Empyrion Galactic Survival Console Commands and Permission Levels

Running a galactic empire is easier when you know the tools available behind the console. Empyrion - Galactic Survival console commands can help with administration, debugging, teleporting, God Mode, player management, and other server or single-player tasks.

How to Use Empyrion Console Commands

Open the command console in Empyrion - Galactic Survival by pressing the tilde key (~). From there, enter the command you want to use.

Not every command is available to every player. Commands are gated by permission level, so regular players, GameMasters, moderators, and admins have different access. On a hosted server, make sure the account has the correct role before assuming a command is broken.

Permission Level 0 Commands

These commands are available to every player:

• combiner: Switches mesh combiner on or off.
• defragsavegame: Defrags a save game.*
• destroyme: Destroys the local player. This is a debug command for killing yourself.
• detach: Detaches the local player if stuck under a cockpit.
• difficulties: Shows the current difficulty setting for the game.*
• help: Lists all console commands or shows help for a specific command.*
• origins: Lists origins.*
• oxygen: Shows oxygenated areas in a POI.
• undock: Undocks a specified SV or HV if undocking problems occur.
• deco: Switches terrain decorations on or off and shows stats.
• initadmin: Sets yourself as the initial administrator.*
• loadplayfield or lpf: Loads a Playfield.
• terraineditor or te: Opens Terrain Editor for SplatMap Terrain.
• time: Gets or sets global server time. Server only.*

Permission Level 3 GameMaster Commands

• aimanager: Allows spawning various AI managed by the AIManager.*
• changemode: Changes a local survival game to creative or creative to survival. Restart required after the switch. Does not work for Multiplayer.*
• entity: Allows several operations on an entity.
• ents: Lists all entities.
• faction: Provides faction change helper functions.*
• find: Finds a structure by name in the current playfield and prints its ID.
• finishbp or fbp: Finishes current blueprint production and clears remaining construction time.
• gameoptions or gopt: Lists current game option values.
• godmode or gm: Enables or disables God Mode.
• itemmenu or im: Enables or disables the item menu.
• kick: Kicks a player, or all players, out of the game.*
• level: Modifies level, experience points, or upgrade points for the current player.
• list: Lists special players, including players with special permissions or bans.*
• map: Reveals all resources and POIs on the map. Use map hide to hide them again.
• op: Switches offline protection on a structure locally on or off.
• prefabactivate: Uses prefabinfo <blueprint name> to switch all powered blocks on.
• prefabinfo: Uses prefabinfo <user blueprint name> to show information about a user Blueprint listed in your Blueprint Library.
• regenerate: Uses regenerate <ID number from DI window or output from ents> to restore an object such as a POI.
• resetcore: Clears fuel and oxygen in a local structure. You may need to aim at the core.
• sector: Jumps to a specific sector.
• setposition: Sets an entity position.*
• setrotation: Sets a structure rotation.
• spawnanyblueprint or sbp: Switches spawning of any blueprint on or off.
• stats: Prints status information about the current playfield.*
• statuseffect: Applies a Status Effect to the player.
• statuseffectremove: Removes a Status Effect from the player.
• structlod: Lists structures on the current playfield, possibly across loaded playfields, with distance and name.
• teleport or tt: Teleports you, and the ship you currently control if any, to a location or enables map teleporting.
• ticks: Outputs current ticks and allows enabling, disabling, or setting them.*
• traders: Lists all traders and can reload the config file.
• unban: Unbans a player.*
• uresource: Manages underground resources.
• weather: Activates a custom weather setting.
• wipe: Uses wipe <sector> <target> to wipe targeted aspects after server reboot, such as replacing ore deposits.
• generatemap: Generates a 2D map image of the current world.

Moderator Commands

• ag: Toggles AG display on or off.
• ai: Switches AI on or off.
• alliances: Lists alliances or alliance requests and allows setting alliances.
• armor: Armor command.
• ban: Bans a player for an amount of time.*
• debugmenu or dm: Enables or disables the debug menu.
• gents: Lists all structures for a faction.*
• give: Gives items to a player.
• globaleffects: Shows current global effects.
• Grass: Refreshes grass commands.
• marker: Marker command.
• poimanager: POI Manager command.
• repair: Repairs items.
• sectors: Reveals or hides playfields.
• si: Switches Structural Integrity on or off.
• weathersv: Activates a custom weather setting on a server.
• destroy: Destroys an entity or structure.
• di: Shows or hides additional debug information.

Permission Level 9 Admin Commands

• pda: Executes PDA-related commands. Use help pda for details.
• replaceblocks: Replaces specified blocks in a specified structure. For all blocks, use replaceblocks <entityid> -alpha4. Do not execute this command on a server.
• setdevicespublic: Sets specified devices to public.
• setrole: Sets a player role and grants special permissions.*
• playfield or pf: Reloads the current playfield.

*Command can be used at telnet.

If you are starting a new Empyrion - Galactic Survival space adventure, a dedicated server can give your group a shared galaxy to manage. HolyHosting support can also help with server questions when console work gets a little too cosmic.