The user interface of C3 is very different from C1 and C2. You don't have any applets to check how your norns are doing, something I really have to get accustomed to. Here are some useful keyboard commands that will make playing C3 a little bit more comfortable:

shift+alt+return:

Switches to windowed mode. This is useful if you want to make screenshots or start a program from the start menu.

ctrl+r:

This command lets you save your world manually.

ctrl+s:

Repeats the last sentence spoken by the hand.

ctrl+shift+w:

This command opens a statistics window for the current world. In this window, you can switch to wolfling mode by pressing crtl+shift+f. The wolfling mode stops C3 from constantly updating the display which will only be rendered every 60 seconds. This allows the game to run faster. If you have installed the second updated, you world will be automatically saved approximately every 30 minutes.

ctrl+shift+c:

Brings up the inbuilt command line interface which lets you send CAOS commands directly to C3. If you are not familiar with CAOS, I would not recommend to use it. I won't take any responsibility if you screw up your world!

A useful CAOS command would be the following one:

enum 2 24 4 attr 199 next endm

This line changes the behavior of the powerups in your current world. They can now be activated by the hand which saves a lot of time if you are not interested in the "adventure" side of the game.

If you want to get rid of an original agent such as those annoying hoppities, look their script numbers up in the bootstrap folder (where all the cos files are stored) and type:

enum x y z kill targ next endm

This will remove the agent from your world (x, y, z equals to family, genus and species of the agent you want to remove).

On your Creatures 3 CD you can find two useful text files: The readme file contains some useful tips and the chemicals file a complete list of all chemicals used in C3.

Last changes: 10/04/03