Controls
Every control on phones and tablets, and on a computer with keyboard and mouse.
Two ways to play, one hero
Ashenvale plays on phones and tablets with touch controls, and in a web browser on a computer with keyboard and mouse. Your hero is the same on both: bring it across with your recovery code (see the FAQ).
Phones and tablets
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Move | Put your thumb down anywhere on the game and drag. A joystick appears under your thumb. |
| Attack | Hold the big attack button. Your hero attacks the nearest enemy in range for as long as you hold it. |
| Dodge | Tap the boots button: a quick dash in the direction you're moving, and nothing can hit you while you're in it. It has a short cooldown. |
| Abilities | Tap one of the three small buttons around the attack button. A locked ability tells you the level it needs. With Auto-cast on (the default on phones), these shrink to small cooldown icons instead — your hero fires them on its own, nothing to tap. |
| Heal | Tap the potion button. It drinks a potion when you're low, and otherwise eats your best food. |
| Ashgate | Tap the scroll button beside the potion to read an  Ashgate Scroll and open a town portal. Long-press it to see what it does. See Ashgates. |
| Fight a monster | Tap it. Your hero walks over and fights it. |
| Pick up loot | Tap the loot's name on the ground. |
| Use something | Tap a rock, tree, fishing spot, station, merchant or door. |
| Look at a creature | Press and hold on a monster (or player) for a moment. A card shows its name, level and how dangerous it is for you. |
| Gates | Tap an Ashgate or a Homeward Gate to use it (your hero walks in; its name shows for a moment). Walking over a gate never takes you through. Press and hold one for its card. |
| Inspect a player | Tap another hero to see their gear. |
| Party | Press and hold a hero, then Invite to party. The Party button opens your party. See Parties. |
Your bag, skills, market, settings, shop, collection log, Companions (pets, mounts and summons — see Mounts & Companions) and chat are folded behind one small button in the top-right corner. Tap it to fan the icons out, tap one to open it, and tap the button again (or anywhere else on screen) to fold them back away — they're out from underfoot until you need them. If you know a mount, the same fan-out has a button to mount up or get off. Prayer opens from its own bar in your health panel, top-left. One menu shows at a time; the row of menu tabs under each menu's title switches straight to another.
Keyboard and mouse
Mouse
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Walk | Left-click the ground, or hold the left button and drag like a joystick. |
| Fight | Left-click a monster (or hold F). |
| Pick up / use | Left-click loot, a rock, tree, fishing spot, station, merchant or door. |
| Look at a creature | Right-click it. On another hero, the card can invite them to your party. |
| Party frames | Click a party mate's plate on the left to look at them. |
| Gates | Left-click an Ashgate or a Homeward Gate to use it (walking over one never takes you through); hover to see where it leads; right-click for its card. |
| Item actions | Right-click an item in your bag: equip, sell, lock, bank, pass to a party mate, discard and more. (On a phone, press and hold it.) The bag's own buttons Identify all your unidentified gear and open the Sell… menu. See Selling to merchants. |
| See loot stats | Hover over an item on the ground (the tooltip also shows what a merchant pays). |
| See hidden loot | Hold Alt: items your loot filter hides appear, greyed out. |
| Zoom | Mouse wheel over the game. Your zoom is remembered on that computer. |
Keyboard
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D or arrow keys | Move |
| F (hold) | Attack |
| Space | Dodge: a quick dash you can't be hit during |
| 1, 2, 3 | Abilities |
| Q | Drink a potion (or eat food) |
| T | Read an Ashgate Scroll: open a town portal (Ashgates) |
| B | Bag |
| C | Character |
| K | Skills |
| R | Prayer (rites) |
| M | Grand Market |
| L | Collection Log |
| J | Companions (pets, mounts and summons) |
| H | Mount / dismount (once you know a mount) |
| O | Settings |
| V | Loot filter |
| P | Shop |
| G | Party |
| Enter | Open chat |
| Esc | Close the window on top |
Windows
On a computer, menus open as windows that float over the game, so you can keep playing with them open. Open as many as you like at once (the market, your bag and a forge side by side, say).
- Move a window by dragging its title bar. Double-click the title bar to put it back in its usual place.
- Resize a window by dragging its right edge, bottom edge or the grip in its bottom-right corner. Everything inside, text included, grows or shrinks with it. Double-click an edge or the grip to go back to the normal size.
- Each window remembers its own place and size on that computer.
- Click a window to bring it to the front. Esc closes the one on top.
- On large, high-resolution screens windows start a little bigger. Interface size in Settings makes them (and the rest of the HUD) bigger or smaller.
Keys are ignored while you're typing in a text box, so chatting never makes your hero wander off.
Settings worth knowing
Open Settings (the cog, or O):
- Auto-retaliate: fight back when attacked, and finish the pack you tapped.
- Auto-cast abilities: fire your abilities as they come off cooldown while fighting. It never uses abilities that move you, like Charge. On by default on phones; off by default on a computer.
- Auto-loot: pick up gear you walk over, and nearby gear when no enemies are close. Off: gear stays until you tap it.
- Loot filter: choose which gear gets a label on the ground, with presets, rules, highlight colours and sounds. Auto-loot never picks up what it hides. See Loot Filter & Auto-loot.
- Damage numbers and Minimap: on or off.
- Interface size (computers): make the HUD and windows bigger or smaller on a large monitor.
- Sound effects and Music volume.
- Account recovery: your recovery code. Keep it safe.