chords. It is better to have an unused key than a panic key buried under a thumb that already strafes.

If you on-board new players, share a screenshot of your key map instead of a long voice call. A picture cuts support time in half. For building workflow, the next read is Building – layout, spacing, and how to work on a craft without tripping your own levers.