from: http://www.hiddenpath.com/games/windborne/

Windborne brings social sandbox creation games to the next level. Explore a vibrant world filled with secrets to unlock and treasures to find, craft personalized furnishings and innovative artifacts, and befriend intriguing Jin to help build a new civilization. Will you seek out the clues and artifacts of the ancients, or just loot passing islands for minerals and rare plants? Bring along your friends while you play, and share your creations with the world. Where will the wind take you? Inspired by games such as Animal Crossing, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and the early Zeldas, expect more on Windborne as we work towards Steam Early Access release later this year.


Game Play Features:
• Building – With a wide variety of building materials, furnishings, and artifacts, you can build whatever you can imagine
• Crafting – Everything can be made and improved, and everything you make has a purpose.
• Exploring – You will be part of your own story as you explore an interesting world that is full of wonder and surprise. Explore millions of ruins filled with puzzles and treasure.
• Guiding – Guide the Jin to civilization by defending them, building homes for them, and teaching them, and they will help you in return.
• Community – See other islands floating by, and visit them to trade with their owners. Join your friends and help them build their town.
• Dragons – Breed dragonlings to unlock special abilities, including the ability to fly!
• Combat – Defeat enemies that are encroaching on your island, or try assaulting a copy of your friend’s island to test its defenses.
• Quests – Pick and choose quests to give you optional challenges that net big rewards.

W - Forward
A - Left
S - Backward
D - Right
Spacebar - Jump

E - Interact

Q - Inventory
J - Jin
C - Crafting Guide
Z - Social Settings
X - My Character
M - Island Map

In Selection Mode:
R - Rotate

GATHERING:
First make sure you are in "Gather" mode by tapping the Right mouse button.
Notice that your right hand will be placed higher than your left hand in "Gather" mode.

Right-click and hold a block/item to gather.

PLACING:
First make sure you are in "Placing" mode by tapping the left mouse button.
Select the item from the Action Bar, and left click on where you want to place the item.

NOTE(s):

• So far, you don't need any tool to collect terrain blocks, wool, wood, etc.

First make sure you are in "Placing" mode by tapping the left mouse button.

RAISING terrain - Shift + Left-click
LOWERING terrain - Shift + Right-click
SMOOTHENING terrain - Click (MMB/MW) Middle Mouse-Button/Mouse Wheel [D]


NOTE(s):

• You can Shift+Hold either the Left or Right mouse button if you wish to quickly raise or lower blocks that are close to each other.
  
• There is a limit to how much a block can be raised/lowered, so to achieve greater heights it is better to stack/place terrain blocks first before shaping them.
  
• Smoothening is really handy for filling in divots - place a block, highlight it and click MMB and it shapes to the neighboring blocks. [D]

The Crafting system is pretty straightforward here.

Simply open the "Crafting Guide" window by pressing "C" on your keyboard.
The "Crafting Guide" window displays the available items that can be crafted.

Click on whichever item you wish to craft, and it will display the required items and special requirements for you to be able to craft the item.

If the "Craft" button is clickable then, you have all the needed requirements for that certain item.
Simply click "Craft" and voila, its done.
Quite simple right? :)

NOTE(s):

• All items with a checkerboard overlay are items with which you have insufficient requirements and are therefore unavailable for crafting.
  
• Hovering over an item in the Crafting Guide will show you the name of the item.

How to Use the Stove
1. Interact with stove (E)
2. Place your fuel source*
3. Place the item you want to heat/cook/refine into the circle below the "Input" sign

Fuel Sources (coming soon):

• Grass

How to Use the Shaper
1. Interact with shaper (E)
2. Place/drag a blade
3. Place the item you want to shape/refine into the left most circle

Refining Guide (coming soon):
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How to manage users in your Island.

Inviting Users
From your Steam Friends List, right click your friend's name and "Invite to game"

Social Settings
Click 'Z', this will open the Social Settings Menu.
Available are the following options:

• Invite Friend - When checked, allows others to join your game. When disabled, all current users within your Island will be kicked out.
  
• Permission to Edit my Island - Allow/disallow users to build/destroy on your island
  
• Fly to this Player's Location*
  
• Remove from my Island*

EXTRA:
Joining someone else's Island
Right click your friend's (currently in-game at Windborne) name, and "Join game"

* - self explanatory