Valheim console commands and how to use them
Surviving in Valheim can get pretty harrowing as you progress through the game. If you’re struggling and need some relief, console commands can provide a way to tweak your experience. Here’s how to activate and use them.
How to enable the console in Valheim
Steam
For the Steam version, just follow these steps.
- Right-click the game in your Steam library and select properties.
- In the textbox under “Launch Options” input -console.
- Launch the game.
- Press F5 during gameplay to open the console.
PC Game Pass
It’s a bit more complicated to enable the console on the PC Game Pass version.
- Navigate to the game’s installation folder. By default, it can be found at C:XboxGamesValheimContent.
- Right-click on Valheim.exe and select “Create Shortcut.”
- Right-click the shortcut and select properties.
- In the textbox beside “Target” add -console to the end (after a space).
- Click Apply (or just OK) and exit the window.
- Use the shortcut to launch the game (you can copy and paste the shortcut somewhere accessible).
- Press F5 during gameplay to open the console.
Xbox
Getting to the console is much easier on Xbox.
- Press RB+LB+RT+LT+menu (the three lines) and the console will open.
How to use the console in Valheim
The console in Valheim can be used for an assortment of things. There’s a massive list of commands that you can do, but not all of them are going to be immediately useful. You can simply type / in the console and it will pop up a list of commands to scroll through.
Most likely, you’re going to want to stick to the cheats.
Valheim Cheats
In order to enable cheats in Valheim, there’s one additional step: you need to type devcommands into the console. Also, note that you can only use these cheats in singleplayer. Most commands can’t be used on multiplayer servers.
Cheat | Usage |
God | Toggles God Mode. |
Fly | Toggles Fly Mode. |
Ghost | Toggles Ghost Mode, which makes your character undetectable. |
Heal | Restores all health. |
Puke | Resets hunger, health, and stamina. |
Clearstatus | Removes all status effects from your character. |
Freefly | This unlocks the camera from your character to allow you to look around freely. |
Ffsmooth | Smooths the freefly camera. Adding 1 activates this, adding 0 resets it. |
Killall | Kills all nearby entities, including tamed creatures. |
Tame | Tames all nearby creatures. |
Removebirds | Removes all the birds. Every one of them. |
Removefish | Removes every fish. |
Nocost | Allows you to build without required items or materials. |
Removedrops | Removes all items in the area. |
Goto | Teleports you to a given location. Formatted as goto [x,z]. |
Location | Spawn location. Formatted as location [location id] [save]. |
Raiseskill | Raises a skill by a specified amount. Formatted as raiseskill [skill] [amount] |
Resetcharacter | Resets your character back to default |
Spawn | Spawns any entity specified. Formatted as spawn [entity id] [amount] [level]. |
Pos | Shows player location in coordinates. |
Tod | Sets time of day (from 0 to 1 with .5 being noon). Format as tod [value]. |
Time | Displays time (toggle). |
Skiptime | Moves time forward. Formatted as skiptime [seconds] |
Timescale | Sets time to move using a multiplier. Formatted as timescale [multiplier] with 3 being the highest. |
Dpsdebug | Show DPS (damage per second). (Toggle). |
Save | Forces a world save. |
Model 0 | Changes player model to the masculine body. |
Model 1 | Changes player model to the feminine body. |
Hair | Changes your hair. Formatted as Hair [Number] you can enter 1-4. Zero or no value removes your hair. |
Beard | Changes your beard. Formatted as Beard [Number] you can enter 1-4. Zero or no value removes your beard. |
Wind | Sets the angle and force of wind. Formatted as wind [angle] [intensity]. |
Resetwind | Sets the wind back the way it was. |
Event | Starts a specified event. Formatted as event [name]. |
Stopevent | Stops active event. |
Randomevent | Starts a random event. |
Exploremap | Reveals the map. |
Resetmap | Hides (un-reveals) the map. |
Admin commands
If you are set as the admin of a server, you can also use these commands to manage players.
Command | Usage |
Ban | Bans player from server. Formatted as ban [player name, user ID, or IP]. |
Unban | Removes player from ban list. Formatted as unban [player name, user ID, or IP]. |
Banned | Shows list of banned players. |
Kick | Kicks player from server. Formatted as Kick [player name, user ID, or IP]. |
Save | Forces world save. |
Ping | Shows server latency. |
lodbias | Sets level of detail (draw distance) on server Formatted as lodbias [number]. Ranges from 1-5. |
Source: www.destructoid.com