ARK Survival Ascended Commands: Admin Cheats, Dinos, Items

ARK: Survival Ascended commands work on PC, Xbox and PlayStation. On PC press ~ (tilde) to open the console; on Xbox and PS5 you first turn on console access in the game settings, then open it from the pause screen. In single-player you type a command such as god, fly or gcm as-is. On a server you log in with enablecheats <admin password> and put cheat or admincheat in front of every command. Below: how to enable them on each platform, then tables for player cheats, items, dino spawns, taming and server admin. Checked November 3, 2026 UTC against the ARK wiki’s console command, creature ID and item pages.

Quick answer

• Open the console: ~ on PC (or with keyboard and mouse on console). Xbox: enable console access, pause with Menu, press View. PlayStation: enable console access, pause, press the button shown in the lower-left corner.
• Single-player: no password and no prefix. god works as typed.
• Servers: enablecheats YourAdminPassword, then cheat god or admincheat god.
• God mode and flying: god, fly, ghost (noclip), walk to land.
• Everything at once: gcm (Creative Mode: no weight limit, free and instant crafting, all engrams).
• Items: gfi MetalIngot 100 0 0 gives 100 Metal Ingots.
• Spawn a tamed dino: summontamed Rex_Character_BP_C
• Tame the dino you’re looking at: forcetame (never while riding something).
• Not on official servers: cheat commands need the server’s admin password.

How to enable commands in ARK: Survival Ascended (PC, PS5, Xbox)

The official ARK wiki’s console commands page lists the console keys for Ascended separately from Survival Evolved. They changed between the two games: Evolved used Tab on PC, Ascended uses tilde.

Platform	How to open the console
PC (Steam), or a console with keyboard and mouse active	Press ~ (the key left of 1, under Esc)
Xbox, or any Xbox controller	Enable console access in the game settings, pause with Menu, then press View (shown in the lower-left of the pause screen)
PlayStation, or any PS controller	Enable console access in the game settings, open the pause screen, then press the button shown in its lower-left corner

Single-player vs. servers

• Single-player: type the bare command. The wiki notes that prefixes still work there, but you don’t need them.
• Your own dedicated or rented server: type enablecheats followed by the server’s ServerAdminPassword. After that, every cheat needs cheat or admincheat in front: cheat fly.
• Official servers: players don’t have the admin password, so cheat commands are not available there.

Three rules from the wiki save a lot of typos: commands are not case-sensitive; true/false arguments also accept 1 and 0; and you can chain commands with a vertical bar, such as LeaveMeAlone | Fly | God. On a server, each command in the chain needs its own cheat prefix.

ARK Survival Ascended cheat commands for players

Examples are written without the prefix for single-player. On a server, add cheat in front.

Command	What it does	The catch
god	God mode: no damage from attacks, explosions or falls. Type it again to turn it off.	You can still drown. Add infinitestats to stop that. setgodmode 1 / 0 sets it instead of toggling.
infinitestats	Refills health, stamina, oxygen, food and water and keeps them full. No ammo is used from your inventory.	Not invincibility: a single hit bigger than your max health still kills. If you’re riding, it applies to the mount, not you. No effect on carry weight.
refillstats	Fills all stats once.	One-off, not a toggle.
fly	Free flight with no gravity.	walk turns it off.
ghost	Noclip: pass through objects and terrain.	walk turns it off.
enemyinvisible true	Every creature ignores you, even when you attack it.	enemyinvisible false to undo.
leavemealone	God + InfiniteStats + EnemyInvisible in one command.	The easiest way to explore safely.
gmbuff	Same as LeaveMeAlone plus a large amount of experience.	The XP part can’t be undone.
toggleinfiniteammo	Unlimited ammo for all your weapons.	Repeat to turn off.
infiniteweight	No weight limit (alias deeppockets).	Still limited to 299 inventory slots.
gcm	Creative Mode (full name givecreativemode).	See the next section. Toggle off by typing it again.
giveengrams	Unlocks every crafting recipe.	May lag briefly. Engrams stay until you log out and back in.
giveengramstekonly	Unlocks only Tek engrams.	Lasts until you disconnect.
addexperience 1000 0 1 0	Adds XP to you, or to your mount if you’re riding.	You get the amount × 4 × the server’s XP multipliers, per the wiki.
levelup MeleeDamageMultiplier 25	Adds 25 levels to one stat (yours, or your mount’s).	Stat names: Health, Stamina, Oxygen, Food, Water, Weight, MeleeDamageMultiplier, SpeedMultiplier, TemperatureFortitude, CraftingSpeedMultiplier, Torpidity, Temperature.
clearmybuffs	Tries to remove your active buffs.	Works on some buffs, not all.

Creative Mode (gcm): what it gives you

The wiki’s Creative Mode page lists what gcm switches on: no weight limit, no crafting requirements, instant crafting, all engrams unlocked, infinite stats and god mode, and an Admin Blink Rifle in your inventory. Double-tap jump to fly. It does not hide you from creatures, so add enemyinvisible true if you want to build in peace. Running gcm again removes everything except the engrams you gained; those go when you log out and back in. On a server, gcmt toggles it for the player you’re looking at.

Skill tree commands (Ascended only)

Skill Trees arrived with the Lost Colony DLC, according to the wiki, and these commands don’t exist in Survival Evolved:

Command	What it does
giveskillpoints 3	Adds 3 skill points.
giveallskills	Unlocks every skill in the tree.
giveskill HeavyFooted 2	Unlocks one skill at a set rank. Other names include HotBlooded, Bloodlust, SpiritRush, StrongBack, Telekinesis and MassProduction.
resetskills	Locks all skills again.
resetskillcooldowns	Lets you use skills again right away.

ARK Survival Ascended item commands and spawn codes

There are three ways to give yourself items. GFI is the one to learn, because you only need part of the item’s blueprint name, not the full path:

• gfi <part of name> <quantity> <quality> <blueprint 0/1>: gfi MetalIngot 100 0 0
• giveitem "<full blueprint path>" <quantity> <quality> 0: the long form, which never picks the wrong item
• The last number: 0 gives the item, 1 gives its blueprint instead.

GFI takes the first item whose blueprint contains your text. The wiki’s example: gfi bug gives a Tek ATV (its blueprint is “VHBuggy”), while gfi bugr gives Bug Repellant. If you get the wrong item, use a longer piece of the name.

Item	GFI code	Example
Metal Ingot	MetalIngot	gfi MetalIngot 100 0 0
Polymer	Polymer	gfi Polymer 100 0 0
Cementing Paste	ChitinPaste	gfi ChitinPaste 100 0 0
Crystal	Crystal	gfi Crystal 100 0 0
Obsidian	Obsidian	gfi Obsidian 100 0 0
Electronics	Electronics	gfi Electronics 100 0 0
Silica Pearls	Silicon	gfi Silicon 100 0 0
Element	Element	gfi Element 100 0 0
Gunpowder	Gunpowder	gfi Gunpowder 100 0 0
Cryopod	cryopod	gfi cryopod 10 0 0
Rex Saddle	RexSaddle	gfi RexSaddle 1 0 0
Flak Chestpiece	MetalShirt	gfi MetalShirt 1 0 0
Fabricated Sniper Rifle	MachinedSniper	gfi MachinedSniper 1 0 0
Advanced Rifle Bullet	AdvancedRifleBullet	gfi AdvancedRifleBullet 100 0 0
Tek Rifle	TekRifle	gfi TekRifle 1 0 0

GFI codes come from each item’s page on the ARK wiki. The full lists are on the wiki’s Item IDs page. Those tables were built for Survival Evolved, which is why this guide uses GFI names rather than the old numeric item IDs.

Kits: resources, armor, weapons and food in one command

Command	What you get
giveresources	50 of every resource in the game. That’s over 300 weight, so expect to be encumbered.
givearmorset Flak Mastercraft	A full armor set, equipped. Tiers: 0/Cloth, 1/Chitin, 2/Metal (Flak), 3/Tek, plus Hide, Fur, Desert, Ghillie, Riot, Scuba, Hazard. The Tek set also gives Element and Tek engrams.
giveweaponset 1 Mastercraft	0/Primitive: bow, pike, spear, bola. 1/Basic: assault rifle, shotgun, longneck, sword, grenade. 2/Advanced: compound bow, fabricated sniper, rocket launcher, C4. 3/Tek: Tek grenade, rifle, railgun, sword. Ammo included.
giveitemset 3	Food and drink kits from 0 (cooked meat, stimberry, waterskin) to 3 (Shadow Steak Saute, Enduro Stew, Focal Chili, Lazarus Chowder and brews).

Quality names for these kits are Primitive, Ramshackle, Apprentice, Journeyman, Mastercraft, Ascendant and Alpha, or a number from 0 to 20.

ARK Survival Ascended dino commands: summon, spawn and tame

Command	What it does	The catch
summon Rex_Character_BP_C	Spawns a wild creature at a random level, right on top of you.	The wiki warns against it for carnivores, since they glitch out of you. Use spawndino with a distance, or god mode first.
summontamed Rex_Character_BP_C	Spawns it already force-tamed.	The quickest way to get a mount.
gmsummon "Rex_Character_BP_C" 150	Spawns a tamed creature at a chosen level.	Not cheat-tamed, so it still needs a saddle. The level is before the taming bonus.
spawndino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rex/Rex_Character_BP.Rex_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 150	Wild creature at an exact level, 500 units in front of you.	Look slightly up, not at the ground.
givedinoset 2 0	A full set of saddled, ready-to-ride tames (0 spawns the whole set).	Tier 2 = Rex, Spino, Paracer, Therizinosaur. Also tiers 0, 1, 3, Flyers, Mek.
forcetame	Instantly tames the creature in your crosshair. It can be ridden without a saddle.	The wiki warns it crashes the game or server if you use it while mounted.
dotame	Tames the target as if you’d tamed it normally (dossier entry, XP, sound).	Same crash warning while mounted. Only works on tameable creatures.
setimprintquality 1	Sets the target bred dino’s imprint to 100%.	Range 0 to 1.
setbabyage 1	Grows the target baby to adult.	Range 0.01 to 1.
clearcryosickness	Removes cryo sickness from the tame you’re looking at.	Also wakes it up.
kill / destroymytarget	Kills the target (leaves a corpse) / deletes it (no corpse).	kill doesn’t work on bosses.
destroywilddinos	Removes every wild creature so the map respawns them.	The wiki suggests it after an update adds new creatures.

ARK Survival Ascended creature IDs (for summon)

Entity IDs from the wiki’s Creature IDs page, which includes the creatures added in Ascended. Creatures from paid maps and packs need that content.

Creature	Summon ID
Rex	Rex_Character_BP_C
Giganotosaurus	Gigant_Character_BP_C
Carcharodontosaurus	Carcha_Character_BP_C
Therizinosaur	Therizino_Character_BP_C
Yutyrannus	Yutyrannus_Character_BP_C
Raptor	Raptor_Character_BP_C
Triceratops	Trike_Character_BP_C
Stegosaurus	Stego_Character_BP_C
Brontosaurus	Sauropod_Character_BP_C
Ankylosaurus	Ankylo_Character_BP_C
Mammoth	Mammoth_Character_BP_C
Argentavis	Argent_Character_BP_C
Quetzal	Quetz_Character_BP_C
Pteranodon	Ptero_Character_BP_C
Megalodon	Megalodon_Character_BP_C
Mosasaurus	Mosa_Character_BP_C
Dodo	Dodo_Character_BP_C
Rock Drake	RockDrake_Character_BP_C
Fire Wyvern	Wyvern_Character_BP_Fire_C
Managarmr	IceJumper_Character_BP_C
Gigantoraptor (added in Ascended)	Gigantoraptor_Character_BP_C
Ceratosaurus (added in Ascended)	Ceratosaurus_Character_BP_ASA_C
Xiphactinus (added in Ascended)	Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C
Deinosuchus (added in Ascended)	Deinosuchusasa_Character_BP_C
Shastasaurus (added in Ascended)	Shastasaurus_Character_BP_C
Dreadnoughtus (added in Ascended)	Dreadnoughtus_Character_BP_C

For a full species list with sizes and diets in another dinosaur game, see our Jurassic World Evolution 3 dinosaur list.

World, time and teleport commands

Command	What it does
settimeofday 06:30:00	Sets the clock (hours 0-23).
setday 1	Sets the day number.
slomo 2	Game speed multiplier. Anything above 16 acts like 16; slomo 1 is normal.
ccc	Copies your coordinates to the clipboard (CopyCoordsToClipboard).
setplayerpos -71467 -52156 0	Teleports you to X Y Z coordinates. The wiki says it always sends you to the map center on Xbox and PlayStation.
tpname <player name>	Teleports you to another player (TeleportToPlayerName).
teleport	Moves you forward until you hit something.
defeatallbosses 0	Unlocks all Alpha boss kills for player 0 (you, in single-player).
giveallexplorernotes	Unlocks every Explorer Note. Your game may freeze for a while.

ARK Survival Ascended admin commands for servers

For Nitrado and other rented servers: log in with enablecheats <ServerAdminPassword> first. Every command below then takes the cheat or admincheat prefix.

Command	What it does	Xbox / PlayStation
showmyadminmanager	Opens the admin panel: player list, bans, whitelist, message of the day, and the player IDs other commands need. No prefix.	Partial: broadcast, MOTD, kick and ban only
cheat listplayers	Lists connected players and their IDs.	Not listed
cheat kickplayer <ID>	Disconnects a player.	No: use the admin manager
cheat banplayer <ID> / unbanplayer	Adds or removes a player from the ban list.	Ban works with the Xbox/PlayStation name or ID
cheat broadcast <text>	On-screen message to everyone.	Yes
cheat serverchat <text>	Chat message to everyone.	Partial
cheat saveworld	Saves the world now.	No
cheat destroywilddinos	Wipes wild creatures so they respawn.	Yes
cheat setcheatplayer true	Turns on cheat commands that affect you, your mount and the world.	Yes

ARK Survival Ascended commands for FPS: what actually exists

Bing’s autocomplete is full of “ARK commands for FPS”, but Studio Wildcard has been shutting those down on purpose. The patch 41.23 notes (May 8, 2024) say the studio “disabled the use of various console commands used to gain visual advantages” and will “continue to monitor and disable more”. Patch 61.14 (February 13, 2025) disabled another one that let players see through terrain. So treat any long list of graphics tweaks you find elsewhere as unreliable. The wiki lists two that are documented:

• stat fps shows your frame rate and frame time on screen. Type it again to hide it. The wiki says it doesn’t work on console.
• r.shadowquality 0 lowers shadow quality (0 is off, 5 is epic). The wiki marks it as working on Xbox.

For real performance gains, use the in-game graphics options instead of the console.

Do commands disable achievements in ARK: Survival Ascended?

The Steam version has 32 Steam achievements. We couldn’t find any statement from Studio Wildcard, or any rule on the wiki, saying that console commands turn them off. So the safe approach is to protect your save rather than rely on achievements staying on:

1. Make a backup first. Since patch 66.0, single-player has a Save Backup option on the pause menu. The savebackup command does the same thing and gets around the three-backup limit.
2. Prefer toggles (god, fly, gcm) over permanent changes (addexperience, levelup, giveallskills, defeatallbosses), which you can’t undo.
3. Never use forcetame or dotame while mounted, and check blueprint paths carefully: the wiki warns that a typo in spawnexactdino crashes the game.

Playing other survival sandboxes? Our 7 Days to Die console commands and Valheim console commands guides use the same format, and the Palworld breeding combos guide covers the other big creature-taming survival game.

FAQ

How do you enable cheats in ARK: Survival Ascended?

In single-player, just open the console (~ on PC) and type a command. On a server you control, type enablecheats followed by the admin password, then put cheat in front of each command.

Can you use commands in ARK: Survival Ascended on PS5 and Xbox?

Yes. Enable console access in the game settings, then open the console from the pause screen. Most cheats work. A few are PC-only or limited, including saveworld, kickplayer and stat fps, and setplayerpos always sends you to the map center.

Why are my ARK commands not working?

On a server, check that you ran enablecheats with the right password and added cheat before the command. Make sure you’re not on an official server. For GFI, use a longer part of the item name. In single-player, check your console key: Ascended uses ~, not the Tab key from Survival Evolved.

What is the gcm command in ARK?

gcm is short for GiveCreativeMode. It removes weight limits and crafting costs, makes crafting instant, unlocks every engram, and gives you god mode, infinite stats and flight (double-tap jump). Type it again to turn it off.

Sources: ARK wiki: Console commands, Creature IDs, Item IDs and item pages, Creative Mode, Skill Tree; Studio Wildcard patch notes 41.23, 61.14 and 66.0; Steam store page. Checked November 3, 2026 UTC.

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