Need some Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats to change up your game? These console commands are the best way to tweak Taleworlds' RPG, whether you want to get rich quick or vanquish enemy armies in one fell swoop. It's simple really: all you need to do is edit a configuration file and all these powers will be yours.
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The Mount and Blade games are great for customisation, modding, and just generally playing around with. While many might see console commands as cheating, they do add possibilities and fun new ways to mess with the world. Cheats can open up the game so you can experiment to your heart's content. Nothing gets you past the bandit-hunting stage and on to kingmaking like a freshly-spawned longsword, after all.
All it takes to get cheating with Bannerlord is a simple edit to a config file. We've got instructions for getting cheat mode up and running below. From there, you can either enable your desired cheat with hotkey commands, or by pulling up the in-game developer console to type our your desired cheat command. With either method, there are various cheats that do anything from letting you teleport, heal, win battles instantly, or gain any weapon or item in the game. That said, here are all of the Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats and how to use them.
How to enable cheat mode in Bannerlord
How to enable Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats
- First, you'll need to make an edit to a single file. Head to this location on your PC: Documents > Mount and Blade II Bannerlord > engine_config.txt
- Open it with a text editor like Notepad , and look for this line: cheat_mode = 0
- Change 0 to 1 and save the file.
Once you've done this, launch Bannerlord, and you'll be able to use cheats.
Note: I've seen some forums posts saying you need to start a new campaign for the Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats to activate, but I tried them with my current campaign character and a new one, and the cheats work with both characters. On the other hand, Fraser tried to enable the cheats the same way says it just wound up affecting his performance. Let us know how it works or doesn't work for you.
Add items and units
With Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheat mode enabled, simply opening your inventory will display a list of every item in the game on the left side of the screen. Just click the arrow next to any item you want and it'll be moved into your inventory. Click "done" when you've got everything you want.
Similarly, opening your party screen with cheats enabled will display a list of every military unit in the game, which you can freely add to your warband. Click "done," and you’ll have all your desired reinforcements.
You’ll need to use the developer console if you want to give yourself gold outright (again, see the 'console commands and codes' section below), but you can load up on expensive items and sell them to vendors to make yourself rich quick.
Hotkey cheats
Once you have Bannerlord’s cheat mode enabled, you can use this set of hotkey combinations in battle. With just a few key presses, you can heal yourself, unmake ranks of enemy troops at once, or just terrorize your own horse.
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + F4 | In combat, knocks out an enemy. |
| Ctrl + Alt + F4 | Knocks out entire enemy army. |
| Ctrl + H | Heals you to full health. |
| Ctrl + Shift + H | Heals your horse to full health. |
| Ctrl + F2 | Knocks out one of your own soldiers. |
| Ctrl + F3 | Knocks out the player. |
| Ctrl + Shift + F3 | Knocks out your horse (if you're sitting on it). |
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + left click | Holding Ctrl while you left click on the world map teleports you to that spot, allowing instant travel to any desired location. |
Console commands
Once you've enabled cheat mode in Bannerlord's config files, you can press Alt and ~ (tilde) to open the in-game dev console and start using console commands. Press Alt and ~ again to close it.
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Bannerlord's console commands are case sensitive, so you'll need to enter them just as they appear or they won't work. We haven't tested all the commands, but we've listed the ones we've tried and know they work. The full list of Mount & Blade: Bannerlord cheats is further down the page.
Where you see a #, you'll need to add a number. For instance, below where it says: campaign.add_gold_to_hero #
If you want to give yourself 10,000 gold, you'd enter: campaign.add_gold_to_hero 10000
Where you see bracketed text, replace it (brackets included) with the appropriate hero name, settlement name, Troop ID, etc. For example, to add 20 Imperial archers to your party, type: campaign.give_troops imperial_archer 20
| What it does | Command |
|---|---|
| Add gold | campaign.add_gold_to_hero # |
| Level up your character | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero # |
| Level up your main party | campaign.give_xp_to_main_party # |
| Add influence | campaign.add_influence # |
| Add renown | campaign.add_renown_to_clan # |
| Add focus points | campaign.add_focus_points_to_hero # |
| Add skill experience | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero [SkillName] # |
| List all troop IDs | campaign.give_troops help |
| Add troops to your party with Troop ID | campaign.give_troops [TroopID] # |
| Give settlement to player | campaign.give_settlement_to_player [SettlementName] |
With this list of console commands, you can give your character experience to specific skills by replacing the # with the desired number.
| Skill | Command |
|---|---|
| Athletics | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Athletics # |
| Bow | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Bow # |
| Charm | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Charm # |
| Crossbow | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Crossbow # |
| Engineering | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Engineering # |
| Leadership | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Leadership # |
| Medicine | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Medicine # |
| One-Handed | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero OneHanded # |
| Polearm | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Polearm # |
| Riding | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Riding # |
| Roguery | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Roguery # |
| Scouting | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Scouting # |
| Smithing | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Smithing # |
| Steward | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Steward # |
| Tactics | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Tactics # |
| Throwing | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Throwing # |
| Trade | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Trade # |
| Two-Handed | campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero TwoHanded # |
This last list of console commands will affect quests, campaign-level diplomacy, and warfare.
| What it does | Command |
|---|---|
| List active quests | campaign.list_active_quests |
| Complete current quest | campaign.complete_active_quest |
| Cancel active quest | campaign.cancel_active_quest |
| Conceive child (if unmarried, will wed you to someone) | campaign.conceive_child |
| Adopt AI hero as player's child | campaign.adopt_hero [HeroName] |
| Force two factions to declare war | campaign.declare_war [Faction1] [Faction2] |
| Force all factions to declare war | campaign.start_world_war |
| Force two factions to declare peace | campaign.declare_peace [Faction1] [Faction2] |
| Make peace between with all major factions | campaign.start_player_vs_world_truce |
| Force AI hero to move toward settlement | campaign.ai_goto_settlement [HeroName] [SettlementName] |
| Force AI hero to attack a settlement | campaign.ai_siege_settlement [HeroName] [SettlementName] |
| Force AI hero to seek out and attack another | campaign.ai_attack_party [AttackerHeroName] [HeroName] |
| Place AI hero in another's captivity | campaign.take_hero_prisoner [PrisonerName] [CaptorName] |
| Give settlement to player | campaign.give_settlement_to_player [SettlementName] |
| Set building project progress in settlement | campaign.add_progress_to_current_building [SettlementName] [0-100] |
All console commands
Below is a more extensive list of console commands, though we haven't tested them all, so you may need to experiment.
- Log.Campaign.hide_log
- Log.Campaign.show_log
- Log.Campaign.show_unfiltered_logs
- Log.Campaign.start_capturing
- Log.Campaign.stop_capturing
- Mission_Highlights.AddHighlight
- Mission_Highlights.Initialize
- Mission_Highlights.OpenGroup
- Mission_Highlights.OpenSummary
- Mission_Highlights.RemoveHighlight
- Mission_Highlights.SaveVideo
- agent.change_action_set
- agent.delete_agent
- agent.equip_clear
- agent.fade_in
- agent.fade_out
- agent.goto
- agent.main_agent_play_action_at_channel
- agent.main_mount_play_action_at_channel
- ai.debug_enable_cs
- ai.driven_property
- ai.formation_debug
- ai.formation_speed_adjustment_enabled
- ai.help_show_chars
- ai.help_show_items
- ai.help_spawn
- ai.set_health
- ai.set_health_help
- ai.show_chars
- ai.show_items
- ai.spawn
- atmosphere.current
- atmosphere.list
- atmosphere.reset
- atmosphere.set_by_index
- atmosphere.set_by_name
- campaign.activate_all_policies_for_player_kingdom
- campaign.add_attribute_points_to_hero
- campaign.add_building_level
- campaign.add_caravan_to_hero
- campaign.add_companion
- campaign.add_focus_points_to_hero
- campaign.add_gold_to_all_heroes
- campaign.add_gold_to_hero
- campaign.add_horse
- campaign.add_influence
- campaign.add_morale_to_party
- campaign.add_prisoner
- campaign.add_progress_to_current_building
- campaign.add_random_hero_to_party
- campaign.add_random_prisoner_hero
- campaign.add_renown_to_clan
- campaign.add_sample_children_to_main_character
- campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero
- campaign.adopt_hero
- campaign.ai_attack_party
- campaign.ai_defend_settlement
- campaign.ai_goto_settlement
- campaign.ai_raid_village
- campaign.ai_siege_settlement
- campaign.boost_cohesion_of_all_armies
- campaign.boost_cohesion_of_army
- campaign.burn_village
- campaign.calculate_distance_from_main_party
- campaign.call_faction_heroes_to_settlement
- campaign.cancel_active_quest
- campaign.change_clan_leader
- campaign.change_current_building
- campaign.change_faction_relation
- campaign.change_hero_relation
- campaign.change_main_hero_age
- campaign.check_camp_locations
- campaign.check_village_bandit
- campaign.clear_settlement_defense
- campaign.complete_active_quest
- campaign.conceive_child
- campaign.control_party_ai_by_cheats
- campaign.create_faction_army
- campaign.create_perk_main_hero
- campaign.create_player_kingdom
- campaign.declare_peace
- campaign.declare_war
- campaign.destroy_clan
- campaign.destroy_kindgom
- campaign.destroy_party
- campaign.difficulty
- campaign.election_chooser_cheat
- campaign.election_supporter_cheat
- campaign.enable_party_count
- campaign.expel_clan_from_kindgom
- campaign.fill_party
- campaign.fill_party_alt_solution_test
- campaign.fill_party_tableau_test
- campaign.find_alley_owners_with_more_than_one_alley
- campaign.find_hero
- campaign.find_issue
- campaign.find_mobile_party
- campaign.find_settlement
- campaign.free_player_through_barter
- campaign.get_character_id_from_character_code
- campaign.get_conversations_tags
- campaign.get_criminal_ratings
- campaign.get_game_progress
- campaign.get_heroes_at_age
- campaign.get_infested_hideout
- campaign.get_invalid_family_members
- campaign.get_lords_inside_settlement
- campaign.get_main_party_position
- campaign.get_settlement_common_area_states
- campaign.get_stance_between_factions
- campaign.give_all_crafting_materials_to_main_party
- campaign.give_item_to_main_party
- campaign.give_money_to_main_party
- campaign.give_settlement_to_player
- campaign.give_troops
- campaign.give_troops_xp
- campaign.give_workshop_to_player
- campaign.give_xp_to_main_party
- campaign.go_to_settlement
- campaign.grow_player_babies_to_child
- campaign.grow_player_children_to_teen
- campaign.grow_player_teen_to_adult
- campaign.heal_main_party
- campaign.hide_hideouts
- campaign.is_hero_suitable_for_marriage_with_player
- campaign.join_kingdom
- campaign.kill_capturer_party
- campaign.kill_hero
- campaign.lead_your_faction
- campaign.leave_faction
- campaign.leave_faction_by_rebellion
- campaign.list_active_quests
- campaign.list_all
- campaign.list_children_heroes_suitable_for_marriage
- campaign.list_heroes_suitable_for_marriage
- campaign.list_heroes_without_party
- campaign.list_home_settlement_of_player
- campaign.list_player_traits
- campaign.list_tournaments
- campaign.list_trade_rumors
- campaign.make_hero_fugitive
- campaign.make_hero_wounded
- campaign.make_main_hero_ill
- campaign.make_peace_with_every_faction
- campaign.marry_player_with_hero
- campaign.move_camera_between_fights
- campaign.move_camera_between_fights_automatically
- campaign.move_time_forward
- campaign.multiply_campaign_speed
- campaign.normalize_hideouts
- campaign.open_town_mission_spawn_at_workshop
- campaign.print_all_issues
- campaign.print_issue_statistics
- campaign.print_issues
- campaign.print_party_count_statistics
- campaign.print_party_prisoners
- campaign.print_player_progress
- campaign.print_projects_in_settlement
- campaign.print_settlement_goods
- campaign.print_workshop_info
- campaign.print_workshops_in_settlement
- campaign.rebellion_enabled
- campaign.refresh_icon
- campaign.refresh_parties
- campaign.remove_tracked_object
- campaign.reset_player_skills_level_and_perks
- campaign.reset_tracker
- campaign.set_all_skills_main_hero
- campaign.set_army_notifications
- campaign.set_banner_editor_is_enabled
- campaign.set_crafting_is_enabled
- campaign.set_criminal_rating
- campaign.set_desertion_enabled
- campaign.set_face_gen_is_enabled
- campaign.set_hero_age
- campaign.set_intensity
- campaign.set_kingdom_notifications
- campaign.set_main_hero_age
- campaign.set_main_hero_stats_to_mid_game
- campaign.set_main_party_attackable
- campaign.set_midgame_archetype
- campaign.set_mood
- campaign.set_parties_visible
- campaign.set_player_reputation_trait
- campaign.set_player_siege_as_sally_out
- campaign.set_quest_debug_mode
- campaign.set_skill_companion
- campaign.set_skill_main_hero
- campaign.set_skills_of_hero
- campaign.set_town_test_scene
- campaign.set_village_test_scene
- campaign.show_character_feats
- campaign.show_current_location_heroes
- campaign.show_direction_of_player_around_settlement
- campaign.show_direction_of_settlement_around_main_party
- campaign.show_hideouts
- campaign.show_party_morale_detail
- campaign.show_party_size_limit_detail
- campaign.show_possible_battle_scenes
- campaign.show_prisoners
- campaign.start_barter_with_hero
- campaign.start_barter_with_lucon
- campaign.start_conversation
- campaign.start_election_to_change_policy
- campaign.start_election_to_declare_war
- campaign.start_election_to_make_peace
- campaign.start_king_selection_decision
- campaign.start_player_vs_world_truce
- campaign.start_player_vs_world_war
- campaign.start_rebellion_in_settlement
- campaign.start_test_conversation_mission
- campaign.start_tournament
- campaign.start_world_war
- campaign.take_hero_prisoner
- campaign.teleport_hero_to_settlement
- campaign.throw_prisoner_to_settlement
- campaign.toggle_add_castles_to_villages_cheat
- campaign.track_object
- campaign.use_test_scenes
- chatlog.can_focus_while_in_mission
- chatlog.clear
- close
- cloth.reset_meshes
- config.antialiasing_technique
- config.brightness
- config.brightness_calibrated
- config.brightness_max
- config.brightness_min
- config.character_detail
- config.cheat_mode
- config.control_mouse_movement_accumulation_decay_speed
- config.control_mouse_movement_max_accumulation
- config.control_mouse_movement_y_scale
- config.decal_quality
- config.disable_sound
- config.display_height
- config.display_mode
- config.display_referesh_rate
- config.display_width
- config.dynamic_resolution_fps_target
- config.enable_cloth_simulation
- config.enable_dynamic_resolution_scale
- config.enable_flora_sway
- config.environment_detail
- config.first_time
- config.foliage_quality
- config.force_vsync
- config.gamma
- config.graphics_adapter
- config.invert_mouse
- config.lighting_quality
- config.master_volume
- config.max_framerate
- config.max_simultaneous_sound_event_count
- config.mouse_sensitivity_coefficient
- config.music_volume
- config.number_of_ragdolls
- config.particle_detail
- config.particle_quality
- config.postfx_bloom
- config.postfx_chromatic_aberration
- config.postfx_dof
- config.postfx_grain
- config.postfx_hexagon_vignette
- config.postfx_lens_flares
- config.postfx_motion_blur
- config.postfx_ssr
- config.postfx_sssss
- config.postfx_streaks
- config.postfx_sunshafts
- config.postfx_vignette
- config.resolution_scale
- config.safely_exited
- config.save_window_positions
- config.selected_monitor
- config.shader_quality
- config.shadowmap_filtering
- config.shadowmap_resolution
- config.shadowmap_type
- config.sharpen_amount
- config.show_framerate
- config.sound_device
- config.sound_output
- config.sound_volume
- config.terrain_quality
- config.tesselation
- config.texture_budget
- config.texture_filtering
- config.texture_quality
- config.water_quality
- config.weapon_trail_amount
- console.clear
- crafting.disable_contour
- crafting.dismantle_all
- crafting.give_random_weapons
- crafting.list_mats
- crafting.unlock_all_parts
- debug.clear_permanent_debug_render_meshes
- debug.mission_spawnpoint_count_and_mesh_checker_ui
- debug.print_materials_with_name
- debug.print_meshes_with_name
- debug.print_meta_meshes_without_lods
- debug.print_textures_with_name
- debug.reset_ignored_asserts
- eventmanager.print_registered_events_and_types
- facegen.dress_player
- facegen.referesh_character_as_kid
- facegen.show_debug
- facegen.undress_player
- game.reload_animations
- game.reload_managed_core_params
- game.reload_native_params
- game.siege_test
- gfx.set_quality
- global.illumination
- granite.clear_cache
- granite.generate_xml
- granite.pause
- help
- items.export_nav_mesh_face_marks
- items.find_and_clear_unused_resources
- items.find_meshes_without_lods
- items.print_all_items_with_generated_lod
- items.print_all_items_without_generated_lod
- items.print_all_items_without_lod
- items.print_faulty_materials
- items.take_ss_from_top
- localization.check_for_erros
- memory.stats
- mission.AddDebugTeleporter
- mission.AddObjectDestroyer
- mission.begin_camera_fade_in
- mission.begin_camera_fade_out
- mission.begin_camera_fade_out_and_in
- mission.disable_fall_avoid
- mission.draw_formation_arrangement_debug_lines
- mission.draw_formation_order_debug_spheres
- mission.draw_point_of_interest_directions
- mission.draw_siege_origin_positions
- mission.enable_debug_window
- mission.enable_fall_damage_warnings
- mission.equipment_debug
- mission.fix_camera_toggle
- mission.flee_enemies
- mission.killAgent
- mission.list_agent_ids
- mission.retreat_side
- mission.set_battering_ram_speed
- mission.set_camera_position
- mission.set_deployment_visualization_selector
- mission.set_facial_anim_to_agent
- mission.set_shift_camera_speed
- mission.set_siege_tower_speed
- mission.toggleDisableDying
- mission_cpp.fast_forward_mission
- mission_cpp.kill_agent
- mission_cpp.kill_all_agents_excluding_this
- mp_client.list_agent_infos
- mp_host.help
- mp_host.kick_player
- profiler.generate_performance_report
- profiler.start_task_profilinf
- replay.invisible_agents
- replay.read_current_replay
- replay.seek_frame
- replay.tick_replay
- replay.write_current_replay
- resource.add_default_levels_to_prefab_file
- resource.add_new_water_prefab
- resource.clear_gpu_morph_textures
- resource.export_meta_mesh_as_obj
- resource.save_prefab_files
- resource.set_visibility_distance_to_meshes_without_lods
- resource.shader.clear_shader_cache
- resource.shader.compile_shader_combinations
- resource.shader.compile_terrain_shaders
- resource.shader.compile_terrain_shaders_of_scene
- resource.shader.create_compressed_shader_cache
- resource.shader.generate_shaders
- resource.shader.recompile_single_shader
- resource.shader.save_shader_combinations
- resource.shader.save_shader_identifiers
- rgl_module_ini_options.always_check_modifications
- rgl_module_ini_options.check_colormap_flags
- rgl_module_ini_options.detailed_sound_log
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_async_physics
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_async_predraw
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_async_render_jobs
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_camera_precision_offset
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_data_parallelization
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_dynamic_instancing
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_gui_messages
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_oros
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_shadow_occlusion_pass
- rgl_module_ini_options.disable_tableau_cache
- rgl_module_ini_options.do_sound_one_shot_events
- rgl_module_ini_options.enable_deterministic_mode
- rgl_module_ini_options.enable_occluder_depth_prepass
- rgl_module_ini_options.high_quality_screenshot_height
- rgl_module_ini_options.high_quality_screenshot_width
- rgl_module_ini_options.limited_framerate
- rgl_module_ini_options.log_failed_weapon_collision_sound_events
- rgl_module_ini_options.log_level
- rgl_module_ini_options.prt_edit_data_folder
- rgl_module_ini_options.record_missions
- rgl_module_ini_options.screenshot_format
- rgl_module_ini_options.screenshot_mod
- rgl_module_ini_options.show_scene_terrain_layer_errors
- rgl_module_ini_options.supports_postfx_chromatic_aberration
- rgl_module_ini_options.supports_postfx_hexagon_vignette
- rgl_module_ini_options.supports_postfx_lens_flares
- rgl_module_ini_options.supports_postfx_streaks
- rgl_module_ini_options.supports_postfx_vignette
- rgl_module_ini_options.use_depth_flipping
- rgl_module_ini_options.use_physics_engine
- rgl_module_ini_options.use_texture_tags
- show_memory
- siege_test.set_level
- siege_test.set_scene
- siege_test.set_wallhp
- sound.enable_wav_output
- sound.reload_sounds
- spitems.reload.xml
- storymode.activate_conspiracy_quest
- storymode.advance_to_kingdom_quests
- storymode.complete_banner_investigation
- storymode.destroy_all_anti_imperial_kingdoms_except_player_kingdom
- storymode.reinforfce_kingdom
- storymode.skip_character_creation
- storymode.skip_first_phase
- storymode.skip_intro
- storymode.skip_tutorial_quests
- storymode.weaken_kingdom
- test_mission.change_faction_armor_color
- ui.test_random_admin_message
- ui.toggle_ui
