How to Cheat Resources in Stellaris (Minerals, Food, Alloys & More)

Almost everything you build in Stellaris costs resources — minerals for buildings, alloys for ships, food for population, plus influence, unity, consumer goods and the strategic resources used in advanced components. There are two ways to cheat them in: per-resource shortcut commands and the catch-all resource command. First, open the command console (~), then use whichever fits.

Per-resource shortcuts

The common resources each have a dedicated command. Used alone they add 5,000; add a number for a custom amount.

These map directly to command pages with full details and examples: minerals, food, alloys, influence and unity.

The generic resource command

For anything without a shortcut — consumer goods, volatile motes, exotic gases, rare crystals and the strategic resources — use resource with the resource's internal ID:

Like the shortcuts, leaving off the amount adds the default 5,000. The resource command page lists the accepted resource IDs.

Common resource IDs

• minerals, energy, food, alloys, consumer_goods
• influence, unity
• volatile_motes, exotic_gases, rare_crystals
• sr_dark_matter, sr_living_metal, sr_zro, nanites

Tips

• Want energy credits specifically? That's the cash command — see the energy credits guide.
• Resources are added to your stockpile, so they're subject to your storage cap. If a grant seems smaller than expected, your capacity is full.
• Cheating disables Steam achievements for the session and is unavailable in Ironman.

Frequently asked questions