7 Days to Die Item IDs and the giveself Command

7 Days to Die item IDs are names, not numbers. The game identifies every item by an internal name such as gunMGT1AK47 or resourceForgedIron, and that name is what giveself wants. Numeric item IDs date from the Alpha builds, and the current game no longer accepts them. Every ID below was taken from items.xml and Localization.csv in the V3.2.0 stable dedicated server (the public branch since 26 August 2026) and checked on 27 September 2026. V3.3.0 is on the experimental branch and is not covered yet.

On a dedicated server there is one more catch before any of the names matter: the command refuses to run from the place most server owners try it first.

Why giveself fails in your panel console

Type giveself gunMGT1AK47 into the Console tab of your panel and the server answers:

Cannot execute giveself on dedicated server, please execute as a client

That is by design. On a GameServerKings server, the panel console is a telnet session on the server itself. giveself is a client-side command: it drops the item at the feet of the player who typed it, and the server has no feet. The game has no server-side "give to player" command in V3.2.0. The only spawning commands are giveself, the creative menu, and XP and quest commands (giveselfxp, givexp, givequest).

The panel console is still where you start. It is the easiest place to make yourself an admin before you join.

How to give yourself items

1. Grant yourself permission level 0 from the panel console, using your SteamID64 with a Steam_ prefix:

   admin add Steam_76561198000000000 0
   

   This works while you are offline and writes the entry to serveradmin.xml for you. How to add admins covers the file itself.

2. Join the server and press F1 to open the in-game console.

3. Spawn the item:

   giveself gunMGT1AK47
   giveself armorNomadOutfit 6 1 true
   giveself resourceWoodBundle
   

giveself and cm both default to permission level 0, which means admins only. To open them to every player, lower the requirement with cp add giveself 1000. The permission model is explained in 7 Days to Die console and admin commands.

The full giveself syntax

giveself <itemName> [quality] [count] [putInInventory] [spawnWithMods]

Arguments are positional, so to set putInInventory you must fill in quality and count first: giveself medicalFirstAidKit 1 10 true.

count does not make a stack

The game's code creates count separate items with a stack size of one each. giveself resourceWood 1 5000 tries to drop five thousand separate pieces of wood on the ground, one item each, which can stall the game badly. For bulk materials, spawn the bundle instead. resourceWoodBundle is one item that opens into 6,000 wood, and the "Resource stacks and bundles" table below lists the rest.

giveself also takes block names from blocks.xml, not only items, because blocks are registered as items internally. Anything you can place can be spawned by its block name.

Creative menu vs giveself

cm (short for creativemenu) toggles a searchable item browser in your inventory screen, which is quicker than typing names. It does not show everything, though. The creative list skips any item whose CreativeMode property is None. In V3.2.0 that includes every piece of armor and every skill book. Those can only be spawned with giveself and their name. Dev items are hidden too, unless the menu is switched to its developer mode.

7 Days to Die item ID list

The names below are the exact strings giveself accepts, grouped by the prefix the game uses. Weapon and tool names encode the tier: T0 is primitive, and T3 is the top crafted tier.

Resources (67)

Resource stacks and bundles (12)

Ammo and throwables (26)

Ammo boxes (25)

Guns, bows and robotics (26)

Melee weapons and tools (40)

Workstation tools (15)

Medical and drugs (26)

Food and drink (80)

Vehicles (5)

Armor (154 pieces)

None of these appear in the creative menu. The set name is the game's internal one; giveself armorNomadOutfit 6 gives a quality 6 Nomad Outfit.

Dev and admin items

These are the developers' testing items. They are in the same items.xml, so giveself spawns them on your server like anything else, but the creative menu hides them. Several of them break normal progression: an all-perks book, instant XP, the nuke grenade. Treat them as admin tools, not rewards.

There are also 16 adminXxxQualityArmorBundle items, one for each of the 16 core armor sets (for example adminNomadQualityArmorBundle). There are test buffs and notes too, which are left out here.

FAQ

What is the item ID command in 7 Days to Die?

giveself <itemName> in the F1 console, for example giveself gunMGT1AK47. It needs permission level 0 on a dedicated server, and it only works in-game, not from the server console.

Do numeric item IDs still work?

No. giveself looks items up by name only. Lists that pair items with numbers date from the Alpha builds.

Why does giveself say "Unknown itemname given"?

The name does not exist in your server's items.xml or blocks.xml. Either it is misspelled, or it comes from a mod or an older version. Capitalisation does not matter. Overhaul mods such as Darkness Falls and Undead Legacy add their own items, and those names are not on this list.

Can I give items to another player?

Not with a vanilla command in V3.2.0. The player has to run giveself themselves, which means granting them level 0 or lowering the requirement for that one command with cp add giveself <level>. The other option is to spawn the item yourself and hand it over.

How do I get a max-quality weapon?

It is the default. giveself gunRifleT3SniperRifle gives quality 6 unless you pass a lower number as the second argument.

What to read next

• 7 Days to Die Console and Admin Commands: every command and the permission system behind them
• How to Add Admins and Whitelist Players: serveradmin.xml, admins and the whitelist
• How to install Modlets and Overhaul Mods: mods that add their own item names
• 7 Days to Die default serverconfig.xml: every serverconfig.xml property with its default

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