ARK: Survival

Admin Command Builder

ARK's admin commands are powerful, badly documented, and unforgiving about argument order. This builds the common ones with their parameters labelled, so you are not counting positional arguments in a console.

On a server you are connected to as a client, run EnableCheats <your admin password> first, or these are rejected.

GFI matches part of the item’s blueprint name, so a short distinctive fragment works better than the full display name.

Your command

Paste into the in-game console, or send over RCON without the cheat prefix where your tool adds it for you.

cheat GFI Rifle 1 0 0

How this works

Most ARK admin commands need the cheat prefix, and on a server you are connected to as a client they need EnableCheats with the admin password first. Each command here has its arguments named rather than positional, which matters most for the ones taking four numbers in a row — GiveExpToPlayer's trailing zero and one are tribe-sharing flags, not part of the amount, and getting that wrong is a very common way to grant nothing.

What people get wrong

GFI is the command worth knowing. It matches a fragment of an item's blueprint name rather than needing the full path, so a short distinctive fragment finds things a full display name will not. SpawnDino is the opposite: its blueprint path must be quoted exactly as the wiki gives it, single quotes and all, and a path missing one character fails silently.

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