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Ark cheats: Full list of codes & how to cheat in Survival Evolved

Cheats for and against those dinos.

A screenshot from ARK: Survival Evolved.

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Published: Monday, 6 February 2023 at 3:17 pm

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While you’re waiting for its Vin Diesel-starring sequel, the original Ark: Survival Evolved is still worth playing and heading back to, especially if you make use of the game’s cheat codes.

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The best cheats in Ark will change the game in fun, wacky, and useful ways. With codes for weather effects, item spawning and even teleportation, there are plenty of ways in which you can alter your time spent in the game; that god mode cheat might come in handy.

Read on to find out how to use cheats in Ark: Survival Evolved and for the complete list of cheat codes and console commands. The time to cheat and best those dinosaurs is now.

How to use cheats in Ark Survival Evolved

To use cheats in Ark: Survival Evolved, you need to open the game’s console screen and input commands. You will open the console screen by pressing Tab (mouse and keyboard controls), LB, RB, X, and Y together (on Xbox), or L1, R1, Square, and Triangle together (on PlayStation).

Once you have opened the console screen, you need to input a console command to activate a cheat (press enter to activate it). It’s worth bearing in mind that some cheats will not work before you type in “enablecheats <password>” so it’s recommended you activate that to begin with. The password there will be the admin password.

It’s also worth noting that some other cheats in multiplayer will only work if you have added “admincheat” as a prefix to console commands you wish to activate. In singleplayer, though, every cheat should work without a prefix or the enablecheats <password> command. Just type them in, press enter, and they’ll be activated.

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Full list of Ark Survival Evolved cheat codes & console commands

The full list of cheat codes and console commands in Ark: Survival Evolved is as follows (the codes and commands are not case-sensitive, so you don’t need to worry about capital letters).

Changesize <value>: You can change your character size. Default value is 1, so use smaller numbers to shrink and bigger numbers to grow bigger.

Enemyinvisible: You will be ignored by all creatures even after you attack them.

Fly: You can fly. Use 'Walk' to disable.

Ghost: Activates no-clip mode. Use 'Walk' to disable.

God: Activates god mode, where you won’t take any damage (but can still drown).

Gmbuff: God mode and infinite stats plus some additional experience points for good measure.

Infinitestats: Instantly refills your health, stamina, oxygen, food, and water.

Leavemealone: Ultimate protection with god mode, infinite stats and enemy invisible all activated.

Givecreativemode: Places you in creative mode (disables weight restrictions, lets you fly, activates god mode and infinite stats, removes crafting requirements, and unlocks every engram).

Givecreativemodetotarget: Activates creative mode for the player you are targeting.

Givecreativemodetoplayer <playerID>: Activates creative mode for a chosen player by inputting their playerID.

Giveengrams: Instantly unlock every crafting recipe.

Giveengramstekonly: Grants you every Tek engram.

Givecolors: Grants you some of each dye.

Givearmorset <tier> <quality>: Instantly unlocks a full armour set in your chosen tier and quality level and equips it.

Giveweaponset <tier> <quality>: Instantly unlocks every weapon of your chosen tier.

Giveitemset <tier>: Instantly unlocks all items in your chosen tier.

Giveitem <blueprintpath> <quantity> <quality> <forceblueprint>

Giveitemnum <itemnum> <quantity> <quality> <forceblueprint>

Giveitemtoplayer <playerID> <blueprintpath> <quantity> <quality> <forceblueprint>

Giveitemnumtoplayer <playerID> <itemnum> <quantity> <quality> <forceblueprint>

Giveresources: Instantly unlock 50 of each type of resource.

Dotame: The targeted dinosaur will be instantly tamed (doesn’t work on untamable monsters).

Forcetame: The targeted dinosaur will be instantly tamed and you can ride it without equipping saddle.

Forcetameaoe <radius>: Tames all dinosaurs in your chosen radius. The default is 2,000 so type in lower for a smaller tamed area and higher for a larger one.

Givedinoset <tier> <quantity>: Spawns a set of dinosaurs with saddles of your choice.

Summon <type>: Spawns a creature of your choice to your current location.

Summontamed <type>: Spawns a tamed creature of your choice to your current location.

Gmsummon <type> <level>: Spawns a tamed creature at a set level of your choice to your current location.

Tpcoords <lat> <lon> <altitude>: Instantly teleport to your chosen coordinates. It’s best to check out the Ark fandom wiki for all map coordinates and points of interest.

Teleport: Keep moving straight forward until you smack into something.

TeleportplayerIDtome <playerID>: Moves a chosen other player to your current location.

Teleportplayernametome <playername>: Moves a chosen other player to your current location.

Teleporttoplayer <playerID>: Moves you to another player’s current location.

Ark Expansion console commands

The Island expansion weather codes:

Scorched Earth expansion weather codes:

Ragnarok expansion weather codes:

Aberration expansion weather codes:

Extinction expansion weather code:

Ark: Genesis dinosaur summons (summon <type> or summontamed <type>):

Ark: Genesis item summons:

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Toby SaundersFreelance Writer

Toby Saunders is a freelance writer specialising in Video Game journalism. He has a wealth of experience in the field and is published on many different websites including PCGamesN, Nintendo Life and Pocket Tactics. He has a degree in Film Studies (he gets to write about Film and TV occasionally, too).

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