Abiotic Factor Console Commands: The Honest Answer

Search for Abiotic Factor console commands and you will find tables of thirty or forty entries — god, giveitem, teleport 100 200 300. Type any of them into Abiotic Factor and nothing happens, because there is no console to type them into. The game has never shipped a player-facing command console, and Deep Field Games has never published a command list.

What you get instead is an in-game Admin panel, a set of launch parameters, and a SandboxSettings.ini file with 48 options in it. Between them they do everything the invented lists claim to. Here are all three.

Build this page was checked against

v1.4.0.28206, the hotfix of 27 July 2026. Everything below comes from Deep Field Games' own dedicated server documentation and their Steam patch notes. Nothing was copied from a third-party command list.

Why there is no console

The community wiki states it flatly: "Abiotic Factor does not support the use of console commands without modification." That matches the developer's own documentation, which covers launch parameters, Admin.ini and SandboxSettings.ini and contains no command reference at all — and Deep Field's issue tracker, where a request for "documentation on any server console commands that are available and what they do" sits unanswered.

Any "Abiotic Factor command list" you find is fabricated

Not stale — fabricated. There is no older build these commands worked in. The real risk is concluding your server is broken when it is behaving normally.

The commands that do exist: launch parameters

These are the documented switches, and they are what an Abiotic Factor admin actually types.

Two parameters that older guides get wrong

Deep Field explicitly warns never to use -NOSTEAM on a server. And after community feedback they reversed their recommendation on -NoAsyncLoadingThread (now -DisableAsyncLoadingThread) — it is no longer advised for dedicated servers, though plenty of old tutorials and start scripts still include it.

Single-player versus server admin

In solo or friends play you are the host, so you already hold every admin power the game has — open Sandbox Settings from Start New Game or Load Game. On a dedicated server, you are not an admin just because you rented the box.

How admin access works on a dedicated server

Route 1 — Admin.ini (Steam only)

Stop the server, then edit AbioticFactor/Saved/SaveGames/Server/Admin.ini and add your SteamID64 under [Moderators]:

[Moderators]
Moderator=76561198053306820

Per the official documentation this route does not work for Xbox or PlayStation players — manual whitelisting is Steam-only.

Edit this file with the server stopped

Deep Field's tracker carries an open report that starting the server wipes the moderator entries out of Admin.ini, and that marking the file read-only does not prevent it. Stop, edit, start, then check the entry survived.

Route 2 — the -AdminPassword launch parameter

Add -AdminPassword=YourAdminPassword to the start-up command. Any player who types that password in-game becomes a whitelisted admin. Deep Field recommends this for console players, since route 1 cannot reach them. If the parameter is absent, password admin is disabled outright — the most common reason people cannot get admin on a rented server.

This route needs the start-up command changed, which most panels do not expose

Our own Abiotic Factor servers are in that position: the start-up command sets the server name, password, port and player count, and there is no -AdminPassword field on the Startup tab. Use route 1 above, or open a ticket if you specifically need the password route for console players. We would rather say so here than have you look for a field that is not there.

What admins can actually do

The admin-gated powers Deep Field has documented in their own patch notes. This is the list the fake command tables are standing in for.

Admin controls are reached in-game from the Player Management screen in the Escape menu, which gained an Admin panel tab in the 1.0 update.

SandboxSettings.ini — the real cheat surface

This is where you go when what you wanted was setxpmultiplier. The file must begin with the [SandboxSettings] header or it is ignored, and lives per world at AbioticFactor/Saved/SaveGames/Server/Worlds/Cascade/SandboxSettings.ini. A sample of the 48 options, with the developer's defaults and limits:

If the file does not exist, create it — a plain text file with that header as its first line. A restart may be needed for changes to apply.

On your GameServerKings server

Your Abiotic Factor server exposes these fields on the Startup tab:

There is no admin password field on the panel

The Abiotic Factor egg does not expose an -AdminPassword variable, so route 2 is not available from the Startup tab. Use route 1 — edit Admin.ini in the File Manager with the server stopped — or open a ticket and we will add the launch parameter. You need that route if any of your players are on Xbox or PlayStation.

The panel's Console tab streams the server log rather than accepting commands; the start-up command tails AbioticFactor/Saved/Logs/AbioticFactor.log. Use it for reading crashes and join errors, not for typing.

Note also that the panel allows Number of Players up to 32, while Deep Field documents the ceiling as 24 and warns that anything above 6 shows a warning popup before players join. Six is the number the game is balanced around.

Not built the server yet? Start with Getting started with your Abiotic Factor server.

What we could not verify, and left out

The community wiki lists five commands it says the dedicated server console window accepts — showtime, showdatetime, hidedatetime, quit and a colour command. None could be confirmed against a Deep Field source and all are absent from the official documentation, so they are not in the tables above. They would be little use here anyway: they describe the -newconsole window on a self-hosted Windows box, while your server runs on Linux under Proton with a log-stream console.

Common Questions

How do I open the console in Abiotic Factor?

You cannot. There is no player-facing command console on any platform. Gameplay changes go through the Sandbox Settings menu or SandboxSettings.ini, and admin actions through the in-game Admin panel.

Why do the commands I found online do nothing?

Because they were never real. Unlike most survival games, Abiotic Factor has no deprecated command set from an older build — the circulating lists are invented wholesale. Nothing is wrong with your server.

How do I make myself admin on my Abiotic Factor server?

Add your SteamID64 under [Moderators] in AbioticFactor/Saved/SaveGames/Server/Admin.ini with the server stopped, or have -AdminPassword= added to the start-up command and type that password in-game. Console players can only use the second route.

How do I give myself items or XP?

There is no give command. Raise PlayerXPGainMultiplier and BonusPerkPoints for progression, and ItemStackSizeMultiplier with ItemWeightMultiplier for carrying capacity. Set HostAccessPlayerCorpses=True to recover a player's lost gear from their Death Bag.

My moderator entry disappears every restart. Why?

A known open report on Deep Field's tracker — starting the server can wipe Admin.ini, and read-only does not stop it. Stop the server before editing, then verify after the next boot. If it keeps clearing, use -AdminPassword= instead.

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