Following cheat codes have been implemented in VCMI and must be used within in-game chat:

vcmiistari - gives all spells and 999 mana to currently selected hero
vcmiainur - gives 5 Archangels to every empty slot of currently selected hero
vcmiangband - gives 10 black knight into each slot
vcmiglaurung - gives 5000 crystal dragons into each slot
vcmiarmenelos - build all buildings in currently selected town
vcminoldor - all war machines
vcminahar - 1000000 movement points
vcmiformenos - give resources (100 wood, ore and rare resources and 100000 gold)
vcmieagles - reveals FoW
vcmiungoliant - conceal FoW
vcmiglorfindel - advances currently selected hero to the next level
vcmisilmaril - player wins
vcmimelkor - player loses
vcmiforgeofnoldorking - Hero gets all artifacts except spell book, spell scrolls and war machines. This includes artifacts added via mods.

All cheat codes can be applied for specific players or all of them:

Some cheats can also be used with certain ObjectInstanceID:

These codes are not a cheats, but can be used in multiplayer by host player to control the session

game exit/quit/end - finish the game
game save mygame - saves the game into mygame file
game kick red/blue/... - kick player from the game. instead of color, can be used a number, e.g. game kick 0/1/2..., number is a corresponding player number (0 - red, 1 - blue, etc)

Console commands

Following commands must be used in vcmiclient console (CMD on Windows or terminal on Linux / Mac):

autoskip - Toggles autoskip mode on and off. In this mode, player turns are automatically skipped and only AI moves. However, GUI is still present and allows to observe AI moves. After this option is activated, you need to end first turn manually. Press [Shift] before your turn starts to not skip it.
onlyai - When typed in pregame, it completely removes human players and GUI from game. Use console and bugtracker to test AI quickly. Additionally, game cna be launched with --onlyAI parameter to enable this mode by default.
crash - force game crash. It is sometimes useful to generate memory dump file in certain situations, for example game freeze.
set <command> <on/off> - toggle one of debug options on or off. Possible commands:
- autoskip - identical to "autoskip" option
- showGrid - displays grid on adventure map
- showBlock - shows blocked tiles on map. Requires image data/blocked.bmp present.
- showVisit - shows visitable tiles on map. Requires image data/visitable.bmp present.
- hideSystemMessages - supress server messages in chat.
gosolo - AI take control over human players and vice versa
controlai - give control of one (if color specified) or all AIs to player

Cheat codes