A Hotkey is a button or combination of buttons that when pressed have some effect. In Tibia, players can set hotkeys to use or equip items, send a string of text, activate an Action Button or use some other client feature. For example, a player can use hotkeys to eat Ham (use), drink a Health Potion (use on yourself), dig with a Shovel where the player chooses (use with crosshairs), or use a Sudden Death Rune (use on target). Backpacks need not be opened in order to use hotkeyed items.

Tibia 11 Client

One of the main improvements of the Tibia 11 client was improved control over the hotkeys. Differently from Tibia 10, on Tibia 11 you can set many more combinations of keys as hotkeys, as well as change client hotkeys (e.g. Ctrl+L to logout). Similar to the feature originally introduced in the Flash Client, on Tibia 11 it's also possible to create hotkey presets. Every hotkey set has two modes, depending if you have Chat On or Chat Off.

Tibia 10 Client

On the Tibia 10 client players can set up to 36 hotkeys. The function keys (F1, F2, F3, ..., F12) are the primary hotkeys, the secondary hotkeys are activated with ⇧ Shift followed by the function keys, and the tertiary hotkeys are activated with Ctrl followed by the function keys.

In Updates/10.55 a feature was added to allow players to set hotkey presets, allowing automatic changing of hotkey sets.

Flash Client

On the Flash Client players can arbitrarily set up their own hotkeys. The Flash Client hotkey setup has an internal spellbook that allows you to select the spell to cast, but it is no different than actually casting the spells (you can set the string exura gran instead of setting the spell).

Tricks

• Players can quickly find the total amount of an item they possess by adding a hotkey to a countable item and using it. For example many players hotkey Gold Coins so they can use the hotkey and quickly tell how many gold coins are in their backpack. Note that if the item has an effect when used, one of the item will be used in the process.
• Players can find the internal ID of an item by hotkeying it and searching the Tibia.cfg (Tibia 10) or Clientoptions.json (Tibia 11) file for the added hotkey.
• In extension of finding item IDs, players can use hotkeys to distinguish versions of items, for example Heavily Rusted Armor from Slightly Rusted Armor. The only other way to achieve this is by using the Market.

• You can add the desired actions to Action Buttons and then assign hotkeys to them, while also keeping other useful actions on unassigned buttons. Then, if you need to quickly switch a hotkey (e.g. from Avalanche Rune to Great Fireball Rune), you can do it quickly without opening any dialog in your screen.

Default Tibia 11 Client Shortcuts

Note: Shortcuts with a (*) are not shown in the official manual.
Note²: Almost all of these shortcuts can be changed, if it's not working like this for you check your settings.
Note³: Some hotkeys are affected by client settings, for example using Ctrl to drag stacks.

Text Editing

Ctrl+A	select all text in the field of focus.
Ctrl+C	copy the selected text into the system clipboard
Ctrl+X	cut the selected text and put it into the system clipboard.
Ctrl+V	paste a copy of the text from the clipboard into the field of focus.
⇧ Shift+↑ & ⇧ Shift+↓	browse through the recently sent text. If there is text in the console when this is initially used, an entry will be added to the list but the text will not be sent, so you can recover what was in the text field by pressing ⇧ Shift+↓
⇧ Shift+← & ⇧ Shift+→	move the text cursor left/right, allowing you to add or remove text at a different position

Channels

Tab ↹ & ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹	Switch between channels.
Ctrl+D	Switch to the Local Chat Channel
Ctrl+O	Open a new channel
Ctrl+E	Close the current channel
Ctrl+M	Show server messages in the current channel
Ctrl+I	Open the ignore and white lists

See also: Chat Commands

Help and Report Functions

Ctrl+H	Get online help for the client
Ctrl+T	Open the Help Channel to get help by experienced players
Ctrl+Z	Bug Report
Alt+F8	Show current framerate (frames per second) and ping

Automap

Alt+Home / End	Zoom the automap in or out
Alt+↑ / → / ↓ / ←	Scroll on the automap
Alt+Page Up / Page Down	Switch the automap to a higher or lower floor

Control Buttons

Esc	Stop any character action
Ctrl+Q / Ctrl+L	Log out from the game
Alt+F4	Try exit game. (*)
Ctrl+G	Log out and switch to another character of your account
Ctrl+P	Open/close VIP list
Ctrl+B	Open/close Battle Window
Ctrl+S	Open/close Skills Window
Ctrl+K	Assign texts, spells or actions to hotkeys

Game Window

Ctrl+W	Remove statements from the game window
Ctrl+R	Mount or dismount
Ctrl+N	Hide the names and the status bars of the creatures on the game window
Ctrl+F / Alt+↵ Enter	Switch to fullscreen mode or back to windowed mode
Ctrl+Left/Right Click (Classic Control off)	'Use' or 'Open' any item, container or object
Right Click (Classic Control on)	'Use' or 'Open' any item, container or object (*)
⇧ Shift+Left/Right Click (Classic Control off/on)	'Look' at any item, object, monster, NPC or character
↑ / → / ↓ / ←	Walk (not diagonally)
Numpad Cursor Keys (Num Lock off)	Walk (also diagonally)
⇧ Shift+Numpad Cursor Keys (Num Lock on)	Walk (also diagonally) (*)
Ctrl+↑ / → / ↓ / ←	Change the direction your character is facing
Ctrl+Moving stacked items	The whole stack will be moved at once
⇧ Shift+Moving stacked items	You will only move one stacked item at a time
Alt+Left/Right Click (Classic Control off/on)	Start or to stop an attack to a monster or character
Right Click (Classic Control on)	Start or to stop an attack to a monster or character. (*)

Slider

Left click+⇧ Shift	Changes slider step by 10
Left click+Ctrl	Changes slider step by 100
Left click+Ctrl+⇧ Shift	Changes slider step by 1000

Sources

Shortcuts List
Help and Report Functions
Basic Controls
Moving Your Character
Moving Items
Combat