Tools at a glance

What each button in the dock does, and the buttons in the corner.

The tool dock

Almost everything you do in your aquarium starts from the dock of tools at the edge of the screen. Pick a tool, then click or tap the water, a fish or the floor.

Feed, Net and Clean sit on one side of it, Build & Buy, Pantry, My Fish, Friends, Workshop and School on the other.

Look: what you hold when no other tool is picked (key 1). Tap a fish to see what it needs, how old it is and what it's worth.
Feed: drop food into the water and watch your fish chase it.
Net: tap a grown fish to sell it, or collect a fish that was lost.
Clean: scrub algae off the glass with the sponge.
Build & Buy: everything you buy and own lives in this drawer: fish, plants, decorations, equipment, food and your aquarium's look (key 6, or 5 for Decor). Drag a card into the aquarium to place it. Arrange, where your fish step back so you can move decorations, is on key R and in the aquarium's menu.
Corner buttons: Quests (key D), the Reef Journal (key 9), Aquariums, the Map and Expeditions stand together in the bottom-right corner. The Journal is the notebook of every species, decoration and way of the game, looked up in a moment; Expeditions shows when your soonest team is back.
Pantry: your fish food, every jar and your decorations, one press away (key 8). Workshop: the bench in the cabinet under the aquarium, where you mix recipes (key W).
My Fish: every fish you own in every aquarium, with its stats and value. Friends (key V) and School are one press away beside it. To keep the dock open all the time, turn on Keep the tool bar open in Settings › Interface.

The Map

The big sea chart in the bottom corner is the Map. It opens straight onto the painted ocean map: swim out to Open Water, or pick the Coral Neighbourhood to visit other keepers' homes. Your friends are in the Menu.

Out in Open Water the Map stands in the same corner: pick another place to swim on to it, or Home to swim back. On someone else's aquarium the ocean map waits until you're home, but the Coral Neighbourhood still takes you on to the next keeper's aquarium.

Right-click (a long press on touch) with no tool picked opens a menu for what is under your finger. On a fish: open its card (Your fish's card), feed it while it is growing, sell it (or every adult of its species), collect it, or add its species to your favourites. On a decoration: move it or sell it. On the water: feed here, drop an egg of a favourite fish (see Build & Buy), clean the glass, or decorate. At the bottom, Menu lists the game's rooms, the ones you use most first; each opens as its own panel over your aquarium. The water's menu also opens Build & Buy and the Pantry directly. Research opens from it too.

On a touch screen a two-finger tap is a right-click too: it opens this menu, or puts down the tool in your hand. A three-finger tap on the water scatters your fish; anywhere else it opens or closes the Menu.

Touch controls

On a phone or tablet, five gestures do what a mouse and keyboard do. The game shows each one once, the first time it helps, and Settings › Game shows them all again any time.

Keys

On a keyboard, every action below has a key. Change any of them in the Menu, in Shortcuts.

Handy habits

An egg or decoration you pick stays in your hand after you place it, so stocking up is one click per item instead of a trip back to the shop each time. Press Esc when you're done. The tool’s hint sits just above the dock with a Done button that puts the tool down too.

Not sure what a fish needs? Tap it with Look. Its card shows its hunger, its growth and its own countdown.

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