Factorio console commands and cheats can make navigating the game's inherent complexity a bit 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 make it easier to spot a portion of the more useful Factorio console commands and cheats, we've highlighted 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 work, 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
- 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
- Bans players for specified reason - /unban
- Unbans player - /demote
- Removes admin powers from player - /promote
- Gives player admin powers - /ignore
- Ignores player - /unignore
- Unignores player - /kick
- Kick players from server for specified reason - /mute
- Mutes player - /unmute
- Unmutes player
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
- Researches all technologies, enables cheat mode - /editor - Toggles map editor
- /c
- 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
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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