MLU Controls Guide

Version “Pumpkin Patch” edition.

Here is a guide for the basic controls in MLU. I hope this will help solve anyone’s questions about the controls in the game. This will be updated for the newer versions of MLU as they come out.

MLU is a keyboard controlled game. The mouse is only involved when starting the game up and closing the game. At no point in the game do you use your mouse.

Basic Movement

Up Arrow: Flies your vehicle upwards.
Down Arrow: Engages your vehicle to mine the ground below you.
Left and Right Arrow: Moves your vehicle left or right. You cannot mine left or right using these arrow keys.
Space Bar: Depending on which direction your facing, when you press the space bar your vehicle engages mining left or right. (Note: Press the “Space” bar once as holding it may cause bugs in game.)
Shift: Pressing  shift engages the jet.

Home Base Controls

Arrow Keys: Use the arrows keys for menu navigation.
Enter: The will switch you over to a different menu. Like the Online Score Board.
ESC (Escape): This will exit you out of the Home Base.

Engaging Items

Z: Engages Dynamite.
X: Engages TNT.
Q: Engages Teleport 1.
W: Engages Teleport 2.
A: Fix Hull.
S: Fix Drill.
1: Sonic Bomb.
2: Ice Bomb.

If you have further questions you can either e-mail me at: pariah1012000@yahoo.com or private message me.  

--Last edited by Pariah on 2007-11-16 00:55:25 --

Well I made this as a Control guide. Almost a little test of my own to see what you think. If you want I could start expanding on it. Though its a Control guide.

If you insist, I always like making guides and walkthroughs. I got good organization and grammer skills. I'll see what I can come up with, I just need some basic information. If your willing to provide me with it.

Yeah I live in Arizona, its 11:32 pm here.

Ha ha alrighty mocking me. I don't keep the best grammer skills in a forum.  

No I only speak English. If you are willing to translate it that would be nice.

No bed time for me. Must play MLU!

It will expand on how many people can play the game. As for a spanish speaking friend, I'll see.

It would be nice to see MLU open up to a wider audience.

Well I am currently in the works of creating a guide for the game. I won't release any spoilers. I will probably have it done by this afternoon (my time). It will be called MLU Unofficial Guide. Until its complete and you, and alex approve it then we can make it official.

Well its 5 pages so far I think I got everything covered, though I am missing some information which I don't have so I hope you both will help.

Wow just checked the time. I've been working on this for 5 hours.

Ok, so i leave for a few hours and the forums is flooded with a load of new posts. Not that im complaining.
Anyways, a few notes: As of now the most important controls in the game are keyboard activated. Some mouse controls may be added with new features.
As you (Seth) know, i wanna add a lamp on the dashboard that would light up if the jet booster is activated, so the player would know it. So there is no need for CAPS LOCK light. Plus, suppose you are falling down for 2-3 minutes and wanna write an email or something to someone, then you would have to turn the CAPS LOCK off to do that, then tun it on again, or something like that. Plus#2: the Shift is right above the arrow keys, so u can do all ya flying with one hand.

Yeah really, engage is not the word that i would choose...

About multi-lingual support: Well, being that im bilingual, i could do the game in Russian, only i see no point. Russian is not a very efficient language, its words are 1.5 times longer on average then English. English is an international language that i sort of know and everyone sorta understands. I dont wanna have people ask me questions in Spanish or French cause that could be the effect of making multilingual guides. Im sure im gonna have spanish, french, etc. players who are fluent in english but they wont know about the game as much as i do to help the ones in need.

Anyways, keep up the good work. I sure like to have a thorough guide (in English for now).

Well you should see the new post I made called "MLU Unofficial Guide"  ;)

yeah kinda saw it (dont have time right now) but it looks like some of the stuff i wrote in "about motherload" topic. Of course there are errors, but ill fix those. Ok, gotta run now, be back in ~2 hrs.

Yeah I took some of the information you provided and changed a bit of it then added it. Added some information of my own. I guess I'll see what you think in 2 hours.