Cheats and Console Commands

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Cheats and Console Commands let you fly, enter god mode, and spawn any creature or item in Valheim. This page has a full list of console commands and a table of items with both their in-game name and spawn ID.

This page includes all console commands and their description. We’ve organized the commands into relevant categories and embedded our spreadsheet with the details on all entities in Valheim.

How to Activate Cheats and Use Them

To activate cheats in Valheim, you will need to open the console and enable cheats. Afterward, you can use any of the below commands to spawn items or trigger other actions. The console can be used to perform administrative tasks for server admins and other non-cheating purposes as well.

Enabling the Console:

1. Right-click on Valheim in Steam
2. Add “-console” to the Launch Options
3. Restart Valheim

Activate Cheats:

1. Press F5 to open the Console
2. Type “devcommands” (“imacheater” outdated)
3. Type the command

Commands must be entered exactly as specified and all names and commands are cAsE-SeNSiTivE. You will also find the Internal IDs for many creatures and items don’t match their in-game names. We included the in-game name in our spreadsheet below to make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

How to Enter Debug/Creative Mode?

Valheim has a creative mode in the works but it’s not in the game yet. Players looking for something similar to Minecraft Creative Mode will need to use a few console commands to give themselves flying, god mode, and infinite inventory.

Spawning items will require the spawn command until there is a creative mode UI or mods that fill the need. We’ll update this section as new mods are released.

Activate Creative Mode:

1. Press F5 to open the Console
2. Type “devcommands“
3. Type “debugmode“
   1. Press Z to toggle Flying Mode
   2. Press K to Kill all Enemies in the area
   3. Press B to toggle Build Mode (repair and build freely)

Cheats do not work in Multiplayer servers.

How to Spawn Items and Creatures?

In Valheim there is one command that spawns all items, creatures, and anything else. You must provide the name of the entity, and have the option to provide a quantity and level (if spawning creatures).

Here is the formula for spawning anything in Valheim:

Console Command to Spawn Items and Creatures

# Console Command
spawn <ItemName> <quantity> <level>

# Examples
spawn FineWood 50
spawn BeltStrength
spawn Greydwarf 10 2

Table of All Items and Creatures in Valheim

We have put together a table of every entity that can be spawned in Valheim. To try and make it a little easier, we included the in-game names of everything (in English), a status for items that are special content or still being developed, and some relevant notes.

Scroll all the way to the right to find a link to the knowledge base page for each item.

Warning: Spawning entities with a console command is inherently risky! Some entities cannot be destroyed or despawned. Some items are under development and will break your game if you try to use them. Proceed with caution.

Table of All Player-Oriented Console Commands

These console commands will modify the player’s character or how the player interacts with the game. Here’s where you will find commands like god mode, healing, and teleporting

Console Command	Description
god	Take no damage
ghost	Invisible to monsters
addstatus	Adds a status effect (ex rested, burning, wet, etc.)
clearstatus	Clear status modifiers
heal	Heal to full health
puke	Reset hunger, health, and stamina
pos	Prints current position
goto <x, y> or <x, y, z>	Teleport to the position given
challenge	Emote challenge
cheer	Emote cheer
nonono	Emote nonono
point	Emote point
thumbsup	Emote thumbs up
wave	Emote wave
sit	Makes your character sit
hair <0 / 1>	Removes hair permanently
beard <0 / 1>	Removes beard permanently
model <0 / 1>	Change between character body types
resetcharacter	Reset all character data
raiseskill <skill> <amount>	Raise skill level by the amount given
resetskill <skill>	Reset skill level to zero

Table of All Server Console Commands

Server administrators have a select few commands they can use to figure out information about the server and the most basic player moderation commands.

help	List all commands
ping	Ping the server and print results
info	Print system information
kick <name / ip / id>	Kick the given player
ban <name / ip / id>	Ban the given player
unban <ip / id>	Unban the given player (cannot use name)
banned	Print the banned player list
lodbias <1 – 5>	Set the draw distance for the server
save	Force save the server

By default, only the creator of the server is an admin. You will need to modify the adminlist.txt in your server directory to add more administrators to a dedicated server. Note: the adminlist is only loaded on server startup and you will need to restart the server for your changes to take effect.

Table of All Console Commands

Below is the full list of console commands that impact gameplay in Valheim. You can control the dynamic elements of your world, such as wind and time. You can also modify your character, fly, enter god mode, and pretty much anything else you could want.

Console Command	Description
devcommands	Enable cheats
addstatus	Adds a status effect (ex rested, burning, wet, etc.)
beard <0 / 1>	Removes beard permanently
bind <keycode> <command>	Bind a key to a console command (may cause conflicts with game controls)
challenge	Emote challenge
cheer	Emote cheer
clear	Clear console window
clearstatus	Clear status modifiers
debugmode	Toggle debug mode. Z = Flying Mode, K = Kill all enemies (killall), B = Build Mode
dpsdebug	Toggle DPS information overlay
env <env id>	Set the debug environment
event <name>	Start the given event
exploremap	Explore the entire map, removing fog
ffsmooth <0 / 1>	Set camera smoothing for free-flying camera
fly	Fly mode
fov	Changes camera field of view
freefly	Toggle free-flying camera
gc	Shows garbage collector information
genloc	regenerates all locations
ghost	Invisible to monsters
god	Take no damage
goto <x, z> or <x, y, z>	Teleport to the position given
hair <0 / 1>	Removes hair permanently
heal	Heal to full health
help	Show list of console commands (use “page up” and “page down” to navigate)
info	Print system info
kick <name / ip / id>	Kick the given player
killall	Kill all nearby enemies
listkeys	Lists all global keys
location	Set a new spawn location
lodbias <1 – 5>	Set the draw distance for the server
model <0 / 1>	Change between character body types
nocost	No build cost
nonono	Emote nonono
optterrain	Optimize old terrain modifications
ping	Ping server
players <number>	Set player difficulty scaling to use a given number
point	Emote point
pos	Print current position
printbinds	Print current binds
puke	Reset hunger, health, and stamina
raiseskill <skill><amount>	Raise skill level by the amount given
randomevent	Start a random event
removedrops	Remove all nearby dropped items
resetbinds	Resets all custom binds to default dev commands
resetcharacter	Reset all character data
resetenv	Reset the debug environment
resetkeys <id>	Resets a given key
resetmap	Reset map exploration, completely fogs
resetskill <skill>	Reset skill level to zero
resetspawn	Resets spawn location
resetwind	Reset wind to normal
respawn	Respawn character (doesn’t seem to do much)
s <text>	Chat a message in all caps and with yellow highlight (shouting)
save	Force save the server
say <text>	Chat a message
setkey <id>	Sets a new global key
setpower <power code>	Sets your current guardian power and resets cooldown GP_Eikthyr: Gives you Eikthyr’s power GP_TheElder: Gives you the Elder’s power GP_Bonemass: Gives you Bonemass’s power GP_Moder: Gives you Moder’s power GP_Yagluth: Gives you Yagluth’s power
sit	Makes your character sit
skiptime <seconds>	Skip forward given number of seconds
sleep	Skip forward one day
spawn <entity> <quantity> <level>	Spawn the given entity
stopevent	Stop the current event
tame	Tame all nearby tamable creatures
thumbsup	Emote thumbs up
time	Shows current time
tod <0.0 – 1.0>	0.0 = midnight, 0.5 = noon, 1.0 = midnight
tod -1	Reset time to normal
tutorialreset	Reset tutorial data
tutorialtoggle	Toggles tutorial hints
unban <ip / id>	Unban the given player (cannot use name)
unbind <keycode>	Clears all binds connected to keycode
w <playername>	Whisper a private message to a player
wave	Emote wave
wind <angle 0 – 360> <intensity 0.0 – 1.0>	Set the wind with a given angle and intensity. 0 = north, 180 = south