ARK Survival Evolved: Collection of the most useful cheats

Although originally designed to be a multiplayer game, ARK: Survival Evolved still attracts many single-player gamers and cheat-related mods. This game allows exploring large maps and training dinosaurs and other creatures.

Although the base game can bring a lot of fun, sometimes, people will want to use cheats to survive in this game more easily. Therefore, this article will bring a list of those ARK: Survival Evolved cheats Most useful for single-player gamers. Cheats can be used on Playstation, Xbox and PC, but keep in mind that the mobile version does not have this feature.

How to enter cheats in ARK: Survival Evolved

To enter the ARK: Survival Evolved cheat, gamers need to perform the following operations, based on the device they are using to play.

• PC: Press key Tab.
• Xbox: Press simultaneously LB, RB, X and Y
• PS4: While in the pause menu, press simultaneously L1, R1button Square and Tam sense

Then a dialog box will pop up on the screen and the player needs to enter a command enblecheat for the cheats to work.

To check if cheats can be used, enter settheatplayer true into the pop-up box. If cheats are enabled, this will cause a series of information to appear on the screen.

By changing this command from true wall falsethe information will disappear but cheats can still be used.

Summary of cheats for single player in ARK: Survival Evolved

GiveDinoSet

GiveDinoSet

GiveDinoSet is a cheat that helps you automatically go to your next destination. It will spawn a set of saddled dinosaurs, and gamers can choose which dinosaurs will spawn, as well as the specific number of them. The tiers of dinosaurs in ARK are as follows:

Tier	Dinosaur
0	Trike, Dilo, Raptor
1	Carnotaurus, Thylacoleo, Raptor
2	Rex, Spino, Therizinosaur, Paracer
3	Daeodon, Yutyrannus, Rex, Rex with Tek Saddle, Therizinosaur
Argent	Argentavis
Flyers	Argentavis, Quetzal, Tapejara with Tek Saddle, Pteranodon
Extinction	Snow Owl, Gacha, Managarmr, Enforcer, Velonasaur, Gasbags
Mek	Three Meks
MissileMek	Mek, Element, Rocketpod, MRLM
SiegeMek	MSCM, Element, Mek
ShieldMek	MDSM, Mek, Element

Next, once the dinosaur tier has been selected, players just need to enter the quantity they want. For example, if you want 5 Flyers, enter cheat GiveDinoSet Flyers 5.

GiveItem and GiveResources

GiveItem

GiveResources

If you don’t want to find an item or resource, use these 2 cheats. GiveResources will give 50 of every resource available in ARK.

GiveItem will bring any item specified on the command line, meaning gamers can arm themselves with weapons or provide themselves with specific building materials if needed.

You can see an example of how to enter this cheat if you want a low quality Tek Shield: GiveItem “Blueprint’/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Shields/PrimalItemArmor_ShieldTek.PrimalItemArmor_ShieldTek'” 110

ARK has a lot of items with complex IDs, so players should visit the game’s wiki page to look up item IDs in the most complete and accurate way.

GiveEngrams and GiveEngramsTekOnly

GiveEngrams

GiveEngramsTekOnly

Unlocking all the Engrams in the game can be very time consuming, which is why these 2 cheats exist. GiveEngrams will unlock all Engrams, so gamers no longer have to choose which one to give themselves. It’s also great for those who want a more creative single-player experience.

GiveEngramsTekOnly unlocks all Tek Engrams, so players do not need to confront bosses to get them.

InfiniteStats and God

Infinite Stats

GiveInfiniteStatsToTarget

God

InfiniteStats (and GiveInfiniteStatsToTarget), when applied, gives the character unlimited health, oxygen, stamina, food, and water. This is useful if the player finds themselves somewhere cold without a fur coat or if they are too far from clean water to drink.

The danger of using this is that the character can still die but won’t have to worry about stat upgrades. Luckily, that’s where the cheat comes in God become useful. This will negate all types of damage other than drowning, allowing characters to fall from great distances without worrying about eating.

Fly and Walk

Fly

Walk

With cheats Flythe character can float without being limited by the surrounding environment such as a narrow cliff, it is also very useful if the gamer is suddenly surrounded by piranhas.

To turn off Fly, the player can enter a command Walk. But if you haven’t done anything to change your stats, make sure you’re not too far off the ground when performing the cheat input, or the character may meet a messy end.

EnemyInvisible

EnemyInvisible

Characters can die suddenly in ARK, no matter how fast or long they run. Sometimes, everyone will see a terrible enemy ahead and there is no other way home except through them. If you don’t want to end it all, come find it EnemyInvisible.

EnemyInvisible makes the player invisible to enemies, even when provoked. This cheat is also useful for those looking for a good base location in peace and quiet.

Summon

Summon

SummonTamed

Sometimes players have clear intentions of taming a particular type of creature and it disappears from the world. When that happens, people can use the Summon command with the creature ID to summon that specific animal, for example: Summon DungBeetle_Character_BP_Aberrant_C.

Have Bola or Tranq arrows (or both) ready, because if the newly summoned creature wants to eat the character, that won’t change. If you want to eliminate the threat, use SummonTamed to avoid the risk of being attacked.

GiveArmorSet & GiveWeaponSet

GiveArmorSet

GiveWeaponSet

If more interested in taming and exploration than the survival aspect of the Ark, a useful cheat is GiveArmorSet and GiveWeaponSet. These commands will give the player a full set of armor in one of the following types:

• Cloth
• Chitin
• Metal
• Riot
• Hazard
• Tek

Quality ranges from 0 to 20, with 20 being the highest possible quality. Below, people can use the cheat code to receive high quality Chitin armor.

GiveArmorSet chitin 20

DoTame and ForceTame

DoTame

ForceTame

If you want to effectively tame an army of Dodos without having to chase, beat, and feed them all, then DoTame and ForceTame are the perfect solutions. These two cheats work a little differently and which option gamers choose depends a lot on what they want to use this creature for.

DoTame will tame any creature the gamer is looking at, instantly, if it can be tamed normally. ForceTame will do the same thing, whether it is tameable or not, and will also allow gamers to instantly ride it as if it had a saddle on it.

GiveColors

GiveColors

In addition to looking at a creature and instantly dyeing it, players can also summon dye for their own use. With GiveColors, players will summon all types of dyes.

With this tip, gamers also have the option to specify the quantity. For example, if you enter ’12’ after GiveColors, the player will receive 12 dyes. This dye can be used to customize a wardrobe or just to complete a collection of storage items.

​SetTargetDinoColor

SetTargetDinoColor

SetTargetDinoColor is a cheat that takes a bit of research to use and has no real strategic purpose, but if you’re someone who likes well-coordinated colors, this cheat will add some color fun.

Each creature in the game has up to 6 color zones, and each color zone can be assigned 1 of hundreds of color IDs. This cheat allows gamers to apply colors that do not appear on a given species naturally or through breeding.

To manipulate color selection, target a creature, enter the cheat, then enter the area code and color ID, e.g.: SetTargetDinoColor 4 13.

TPCoords

TPCoords

Lost your belongings miles away from your starting point, in a difficult location infested with jellyfish or raptors? Don’t have a good means of flying to get back there quickly? If you are a normal player, consider teleporting.

To use TPCoords, gamers need to record some important locations on the map. It won’t be of much use if you don’t know the latitude and longitude of the place you want to go.

GiveCreativeMode

GiveCreativeMode

Like Minecraft, sometimes people download ARK and all you enjoy doing is a little world-building without interruption. This is where Creative Mode comes in.

Creative Mode removes weight restrictions, opens all engrams for use, makes crafting work instantly, removes material requirements, and applies Fly, InfiniteStats, and GodMode cheats. It also gives players the Blink Rifle to teleport from point A to point B, as long as everyone can see where they’re aiming.

Kill

kill

This is a simple cheat that will instantly kill anything the player’s line of sight is aimed at, with the exception of non-boss entities. Overall, this command deals 10,000,000 damage, meaning that if the player is facing an enemy with extremely high HP, this command may need to be used several times.

Set Difficulty

setDifficultyValue

Is the game still a bit easy for you? Luckily, there’s a trick to solve that problem. By changing the difficulty of the game, gamers can add or remove some unnecessary tension in the game. There are two steps to doing this cheat, the first is to simply enter the difficulty setting cheat into the game.

Once done, everyone will need to use DestroyWildDinos, which as its name suggests, will destroy all wild dinosaurs. This allows new dinosaurs of appropriate difficulty to appear. These new creatures are stronger and can drop better loot.

InfiniteWeight

InfiniteWeight

If you constantly reach the character’s maximum capacity, players can rest assured with this cheat. Just enter the command and the character will escape the capacity limit. This is especially useful if you are transporting heavy materials.

Even without embarking on a project, it can still be useful if the gamer is someone who likes to hoard materials. Instead of suppressing your exploration, gather things according to your wishes.