{"id":154,"date":"2026-08-16T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:27","slug":"controls-hotkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Controls &#038; Hotkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What it is<\/h2><p>Chicken Siege is fully playable with mouse or touch, but the keyboard shortcuts make mid-wave management much faster. Each defence card in the bar also lists its own select key.<\/p><h2>The full hotkey list<\/h2><ul><li><strong>1\u20130 and Q\/W\/E<\/strong> \u2014 select a defence from the bar<\/li><li><strong>R<\/strong> \u2014 restart the current wave (press twice); same build, same eggs<\/li><li><strong>U<\/strong> \u2014 upgrade the hovered tower (+25 seconds lifetime per level)<\/li><li><strong>G<\/strong> \u2014 promote to SUPER (fuse 8 of the same defence)<\/li><li><strong>T<\/strong> \u2014 cycle targeting mode<\/li><li><strong>Z<\/strong> \u2014 undo last placement<\/li><li><strong>X<\/strong> \u2014 delete mode<\/li><li><strong>B<\/strong> \u2014 battle speed (2x)<\/li><li><strong>H<\/strong> \u2014 buff mode: towers beside a SUPER boost it 5% each<\/li><li><strong>P \/ Esc<\/strong> \u2014 pause<\/li><li><strong>M<\/strong> \u2014 mute<\/li><\/ul><h2>Pro tips<\/h2><p>Get comfortable with R, U and B first \u2014 quick restarts, instant upgrades and battle speed save the most time. On mobile, the same actions live on the on-screen buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is Chicken Siege is fully playable with mouse or touch, but the keyboard shortcuts make mid-wave management much faster. Each defence card in the bar also lists its own select key. The full hotkey list 1\u20130 and Q\/W\/E \u2014 select a defence from the bar R \u2014 restart the current wave (press twice); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}