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Subnautica cheat codes: Best cheats & how to use them

Breathe underwater.

Subnautica key art showing a man scuba diving

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Ben Huxley

Published: Monday, 2 October 2023 at 10:22 am

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Developers Unknown Worlds Entertainment blew us out of the water with Subnautica back in 2018. The underwater survivor gave us a rich and wondrous world to explore, while we crafted our way through the gripping story.

It spawned a sequel - Below Zero - in 2021, which was equally majestic. However, if you're new to the franchise, we recommend starting at the beginning.

Subnautica can be quite challenging, though, especially if you're new to craft-em-ups. And with the game's nightmarish jump scares, the challenge might be too much for some.

The compromise? Cheat.

We'll share a few cheats below, which will hopefully make your exploration through the alien ocean a little easier.

And if you're already a fan, who knows? They might breathe new life into the game. But first, let's look at how to use cheats in Subnautica.

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How to use cheats in Subnautica

To use the cheats, you'll first need to turn on the developers box. This is basically a small box that appears on the left-hand side of the screen, into which you put the codes.

On the PC, press F3 to open the sub menu, then untick the disable console box. Once you've done this, exit the menu and press the tilde key (that's the ~ symbol) to bring up the developers console.

It's a little different for consoles. On the Xbox, press Menu, presspress LB + A + RB to bring up the input box, then LB+RB for the same sub menu, where you remove the tick.

Then, once you see the Start Menu, choose the developers options and enable it. On PlayStation, it's exactly the same, but press L1 + R1 + X to bring up the input box!

Full list of Subnautica cheats

Invincibility: nodamage
Teleport to a specific biome: biome (name of biome)
Go to a location: goto (name of location)
Restore Aurora back: restoreship
Change view distance: farplane (and then the value, default being 1000)
Toggle fog: fog
Toggle free cam: freecam
Starts Sunbeam story event: startsunbeamstoryevent
Starts Sunbeam countdown: sunbeamcountdownstart
Unlimited fabricator, habitat builder, vehicle bay: nocost
Enable or disable power usage of vehicles, tools and seabases: noenergy
Disable food and water requirements: nosurvival
Increase water underwater time: nitrogen
Turn invisible, no creatures can see you: invisible
Teleport to specific co-ordinates: warp [x] [y] [z]
Jump a few metres ahead: warpforward [meters]
Respawn to nearest checkpoint: spawn
Spawn Cyclops: sub cyclops
Spawn Exosuit: spawn exosuit
Spawn Seamoth: spawn seamot
Die and respawn back in the lifepod: kill
Return to lifepod: randomstart
Unlimited oxygen: oxygen
Faster building: fastbuild
Unlock all blueprints: allblueprints
Free crafting or building: nocost
No radiation: radiation
Get useful items for free: madloot
Adjust movement speed: speed
Spawn specific item: item [name] [amount]
Switch to day: day
Switch to night: night
Speed of time: daynightspeed
Reload all assets, except terrain: entreset
Load last save: gamereset
Display FPS: fps
Spawn a particular item: Enter ‘tem (name) (amount)’
Unlock habitat builder, survival knife, scanner and repair tool in inventory: bobthebuilder
Increase plant growth speed: fastgrow
Hatch eggs quickly: fasthatch
Reduce scanning time: fastscan
Reduce time for water filtering: filterfast
Turn off radiation: radiation
Fix Aurora’s radiation leaks: fixleaks
Unlock all doors, except those that requires laser cutter: unlockdoors
Cure yourself and all creatures within metre range: cure [range]
Infect yourself and all creatures in a range: infect [range]
Enable Aurora countdown timer: countdownship
Destroy Aurora: explodeship
End Sunbeam: precursorgunaim
Launch escape rocket without turning off quarantine enforcement platform: forcerocketready
Teleport safely to base or vehicle: warpme

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Ben HuxleyFreelance Writer

Ben Huxley is a freelance contributor to Radio Times, with bylines also in TechRadar, WhatCulture, GAMINGbible, and Live Science. A writer of fiction, too, he has a few short stories published and a novel on the way. He has a BA in English Literature, and an MA in creative writing.

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