Valheim Console Commands & Admin Cheats (God Mode, Fly & Spawn Items)

How to Enable and Open Console Terminal in Valheim

Unlike many PC survival sandboxes where developer consoles are open by default, Valheim requires a specific Steam launch parameter to enable the in-game command terminal. Iron Gate Studio implemented this measure to prevent accidental keystroke triggers during multiplayer gameplay sessions.

To enable the console, open Steam, navigate to your Library, right-click on Valheim, and select Properties. In the General tab, locate the text box labeled Launch Options at the bottom of the window. In this input field, type -console (including the leading hyphen) and close the settings window. When you launch Valheim, the debug subsystem initializes cleanly alongside the game engine.

Once you load into an active singleplayer world or join a server, press the F5 function key on your keyboard. A translucent black terminal box drops down from the top edge of your screen. You can type commands directly into this prompt and press Enter to submit them. To close the console overlay, press F5 or Esc.

Activating Devcommands & Core Survival Codes

Before executing cheats like god mode or flight, you must unlock developer privileges within the current session. In earlier releases of Valheim, players entered imacheater, but this syntax has been officially superseded by devcommands. Open the console with F5 and type devcommands. The console responds with the confirmation: Dev commands: True.

1. Invulnerability with God & Ghost Modes

Entering god toggles God Mode. While active, your Viking becomes totally immune to damage from troll clubs, poison clouds, falling trees, freezing mountain winds, and drowning in ocean swells. If you want to explore the Mistlands or Plains without hostile mobs swarming your construction site, typing ghost enables Ghost Mode. Hostile creatures will treat your avatar as invisible, allowing you to walk right past Fuling berserkers and Gjalls without pulling aggro.

2. Creative Flight & Infinite Building (fly & nocost)

Constructing massive Norse longhouses and stone fortresses often requires precarious scaffolding. Entering fly toggles flight mode. Press the Space bar to ascend into the air and press Ctrl to descend. When paired with nocost, you enter full creative construction mode. Every building piece, forge upgrade, and furniture item can be placed without consuming stone, core wood, or iron nails, and workbenches are no longer required within building radius.

Item Spawning Mechanics & Metal Ore FormIDs

Mining copper, tin, and iron ore through the Black Forest and Sunken Crypts is one of Valheim's most time-intensive gameplay loops. The spawn command allows instant delivery of raw resources and refined ingots directly to your feet using the syntax: spawn [ItemName] [Quantity] [Level].

Note that item IDs in Valheim are strictly case-sensitive. Typing spawn iron 50 will result in a missing asset error, whereas typing spawn Iron 50 executes successfully.

Instant Skill Maxing & Character Modifiers

Dying in Valheim imposes a harsh 5% penalty across all learned skill proficiencies. Rather than chopping thousand of trees or jogging across meadows to recover your athletics, you can tailor your skill levels surgically using raiseskill [skill] [amount].

For example, executing raiseskill run 100 instantly sets your sprinting endurance and speed to maximum proficiency. To dominate in combat, enter raiseskill swords 100, raiseskill bows 100, and raiseskill polearms 100. If you wish to test a clean character profile without deleting your avatar, you can reset individual proficiencies using resetskill [skill] or wipe all character data with resetcharacter.

World Controls, Weather & Server Maintenance

Admin commands grant direct oversight over world states, weather cycles, and server optimization. One of the most critical maintenance utilities is removedrops. As players chop trees, kill boars, and mine rocks, hundreds of loose wood logs, stones, and resin clumps accumulate across active world grids, creating severe multiplayer stutter. Entering removedrops instantly purges all loose world items, restoring crisp 60+ FPS server tick rates.

To scout uncharted ocean routes, typing exploremap sweeps away the entire fog of war, highlighting the Elder, Bonemass, and Haldor merchant pins immediately. When your exploration is finished, entering resetmap restores the uncharted mystery to your cartography table.