How to Use Admin Commands in ARK: Survival Evolved

Using Admin Commands on Your ARK: Survival Evolved Server

Your ARK: Survival Evolved server spans scorched deserts, ocean trenches, and ruined lands full of creatures to tame. Running it well sometimes means stepping outside normal play. Admin commands let you fly across the map, spawn gear and dinosaurs on demand, and fix problems without farming for hours first. In this Nitrado guide, we’ll show you how to turn on admin commands on your ARK: Survival Evolved server, and give you the full command list to work from.

To use admin commands in ARK: Survival Evolved, join your server and open the in-game console. Type enablecheats <adminpassword> with your server’s admin password to switch admin mode on. From there, every command below runs straight from the console or through the in-game admin menu.

How to Enable Admin Commands on Your ARK: Survival Evolved Server

1. Begin by ensuring that you are an admin on your ARK: Survival Evolved server. You can give yourself ARK admin access.
2. Once you have admin access, start the ARK: Survival Evolved game on your preferred system and join your ARK game server.
3. When you’re on your server, open the in-game console and type enablecheats ADMINPASSWORD to give yourself admin privileges.

1. Once you have joined and have admin access, open the in-game console on your game system:
   • PC: Tab key (if you’re using a keyboard and mouse on a console, this also works)
   • PS4: L1, R1, Square, and Triangle (while in the pause menu)
   • Xbox One: LB, RB, X, and Y (while in the pause menu)
2. You can now enter ARK commands in the console. This is an example of typing the showmyadminmanager command.

1. After typing that command, press the Enter key on a PC or press the ADMIN COMMAND option on a game console to run it.

1. Alternatively, you can run commands through an admin menu with the console command showmyadminmanager.

The admin menu holds a cheat manager alongside the rest of your day-to-day server tools, so it is worth keeping open during events or testing.

Cheats and ARK Admin Commands

Base Admin Commands

Player Management Commands

Armor and Weapon Spawn Commands

Armor Tiers

• 0 or Cloth
• 1 or Chitin
• 2 or Metal or Flak
• 3 or Tek
• Hide, Fur, Desert, Ghillie, Riot, Scuba, Hazard

Weapon Tiers

• 0 or Primitive: for Bow, Pike, Spear, and Bola
• 1 or Basic: for Assault Rifle, Shotgun, Longneck Rifle, Sword, and Grenade
• 2 or Advanced: for Compound Bow, Fabricated Sniper Rifle, Rocket Launcher, and C4 Charge
• 3 or Tek: for Tek Grenade, Tek Rifle, Tek Railgun, and Tek Sword

Armor and Weapon Qualities

• Primitive
• Ramshackle
• Apprentice
• Journeyman
• Mastercraft
• Ascendant
• Alpha

Engrams and Item Spawn Commands

Engram Unlocking

Item Spawning

There are hundreds of different ARK items you can spawn in and use. You can find IDs for ARK items including resources, tools, structures, and farming gear.

Item Sets

Item Set Tiers

• 0: 90 Cooked Meat, 200 Stimberry, and 2 Waterskin
• 1: 2 Water Jar, 200 Stimberry, 90 Cooked Meat, and 100 Medical Brew
• 2: 100 Medical Brew, 100 Energy Brew, 100 Cactus Broth, 60 Cooked Meat Jerky, and 2 Canteen
• 3: 5 Shadow Steak Saute, 5 Enduro Stew, 5 Focal Chili, 5 Lazarus Chowder, 100 Medical Brew, 100 Energy Brew, 100 Cactus Broth, and 90 Cooked Meat Jerky
• Food: 30 Cooked Meat Jerky and 30 Prime Meat Jerky
• Water: Canteen Refill
• Brews: 100 Medical Brew and 100 Energy Brew

Dinosaur Spawn and Tame Commands

There are many different types of creatures, and each ARK map can host different types. Here is a list of all the ARK creature IDs you can use for the commands below.

Spawn Dinosaur

Dinosaur Sets

Dinosaur Set Tiers

• 0: Raptor, Dilo, and Trike
• 1: Raptor, Carnotaurus, and Thylacoleo
• 2: Rex, Spino, Paracer, Therizinosaur
• 3: Rex, Rex with Tek Saddle, Daeodon, Yutyrannus, and Therizinosaur
• Flyers: Pteranodon, Tapejara with Tek Saddle, Argentavis, and Quetzal
• SiegeMek: Mek, M.S.C.M., Element, and Cannon Shell
• MissleMek: Mek, M.R.L.M., Element, and Rocketpod
• ShieldMek: Mek, M.D.S.M., and Element
• Argent: Argentavis
• Extinction: Enforcer, Gasbags, Snow Owl, Gacha, Managarmr, and Velonasaur

Tame Dinosaur

Teleport Commands

Command Your ARK Server

Admin commands hand you the controls for the whole map. Use them to help a late-joining player catch up, to set up a boss fight without days of farming behind it, or to run an event where the rules bend for an evening. The commands above cover the ground you will need most, and the console is only ever a keypress away.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How Do I Spawn Items in ARK?

Spawning items in ARK: Survival Evolved starts with cheat giveitem or cheat giveitemnum. Use giveitem when you have an item’s blueprint path, or giveitemnum if you only know its item number. For a fast supply top-up instead of one specific item, cheat giveresources adds 50 of each base resource, and cheat givecolors fills your inventory with dye instead.

What’s the Difference Between giveitem and giveitemnum?

cheat giveitem spawns an item using its full blueprint path, a long string unique to that object. cheat giveitemnum uses a shorter item number instead, which is quicker to type but only works for items that have one assigned. Blueprint paths cover every spawnable item in the game, so giveitem is the more reliable option when an item number isn’t available.

How Do I Teleport in ARK?

cheat teleport moves you forward until you hit an object or the edge of the map, which works well for short hops. For a precise destination, cheat tpcoords sends you to exact map coordinates. To bring another player to your location instead of moving yourself, use cheat teleportplayeridtome with their Steam64 ID or cheat teleportplayernametome with their in-game name.