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Every hero has five abilities (Doctor Strange has a sixth, on Y). They are bound to the keys R, G, V, B, N, in that order: ability 1 is R, ability 2 is G, ability 3 is V, ability 4 is B and ability 5 is N. The same keys work for every hero, and each key triggers the ability with the same number in that hero's list. Keys work only when you are a hero, no screen is open and you are not a Spectator.
| Hero | R | G | V | B | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magneto | Metal Telekinesis (Sneak: Magnetic Pull) | Iron Shrapnel Storm (hold) | Armor & Weapon Strip | Magnetic Shield (toggle) | Magnetic Flight (toggle) |
| Scarlet Witch | Chaos Energy Beam (hold) | Enhanced Flight (toggle) | Telekinesis (creatures, items, blocks; Sneak: a block) | Chaos Shield (hold) | The Hex (again: Hex Control; Sneak: dissolve) |
| Quicksilver | Quicksilver Time on/off (Sneak: Walkman on/off) | Super Speed on/off (Sneak: Dash Strike) | Speed Blitz (Sneak: Pickpocket) | Wall & Water Run (toggle) | Pebble Barrage |
| Vision | Mind Stone Beam (hold) | Flight (toggle) | Phase through walls (toggle) | Density (toggle) | Human Disguise (toggle) |
| Tommy | Slow Time on/off (Sneak: Wall & Water Run on/off) | Super Speed on/off (Sneak: Dash Strike) | Whirlwind (Sneak: Sonic Boom) | Vibrate Through Walls (Sneak: Disarm Blitz) | Molecular Acceleration |
| Billy | Hex Beam (hold) | Flight (toggle) | Telekinesis (creatures, items, arrows, blocks; Sneak: a block) | Freeze (Sneak, hold: Hex Barrier) | The Noise (toggle) |
| Loki | Daggers (Sneak: a fan of three) | Duplicates | Shapeshift | Vanish | Frost Giant (toggle) |
| Thor | Throw Mjolnir or Stormbreaker, or call it back (Sneak: shatter Mjolnir) | Flight (toggle, weapon in hand) | Lightning Beam (hold) | God of Thunder (toggle) | Bifrost screen: Asgard (3.5), home, saved places, save this one (Sneak: where you look) |
| Phoenix | Mind Reading on/off (Sneak: Mind Sense) | Flight (toggle) | Telekinesis (creatures, items, arrows, blocks; Sneak: a block) | Mind Control (Sneak: Psionic Field) | Phoenix Burst (hold to charge, let go to unleash) |
| Spider-Man | Web Shot (Sneak: Web Burst) | Web Zip (Sneak, hold: Web Swing) | Wall Crawl (toggle; Sneak: Spider-Sense on/off) | Spider Legs (toggle; Sneak, twice: Instant Kill); Iron Spider only | Black Eyes (toggle) |
| Thanos | Power Blast (Sneak: Titan Slam) | Portal Step (Sneak: Space Pull) | Transmute to stone (Sneak: Reality Veil, toggle) | Soul Drain (hold; Sneak: Soul Sight) | Rewind (Sneak: Time Lock) |
| Ultron | Repulsor Fire (hold; Sneak: Overcharge) | Anti-Gravity Flight (toggle) | Gravity Pull (Sneak: Gravity Slam) | Upload (Sneak: Hack; Second Life) | Sentry Army (Sneak: Command) |
| Apocalypse | Sand Control: Sand Wave (Sneak: Entomb) | Levitation (toggle) | Portal | Apocalypse's Shield (hold) | Power Bestowal (Sneak: Sandstorm) |
| Agatha | Purple Beam (hold; Sneak: Hex Mark, or the mind glimpse) | Flight (toggle) | Power Drain | Witch's Shield (hold) | Rune Trap |
| Cyclops | Optic Blast (hold; Sneak: Ricochet Shot) | Concussion Blast | Optic Leap | Rally | Glasses on (Sneak: take them off) |
| Professor X | Mental Blast | Hear Thoughts (toggle) | Take Over a Body (again: return) | Freeze Minds | Cerebro |
| Heimdall (3.5) | Hofund Slash, three blows (Sneak: Lunge) | All-Seeing Sight (toggle; Sneak, hold: Far Sight) | Bifrost screen, no item needed (Sneak: where you look) | Guardian's Ward (hold; Sneak: Gatekeeper's Call) | Bifrost Strike (Sneak: Bifrost for a friend) |
| Odin (3.5) | Gungnir Blast (Sneak: Gungnir Throw; R again calls it back) | Odinforce Shield (hold; Sneak: Odinforce Heal) | Banish (Sneak: Odinforce Wave) | Huginn and Muninn (Sneak: Ravens' Report) | Allfather's Command (Sneak: Odinsleep, toggle) |
| Hela (3.5) | Necrosword Volley (Sneak: Blade Rain) | Blade Wall (Sneak: Blade Burst) | Goddess of Death (toggle; Sneak: Death Dash) | Raise the Dead (Sneak: Fenris) | Death's Grasp (hold) |
| Doctor Strange (3.6) | Eldritch Whip, three lashes (Sneak: Whip Grapple) | Cloak of Levitation (flight, toggle) | Shield of the Seraphim (hold; Sneak: Seraphim Dome) | Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (Sneak: Astral Projection, toggle) | Sling-Ring Portal (Sneak: Mirror Dimension, toggle) |
| Hulk (3.6) | Hulk Smash (Sneak: Grab Smash) | Thunder Clap (Sneak: Roar) | Super Leap (Sneak: Bound) | Boulder Throw (Sneak: Gamma Charge) | Transform: Banner ↔ Hulk (Sneak: Switch Hulk) |
| Wolverine (3.7) | Claw Slash, a combo of three (Sneak: Spin Slash) | Claws out/in (toggle; Sneak: Claw Climb, toggle) | Pounce (Sneak: Feral Leap) | Berserker Rage (Sneak: Healing Burst) | Sniff (Sneak: Track, toggle) |
| Deadpool (3.7) | Katanas, a combo of three (Sneak, hold: Parry) | Pistols (Sneak: Trick Shot) | Teleport Belt (Sneak: Drop-In) | Taunt (Sneak: Chimichanga Break) | Dogpool (Sneak: Smoke Vanish) |
| Captain America (3.8) | Shield Throw (Sneak: Ricochet Throw) | Shield Slam (Sneak: Super-Soldier Leap) | Shield Charge (Sneak: Shield Bash) | Assemble (Sneak: Inspire) | Combat Combo (Sneak: Flip Kick) |
| Red Hulk (3.8) | Ground Smash (Sneak: Grab & Slam) | Heat Wave (Sneak: Roar) | Super Jump (hold, let go; Sneak: Bound) | Anger Burst, from 50 anger (Sneak, hold: Energy Absorb) | Transform: Ross ↔ Red Hulk |
| Iron Man (3.8) | The worn suit's R (Mark 1: Flamethrower, hold; Mark 3: Repulsor, Sneak: Double-Hand Blast; Mark 5: Repulsor; Mark 50: Nano Repulsor, Sneak: Nano Blade; Mark 85: Boosted Repulsors, Sneak: Energy Blades on/off; Hulkbuster: Rapid Punch Combo) | Flight (toggle; Mark 1: Rocket Boost) | The suit's V (Unibeam, hold; Mark 1: Arm Rocket; Mark 85: Giant Chest Laser; Hulkbuster: Heavy Unibeam) | The suit's B (Mark 1: Brace, hold; Mark 3: Flares; Mark 5: Dash Punch; Mark 50: Nano Shield, hold; Mark 85: Giant Energy Shield, hold, Sneak: Lightning Refocuser; Hulkbuster: Grab & Throw) | The suit's N (Mark 1: Heavy Punch; Mark 3: Mini-Missiles; Mark 5: Laser Burst; Mark 50: Nano Cannon, hold and let go; Mark 85: Homing Mini-Missiles, Sneak: Nanotech Drones; Hulkbuster: Veronica) |
| Falcon (3.8) | Wrist Blasters (Sneak: Wrist Rocket) | Flight (toggle; Sneak: Glide on/off) | Dive (Sneak: Boost Climb) | Wing Shield (hold; Sneak: Wing Slash) | Redwing (Sneak: Redwing Strike) |
| Love (3.8) | Axe Throw, with Stormbreaker (Sneak: Thunder Strike) | Flight (toggle, Stormbreaker in hand) | Lightning (hold) | Eye Laser (hold) | Bifrost screen, with the axe (Sneak: where you look) |
| A custom hero | Whatever power you put on the key in the Hero Creator, and on Sneak + the key (3.4) |
Press, hold, toggle. Press abilities fire once per key press. Hold abilities (the Chaos Beam, the Shrapnel Storm, the Chaos Shield, Billy's Hex Beam and Hex Barrier, the Mind Stone Beam, Thor's Lightning Beam, the Phoenix Burst, Spider-Man's Web Swing, Thanos's Soul Drain, Ultron's Repulsor Fire, Apocalypse's Shield, Agatha's Purple Beam and Witch's Shield, Cyclops's Optic Blast, and in 3.5 Heimdall's Guardian's Ward and Far Sight, Odin's Odinforce Shield and Hela's Death's Grasp, and in 3.6 Doctor Strange's Shield of the Seraphim, and in 3.7 Deadpool's Parry, and in 3.8 Red Hulk's Super Jump and Energy Absorb, Iron Man's Unibeams, chest laser, flamethrower, brace and shields, Falcon's Wing Shield and Love's Lightning and Eye Laser) work for as long as you keep the key down (the Chaos Shield never runs out in 3.2, unless a server turns that off; in 3.3 Billy's Hex Barrier has no time limit either, and only drops when it shatters; Agatha's shield lasts 10 seconds at most). Toggle abilities switch on with one press and off with the next.
The abilities, their cooldowns and costs are explained on each hero's page. The Scarlet Witch and Billy also have Y, for Build Magic, and Doctor Strange has Y for the Eye of Agamotto. The two books of the sorcerers are used, not bound to a key. A custom hero has the same five keys, with the powers you chose on them; since 3.4 each key also has a Sneak + box, a hero's ability brings its Sneak variant with it (Thor's Mjolnir Throw on R puts Shatter Mjolnir on Sneak + R), and a custom hero with Billy's Build Magic uses Y for it. Sneak + a key whose Sneak box is empty does what the key does. See Hero Creator.
For Iron Man (3.8), H is the suit key: it puts a suit on, takes it off, deploys and retracts the nanotech suits, and skips a suit-up; Sneak + H chooses which suit H puts on next, or switches between the Mark 50 and the Mark 85. See Iron Man.
For everyone else, H changes your look, if your hero has several (Sneak + H goes back). It is bound as Change Look and works for Vision, Tommy, Billy, Loki, Thor, the Phoenix, Spider-Man, Thanos, Ultron, Apocalypse, Agatha, Cyclops, Professor X (for him it switches between the young and the old Charles), Heimdall, Odin, Hela, Doctor Strange, the Hulk (for him a change between Bruce Banner and a Hulk is a whole transformation), Wolverine, Deadpool, Captain America, Red Hulk, Falcon and Love. Magneto, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have one suit each, and the key tells you "This hero has only one look". The looks of every hero are on Looks.
The Scarlet Witch has one more key. Z is her order to the Vision her Hex raises (see Scarlet Witch). It works only while she has a Hex:
- Look at a creature and press Z: Vision goes for that one.
- Look at nothing and press Z: he comes back to your side.
- Sneak + Z: he holds his post where he is, or follows you again. The Hex Control screen (N) has the same choice as a button.
Doctor Strange's sixth key is Y, the same key as Build Magic: the Eye of Agamotto. It needs the Eye with him.
- Y: Slow Time on or off (the Time Stone's: creatures round him move three times slower, up to 10 seconds).
- Sneak + Y: Rewind, back to where he was 5 seconds ago.
Its line on the HUD is [Y]: no Eye, time slowed 7s, recharging 40% or ready. A custom hero with the Eye's ability uses Y for it; a hero has at most one Y (the Eye or a Build Magic). See Doctor Strange.
With a crafted Infinity Gauntlet in your hand:
- Tap J: the next stone in the Gauntlet.
- Hold J: the Stone Wheel, a ring of its stones round the crosshair; let go on one, or click it, to choose it.
- Right-click: the chosen stone's power; Sneak + right-click: its second power. With all six stones and the Snap ready, Sneak + hold right-click for 3 seconds: the Snap.
The same goes for a bare stone in your hand (no J needed). J is also Spider-Man's Web Assist: each answers only for its own player. See Infinity Stones.
The Scarlet Witch and Billy have one more key: Y, for Build Magic. It is the sixth line of your hero panel ([Y] Build Magic OFF). It does nothing for any other hero.
- Tap Y: build mode on or off.
- Hold Y (a third of a second): the Spell Wheel, a ring of eleven pictures. Out of build mode it turns build mode on first.
In the wheel (the game does not pause):
| Input | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Mouse onto a picture, then let go of Y | Choose that spell; the wheel closes. |
| Let go in the middle | The wheel stays open for clicking. |
| Click a picture | Choose that spell and stay open (to pick a style); click the chosen one to close. |
| 1 to 9, 0 | Choose the first nine spells and the tenth (Land); the wheel closes (also while Y is still held). Grow, the eleventh, has no number. |
| Mouse wheel | Step from spell to spell (down is clockwise). |
| Esc | Close the wheel. (A tap of Y closes it too, and build mode stays on.) |
The wheel also has the style row, Mix (the dice), your nine hotbar slots, Undo and Redo (and, for the Scarlet Witch, Instant under them), the door that starts or stops building, and Blocks: a page of block pictures with a search box and the last 16 you used. See Build Magic.
In build mode the mouse works like this (the strip at the bottom right always tells you what the buttons do right now):
| Input | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Left click | Where: the first and second corner of a box. Double click: the whole tree or house. Click the sky: let go (or a corner in the air). A left click never breaks a block. |
| Right click | Do it: cast what the ghost shows. Hold it for a big spell (one second for more than 64 blocks removed or replaced, two for a million) and for Paint, Land and Grow. With nothing ready it is plain Minecraft. |
| Scroll | The main number: push the side of the box you look at, size, copies, layers. Ctrl + scroll: 8 at a time. |
| Alt + scroll | Which kind: style, shape, turn, gap. |
| Middle click | Take that exact block as your material. |
The Ctrl shortcuts (their names in the Controls screen start with "Build Magic"):
| Keys | Does | Works |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y | Undo / redo | in build mode and out of it (for the Scarlet Witch and Billy only; for every other hero Ctrl + Z is what it was) |
| Ctrl + I | Instant on or off: spells, undos and redos appear all at once (a gold badge "⚡ Instant") | in build mode, for the Scarlet Witch only (Billy is told it is her magic alone) |
| Ctrl + R / Ctrl + F | Turn a ghost a quarter / flip it | in build mode |
| Ctrl + C | Copy the box (choose Copy) | in build mode |
| Ctrl + X | Pick the box up (choose Move) | in build mode |
| Ctrl + V | Bring the pocket's ghost back | in build mode |
| Delete | Vanish what is in the box | in build mode |
| Left Alt (held) | The second knob, with the scroll wheel | in build mode |
No Sneak is used in build mode, and every key of your hero keeps its power (fly with G, fight with R and B, Sneak + V takes a block). Plain Z is still Wanda's order to her Vision.
Things you may notice:
- The game's Controls screen marks these Ctrl keys, and the keys they share (Sprint, Swap Item With Offhand, the toolbar keys, and R, V, Z, Y of the mod), in red, with the note "This key is also used for...". That is only the screen being careful: each key still goes to the right place.
- Left Control is still Sprint: holding Ctrl while you walk forward sprints, as in vanilla Minecraft.
- Xaero's Minimap also uses Y. Rebind one of the two.
Two items and a place have controls of their own. None of them uses the keys R, G, V, B and N: they work by using the item (right-click, as for a bow or a sword), and only a sorcerer (Loki, the Scarlet Witch, Billy or Agatha) can read them. (3.3: a player with no power who holds use on the Darkhold for 3 seconds becomes Agatha.)
| Item | Input | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Book of the Vishanti | Use (right-click) | Opens the book: your saved places, with Save here, Save as base (this one raises the ward) and a go button for each. |
| Book of the Vishanti | Sneak + use | Takes you to your base (the first base you saved), after a short gathering of sparks. |
| Darkhold | Hold use | Agatha's Purple Beam, aimed along your look, for as long as you hold the button (you walk slowly meanwhile, like a drawn bow). |
| Darkhold | Sneak + use at a creature | A hex mark on it: it glows, is slowed and takes more of your damage. |
| Darkhold | Sneak + use at nothing | A mind glimpse: every living thing near you glows, and the action bar names the nearest and its health. |
| Darkhold | (nothing to press) | While you hold it, magic used on you poisons the one who used it. |
| Darkhold, with no power | Hold use for 3 seconds | You become Agatha. |
| Hex Control (N with a Hex up) | The Hex Runes button | The Scarlet Witch inscribes or wipes the Hex Runes on the walls of her Hex. |
| Hero Creator (Creative or operators) | Use (right-click) | Opens the Hero Creator: choose any hero, or make your own. |
| Professor X's Wheelchair, with no power | Hold use for 3 seconds | You become Professor X and choose the young or the old Charles. |
| Ruby-Quartz Glasses, with no power | Put them on (the head slot) | You become Cyclops. |
| The Witches' Road | Right-click the exit door on the start platform, twice | Leaves the Road (the Gene stays with you). Or type /road leave. |
| Witches' Road, the Ice-Boat Race | W go, A and D steer, S back, Shift climb out | Shift also puts you back on the last checkpoint if you are stuck. |
| Witches' Road, Copy the Structure | Right-click the Check and Hint buttons | Check counts the blocks that are right; Hint shows ghosts of the blocks that are missing. |
Flying works like Creative mode: double-tap Space, or press the hero's flight key. Either one turns flight on, and the same again lands you.
| Hero | Flight key |
|---|---|
| Magneto | N (Magnetic Flight) |
| Scarlet Witch | G (Enhanced Flight) |
| Vision | G (Flight) |
| Billy | G (Flight) |
| Thor | G, and only with Mjolnir or Stormbreaker in hand |
| Phoenix | G (Flight) |
| Ultron | G (Anti-Gravity Flight) |
| Apocalypse | G (Levitation) |
| Agatha | G (Flight) |
| Doctor Strange | G (Cloak of Levitation) |
| Iron Man (3.8) | G, in a working suit that flies (not the Mark 1), while it has energy |
| Falcon (3.8) | G, with the Exo-Wings on his chest; Sneak + G: the glide |
| Love (3.8) | G, and only with Stormbreaker in hand |
| A custom hero | The key you gave the Flight power (only with that power) |
Quicksilver, Tommy and Loki do not fly: Quicksilver and Tommy run, and Loki walks (and vanishes). Spider-Man does not fly either: he zips and swings on webs. Nor does Thanos: he steps through portals. Cyclops leaps on his own blast (V) and Professor X does not fly. The Hulk leaps (V) instead of flying. Captain America and Red Hulk don't fly either: Cap leaps (Sneak + G), Red Hulk jumps very high (V, held).
Sneak is the usual Minecraft sneak key (Shift by default).
| Combination | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sneak + R as Magneto | Sets the metal you hold down gently, instead of throwing it. When R isn't holding anything: the Magnetic Pull, the metal around you flies into your inventory (see Magneto). |
| Sneak + V as the Scarlet Witch or Billy | Sets what you hold with telekinesis down gently (Billy's block becomes a block where it lands). When V isn't holding anything: tears out the block you look at, even past a creature or a boss. Not in the second after you let go of something. |
| Sneak + B as Billy, held | Raises the Hex Barrier, a plate of blue magic in front of you, instead of the Freeze. Let go of B to lower it. |
| Sneak + N as the Scarlet Witch | Dissolves your Hex. |
| Sneak + Z as the Scarlet Witch | Your Hex's Vision holds his post, or follows you again. |
| Sneak + R as Quicksilver | Turns the Walkman (his music) on or off, instead of Quicksilver Time. |
| Sneak + G as Quicksilver or Tommy | The Dash Strike: a 12-block dash along your look that hits everything in the path, instead of switching Super Speed. |
| Sneak + V as Quicksilver | The Pickpocket, instead of the Speed Blitz. |
| Sneak + R as Tommy | Turns Wall & Water Run on or off, instead of Slow Time. |
| Sneak + V as Tommy | The Sonic Boom, a shockwave round you, instead of the Whirlwind. |
| Sneak + B as Tommy | The Disarm Blitz, instead of Vibrate Through Walls. |
| Sneak + R as Loki | Throws a fan of three daggers. |
| Sneak + R as Thor, with Mjolnir in hand | Shatters Mjolnir into fragments that strike his enemies (with Stormbreaker it throws it, as R does). |
| Sneak + right-click on a creature or player, with Mjolnir in hand | Pins them down under Mjolnir. Right-click them again, without Sneak, to lift it (only its owner can). |
| Sneak + N as Thor | Opens the Bifrost to the spot you look at. |
| Right-click with Mjolnir, Stormbreaker, Hofund (anyone's) or your own Gungnir (3.5) | Opens the Bifrost screen; with Sneak, the Bifrost to the spot you look at. Since 3.5 the screen has Asgard at the top, and the Bifrost takes everyone in its circle (see Asgard). |
| Sneak + R as the Phoenix | Mind Sense: a ring of violet light finds every mind within 48 blocks through the walls and they glow on your screen for 6 seconds. |
| Sneak + V as the Phoenix | Sets what you hold with telekinesis down gently. When V isn't holding anything: tears out the block you look at, even past a creature or a boss. |
| Sneak + B as the Phoenix | The Psionic Field: everything living within 16 blocks, through walls, is held still for 3 seconds. |
| Sneak + R as Spider-Man | The Web Burst: 24 strands fly out in every direction and wrap the hostile creatures near you (12 second cooldown). |
| Sneak + G as Spider-Man, and keep holding G | The Web Swing: you swing on a web from the block you look at until you let go. |
| Sneak + V as Spider-Man | Switches Spider-Sense on or off (Wall Crawl stays on). |
| Sneak + B as the Iron Spider, then B again within 3 seconds | Instant Kill. |
| Sneak + R as Thanos | The Titan Slam, instead of the Power Blast. |
| Sneak + G as Thanos | The Space Pull, instead of the Portal Step. |
| Sneak + V as Thanos | The Reality Veil (a toggle), instead of the Transmute. |
| Sneak + B as Thanos | The Soul Sight, instead of the Soul Drain (which is a hold). |
| Sneak + N as Thanos | The Time Lock, instead of the Rewind. |
| Sneak + R as Ultron | Charges an Overcharge, one heavy blast, instead of firing plasma bolts. |
| Sneak + V as Ultron | Gravity Slam, instead of the Gravity Pull. |
| Sneak + B as Ultron | Hack: takes over an enemy Sentry, instead of uploading into your own. |
| Sneak + N as Ultron | Command: tells your Sentries what to attack (or to gather round you), instead of calling more. |
| Sneak + right-click with Loki's Scepter, the Ultron Program in the other hand | Wakes Ultron, the boss: see Ultron. |
| Sneak + R as Apocalypse | Entomb: swallows the creature you look at in a cocoon of sand, instead of the Sand Wave. |
| Sneak + N as Apocalypse | The Sandstorm, instead of Power Bestowal. |
| Sneak + right-click with the Capstone | Plants it in sand, by day under the open sky: wakes En Sabah Nur (see Apocalypse). |
| Sneak + R as Agatha | The Darkhold's hex mark on the creature you look at, or its mind glimpse if you look at nothing, instead of the Purple Beam. |
| Sneak + R as Cyclops | The Ricochet Shot, a bolt that bounces off blocks, instead of the Optic Blast. |
| Sneak + N as Cyclops | Takes the glasses off: the giant beam pours out until N puts them back on. |
| Sneak + R as Heimdall | The Lunge: a 6-block dash and a thrust, instead of the Hofund Slash. |
| Sneak + G as Heimdall, held | Far Sight: zoom ×6; the mouse wheel zooms to ×10. |
| Sneak + V as Heimdall | The Bifrost to the spot you look at. |
| Sneak + B as Heimdall | The Gatekeeper's Call: three Einherjar (four in Asgard), instead of the Ward. |
| Sneak + N as Heimdall, looking at a player | Bifrost for a friend: the Bifrost screen in Send mode, to send him home, to Asgard or to a saved place. (Hold Sneak a moment before you press N.) |
| Sneak + R as Odin | Throws Gungnir, instead of the blast. |
| Sneak + G as Odin | The Odinforce Heal for you and your allies, instead of the shield. |
| Sneak + V as Odin | The Odinforce Wave, instead of Banish. |
| Sneak + B as Odin | The Ravens' Report: the ravens circle you, instead of flying where you look. |
| Sneak + N as Odin | The Odinsleep (on/off), instead of the Allfather's Command. |
| Sneak + R as Hela | The Blade Rain, instead of the volley. |
| Sneak + G as Hela | The Blade Burst, a ring of spikes round you, instead of the Blade Wall. |
| Sneak + V as Hela | The Death Dash, instead of the Goddess of Death. |
| Sneak + B as Hela | Fenris, instead of Raise the Dead. |
| Sneak + R as Doctor Strange | The Whip Grapple: the whip pulls you to the block you look at. |
| Sneak + V as Doctor Strange | The Seraphim Dome round you and your friends, instead of the Shield. |
| Sneak + B as Doctor Strange | Astral Projection (on/off): your spirit leaves your body. |
| Sneak + N as Doctor Strange | The Mirror Dimension (on/off). |
| Sneak + Y as Doctor Strange | The Eye's Rewind. |
| Sneak + R as the Hulk | The Grab Smash: grab the creature in front and slam it three times. |
| Sneak + G as the Hulk | The Roar: monsters near you run away. |
| Sneak + V as the Hulk | The Bound: a long, low leap forward. |
| Sneak + B as the Hulk | The Gamma Charge. |
| Sneak + N as the Hulk | Switch Hulk: Ragnarok ↔ Brand New Day. |
| Sneak + R as Wolverine | The Spin Slash: a full turn, both claws out, slashing everyone round you. |
| Sneak + G as Wolverine | Claw Climb (on/off; the claws must be out): walk into a wall to climb it; hold Sneak to hang still. |
| Sneak + V as Wolverine | The Feral Leap: a long, low running leap. |
| Sneak + B as Wolverine | The Healing Burst: half your health back at once. |
| Sneak + N as Wolverine | Track (on/off): follow the scent of the creature or player you look at for a minute. |
| Sneak + R as Deadpool, held | The Parry: the swords spin and bounce shots back. |
| Sneak + G as Deadpool | The Trick Shot: a shot that bounces off a wall at a foe. |
| Sneak + V as Deadpool | The Drop-In: teleport above the creature you look at and drop on it. |
| Sneak + B as Deadpool | The Chimichanga Break: heal (more with a chimichanga in your bag). |
| Sneak + N as Deadpool | The Smoke Vanish: invisible for 4 seconds, and the monsters lose you. |
| Right-click a secret bookshelf in a Mutant School's study (3.7) | Swings it open onto the lift of the X-Men lower lab. |
| Stand on an elevator pad (the X) and hold Sneak for a second (3.7) | Rides the lab's lift, down or up. |
| Right-click the Cerebro console, as a telepath (3.7) | The amplified Cerebro (again: take the helmet off). Professor X can also press N within 4 blocks of it. |
| Hold right-click with an Adamantium Injection, no power (3.7) | 3 seconds: you become Wolverine. |
| Step into the Weapon X Pod and right-click it, no power (3.7) | 5 seconds: you become Deadpool (Sneak stops it). |
| Right-click with a Stone Locator (3.7) | A spark trail toward the site it points to. Sneak + right-click: the next stone to look for. See Stone Locator. |
| Sneak + right-click with an Infinity Stone, or a Gauntlet with stones (3.6) | The stone's second power (see Infinity Stones). |
| Sneak + hold right-click with Loki's Scepter, the other hand empty (3.6) | The Mind Stone's Mind Beam, for anyone. |
| Sneak + right-click with the Tesseract (3.6) | The Space Stone's Realm Picker, for anyone. |
| Sneak + right-click with a Sling Ring (3.6) | A sorcerer remembers this place. |
| Use a Super Soldier Serum (3.8) | The serum's screen: 1, 2, 3 pick a card, Enter chooses, Escape keeps the serum. See Super Soldier Serum. |
| Hold right-click with an Arc Reactor or a Nano Arc Reactor (3.8) | 2 seconds: you become Iron Man. |
| Right-click a Suit Display or a Tech Case (3.8) | Take what it holds (one for each player). |
| Right-click with a classic Iron Man suit or the Mark 5's suitcase, as Iron Man (3.8) | Suit up in it. The Hulkbuster: Veronica drops it (open sky). |
| Right-click Eternity's altar holding Stormbreaker, Mjolnir, Hofund or your Gungnir (3.8) | Stay 3 seconds: you go to Eternity's realm. In the realm, right-click the wishing stone to open Eternity's screen again. |
| Sneak + H | Previous look (Iron Man: the next suit). |
With telekinesis, pressing the key again launches what you hold.
The lightning beam (hold V)
- Look at what you want to hit.
- Press V and keep holding it. Lightning shoots from your hand (or from the head of Mjolnir or Stormbreaker, if you hold one) and hits the first creature it meets, again and again, for as long as you hold the key.
- Let go of V to stop. With Mjolnir or Stormbreaker in hand the beam reaches farther and hits harder, and as the God of Thunder (B) harder still. It uses a little food, and it stops when your hunger bar is empty.
Shattering Mjolnir (Sneak + R)
- Hold Mjolnir in your hand, and hold Sneak (Shift).
- Press R. Mjolnir bursts into glowing pieces that fly at the enemies near you, hit them and fly back. If nobody is near, they fly out in a ring and come straight back.
- When the last piece is home, Mjolnir is whole in your hand again. Press R while it is in pieces to call them home at once. You can shatter it again after 15 seconds. (Stormbreaker doesn't shatter: Sneak + R just throws it.)
Pinning someone down (Sneak + right-click)
- Hold Mjolnir in your hand, and hold Sneak.
- Right-click a creature or player. Mjolnir lies down on their chest and they can't move, jump, fly or teleport.
- To lift it again, right-click them again without Sneak, or press R to call it back. Only Mjolnir's owner can, and it lets go by itself after a minute. Bosses can't be pinned. See Thor.
Reading a mind (R)
- Press R. "Mind Reading: ON" appears above your hotbar.
- Look at a creature or player, up to 24 blocks away with nothing solid between you. A violet panel appears beside your crosshair with what they hold and wear, their mood and their health, and, for a player, their whole inventory.
- Press R again to switch it off. A player you read is told "You feel a presence in your mind". Magneto's helmet, a Loki's illusion and the biggest bosses show only a line of why they can't be read.
Mind Sense (Sneak + R) and Mind Control (B)
- Sneak + R: a ring of violet light spreads out to 48 blocks and every mind it passes glows on your screen through the walls for 6 seconds (players white, monsters pink, the rest violet). The action bar says how many it found. Wait 20 seconds before the next.
- B, looking at a creature within 10 blocks: it is yours for 15 seconds and fights for you. A second one frees the first. Sneak + B: everything living within 16 blocks, through walls, is frozen for 3 seconds (players only with PvP on). Wait 20 seconds after Mind Control, 60 after the field.
The Phoenix Burst (hold N)
- Hold N. You rise in flames to hover a block and a half above the ground, and a firebird forms behind you. You walk slowly while you charge, and you can be hurt.
- Let go to unleash it: a wave of fire spreads in every direction (8 to 24 blocks, the more you charged the bigger and stronger). Three seconds is a full charge and it fires by itself. Let go within the first 0.6 seconds and the Phoenix slips away.
- It costs food (up to 6 points), leaves you weak and slow for 5 seconds, and needs 90 seconds to rest. See Phoenix.
Webbing something (R)
- Look at a creature or a block, up to 24 blocks away, and press R. A silver strand flies from your wrist and a splat sticks to the wall.
- A creature is wrapped for 6 seconds: it can barely move and can't jump. A block gets a patch of web in front of it. The web blocks vanish by themselves after 10 seconds.
- Sneak + R is the Web Burst: 24 strands fly out in every direction, wrapping the hostile creatures near you (villagers, animals and pets are spared), and then you wait 12 seconds. You can't be webbed yourself.
Zipping and swinging (G)
- Look at a block, up to 40 blocks away, and press G. The web pulls you there, then it vanishes and you stick to the wall or ceiling you came to. Press G again for the next one.
- To swing, hold Sneak, press G and keep holding it. With Web Assist (on by default) the web finds its own anchor ahead and above (trees, houses, cliffs), never runs you into the ground or the leaves, lets go at the right moment and sends the next web while you keep holding G: W pushes the swing, S brakes, A/D push sideways, and a small white web shows where the next one will go. G alone in mid-air swings too. Without Web Assist (the J key) it is the manual swing: aimed with the crosshair, W reels the web in, S lets it out. Let go of G and you fly off with your speed. See Web Assist.
- Space during a zip cancels it (you keep your speed). A swing also ends if you stay on the ground for half a second, after 15 seconds, or if you are held.
Climbing (V, on by default)
- Jump at a wall and keep pushing into it, or stand against it and hold Space. You stick. (Walking into a wall on the ground does nothing.)
- Look along the wall and press W to go that way; look at the wall or up and W climbs; look down and W climbs down. A and D go sideways. Hold Space with your head against a ceiling to walk upside down.
- A new press of Space leaps you off the wall. V turns the climbing off.
The legs, Instant Kill and the Black Eyes (B, N)
- In the Iron Spider look, B unfolds four mechanical legs from your back, and B again folds them. They guard you, plant on walls, and you never take fall damage.
- Sneak + B with the legs out, then Sneak + B again within 3 seconds to confirm: Instant Kill. The legs strike every threat around you for 10 seconds at most, then you wait 30 seconds.
- N (any look; 6 food points needed) turns your eyes black for up to 30 seconds: much faster and stronger, and organic webs. N again calms it. When it runs out you crash for 10 seconds. See Spider-Man.
The top-left corner of the screen always shows your hero, each ability with its key, its cooldown, whether a toggle is on, and your resources (for example the iron shards Magneto has stored). The Scarlet Witch and Billy have a sixth line, [Y] Build Magic ON/OFF (Billy's also shows his magic meter, ✦ 372/512), and Magneto's first line shows pull 4.9s while the Magnetic Pull recharges. Billy's Hex Beam line shows its damage and reach (6.0 dmg/s, 20 blocks), and the Scarlet Witch's Chaos Shield line shows "∞ unlimited". 3.3: while Billy's Hex Barrier is up its line shows a bar and its health (41/60) and a big bar sits under the crosshair; a sorcerer held by the Hex Runes sees a red line above the action bar, "The Hex Runes hold your powers"; Professor X's screen gets blue edges and a line with whose mind he is in while he steers a body (and the one he steers gets violet edges and "Professor X controls your body!"), and Cerebro's list; a custom hero's panel is drawn in his own colours with his name. 3.4: a custom hero's panel also has a [⇧R] line under a key for its Sneak box, and shows whether each of his heroes' switches is on and his shields' strength. 3.5: Heimdall's panel shows the Sight (and how many players are far away), the blow of his combo and the Ward's seconds, and lists the players of the other worlds while the Sight is on; Odin's shows Gungnir in flight, his ravens and the Odinsleep; Hela's shows her form, her risen dead and the Grasp. 3.6: Doctor Strange's shows his whip's lash, his Shield and Dome, the spirit's time, the Mirror and the portals, and a sixth line [Y] for the Eye; the Hulk's shows his rage bar, or Banner's heart rate; and anyone who carries Infinity Stones sees a little gem for each right of the hotbar, with its cooldown, and the red countdown of a stone that burns. 3.7: Wolverine and Deadpool have a line for the healing factor under their panel ("Healing factor: ON (+1.0/s)", red when poisoned, and "Healing… 3" with a ring over the crosshair while they are down); Wolverine's shows his combo, his claws, the Rage's red bar and Track's arrow and distance; Deadpool's his cut, the Parry, his magazine ("16/16"), his chimichangas and Dogpool's time and health; and a Stone Locator in your hand puts a line over the hotbar: "Soul Stone · 810 blocks · north-east". 3.8: Captain America's shows his shield ("Shield: on your back", "flying (2 bounces left)"), his combo and Assemble's seconds, and "Super-soldier: Speed II · Strength II · Resistance I"; Red Hulk's his Anger bar (red to white-hot), Ross's hint and the Super Jump's charge ring round the crosshair; Iron Man's a suit panel with the suit energy bar, the suit's durability and its warnings ("No reactor!", "Suit offline!"), and in first person the helmet frame with altitude and speed; Falcon's his wings, the glide, the Wing Shield and Redwing; Love's her axe and her eyes.
All twenty keys are in the game's key settings: Options, Controls, Key Binds, Enhanced Powers. They are named Ability 1 to Ability 5, Change Look, Vision, That One! (Scarlet Witch), Web Assist (Spider-Man) (J, 3.3), Stone Wheel (Infinity Gauntlet) (J, 3.6) and eleven Build Magic keys (the first is Build Magic (Scarlet Witch, Billy, a hero you made with it), which is Y, and is Doctor Strange's Eye too; the last is Build Magic: Instant (Scarlet Witch), Ctrl + I). Rebinding changes the key, not the ability order: Ability 3 always triggers the third ability in your hero's list.
Quicksilver and Tommy each have two separate powers in 3.3. G turns Super Speed on or off: with it on, sprinting is super speed (Tommy's is on from the start). R turns the slowing of time on or off (Quicksilver Time, Tommy's Slow Time): the world slows down around him whether he sprints or not. Use one, or both. While either is on, Quicksilver also mines, attacks, swims and uses items faster without sprinting; only the running speed and the step-up need a sprint.
Running up walls: with super speed on, sprint into a wall (holding W) and he runs up it, along a ceiling, round an overhang and down the far wall; keep W held and keep sprinting, or he slows and drops off; Space leaps off. Quicksilver needs Wall & Water Run on (B); Tommy's Wall & Water Run is on unless Sneak + R turns it off (both run across water too while they keep running). See Quicksilver.
The panel of your powers can be drawn in six styles. Choose one in the settings (Mods, Enhanced, Config, Powers panel, Panel style), or bind the key Change the Powers Panel's Style in the controls and press it to go through them.
| Style | What it is |
|---|---|
| Classic (the default) | The text panel in the top-left corner, as always. |
| Key stack | One bar per key. A cooldown drains across the bar, a bar glints when its power is ready again, and the stack folds to the keys alone after five quiet seconds. |
| Dial | A tile per power, fanned around your hero's emblem. |
| Comic panels | A slanted name banner and one comic cell per power that fills with ink as it recharges. |
| Scroll | A scroll pinned to the corner. |
| Cluster | A small cluster of tiles and nothing else. |
The new styles sit in the top-right corner (Panel on the right off: top-left), under the status effect icons, and follow the Reduced motion setting. Each power has its own symbol; a custom hero's powers show their initials.
The ability wheel: U (hold). Shows your powers as a wheel around your face; point at one to read its name, key and state. Let go to close it. It only shows: nothing is cast from it.
Enhanced and Enlightened can be installed together. A player who is a hero and a bender has both mods' abilities on the same keys, so the keys go to one of the two at a time: ` (the key left of 1) switches between your hero and your bending. The panel of the one you are using is shown, with a one-line reminder of the other under it.