Forest Village User Interface

The  is the player's way of controlling the game Forest Village.

Actions Menu

 * The Actions Menu is used to bring up all subordinate menus
 * Space Bar - Pause - Pauses & unpauses the game
 * (Escape) - Main Menu - pressing the (Esc) key will bring up the main menu
 * F11 - Hide Interface - This temporarily hides all user interface windows to allow for better Screenshots. Pressing F11 a second time unhides the interface windows.
 * F12 - Screenshot - this captures a copy of what is shown on the screen and writes it to a file.

Overview Window

 * The first Button on the General Information menu Opens/Closes the Overview Window Overview Window.jpg
 * Here you can see The Settlement Name (Total Population) and Season & Year
 * Weather Conditions
 * A Breakdown of the population
 * Adults
 * Teens
 * Infants
 * Numbers of
 * Idle Professionals (More assignments than openings)
 * Starving Villagers
 * Current Inventory levels of all goods in Storage (Excludes Houses and Market)

Event Log

 * The second Button on the General Information menu Opens/Closes the Event Log

Professions Window

 * The third Button on the General Information menu Opens/Closes the Professions Window Professions Window.jpg
 * Here you can see The number of workers currently assigned to each profession and the maximum that can be assigned (assuming that free workers are available.

Resource Limits Window

 * The fourth Button on the General Information menu Opens/Closes the Resource Limits Window Resource Limits.jpg
 * When starting a NEW game, these limits are currently set very high. It's recommended that you review and adjust them downward.

Mini-map

 * The fifth Button on the General Information menu Opens/Closes the Mini-Map Mini-map.jpg

Deconstruct

 * The seventh button allows you to designate any building for destruction. Construction and terraforming may be cancelled as well. Careful with this one as there is currently no way to stop the destruction of a building slated for destruction in error. (Except for reloading from a previous save)

Information

 * This button is EXACTLY the same as just left mouse clicking on a building. Perhaps something related to production accounting is envisioned in future.

Houses

 * When placing a building the options are shown on the left Building Placement Gui Options.jpg

Pause

 * You may pause time at any point by pressing the space bar
 * Savegames that are paused when saved will start out paused while those that are saved while time is running will start out running when they are loaded

Map Movement

 * You may move the camera around the map using the standard WASD movement keys. This may also be done by moving the mouse pointer off the screen borders.
 * The Q and E keys will rotate the map in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. This may also be done by holding down the right mouse button while moving the mouse back and forth.
 * Pan and Tilt are done via moving the mouse up and down while holding the right mouse button
 * Zooming in and out is accomplished via the mouse wheel.

First Person

 * By Left Clicking on any villager you may bring up that individual's info window.
 * The (Esc) key will take you back out of first person view
 * By clicking on that person's portrait in their individual info window you may elect to take First Person Control of that person. When in First Person all time is either paused or moves at 1x speed.