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