Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord is a game where your battles can get chaotic and messy very fast and very easily, so it wouldn’t hurt to have a few cheat codes and console commands up your sleeve for when times get tough.
From adding more money to your coffers to levelling up your character, there are numerous ways in which cheats and commands can make life a little easier for you in the world of Bannerlord, which can be an unforgiving place if you play without these optional extras.
As ever, there’s a risk that using cheats will have some unwanted consequences in your game, so you’ll want to keep a save file handy in case things go wrong. With that disclaimer out of the way, though, read on for the lowdown on Bannerlord cheats!
How to activate cheats in Bannerlord
To enable cheats in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, this is what you need to do:
- On your PC, head to Documents and find the folder for the game
- In the folder, find the text file engine_config.txt
- Open the text file in Notepad
- In the text file, find the bit of code that looks like this: cheat_mode = 0
- Change the 0 to a 1, save the file and restart the game
List of Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats
Once you’ve got the Bannerlord cheats enabled, hammering in these cheat codes will allow you to have some extra fun with Mount and Blade 2:
- Control + X (on inventory screen) – money cheat adds 1,000 gold
- Control + X (on the clan screen) – adds 1,000 influence
- Control + X (on the party screen) – gives experience to a troop type
- Control + click (on the map screen) – travel instantly anywhere on the map
- Control + A (on the character screen) – turns all attributes up to 10
- Control + [number from one to six] (on the character screen) – increase an attribute
- Control + Alt + T – sacrifice frame rate to show every single unit on the map
- Control + F2 – make one of your own troops unconscious
- Control + F3 – deal damage to your own character
- Control + Shift + F3 – make your horse unconscious
- Control + F4 – make one enemy unconscious
- Control + Alt + F4 – knocks out all your enemies
- Control + F5 – pause/unpause the action in the game
- Control + Shift + F6 – make all your enemies unconscious
- Control + H (on the party screen) – add one troop
- Control + H – heal up your own character
- Control + Shift + H (on the party screen) – add 10 troops
- Control + Shift + H – heal up your own horse
- Control + L – increase the level of your own character
The best Bannerlord console commands
And that’s not all! If you download the Developer Console mod from Nexus Mods, you can also use console commands.
After you press Control and the Tilde key (~) to bring up the dev console, the following console commands can be used to level up quickly in various aspects:
- Increase attribute points – campaign.add_attribute_points_to_hero [number here]
- Increase focus points – campaign.add_focus_points_to_hero [number here]
- Increase gold – campaign.add_gold_to_hero [number here]
- Increase influence – campaign.add_influence [number here]
- Increase renown – campaign.add_renown_to_clan [number here]
- Level up yourself – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero [number here]
- Level up your main party – campaign.give_xp_to_main_party [number here]
And if you want to add a certain sort of soldier to your party, use these:
- Aserai – a campaign.give_troops aserai_master_archer [number here]
- Aserai faris – campaign.give_troops aserai_faris [number here]
- Desert bandits – boss campaign.give_troops desert_bandits_boss [number here]
- Hired Blade – campaign.give_troops mercenary_7 [number here]
- Hired Crossbow – campaign.give_troops mercenary_8 [number here]
- Mercenary Cavalry – campaign.give_troops mercenary_9 [number here]
- Mercenary Crossbowman – campaign.give_troops mercenary_5 [number here]
- Mercenary Guard – campaign.give_troops mercenary_2 [number here]
- Mercenary Horseman – campaign.give_troops mercenary_6 [number here]
- Mercenary Scout – campaign.give_troops mercenary_3 [number here]
- Mercenary Swordsman – campaign.give_troops mercenary_4 [number here]
- Sea raiders boss – campaign.give_troops sea_raiders_boss [number here]
- Steppe bandits boss – campaign.give_troops steppe_bandits_boss [number here]
- Watchman – campaign.give_troops mercenary_1 [number here]
Also, you can use these commands to increase specific skills:
- Athletics – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Athletics [number here]
- Bow – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Bow [number here]
- Charm – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Charm [number here]
- Crossbow – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Crossbow [number here]
- Engineering – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Engineering [number here]
- Leadership – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Leadership [number here]
- Medicine – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Medicine [number here]
- OneHanded – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero OneHanded [number here]
- Polearm – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Polearm [number here]
- Riding – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Riding [number here]
- Roguery – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Roguery [number here]
- Scouting – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Scouting [number here]
- Smithing – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Smithing [number here]
- Steward – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Steward [number here]
- Tactics – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Tactics [number here]
- Throwing – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Throwing [number here]
- Trade – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero Trade [number here]
- TwoHanded – campaign.add_skill_xp_to_hero TwoHanded [number here]
New console commands are being discovered by fans/modders all the time, but these should keep you busy for now! Have fun.
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