控制台

The console is the built in interface for lua-commands. It works a bit like any command-line-interface or the java-script-console for your browser.

Basically you can fire here all commands, like from any other lua-program (= Modding). This means you have full access to all in-game-internals.

In other words: Factorio doesn't need any special cheats, it has a console, which allows you to cheat around any limition, if you know how.

How to open the console?

You open the console by default with the key '/' or '~'. But depending on your keyboard-layout and operating system, this doesn't work.

Go for that case into the keyboard control and change "Toggle Lua console" to a useful key.

Editing

The game ignores newlines when pasting "scriptlets" in the console. This means they can be written in a human readable form in an editor and copy/pasted into the console, making understanding and editing a bit easier.

Useful commands (cheats)

• Check how far the biters have evolved

game.player.print(game.evolutionfactor)

• Turn off night

game.alwaysday=true

• Kill everything that moves

game.killallenemies()

• Gain 100 iron plates

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

• Finish research

for n,t in pairs(game.player.force.technologies) do t.researched=t.enabled end

• Mine faster

game.player.force.manualminingspeedmodifier=1000

• Craft faster

game.player.force.manualcraftingspeedmodifier=1000

• Switching on peacfulmode

game.peacefulmode = true

After setting, you should do game.killallenemies() because some, if not all, existing biters will still not be on peaceful mode.

• Faster research

game.player.force.laboratoryspeedmodifier = 1

1 is normal speed, 2 is double speed 3 is triple etc. I think it goes up to 100.

• Cancel deconstruction

for _, entity in ipairs(game.findentities{
  {game.player.position.x-20, game.player.position.y-20},
  {game.player.position.x+20, game.player.position.y+20}})
do 
  entity.canceldeconstruction(game.player.force)
end

• Destroy rocks in sandbox-mode (you don't have a player here, so you can't destroy anything):

for _, entity in ipairs(game.findentitiesfiltered{area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32},{game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}}, name="stone-rock"}) do entity.destroy() end

you need to center the rock in your vision range

• Use print() instead of game.player.print()

print = function(text) game.player.print(text) end

• Generate a section of the world and explore it at the same time:

game.forces.player.chart({lefttop = {x = -1024, y = -1024}, rightbottom = {x = 1024, y = 1024}})

Simply change the bounding box to the size you want and it will generate the map and explore it in that area. Keep In mind that command is telling Factorio to generate 64*64 (4096) chunks so it's going to take a while before all the background entity generation (trees, resources, biters) are placed in the world.

• Check water level in a pipe:

game.player.print(game.player.selected.getliquid().amount)

More commands can be looked up in the modding-section.

See also

• The Console: What is it and How do I use it?

Some interesting cheats or useful commands and tips.