Subnautica Console Commands

Three steps, in order. Press F3 to bring up the debug overlay. Press F8 to release the mouse cursor so you can click things. Then untick the Disable Console checkbox at the top left of the overlay.

From that point the console opens with the tilde key or Enter, and F3 puts the overlay away again. The setting persists, so this is a one-off — but it resets if the game’s options are cleared, which is why the sequence is worth writing down.

Commands are single words in lower case with their arguments after a space. There are no IDs to look up and no case sensitivity to worry about, which makes this the friendliest console of the six games in this cluster.

item puts something directly into your inventory: item copperwire 5 gives you five copper wire. It only works for things you could physically carry, so asking for a Cyclops with it does nothing.

spawn places the thing in the water in front of you instead, which is how you get vehicles, structures and creatures. spawn seaglide 1 drops a Seaglide at your feet.

The failure mode worth knowing is spawning something large in a confined space. A Cyclops spawned inside a base or up against a rock face can end up wedged in the terrain, and there is no in-game way to free it. Surface, find open water, then spawn.

Some items have their own shortcut commands. seaglide gives you one directly, madloot hands over a starter kit of knife, builder, scanner, tanks and materials, and vehicleupgrades grants every vehicle module at once.

unlockall learns every blueprint in the game in one line. It is also the single most regretted command in Subnautica, because the game is largely about finding those blueprints — running it removes the exploration loop entirely and there is no way to undo it on that save.

unlock followed by a single blueprint name is the version worth using. It solves the actual problem, which is usually one specific fragment that has not spawned where the wiki says it should, without deleting the rest of the game.

ency all fills the databank with every entry, which spoils the story rather than the progression. precursorkeys grants the late-game door keys and is squarely in spoiler territory.

Because achievements switch off for the session the moment you type anything, there is no partial-credit approach here. If you are working towards achievements, finish that run first and keep the console for a separate save.