Every switch,
and what it does.

Press M in game, or open Settings from the main menu. Every tab below is in there. The search box at the top of it works the same way as the one on this page.

Type into the box at the top right of the menu and it searches every tab at once, not the one you are looking at. Faster than remembering where anything lives.

Toggle ALL modern graphics, bloom, neon grid & custom shaders in 1 click (Hotkey: F9)

The dark floor and its grid, without the rest of enhanced mode

Draw the Tab table in the client's own style instead of the built-in one

How solid it is - it is glanced at mid-round, so leave room to see past it

The lit perimeter walls, without the rest of enhanced mode

Make the turning zone edges look lit instead of merely drawn

How far past white the zone is drawn, which is what the bloom picks up

Your team's zone glows white in the middle, so whose it is needs no reading

Stadium masts at the corners of the arena, throwing light across the floor

How hard they burn

How tall the masts stand

How wide the light lands where it arrives

The shaft of light between the mast and the floor

Warm white by default, so a lamp does not vanish into a cold arena

The glass everything else sits on

The grid, and the crosses where it meets itself

The heavier line every fifth square

Colour the walls that hold the grid in

One colour, or two and three blended along their length

Where the blend begins

Where it ends

Colour your own wall instead of using your player colour

One colour, or two and three blended along its length

At the far end of the wall

Nearest the rider

Displays wireframe boundaries of objects

Show how much rubber each rider has left, in the world above their machine

Toggle customizable atmospheric world fog

Sets the thickness of the world fog

Show a soft beacon and crosshair at the zone center

Show a timer above dead players until their corpse disappears

Override server corpse delay with custom duration

Custom duration in seconds for corpse fade

Scale factor for other players' names displayed above their cycles

Draw the name above each cycle in plain white instead of the player's colours

Draw names with the interface font instead of the engine's bitmap sheet - same place and size, even letters

Draw a bright box behind dark player names instead of brightening the name itself

0: Legacy, 1: Blinking Warning, 2: Gradual Fade & Shrink

Enables smooth transparency blending

Enables smooth vertex normals shading

Sets floor grid/texture complexity (0-3)

Our own panelled ground in the plain look. Master Enhanced keeps its flat floor and neon grid either way

How brightly the panels are lit

How many grid squares one tile of it covers

The master switch for bloom. Works whether or not enhanced graphics are on

Darkening intensity of cinematic screen edges

Inner radius where vignette gradient begins

Feathering softness of edge vignette blur

How bright a pixel must be before it starts to glow

How much of the glow is added back over the frame

How far the light bleeds from whatever is glowing

One switch for the bikes and their trails together

How hard the bikes themselves burn

How hard the trails burn, kept apart because their shader already brightens them

Enable custom cycle/ambient particles

Number of particles spawned on cycle death

Enable camera shake when a cycle crashes

Intensity offset of screen shaking

Enable glowing ambient dust particles rising from floor

Spawn mode for ambient floor particles

Minimum active ambient floor particles count

Maximum active ambient floor particles count

Draw walls exactly as a plain build does: colour times texture, the texture's own transparency, no added brightness or gradient. For packs made for a normal client

Fades trail opacity from top (opaque) to bottom (transparent)

Opacity level near the cycle/trail top

Opacity level near the grid floor

Height scale of all cycle trails (1.0 = normal, 0.1 = pixel line)

How much wall one turn of the texture covers - raise it to read the picture instead of hatching

Enable next-gen instanced rendering for trail walls (Safe Fallback if disabled)

Enables 8x hardware multi-sample anti-aliasing

Recolour the machine on its own, leaving the wall its own colour

What the machine is painted, independent of the wall

Override your cycle color visually for yourself

Choose your visual cycle color

Ensure all opponents have different, clean colors

Override all other players to a single chosen color

Choose color for all other players

Toggle global visibility of HUD overlay

Toggle display of the rubber gauge

Toggle display of the speedometer

Toggle display of the brake gauge

Toggle display of scoreboard

Toggle display of latency information

Toggle player alive counter

Toggle display of peak speed attained

Toggle display of legacy FPS counter

Show/hide the static minimap radar overlay

Rotate minimap smoothly to match player direction

Speed of minimap rotation. 1=Slow/smooth, 30=Instant

Zoom into minimap content

Minimap window scale size

Esports-style rank list of teams and players

Sleek capsule showing remaining zone time with alarms

Show conquest/defense alerts for fortress zones

Flash red warning when a teammate dies

Show kills/deaths/KD ratio on screen (top-left)

Hotkey or toggle to reset your kills/deaths count

Wide horizontal rubber bar above bottom panels

Classic horizontal rubber bar above bottom panels

Separate widget showing the client logo name

Visual countdown and winner announcer overlay

Countdown till wall dissolves for dead players

Visual representation of pressed buttons (Widget 1)

Visual representation of pressed buttons (Widget 2)

Separate widget showing current framerate

Separate widget showing network latency

Separate widget showing current local system time

Display listing of all active modules and hotkeys

High-fidelity capsule showing Kills, Deaths, and Ratio

Sleek circular needle gauge for cycle speed

Circular needle gauge for rubber used with overheating alerts

Circular needle gauge of remaining braking capacity

Top banner showing your score and the highest player score

High-fidelity widget showing alive player counts

Display connection quality, latency, and packet loss

OS media / Spotify overlay with EQ bars and controls

Bind key to play or pause media

Bind key to skip to next track

Bind key to go back to previous track

Show what you are playing under your name in Discord. Nothing leaves the machine except through Discord itself

How a round is counted in: 0 plain numbers, 1 the light gantry, 2 a traffic light

How large the lights are

Where they hang, as a fraction down the screen

Draw the line you type into in our own face, under the chat

Enter interactive dragging/snapping design mode

Which build this is, and whether a newer one is out. The answer arrives with the hello the client already sends every few minutes, so nothing goes looking for it; when there is an update, the version is named here with the address to get it from, and the game says so once per session as well.

Adjust the client camera Field of View

Scale factor of the speed meter gauge

Horizontal position of the speed meter

Vertical position of the speed meter

Scale factor of the rubber gauge

Horizontal position of the rubber gauge

Vertical position of the rubber gauge

Scale factor of the brake gauge

Horizontal position of the brake gauge

Vertical position of the brake gauge

Restore default positions and sizes for all HUD gauges

Leave the bike and fly the arena freely

Hide every hud element for a clean shot

Base movement speed in noclip mode

Speed multiplier when slow key is held

Speed multiplier while the fast key is held. A factor rather than a second speed, so raising the base speed raises the boost with it.

Forward stays level with the ground however far you are looking down. A toggle rather than a key to hold, because holding a key to fly straight is the same problem by another name.

The camera stops being a free flying thing and becomes a point on a sphere around the chosen player. The mouse walks it over that sphere, the wheel changes how far out it sits, and it keeps them framed while they move and turn underneath it.

How far out the sphere sits from the player. The mouse wheel changes it too, while lock on is running.

Mouse look sensitivity in noclip mode

Angular speed of orbit camera

Distance from orbit center to camera

Height of orbit camera above target

Camera distance behind followed player

Camera height above followed player

LERP smoothing strength for follow camera

Show the waypoint list, or keep it out of the shot

A list that appears beside the free camera, never in a menu: a list you have to open a menu to read is a list you fly away from. Drag it where it suits, pull its corner to the height that shows as many marks as you want, and the list inside scrolls when there are more. Click a mark to fly to it, or the cross beside it to forget it.

Stop drawing other players' machines, names and all

Stop drawing other players' walls - they still kill

Search every screen and switch from one field

How loud the menu's own sounds are

Voice announcement pack on kill streaks

Choose announcer pack style

Toggle clock rendering in the HUD

Use 24-hour style for the clock

Toggle sparks generation on collisions

Use clean white particles for sparks

Showers per second while grinding a wall

Sparks off a wall come out as hearts

How many a scrape along a wall throws

Hearts drift up out of your own wake

How many are in the air behind you

Toggle particle explosions upon death

A crash throws hearts instead of shards

How many a crash throws

Render legacy crash explosion as a single vertical vector line

Trigger sync commands when packet delay exceeds 1.2s

Keybind to open the Mod Menu

Enables cycling RGB gradient on top bar

Enables cycling RGB on all elements

Controls velocity of hue rotation

Toggle floating background particles

Choose particle shape (0=Dust, 1=Rain, 2=Stars, 3=Hearts)

Toggle mouse repulsion on particles

Toggle connecting lines between particles

Toggle 3D parallax offsets for particles

Use a smooth blend between 2 colors

Starting color of the theme gradient

Ending color of the theme gradient

Changes the main window color

Sets the transparency of the menu

Name, password, and what to do with the password afterwards. There is no pointer in it on purpose — it comes up in the middle of a round, over a game you cannot steer — so everything is reached from the keyboard: Tab moves between the three, Enter signs in, Esc walks away.

Never — typed each time, kept nowhere. This session — held in memory until you quit, so rejoining the same server does not ask again. On disk — written beside your settings and still there tomorrow, in the clear, which the box says out loud when you pick it. Left and right arrows choose.

Not ours. These are the game's own global accounts, kept by whichever authority the name ends in, and the same ones any Armagetron client uses. Nothing about it goes through ilonium.dev.

One room, inside the client, open to everyone who has it. Ask for help, find someone to duel, say a match is starting. It is not tied to a server, so people waiting on different ones can still talk.

The client makes a key for itself the first time it runs and signs everything it sends with it. Nothing to register, nothing to remember, and nobody can speak in your name.

Owner, beta tester, moderator — given by staff on the server side and shown in the colour they chose. The client cannot ask for one, which is why nobody can award themselves anything.

The client says so, gives the reason, and for a mute, how long is left. A chat ban leaves the reports working; they are separate.

Counted on the server. Long enough to stop a flood, short enough that a conversation still feels like one.

Support tab, a subject, a description, send. No account and no email address. The answer comes back to the same key that sent it.

Your system, processor, graphics card, memory and disk go with the report. Almost every "it crashes" turns into an answer once somebody knows the driver, and this saves the round of questions.

Counted on the server, so it is the same hour for everybody. The screen shows exactly how much of it is left.

Pick a queue, join it, and go on playing elsewhere. When it fills, everyone in it is told where to go and the match begins. It is how a community with fifty people online still gets proper eight-a-side games.

Three groups, so a first game is not spent against people who have played for a decade. The client shows them apart rather than as one long list.

Queues belong to the league, not to the client, so they need a league account — you make one on the league site, then log in from the client once. After that the queues are simply there.

On a full server, switch this on and the client keeps asking for a place, then takes the one that opens. No refreshing the list by hand.

Kills, deaths, longest life, distance ridden, rounds and sessions — locally and on servers both. It is your history, not a leaderboard.

The players around you, their pings and their logins, without opening the score table mid-round.

The client says it exists, which build it is, and whether it is on Windows, macOS or Linux. That is the whole message. It carries no name, no address you could read off it, and no numbers at all — how many people are playing is counted on our side, from the hellos that checked out, because a client that cannot send a count is a client that cannot inflate one.

The hello is signed with the same key the chat and the reports use, and a signature that has already been sent is refused if it turns up again. Keys are free to make, so a crowd of new ones arriving from one address stops being counted after the first handful — quietly, because a refusal would tell whoever is trying where the line is.

ilonium.dev/stats — how many are on right now, today, this week, the month's busiest moment, the shape of the last day, and which builds and systems people are on.

The answer to the hello names the current build. If it is newer than yours the game says so once, and the Client tab keeps the version, what changed and where to get it. No separate check, no background downloading.

The community lives in a few places at once. This tab is the short list, so nobody has to hunt for an invite that was posted in a forum thread in 2014.

Shows where you are — menu, local game, or which server, with the score — under your name in Discord. One switch turns the whole thing off.

Join a particular team, list the teams, or see who is on yours. This is how you get onto the side your friends are on instead of being balanced away from them.

Move yourself up or down inside your team. In fortress that decides who defends and who goes out, and on our servers everyone may do it.

Close your team to strangers and invite the people you meant to play with. The polite way to hold a spot.

Sign in with your global name so the server knows you are you. Needed for anything that remembers you between visits — ladders, tags, the sumo board.

A private line to one player, an action instead of a sentence, and a message loud enough for everyone including spectators.

Who is on the server and who can do something about it.

Start a vote or answer one. The client draws it as a screen you can read rather than a line that scrolls past.

Run a server command you have the rights for, and ask the server what it accepts.