This page is a compilation of cheats, codes, Easter egg tips and other tricks that can be used in Crusader Kings II. If you’ve found an error you’d like to include on the list or have a suggestion, you can edit the page and then include it.

How To Open Console?

Just hit the “`” (to the left of key 1) key while playing to open or enable the console, then use any of the cheats & console commands we are going to provide you

But if you want to use cheats, make sure you are not playing in Ironman

CK2 Console Commands & Cheats – Character

These are all the available CK2 or Crusader Kings 2 Character Console Commands & Cheats:

• add_artifact [artifact id]: Adds an artifact to the character
• get_all_artifacts: Adds all artifacts to the character
• destroy_artifact [artifact id]: Removes an artifact from the character
• add_diplomacy: Adds diplomacy to the character
• add_intrigue: Adds intrigue to the character
• add_learning: Adds learning to the character
• add_martial: Adds Martialy to the character
• add_stewardship: Adds stewardship to the character
• add_offmap_currency [Offmap Power] [amount]: Gives the player currency with the specified offmap power
• add_trait [trait id]: Adds a trait to the character
• remove_trait [traitt id]: Removes an artifact to the character
• add_modifier [modifier id]: Adds a modifier to the character
• remove_modifier [modifier id]: removes a modifier to the character
• age [character id]: Modifies a character’s age
• banish [character id]: Banishes a character
• capital [province id]: Moves player capital to province
• clr_moved_capital [character id]: Clears the moved capital-flag of a character
• cash [amount]: Adds gold to the player
• coalition [character id] [character id]: [character id1] starts/joins/leaves a coalition against [character id2]
• council_positions [character id or title id]: Shows the ai scores of each council position
• clr_focus: Clears the focus
• culture [culture id]: Sets a character’s culture
• decadence: Modifies the Decadence of the player’s Dynasty
• decision [decision id]: Executes a decision
• die: Suicide
• enforce_peace: Enforces peace in the player’s realm
• liege_enforce_peace: Enforces peace in the player’s liege realm
• enable_ambition: Allows a character to pick a new ambition
• event [event id]: Executes an event
• favor_get [character id]: Get a favor from character id
• favor_grant [character id]: Grants a favor from character id
• gfx_culture [Character ID]: Sets a character’s gfx culture
• give_birth [character id]: Forces a pregnant character to instantly give birt
• give_title [title id] [character id]: Gives a title to a character
• infamy: Modifies the player character’s threat
• imprison [character id] [character id]: Imprisons a character by another character
• join_society [society id]: Join a society
• leave_society [society id]: Leave a society
• log_missing_adjectives: Logs any title that has no adjective loc key defined
• kill [character id]: Kills a character
• kill_yourself: Suicide
• move [character id] [character id]: Moves a character to a character’s court
• neg_opinion [character id] [character id]: Adds a negative opinion between two characters
• nickname [nickname] [character id]: Gives a character a nickname
• piety [amount]: Adds piety to the player
• prestige [amount]: Adds prestige to the player
• run [filename]: Executes script commands from a text file
• score [amount]: Adds score to the player
• techpoints: Adds 1000 techpoints of each type to the player
• max_tech [province id]: Maxes out tech in all provinces, or in specified province
• recalc_succ [character id]: Recalculate the succession for a character
• religion [character id] [religion id]: Sets a character’s religion
• secret_religion [character id] [secret_religion id]: Sets a character’s secret religion
• set_government [Government id] [character id]: Changes government
• titleowner [title id]: Reports or sets the holder of a title
• validate_government [character id]: Validates government of a character
• validate_laws [character id]: Validates laws of a character
• validate_lieges [character id]: Validates lieges of a character
• set_char_flag [flag id] [character id]: Sets a flag from a character
• clr_char_flag [flag id] [character id]: Clears a flag from a character
• set_society_grandmaster [character id]: Sets the grandmaster of the society
• show_all_societies: Shows all societies
• society_rank_up [amount]: Ranks player up in society
• society_rank_down [amount]: Ranks player down in society
• society_currency [amount]: Adds society currency to the player
• quickbuild: constructions are finished immediately
• usurp [title id] [character id]: Sets a title to be usurped by a character

CK2 Console Commands & Cheats – Global

These are all the available CK2 or Crusader Kings 2 Global Console Commands & Cheats:

• activate_artifacts: All artifacts are always active
• allow_laws: change laws freely
• real_fathers: Shows the true fathers in the family tree
• charinfo [character id]: debugging information to character & Reveals your spouse’s lovers
• de_jure_counties: de jure counties map mode
• discover_plots: auto plot discovery
• fow [province id]: Turns off fog of war
• game_speed [Speed]: Sets the game speed, from 0 to 4
• game_paused [True or False]: Pauses game or not
• get_offmap_holder [Offmap Power]: Displays the name and character id of the current holder of an offmap power
• set_offmap_status [Offmap Power] [status]: sets the status of the specified offmap power
• set_offmap_policy [Offmap Power] [policy]: Sets the policy of the specified offmap power
• kill_offmap_ruler [Offmap Power]: Kills the ruler specified offmap power
• kill_offmap_dynasty [Offmap Power]: Kills the ruler specified offmap power, also changes dynasty
• manpower [amount]: Adds nomadic manpower to a nomad player character
• population [amount]: Adds nomadic population to a nomad player character
• marry_anyone: You can
• morehumans [amount]: Adds more humans
• neg_diplo: diplomatic messagest will be refused
• nextsong: Changes sountrack
• listsongs: Check the list of songs
• outbreak [disease id]: Starts specified disease outbreak in a random province
• plots_known: all plots always known
• recalc_council: recalc the council positions of each council member
• reload_succession_voting: Reloads succession voting patterns
• set_flag [flag id]: Sets a global flag
• clr_flag [flag id]: Clears a global flag
• validate_cultural_names: Validates cultural title names
• spawn_disease [disease id] [province id]: Spawn specified disease in chosen province
• character_stats: Displays character’s stats
• dynasty_stats: Displays dynasty’s stats
• destroy_settlement [title id]: Destroys a holding. Takes a barony title (b_<name>) or destroys the capital of a county title (c_<name>)
• murder [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = murderer & id2 = victim
• pollinate [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = mother & id2 = father
• cuckoo [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = mother & id2 = father (unknown)
• revolt [province id]: Starts a Revolt in a province
• succ [Succession id]: Changes the succession type
• add_lover [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = lover 1 & id2 = lover 2
• add_friend [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = friend 1 & id2 = friend 2
• remove_friend [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = lover 1 & id2 = lover 2
• add_rival [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = rival 1 & id2 = rival 2
• remove_rival [character id1] [character id2]: id1 = rival 1 & id2 = rival 2
• flip_mapmodes: Cycles to the next map mode each day
• province_religion [Province ID] [Religion]: Sets a province’s religion

CK2 Console Commands & Cheats – Debug

These are all the available CK2 or Crusader Kings 2 Debug Console Commands & Cheats:

• run_commands_from_file [file name]: Reads a file
• testevent [event id]: Tests an event
• clear: Clears the console
• debug_ai [character id]: displays AI strategy for a character
• debug_aistrength: AI Strength data
• debug_assert: asserts or, and also off
• debug_bloom: Bloom or, and also off
• debug_borders: Borders or, and also off
• debug_crash: Forces crash
• debug_citysprawl: Citysprawl or, and also off
• debug_dumpevents: Dump Event data
• debug_events: Start Counting events
• debug_hires: Terrain Hires mode or, and also off
• debug_info: Debug info
• debug_lines: Debug lines
• debug_lockcamera: Camera locked or, and also off
• debug_name: names for provinces
• debug_nogui: GUI or, and also off
• debug_nomen: Nomen or, and also off
• debug_nomouse: mouse scrollwheel or, and also off
• debug_postfx: PostFX or, and also off
• debug_rivers: Rivers or, and also off
• debug_sky: Sky or, and also off
• debug_smooth: framesmoothing or, and also off
• debug_terrain: Terrain or, and also off
• debug_textures: Texture info to application debug log
• debug_ti: Terra Incognita or, and also off
• debug_tooltip: Toggles Tooltips or, and also off
• debug_trees: Trees or, and also off
• debug_triggerassert: Force game to throw an assert
• debug_volume: music volume
• debug_water: Water or, and also off
• debug_wireframe: forced wireframe or, and also off
• debug_yesmen: yesmen or, and also off
• debug_zoom: Zoom or, and also off
• eventinfo: Prints the number of running events
• guibounds: GUI bounds or, and also off
• fullscreen: fullscreen or, and also off
• hello: character screen or title screen or, and also off
• help [command]: Print out all console commands or a specific command description
• noai: AI or, and also off
• numcoas: used coat of arms
• observe: observer mode or, and also off
• refresh_portraits:  all character portraits to be refreshed
• reload: Reloads the gui or lua file
• reloadevents: event database
• reloadfx: Reloads the shader
• reloadgovernmentflavor
• reloadinterface
• reloadloc
• reloadpositions
• reloadtexture
• save_without_ironman
• spawnactor [actor name]
• timer_start: Starts debug timing
• timer_restart: Restarts debug timing
• timer_reset: Resets debug timing
• timer_stop: Stops debug timing
• timer_dump: Dumps debug timing info
• ct: Puts timer info in clipboard