APS has always been king in games like Age of Empires. And nothing helps more in maintaining a high APS than knowing about all the different hotkeys to perform a variety of functions like building, going to town center, etc. In this guide, we have provided a complete list of all the hotkeys that are needed to perform different functions in Age of Empires 4.
Age of Empires 4 Keyboard Hotkeys
Below, we have provided a complete list of all the keyboard hotkeys alongside their effects:
General Purpose
Left Click a Unit | Select a unit. |
Double Left Click a Unit | Select all visible units of same type. |
Shift and Left Click a Unit | Add/Remove unit from selection. |
Left Click Ground and Drag Mouse | Bandbox select groups of units. |
Left Click Ground | Confirm building or ability placement. |
Shift and Left Click Ground | Queue building or ability placement. |
Right Click Ground or Unit | Issue contextual order to selected unit. |
Right Click Ground and Drag Mouse | Issue facing move order. |
ESC | Cancel, deselect unit, game menu, or skip NIS. Not user remappable. |
Controls
Control + A | Select all units on screen. |
Control + Shift + A | [Shift]: Select all units” – Appears as shift message on Control-A binding. |
Y with a Unit Selected | Access secondary UI panel. |
Camera
ALT and Move Mouse | Rotate camera. |
[ | Rotate camera 45 degrees counter-clockwise. |
] | Rotate camera 45 degrees clockwise. |
Backspace | Reset camera. 1st press resets camera rotation, 2nd press resets zoom. |
F5 | Focus on selected unit. |
Home | Follow selected unit. |
< | Pan camera left. |
> | Pan camera right. |
Up Arrow | Pan camera up. |
Down Arrow | Pan camera down. |
Unit Management
Tab | Cycle through selected units. |
Ctrl + Tab | Cycle through selected units. |
0 – 9 | Select Control Group X. |
Control and 0 – 9 | Set Control Group X to selected unit. |
Shift and 0 – 9 | Add Group to Selection. |
F1 | Select all Military Production Buildings. |
F2 | Select all Economy Buildings. |
F3 | Select all Research Buildings. |
F4 | Select all Landmarks, Wonders, and Capital Town Centers. |
F5 | Focus on selected Unit. |
H | Cycle through Town Centers. |
Control + H | Focus on Capital Town Center. |
‘ | Cycle through individual Monk Units. |
/ | Cycle through individual Scout Units. |
. | Cycle through Idle Economy. |
Control + . | Select all idle Villagers. |
Control + Shift + V | Select all Villagers. |
Control + Shift + R | Return all Villagers to work. |
, | Cycle through idle Military Units. |
Ctrl + , | Select all idle Military Units. |
Control + Shift + C | Select all Military Units. |
Ctrl + F | Cycle through groups of villagers gathering Food. |
Ctrl + W | Cycle through groups of villagers gathering Wood. |
Ctrl + G | Cycle through groups of villagers gathering Gold. |
Ctrl + S | Cycle through groups of villagers gathering Stone. |
Shift and Unit Production Hotkey | Queue production of 5 units of that type. |
Hold Delete with Unit Selected | Delete unit or building. |
Insert | Toggle Team-based or Unique player colors. |
Communication
Shift + Enter | Global chat. |
Enter | Team chat. |
Enter with Chat Open | Send chat message. |
Tab with Chat Open | Swap between Global and Team. |
Page Up | Scroll chat messages. |
Page Down | Scroll chat messages. |
F6 | Toggle Players & Tribute panel. |
Spacebar | Focus on last event. |
Control + E | Notify Ping. |
Control + R | Attack Ping. |
Control + T | Defend Ping. |
Game
F10 | Game Menu. |
F11 | Toggle game time display. |
Single-player
Pause | Pause Simulation. |
Esc | Pause game. |
F8 | Quick Save. |
F9 | Quick Load. |
Observer HUD
Control + U | Toggle cinematic mode. |
Control + C | Toggle free camera. |
Control + F | Toggle fog of war. |
– | Slower. |
= | Faster. |
Control + ] | View next player. |
Control + [ | View previous player. |
This is all we have got in Age of Empires 4 Hotkeys guide. For more help on the game, be sure to check out our detailed Age of Empires 4 wiki page.