The Settlers III/Controls

The Settlers III can be controlled entirely by mouse. This guide will assume you do so. A list of hotkeys is at the bottom. Note: If you don't have both addons installed, there are small differences (you won't be able to choose the Mission CD campaigns if you don't have the Mission CD, for example).

Out of game
In the main menu, some buttons can be clicked.


 * Tutorial - Starts the Tutorial
 * Campaign - Starts a campaign that originally was in the game
 * Mission CD campaign - Starts a campaign that was introduced with the Mission CD
 * Amazons campaign - Starts a campaign that was introduced with the Amazons CD
 * Campaign: normal - Choose a difficulty. Possibilities are normal and easy. The walkthrough assumes this is normal.
 * Single Player - Play alone on a random, single player, multi player or own map.
 * Multi Player LAN - Play a multi player game via LAN
 * Multi Player Internet - Play a multi player game via internet. You'll need to create an account if you play for the first time.
 * Load game - Load a saved game or replay a campaign mission you've already won if you have the Mission CD.
 * Manual - Read the HTML manual. You need a HTML reader (normally a web browser).
 * Hints - Read the HTML hints file. You need a HTML reader (normally a web browser).
 * Credits - Shows the developers' names
 * End game - Exit

Ingame controls
On the left top side are some buttons. From top to down:


 * ABC - choose chat partners
 * Map - Toggles map display (land + water, geography, political)
 * Soldier - Toggles settlers display on the map (none, directly controlable, all)
 * House - Toggles house display on the map (show houses, don't show houses)

On the bottom there are five buttons. From left to right:
 * PC - Game options (save game, leave game)
 * The other four appear when you get messages

In the middle, three buttons appear. Clicking one will result in four more buttons. From left to right:
 * House - build menu
 * Raw material buildings - Mines, quarry, sawmill, woodcutter, forester
 * Food buildings - Buildings for food
 * Military buildings - Expansion, production of war machines, soldiers, ships, healer
 * Town buildings - Residences, temples, storage and market


 * Goods - goods related
 * Overview - Shows all goods
 * Tools and weapons - Toggle production of tools and weapons
 * Goods control - Click on the buttons to set where goods should be brought to
 * Transport - Priority of goods when transported and if they should go into storage areas


 * Settler - settler related
 * Statistics - Shows all settlers
 * Occupation - Control the percentage of carriers, builders etc, make pioneers etc
 * Recruiting - Upgrade soldiers (if enough mana was created) and set recruting to automatic or manual
 * Production statistics [not in early versions] - Click on a button to see how many goods per minute are produced.
 * Mana [only in early versions] - In early versions, instead of the production statistics here was shown how much mana is usable for spells. This can be seen by clicking on a priest now only.

Hotkeys

 * [Q][W][E][R] open the House menus
 * [A][S][D][F] open the Goods menus
 * [Z][X][C][V] open the Settlers menus (it is possible to use [Y] instead [Z])
 * [T] shows the time passed since start of the mission in the bottom right corner
 * [P] pauses the game (unpause with P)
 * [F12] skips a minute
 * [F1] [F2] [F3] change resolution to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 pixel