If you’re struggling to find a certain crafting material or just want to speed through certain parts of the game, Subnautica console commands can increase your quality of life.
This guide will lay out not only the game’s cure commands, but it will also lay out all of the other console commands for Subnautica. (Found below).
But first, let’s talk about the Kharaa infection (you can skip ahead if you just want to know how to use cure or console commands): although the infection only spreads incrementally — when you reach certain in-game milestones — having the infection can be a visual pain in the butt. Luckily, the Kharaa infection doesn’t affect any of Subnautica’s gameplay (yet), meaning it won’t really kill you or the flora and fauna around you.
However, if you’d rather not gather all the Enzyme 42 needed to cure the infection and get those pesky green pustules off your hands, there is another way to get rid of the pesky Kharaa bacterium infection.
How to Use Cure Commands
To use cure commands (or any other console command) in the PC version of Subnautica, you’ll need to open the game’s debug console by pressing F3. When you first open the console, it will be locked by default. To unlock it, press F8 to enable the mouse and uncheck the box in the top left-hand corner of the pop-up menu. After that, you’ll press enter to bring up the debug console and enter the cure commands.
If you’re playing Subnautica on Xbox One, you’ll need to press X+A+RB+LB to open the debug console and enter cure commands.
For PlayStation 4, press Square+X+R1+L1.
Once you’re ready to go, you can enter the following cure commands to get rid of or change the status of the Kharaa bacterium infection without farming Enzyme 42:
Cure [#]: This command will cure the player and all surrounding flora and fauna. Playerinfection [#]: This command will change the status of the infection for the player. A value of 1 will change the infection’s status to “early stages,” while a value of 5 will cure the player.
All Other Subnautica Cheats and Console Commands
Applying Subnautica’s other console commands uses the same process laid out above. Whether you’re looking for more loot or all the pieces to the Prawnsuit, here’s a list of all the console commands in the game as well as what they do.
Story-Related Commands
countdownship: Begins Aurora self-destruct timer explodeship: Aurora explodes restoreship: Brings Aurora back startsunbeamstoryevent: Warps to Sunbeam story section sunbeamcountdownstart: Begins second part of Sunbeam story precursorgunaim: Begins third part of Sunbeam story playsunbeamfx: Plays part of the precursor Sunbeam section infectionreveal: Plays Kharaa infection animation forcerocketready: Primes end-game rocket
Player and Item Commands
These debug options will do everything from give you infinite crafting materials to spawning certain in-game vehicles and curing you of disease.
item [name] [#]: Puts any item in player’s inventory; find item list here clearinventory: Removes all items currently in inventory infect [#]: IOnfects player with a specific stage of Kharaa virus sub cyclops: Spawns cyclops sub aurora: Spawns Aurora sub escapepod: Spawns Lifepod 5 in safe shallows filterwater: Water Filtration creates water filtersalt: Water Filtration creates salt vehicleupgrades: Player acquires all vehicle upgrades cyclopsupgrades: Gives Cyclops upgrades seamothupgrades: Gives Seamoth upgrades exosuitupgrades: Gives Prawnsuit upgrades exosuitarms: Gives Prawnsuit arms spawnloot: Generates loot in form of copper, quartz, etc toolsloot: Generates tools such as seaglide and repair tool madloot: Generates loot and tools bobthebuilder: Puts building tools in inventory; allows for fastbuild, fastgrow, fasthatch, radiation, nocost, and unlockall resourcesfor [name]: Gives specified crafting items ency [name]: unlocks data logs and entries damage [#]: Tweaks damage multiplier instagib: Enables instagib mode invisible: Makes player invisible to fish and creatures filterfast: Makes Water Filtration work faster fastscan: Makes scanner work faster fastgrow: Makes plants grow faster fasthatch: Makes eggs hatch faster fastbuild: Lets players build faster nocost: Lets players use tools such as fabricator without materials cost noenergy: Enables/disables power nosurvival: Disables survival mechanics oxygen: Disables need for oxygen nitrogen: Allows for longer time underwater radiation: Enables/disables radiation fixleaks: Repairs Aurora leaks leak: Makes leaks in Cyclops flood: Floods Cyclops damagesub: Damages Cyclops destroycyclops: Obliterates Cyclops vfx cyclopssmokeeffect (value): Creates smoke on Cyclops bubbles: Creates air bubbles seaglide: Creates Seaglide dig [#]: Destroys terrain near player unlock: Gives access to specific blueprints lock: Takes away certain bluepirnts unlockall: Gives access to all blueprints unlockdoors: Opens Aurora and Alien doors
Mechanical/Spec Commands
To change the game mode you’re currently playing to that of another game mode, enter the following console commands:
Freedom: Survival mode sans hunger and thirst Survival: Hunger and thirst meters activated Creative: Full sandbox mode Hardcore: Game ends if player dies
The following console commands deal with specific in-game graphical or technical settings, such as increasing/decreasing FPS or freely moving the camera.
fps: Displays current frames per second nobloom: Disables bloom effect (must restart) noshadows: Disables shadows (must restart) printbiome: Displays current biome name sizeref: Generates the referential Wasabi One diver speed [#]: Allows player to increase/decrease game speed target: Opens/closes target debug menu schoolfishai: Opens fish AI vsync: Turns on/off vsync vr: Opens available VR choices freecam: Use in-game camera without restrictions fov [#]: Tweak field of view settings fog: enable/disable fog farplane [#]: Toggle in-game view distance gamereset: Reverts to previous save enterset: Reloads game debugsound: Tweak sound settings cinematics: Enables/disables player animation daynightspeed [#]: Tweak length of day and night night: Set in-game timer to evening day: set in-game timer to morning
Biome/Base Teleport Commands
These debug/console commands will take you to specified areas of the map. Whether you need to go to a specific biome or a specific alien base, this is where you’ll want to look.
biome [name]: Sends player to specified biome safe (Safe Shallows) kelp (Kelp Forest) kelp_cave (Kelp Forest Caves) grassy (Grassy Plateaus) grassy_cave (Grassy Plateau Caves) mushroom (Mushroom Forest) koosh (Bulb Zone) koosh_cave (Bulb Zone Caves) jellyshroom (Jellyshroom Caves) sparsereef (Sparse Reef) grandreef (Grand Reef) dunes (Dunes) mountains (Mountains) mountains_cave (Mountain Caves) deepgrand (Deep Grand Reef) bloodkelp (Blood Kelp Zone) underislands (Underwater Islands) smokers (Grand Reef thermal vents) inactivelavart (Inactive Lava Zone) islands (Floater Islands) tree (Large Mushroom tree) lostriver (Lost River) lavazone (Lava Zone) warp [x] [y] [z]: Takes player to designated coordinates warpforward [#]: Warps player to location ahead by specified meters batch [x] [y] [z]: Takes player to center of specified coordinates warpme: Take player to vehicle or base last entered goto [name]: takes player to specific area spawn: Respawns player randomstart: Randomly respawns Lifepod 5 kill: Respawns player in lifepod
safe (Safe Shallows) kelp (Kelp Forest) kelp_cave (Kelp Forest Caves) grassy (Grassy Plateaus) grassy_cave (Grassy Plateau Caves) mushroom (Mushroom Forest) koosh (Bulb Zone) koosh_cave (Bulb Zone Caves) jellyshroom (Jellyshroom Caves) sparsereef (Sparse Reef) grandreef (Grand Reef) dunes (Dunes) mountains (Mountains) mountains_cave (Mountain Caves) deepgrand (Deep Grand Reef) bloodkelp (Blood Kelp Zone) underislands (Underwater Islands) smokers (Grand Reef thermal vents) inactivelavart (Inactive Lava Zone) islands (Floater Islands) tree (Large Mushroom tree) lostriver (Lost River) lavazone (Lava Zone)
And there you have it, the cure commands that will get rid of the currently harmless Kharaa infection as well as the console commands that basically make you the god of your own waterworld.
Stay tuned to GameSkinny for more Subnautica news and updates. And to see if the infection does becomes deadly. And if you’re looking for more tips for this underwater survival adventure, make sure to check out our other Subnautica guides!
Note: This information was collected from our good friends over at the Subnautica Wiki.
