Console

The console is Factorio's in-game command-line interface. See command line parameters for the command line interface of the Factorio executable.

The in-game console can be used for:

• Chatting with other players
• Occasional status updates
• Running commands / scripts / cheats

There are three types of commands:

• Normal - Display information about the game and customize your experience.
• Multiplayer - Message filtering, banning users, etc.
• Scripting/Cheating - Run small Lua scripts (but they disable achievements for the save game)

Using the console

The console display can be toggled with the / (slash) or ~ (tilde) keys.

You can customize the keys via Options Menu → Keyboard → Toggle Lua console. When the console is open, you'll see a blinking cursor at the bottom of the screen; type your message or command and hit Return to send it (this will also close the console). Documentation about message and command prefixes can be found further down this page.

The console supports rich text tags. These tags are useful for sharing blueprints, marking map locations in chat or adding icons to map markers and train stations. Ctrl + Alt-clicking the map or ground will automatically insert a GPS tag and post it into the console. Shift-clicking most things with the console open will insert a tag for that thing into the console.

When the console is closed, only the most recent messages/commands will be displayed, but they will gradually fade away (opening the console will immediately re-display all recent messages). Note that by default, all executed commands are made visible to all users. You can set the fade-out time via Options Menu → Other Settings → Message Delay.

If you want to immediately hide the console, open the console and then press Escape key (or press Return without entering any message/command). This not only closes the console, but it also hides all the recent messages/commands. The console can be cleared with the /clear command.

Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to scroll through the console history. The Tab key will auto-complete commands and player names.

Normal commands

Command	Example	Description	Admin only
/alerts <enable/disable/mute/unmute> <alert>	/alerts disable turret_fire	Enables, disables, mutes, or unmutes the given alert type. Available alerts: entity_destroyed, entity_under_attack, not_enough_construction_robots, no_material_for_construction, not_enough_repair packs, turret_fire, custom, no_storage, train_out_of_fuel, fluid_mixing.	No
/clear	/clear	Clears the console.	No
/color <color>	/color 20 255 255 100	Changes your color. Can either be one of the pre-defined colors or RGBA value in the format of “# # # #”. Available colors: default, red, green, blue, orange, yellow, pink, purple, white, black, gray, brown, cyan, acid.	No
/evolution	/evolution	Prints info about the alien evolution factor.	No
/help [command]	/help	Prints a list of available commands, the optional argument can specify the command that should be described.	No
/h [command]	/h	Same as /help.	No
/mute-programmable-speaker <mute/unmute> <local/everyone>	/mute-programmable-speaker mute local	Mutes or unmutes the global sounds created by the Programmable Speaker. Use “local” to mute just the local client. Admins can use “everyone” to mute the sounds for everyone on the server.	No
/perf-avg-frames <number>	/perf-avg-frames 100	Number of ticks/updates used to average performance counters. Default is 100. Value of 5-10 is recommended for fast convergence, but numbers will jitter more rapidly.	No
/permissions	/permissions	Opens the permissions GUI.	Yes
/screenshot [x resolution] [y resolution] [zoom]	/screenshot	Takes a screenshot with the GUI hidden, centered on the player. It is saved in the "script-output" subfolder of your User data directory. Resolution is optional and defaults to the current window size. Zoom is optional and defaults to 1.	No
/seed	/seed	Prints the starting map seed.	No
/time	/time	Prints info about how old the map is.	No
/toggle-action-logging	/toggle-action-logging	Toggles logging all input actions performed by the game. This value isn’t persisted between game restarts and only affects your local game in multiplayer sessions.	Yes
/toggle-heavy-mode	/toggle-heavy-mode	Used to investigate desyncs. Will slow down the game and make multiplayer unplayable.	Yes
/toggle-rockets-sent-gui	/toggle-rockets-sent-gui	Toggles if the rockets sent button is shown in the upper left corner of the screen.	No
/unlock-shortcut-bar	/unlock-shortcut-bar	Unlocks all shortcut bar items.	No
/version	/version	Prints the current game version.	No

Multiplayer commands

Command	Example	Description	Admin only
<message>	Hello team!	Console input that does not start with / is shown as a chat message to your team.	No
/admin	/admin	Opens the player management GUI.	Yes
/admins	/admins	Prints a list of game admins.	No
/ban <player> <reason>	/ban xTROLLx Throwing grenades in base	Bans the specified player.	Yes
/banlist <add/remove/get/clear> <player>	/banlist get	Adds or removes a player from the banlist. Same as /ban or /unban.	No
/config <get/set> <option> <value>	/config set password hunter2	Gets or sets various multiplayer game settings. Available configs are: afk-auto-kick, allow-commands, allow-debug-settings, autosave-interval, autosave-only-on-server, ignore-player-limit-for-returning-players, max-players, max-upload-speed, only-admins-can-pause, password, require-user-verification, visibility-lan, visibility-public.	Yes
/delete-blueprint-library <player>	/delete-blueprint-library everybody confirm	Deletes the blueprint library storage for the given offline player from the save file. Enter “everybody confirm” to delete the storage of all offline players.	Yes
/demote <player>	/demote AzureDiamond	Demotes the player from admin.	Yes
/ignore <player>	/ignore Cthon98	Prevents the chat from showing messages from this player. Admin messages are still shown.	No
/ignores	/ignores	Prints a list of ignored players.	No
/kick <player> <reason>	/kick xTROLLx Throwing grenades in base	Kicks the specified player.	Yes
/mute <player>	/mute Cthon98	Prevents the player from saying anything in chat.	Yes
/mutes	/mutes	All players that are muted (can’t talk in chat).	No
/open <player>	/open AzureDiamond	Opens another player’s inventory.	Yes
/o <player>	/o AzureDiamond	Same as /open.	Yes
/players [online/o/count/c]	/players	Prints a list of players in the game. (parameter online/o, it prints only players that are online, count/c prints only count)	No
/promote <player>	/promote AzureDiamond	Promotes the player to admin.	Yes
/purge <player>	/purge Cthon98	Clears all the messages from this player from the chat log.	Yes
/reply <message>	/reply oh, really?	Replies to the last player that whispered to you.	No
/r <message>	/r oh, really?	Same as /reply.	No
/server-save	/server-save	Saves the game on the server in a multiplayer game.	Yes
/shout <message>	/shout Hello world!	Sends a message to all players including other forces.	No
/s <message>	/s Hello world!	Same as /shout.	No
/swap-players <player> [player]	/swap-players AzureDiamond	Swaps your character with the given player’s character, or if two players are given swaps the two player characters.	Yes
/unban <player>	/unban xTROLLx	Unbans the specified player.	Yes
/unignore <player>	/unignore Cthon98	Allows the chat to show messages from this player.	No
/unmute <player>	/unmute Cthon98	Allows the player to talk in chat again.	Yes
/whisper <player> <message>	/whisper AzureDiamond that's what I see	Sends a message to the specified player.	No
/w <player> <message>	/w AzureDiamond that's what I see	Same as /whisper.	No
/whitelist <add/remove/get/clear> [player]	/whitelist get	Adds or removes a player from the whitelist, where only whitelisted players can join the game. Enter nothing for “player” when using “get” to print a list of all whitelisted players. An empty whitelist disables the whitelist functionality allowing anyone to join.	No

Scripting and cheat commands

Command	Description
/cheat <all>	Researches all technologies and enables cheat mode. Using the all option also gives the player some additional items.
/command <command>	Executes a Lua command (if allowed).
/c <command>	Executes a Lua command (if allowed).
/editor	Toggles the map editor.
/measured-command <command>	Executes a Lua command (if allowed) and measures time it took.
/silent-command <command>	Executes a Lua command (if allowed) without printing it to the console.

This is a very powerful feature, which also allows cheating, and as such achievements will be permanently disabled for the save as soon as you use a script command.

Basic example scripts

Use it as calculator

/c game.player.print(1234*5678)

Zoom beyond normal bounds

Note that zooming too far out can cause performance hits. Be careful.

/c game.player.zoom=0.1

Mine faster

/c game.player.force.manual_mining_speed_modifier=1000

Craft faster

/c game.player.force.manual_crafting_speed_modifier=1000

Unlock and research all technologies

/c game.player.force.research_all_technologies()

Undo this with the command in the next section.

Unresearch all technologies

This does not reset manually applied bonuses

/c for _, tech in pairs(game.player.force.technologies) do 
	tech.researched=false
	game.player.force.set_saved_technology_progress(tech, 0)
end

Reset your force

This resets all data for your force, including kill and production statistics, technologies, bonuses and charting status.

/c game.player.force.reset()

Create new force and change your force to new one

This creates new force with specified name, than you get this new force.

/c game.player.force = game.create_force("new_force_name")

Always show rail block visualization

Permanently show the rail block visualization instead of only when holding a rail signal. Disable by replacing true with false.

/c game.player.game_view_settings.show_rail_block_visualisation = true

Inventory manipulation scripts

Cheat mode

Allows for infinite free crafting. Disable by replacing true with false.

/c game.player.cheat_mode=true

Refill resources (refill oil, iron etc.)

While holding the cursor over a resource tile in-game

/c game.player.selected.amount=7500

Alternatively you can refill all resources in the map with the following command. Change ore.amount to the desired value.

/c surface = game.player.surface
for _, ore in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({type="resource"})) do
    ore.amount = 10000
end

Add items to the player's inventory

Replace iron-plate with the internal name of the item desired.

/c game.player.insert{name="iron-plate", count=100}

For instance, here's a stack of the god-mode energy system interface:

/c game.player.insert{name="electric-energy-interface"}

Add a powerful armor with equipment and some tools for construction:

/c	local player = game.player
player.insert{name="power-armor-mk2", count = 1}
local p_armor = player.get_inventory(5)[1].grid
	p_armor.put({name = "fusion-reactor-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "fusion-reactor-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "fusion-reactor-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "exoskeleton-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "exoskeleton-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "exoskeleton-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "exoskeleton-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "energy-shield-mk2-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "energy-shield-mk2-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "personal-roboport-mk2-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "night-vision-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "battery-mk2-equipment"})
	p_armor.put({name = "battery-mk2-equipment"})
player.insert{name="construction-robot", count = 25}

World manipulation scripts

Reveal the map around the player

Reveals the map around the player, similar to a radar.

/c local radius=150
game.player.force.chart(game.player.surface, {{game.player.position.x-radius, game.player.position.y-radius}, {game.player.position.x+radius, game.player.position.y+radius}})

or from start position

/c local radius=150
game.player.force.chart(game.player.surface, {{x = -radius, y = -radius}, {x = radius, y = radius}})

Change 150 to the desired radius, higher values take longer.

Hide revealed map

Hides all revealed chunks, inverted map revealing.

/c local surface = game.player.surface
local force = game.player.force
for chunk in surface.get_chunks() do
  force.unchart_chunk({x = chunk.x, y = chunk.y}, surface)
end

Reveal all generated map

Revels all of the generated map to the player's team.

/c game.player.force.chart_all()

Delete chunks

If much of the map is revealed, it increases the size of the save file. The following command cancels the generation of all chunks that are currently queued for generation and removes chunks outside a 32 chunks radius around 0,0. Note that this will remove player entities if there are any on these chunks.

/c local surface = game.player.surface;
game.player.force.cancel_charting(surface); 
local chunk_radius = 32;
for chunk in surface.get_chunks() do
  if (chunk.x < -chunk_radius or chunk.x > chunk_radius or chunk.y < -chunk_radius or chunk.y > chunk_radius) then
    surface.delete_chunk(chunk)
  end
end

Turn off night

Enables eternal day.

/c game.player.surface.always_day=true

Change game speed

0.5 is half speed, 1 is default, 2 is double speed, etc. Minimum is 0.01. This can be used for a lot of things like when you know you will have to wait for long periods of time for something to complete. Increasing will decrease performance, be careful.

/c game.speed=X

Expensive (marathon) or normal mode

To change from normal to expensive mode preset (this changes the research cost and intermediate product cost):

/c game.difficulty_settings.recipe_difficulty=1
game.difficulty_settings.technology_difficulty=1
game.difficulty_settings.technology_price_multiplier=4

To change back to normal:

/c game.difficulty_settings.recipe_difficulty=0
game.difficulty_settings.technology_difficulty=0
game.difficulty_settings.technology_price_multiplier=1

Freeze time

Stops the advancement of the time if you replace "BOOL" with "true" or unfreezes it if you replace it with "false".

/c game.player.surface.freeze_daytime=BOOL

Remove all pollution

/c game.player.surface.clear_pollution()

Completely turn off pollution

/c for _, surface in pairs(game.surfaces) do
  surface.clear_pollution()
end
game.map_settings.pollution.enabled = false

Add a lot of pollution

/c game.player.surface.pollute(game.player.position, 1000000)

Where speakers are, by who

/c speakers = game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{force = game.player.force, type="programmable-speaker"}
for key, speaker in pairs(speakers) do
    game.player.print(speaker.last_user.name .. " placed a speaker at X=" .. speaker.position.x .. ", Y=" .. speaker.position.y)
end

Disable friendly fire for your force

/c game.player.force.friendly_fire = false

Add new resource patch

This creates a new 11×11 patch of resources, centered on the player character, where the ground is not water. The patch it creates is perfectly square but it randomizes the amount similar to natural generation, with fewer ore at the edges and more ore in the center. The default numbers result in a patch with 2500-3000 ore.

If you want a larger patch, change "local size = 5" to a larger number. A larger patch will have exponentially more ore. Entering a number above 30 is not recommended.

If you want a richer patch, change "local density = 10" to a larger number. Entering a very large number shouldn't hurt anything but you probably don't need to go above 100.

To choose which resource is spawned, change "stone" near the bottom to "iron-ore", "copper-ore", "coal", or "uranium-ore".

/c local surface=game.player.surface
local ore=nil
local size=5
local density=10
for y=-size, size do
	for x=-size, size do
		a=(size+1-math.abs(x))*10
		b=(size+1-math.abs(y))*10
		if a<b then
			ore=math.random(a*density-a*(density-8), a*density+a*(density-8))
		end
		if b<a then
			ore=math.random(b*density-b*(density-8), b*density+b*(density-8))
		end
		if surface.get_tile(game.player.position.x+x, game.player.position.y+y).collides_with("ground-tile") then
			surface.create_entity({name="stone", amount=ore, position={game.player.position.x+x, game.player.position.y+y}})
		end
	end
end

Remove resources around the player

Removes all resource patches from the ground in a 50 x 50 area around the player.

/c local surface=game.player.surface
local size=50
local pos=game.player.position

for _, e in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered{area={{pos.x-size, pos.y-size},{pos.x+size, pos.y+size}}, type="resource"}) 
	do e.destroy() 
end

Add new oil patch

This creates 9 crude oil patches in a 3×3 square.

/c for y=0,2 do
	for x=0,2 do
		game.player.surface.create_entity({name="crude-oil", amount=100000, position={game.player.position.x+x*7-7, game.player.position.y+y*7-7}})
	end
end

or randomly without any collision:

/c local position=nil
for i=1,9 do
	position=game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position("crude-oil", game.player.position, 0, i/2+1.5)
	if position then 
		game.player.surface.create_entity({name="crude-oil", amount=100000, position=position})
	end
end

Create 10 fishes

This creates 10 fishes around of player. The player must be on the water edge.

/c local player = game.player
local surface = player.surface
for i = 1, 10 do
  local position = surface.find_non_colliding_position('fish', player.position, 10, 1)
  if not position then return end
  surface.create_entity {name = 'fish', position = position}
end

Count entities

Counts all entities whose name includes the string in local entity.

/c local entity="belt"
local surface=game.player.surface
local count=0
for key, ent in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({force=game.player.force})) do
	if string.find(ent.name,entity) then
		count=count+1
	end
end
game.player.print(count)

Emptying all pipes, underground pipes and pumps

Useful when pipes contain a fluid you dont want.

/c local surface = game.player.surface
local deleted=0
for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({force=game.player.force})) do
	if string.find(entity.name, "pipe") or 
		string.find(entity.name, "pump") 
	then
		for i=1,#entity.fluidbox do
			deleted = deleted + 1
			entity.fluidbox[i] = nil;
		end
	end
end
game.player.print("Fluids removed from "..deleted .." entities")

Turn off cliff generation

Sets size to "none". Only effective on chunks that are generated after using this command. Use #Remove all cliffs to delete existing cliffs.

/c local mgs = game.player.surface.map_gen_settings
mgs.cliff_settings.cliff_elevation_0 = 1024
game.player.surface.map_gen_settings = mgs

Remove all cliffs

Removes all cliffs existing cliffs from the world. Use #Turn off cliff generation to turn off cliff generation in new chunks.

/c for _, v in pairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{type="cliff"}) do
  v.destroy()
end

Delete all decoratives

Delete the decoratives that can be found in the world.

/c game.player.surface.destroy_decoratives({})

Change map generation settings

This allows to change the map generation settings for new chunks; it does not alter already generated chunks. Deleted chunks are affected by the setting change because they are newly generated when they get explored again.

To change resource generation settings, replace "iron-ore" with the resource that should be changed and replace "very-high" with the desired MapGenSize in the following command. Replace "iron-ore" with "enemy-base" to change the enemy base generation settings.

/c local surface = game.player.surface
local resource = "iron-ore"
local mgs = surface.map_gen_settings
mgs.autoplace_controls[resource].size = "very-high"
mgs.autoplace_controls[resource].frequency = "very-high"
mgs.autoplace_controls[resource].richness = "very-high"
surface.map_gen_settings = mgs

To change water generation settings, replace "very-high" with the desired MapGenSize in the following command.

/c local surface = game.player.surface
local mgs = surface.map_gen_settings
mgs.water = "very-high" --[[ size]]
mgs.terrain_segmentation  = "very-high" --[[ frequency]]
surface.map_gen_settings = mgs

Enemy/evolution scripts

Set evolution factor

Ranges from 0 (new game) to 1.

/c game.forces["enemy"].evolution_factor=X

Disable time-based evolution & increases pollution-based evolution

/c game.map_settings.enemy_evolution.time_factor=0
/c game.map_settings.enemy_evolution.pollution_factor=game.map_settings.enemy_evolution.pollution_factor*2

The "2" at the end of the last command will double the default pollution factor. You can substitute another number to increase (or decrease) the pollution factor further.

Kill all biters on the "enemy" force

Note that this will kill only mobile units, spawners will not be killed.

/c game.forces["enemy"].kill_all_units()

Kill all enemies

This will kill all biters, bases and worms. Anything that is an enemy will be completely destroyed. This only affects enemies in the explored world, so any unexplored parts of the map which still need to be generated will still have enemies. You can prevent biters being on newly generated chunks if desired.

/c local surface=game.player.surface
for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({force="enemy"})) do
	entity.destroy()
end

Kill all nearby enemies

This will kill all biters, bases and worms in a configurable radius. The default, 250 tiles, is about two zoomed-out screen widths on full HD. After destruction, it shows how many objects were destroyed.

/c local surface=game.player.surface
local pp = game.player.position
local cnt = 0
for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({force="enemy", radius=250, position=pp })) do
	cnt = cnt+1
	entity.destroy()
 end	
game.player.print(cnt)

Enable/Disable peaceful mode

Enabling peaceful mode prevents biter attacks until provoked. Substitute true for false to disable. Already existing biters are not affected by this command so attacks could continue for a while after activating peaceful mode.

/c game.player.surface.peaceful_mode = true

Enable/Disable biter expansion

Biter expansion allows biters to create new nests, it is enabled by default. Substitute true for false to disable.

/c game.map_settings.enemy_expansion.enabled = true

Prevent biters being on newly generated chunks

On newly generated chunks no biters will be present, however all current biters will remain unaffected. Equivalent of setting the Enemy Base Size to None under the Terrain settings during map generation but achieved mid game by changing map generation settings.

/c local surface = game.player.surface
local mgs = surface.map_gen_settings
mgs.autoplace_controls["enemy-base"].size = "none"
surface.map_gen_settings = mgs

Player character scripts

Commands concerning the player directly.

Get player position

Prints coordinates of your current position.

/c game.player.print(game.player.position.x .. ", " .. game.player.position.y)

Teleport player

Moves the player to the specified location. You should be able to teleport to a specific player if you obtain their coordinates via them executing the previous command and giving them to you.

/c game.player.teleport({X, Y})

To teleport to the world's origin, use 0,0.

Enable god mode

God mode removes your player character allowing you to fly over obstacles and take no damage.

Disassociate your controls from the player:

/c game.player.character=nil

Then, hover the mouse over the useless player and destroy it by typing:

/c game.player.selected.destroy()

To undo, spawn a player character. This will spawn a new player at the spawn point of the world, and connect your controls to it.

/c game.player.create_character()

Enable long reach

Enables long reach, which allows the player to build and interact with entities at a greater distance. The default reach is 10.

/c local reach = 10000
game.player.force.character_build_distance_bonus = reach
game.player.force.character_reach_distance_bonus = reach

Research scripts

Enable Research Queue

Enable the research queue for the players current team. Can be done after the game has started if it was forgotten during the map's setup.

/c game.player.force.research_queue_enabled = true

Enable faster research

/c game.player.force.laboratory_speed_modifier=1

1 is normal speed, 2 is double speed 3 is triple etc.

Research specific technologies

The internal technology names can be found in the infoboxes on their respective pages.

/c game.player.force.technologies['electric-energy-distribution-1'].researched=true
/c game.player.force.technologies['steel-processing'].researched=true

Unresearch specific technologies

The internal technology names can be found in the infoboxes on their respective pages.

/c game.player.force.technologies['electric-energy-distribution-1'].researched=false; game.player.force.set_saved_technology_progress('electric-energy-distribution-1', 0)
/c game.player.force.technologies['steel-processing'].researched=false; game.player.force.set_saved_technology_progress('steel-processing', 0)

Enabling specific recipes

The internal recipe/item names can be found in the infoboxes on their respective pages.

/c game.player.force.recipes["electric-energy-interface"].enabled=true
/c game.player.force.recipes["rocket-silo"].enabled=true
/c game.player.force.recipes.loader.enabled=true
/c game.player.force.recipes["fast-loader"].enabled = true
/c game.player.force.recipes["express-loader"].enabled = true

Enable all recipes

/c for name, recipe in pairs(game.player.force.recipes) do recipe.enabled = true end

Modding tools

A list of the internal names of most things in the vanilla game can also be found on data.raw.

Access a mod's data

If the first word of the command is __mod-name__ it will run in the context of the mod with the same name. For instance, this command prints the data from Resource Spawner Overhaul:

/c __rso-mod__ game.player.print(serpent.dump(global))

Print to console which tile are you have under the player position

/c game.player.print(game.player.surface.get_tile(game.player.position).name)

Write all researched technologies to file

/c local list = {}
for _, tech in pairs(game.player.force.technologies) do 
	if tech.researched then
    list[#list+1] = tech.name
  end
end
game.write_file("techs.lua", serpent.block(list) .. "\n", true)

Write all enabled recipes to file

/c local list = {}
for _, recipe in pairs(game.player.force.recipes) do 
	if recipe.enabled then
    list[#list+1] = recipe.name
  end
end
game.write_file("recipes.lua", serpent.block(list) .. "\n", true)

Write mod list to file

Write all currently active mods and their version to the file script-output/mods.txt in the user data directory.

/c game.write_file("mods.txt", serpent.block(game.active_mods))

See also

• Command line parameters
• http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/ - Factorio API reference for latest version