Hotkeys
Below is a list of the keyboard hotkeys you can use in Zeus: Master of Olympus.
Accessing Control Panel Tabs
- 1 – Population
- 2 – Husbandry
- 3 – Industry
- 4 – Distribution
- 5 – Health/Safety
- 6 – Administration
- 7 – Culture
- 8 – Mythology
- 9 – Military
- 0 – Aesthetics
- – – Overview
- Space bar – will switch to an overlay. Which overlay it is depends on which tab you are currently viewing.
- TAB – View Overview Map, press again for information area
Hitting these hotkeys twice in a row will open the full report for each tab.
“Bookmarking” Positions/Soldiers on the Map
- Ctrl+F1 through F4 – This sets a bookmark
- F1 – F4 – Go to bookmark you’ve already set
- Shft+(1-4) – Bookmark company of soldiers/ships after selecting them
- 1-4 – Select bookmarked companies (you already need to have at least one military company selected)
Changing Game Resolution
- F5 – View in windowed mode (desktop resolution must be higher than current Zeus resolution for this to work)
- F6 – Change to 800×600
- F7 – Change to 1024×768
Other Hotkeys
- P – Pauses the game, press again to continue
- R – Rotate building’s footprint
- M – Freeze building’s footprint
- [ – Game speed decreased by 10%
- ] – Game speed increased by 10%
- Page Up – Rotates city anti-clockwise
- Page Down – Rotates city clockwise
- Home – Puts view back due North
- Arrow Keys – Moves your view around the city
- PrintScrn – Copies current screen to clipboard, so it can be pasted into a program such as MS Paint (if you want to take a screenshot)
- Alt+X – Exit game
- Alt+F4 – Closes Zeus immediately
- Esc – Brings up the “Do you want to leave Greece?” dialog box
- Ctrl+Alt+C – Brings up the cheat box
Adventure editor hotkeys
- Ctrl+(F1-F4) – Bookmark a location on the map
- F1-F4 – Go to a bookmark on the map
- Home – Reorient due north
- Page Up – Rotate map counterclockwise
- Page Down – Rotate map clockwise
- Space – Toggle grid on/off
- Ctrl+left click – Remove scrub, earthquake, lava, flood and quarry
- +, – – In elevation touch up mode, changes the touch up height box
- Alt+d – Toggle ability to scroll beyond the map edge
- Alt+z – Refresh terrain