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E.g. if you want to heal someone's bruise damage with a bruisepack, you first '''click on the bruisepack with an empty hand''' to pick it up and then '''click on the patient with the bruise pack in your active hand.'''

Some items can hold more items, such as a backpack. To open it, simply click on it. If you wish to remove your backpack from your back (or any other wearable container item), '''click and drag''' it to an empty hand.

=== Learn as You Play -Exercises ===

Here we come to the first sign of of whether you'll be a good player or not:

If you're bored already and can't be assed to do these exercises then you're probably not going to like Space Station 13.

These exercises are not mandatory, but they will make you "get" the user interface much more quickly, and teach you how to communicate with others, which is extremely important. You can try to learn it by yourself, but [[Guide to evading getting banned|DON'T JUST GRAB AN ITEM AND START HITTING PEOPLE WITH IT]], or your existence on SS13 will be very short indeed. We highly recommend following through the short tutorial which is followed by this.

:#Use the movement keys (arrow keys, numpad keys with numlock off or WASD with the in-game [[hotkeys]] on) to move.

:#Right-click the locker and choose a jumpsuit you like, click the 'Move to top' option.

:#Click the jumpsuit with an empty hand to pick it up.

:#Go into the Escape Pod shaft (red doors).

:#Now open your backpack and take the new jumpsuit out.

:#Click the now vacant slot (where your jumpsuit used to be, the left side of your inventory) to get dressed.

:The station has likely been beat up a bit since the beginning of the round and so it is a good idea to put internals on for just in case we come across a place with no breathable atmosphere. The internals can be found ready in a box in your backpack. Take them out of the box and put them on.

:#Open the backpack and take out the box.

:# Go south past the arrival shuttle and then to the right.

:# Get to the desk, pick the pen and click on the sheet of paper.

:# Using the radio is simple. Instead of using <code>'''say "Hello"'''</code> like you would to say things to the people around you, you use <code>'''say ";Hello"'''</code>. Basically you add a semicolon before your message. Some departments have department radios (e.g. security, engineering, medical). As an assistant, however, you don't belong to a department, and as such don't have a department radio, but when you do, it works by writing <code>'''say ".h Hello"'''</code> (or <code>'''#h'''</code>, or <code>''':h'''</code> for departmental radio, whichever suits you best).

:# Be polite and professional when asking. An example of how to ask: say <code>";This is assistant [your name], I've just arrived on this station and am wondering if anyone needs assistance with any job."</code>