Controls

Lumenfall plays the same on every screen, but each one has its own way to hold it. The touch pad is the main design. The keyboard and controller work as full equals on a computer or a tablet.

Touch pad (phone and tablet)

Hold the screen sideways. Your left thumb moves, your right thumb fights.

The stick floats: it appears under your thumb wherever you touch the left side. Attack, jump and potions fire the moment you press. Skills fire on a clean tap, when you lift your finger.

A key lights up with a gold ring when a buff of yours has run out in a fight. If the page you are on has no ring but the PAGE dots burn gold, a buff on another page has run out.

Arrange your keys

Hold PAGE, or tap an empty + key, to open ARRANGE KEYS. Drag skills and items onto keys, and clear a page with CLEAR PAGE.

• KEYS 4, 6 or 8 sets how many skill keys sit on each page. The default is 4. With 6 or 8, a whole combo can live on one page.
• Going up never moves what you already placed. Going down moves skills that no longer fit to a free key, or takes them off the pad.
• MOVE opens the pad layout editor (see below).
• MACROS is a third tab. A macro is one key that casts up to 4 of your buffs in order. You get 2 macros from your second job (level 30) on, and they only hold buffs. A buff you already have running is skipped, and an aura is skipped while another aura is on. BEST PICK fills a macro with your strongest long buffs.

Make the pad fit your thumbs

Open Settings, Device, Touch pad.

• Pad size scales the stick and the keys from 80% to 140%.
• Pad layout, EDIT lets you drag every control to a new spot. Tap one to change its size (70% to 150%). You can also set how see-through the pad rests, and choose a floating or fixed stick. A drop on a bad spot slides to the nearest free spot, so two keys never overlap.
• Vibration gives a light tap when a key goes down.

Battery, frame rate and damage numbers

These rows are in Settings, Device. They apply at once.

• Battery saver: OFF at first. ON holds the game at 30 fps on every picture quality and uses lighter effects, with fewer sparks and glows. Your picture quality stays as it is. For a lighter picture too, pick LOW or VERY LOW.
• Dim on AUTO: ON at first. Dims the screen after 45 seconds untouched while AUTO hunts. See AUTO-Hunting.
• Frame rate: AUTO, 30 or 60. AUTO lets your picture quality decide. 30 runs cooler. 60 is the smoothest, works even on VERY LOW picture quality and uses more battery. While Battery saver is on, this row reads "Battery saver holds 30 fps". Your choice comes back when you turn it off.
• Others' damage numbers: turn OFF to see only your own hits and hits on you. Numbers from other players, your party included, are hidden.

RESET on the Device page turns Battery saver off and puts Dim on AUTO, the frame rate and the damage numbers back to how the game starts.

Low on battery? At 20% or less and not charging, or when your phone saves power on its own (Low Power Mode), the game offers Battery saver once, at a calm moment out of combat. The card reads "Battery saver?" with TURN ON and NOT NOW. It never asks twice.

In the background, or minimized on a computer, the game stops drawing and pauses its sound.

Keyboard (computer)

On a computer you also get a slim bar at the bottom with your quickslots, a movable window system and the mouse. Hover a player or NPC for a tip, click to act, and right-click a player for invite, whisper or trade.

Every key can be changed in Settings, Keyboard. Drag an action, a skill, an item or a window onto a key. A key already in use swaps with it. There is also a second layer on Shift plus a key, empty until you fill it. Esc, Enter and Shift keep their jobs.

Buff macros on a computer

Open Settings, Keyboard, then the MACROS tab of the "Drag onto a key" shelf. Click a buff under YOUR BUFFS to add it to the macro you picked, and click a step in a macro to take it out. BEST PICK fills the macro with your strongest buffs. Then drag the macro onto any key. You get 2 macros from your second job on, with up to 4 buffs each and one aura per macro.

Game controller

Clip-on phone controllers and Xbox or PlayStation pads work on every screen. Plug in or pair, then press any button.

Every popup works with a controller too: entry questions, result and reward cards, the fall screen and shop questions. A glowing ring marks the button A will press, the D-pad or left stick moves it, A presses it and B cancels or closes. On a keyboard the arrow keys, Enter and Esc do the same.

B closes a window or dialog. Everything above can be moved in Settings, Controller. Putting an action on a button that already has one swaps the two. You can also tune the stick's dead zone and how far a trigger must be pulled.

Sitting

You can sit anywhere. On a phone, hold JUMP. On a computer, press the SIT key (the period key by default, change it in Settings, Keyboard). On a controller, flick the right stick left (change it in Settings, Controller). Moving or jumping stands you up. The Wardrobe's Chair tab also has a SIT button.

The Menu

The Menu holds every place in the game: Bag, Equipment, Skills, Character, Quests, the World Map, Challenges, Party, Friends and more. Places you have not unlocked yet stay hidden, and one dim tile shows what opens next. A tile that is new wears a NEW badge. The Guide, from the compass on the HUD, always suggests what to do next.

Language and translation reports

Before playing, tap the A/文 language symbol beside sound on the title screen. Computers also offer Settings, Language. While playing, open Settings and tap the A/文 button with your language's name at the top of any page (it is also under Settings, Account, Language). Then choose APPLY & RESTART. You can also report wording there, or press REPORT during a conversation to attach its current line. See Getting Started for language choices and reporting.