Factorio console commands and cheats can make navigating the game’s inherent complexity easier, getting you closer to that automated factory you’ve always envisioned.
Appropriately enough, just like getting into Factorio can prove daunting without plenty of patience on your side, its console commands come in a number that’s also prone to intimidate.
To help you easily find some of the most useful Factorio console commands and cheats, we’ve highlighted a selection of them in the list below.
Factorio Console Commands and Cheats
You can access Factorio’s console by pressing the tilde (`) or slash (/) key. If, for some reason, neither of them works, you can rebind the console key from the game’s settings. Simply head to Controls->Basic Interaction, find the Toggle chat (and Lua console) option, and change it to a key of your liking.
Before we dip into our Factorio console commands and cheats highlights, it’s worth keeping in mind that typing “/help” into the console while inside a level will bring up a list of helpful consoles. Similarly, for any of the below to work, you’ll need to have loaded a level.
- /seed - Copies the current map’s seed
- /time - Returns info about the map’s age
- /toggle-action-logging - Logs all input actions that the game performs
- /permissions - Opens permissions UI
- /alerts (disable/enable/mute/unmute) - Disables, enables, mutes or unmutes alerts like no_material_for_construction
- /unlock-shortcut-bar - Unlocks all items on the shortcut bar
- /admin - Opens player management UI
- /ban (player name) (reason) - Bans players for specified reason
- /unban (player name) - Unbans player
- /demote (player name) - Removes admin powers from player
- /promote (player name) - Gives player admin powers
- /ignore (player name) - Ignores player
- /unignore (player name) - Unignores player
- /kick (player name) (reason) - Kick players from server for specified reason
- /mute (player name) - Mutes player
- /unmute (player name) - Unmutes player
- /version - Returns the game’s current version
Below, you’ll find a small set of Factorio cheats. As opposed to the console commands above, these will disable achievements for the game they’re used in, so keep that in mind before taking advantage of what they offer.
- /cheat (all) - Researches all technologies, enables cheat mode
- /editor - Toggles map editor
- /c (command) - Executes command (examples below)
- /c game.player.zoom=0.2 - Zoom past usual bounds
- /c game.player.force.manual_mining_speed_modifier=1000 - Makes mining faster
- /c game.player.force.manual_crafting_speed_modifier=1000 - Makes crafting faster
- /c game.player.cheat_mode=true - Cheat mode, infinite crafting
- /c game.player.selected.amount=7000 - Gives amount of resource present on the tile you’re hovering your mouse cursor over
- /c game.player.insert{name=”item”, count=100} - Gives number of specified item
- /c game.speed=number - Changes game speed
- /c game.player.surface.always_day=true - Disables night
- /c game.player.surface.clear_pollution() - Removes pollution
- /c game.player.force.friendly_fire = false - Disables friendly fire
If you’re looking for more complex cheats, you’ll find more on the game’s wiki. Factorio is now available on PC.
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