Black Mesa Console Commands & Cheats

In this post, you will find all the available Black Mesa cheats and console commands. Black Mesa is a first-person shooter game developed and published by Crowbar Collective. It is a third-party remake of Half-Life made in the Source game engine.

You are Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. When a routine experiment goes horribly wrong, you must fight your way through an interdimensional alien invasion, and a bloodthirsty military clean-up crew in order to save the science team… and the world!

Using the cheats below, you can acquire any item and weapon in the game, and ammo supplies. You can also use map codes to play any map any time you want or any of its available sections.

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How to Enable Console Commands in Black Mesa

Keep reading to find all the console commands in Black Mesa:

• To access the console commands in Black Mesa, go to your Steam Games Library.
• Next, right click on the Black Mesa icon and select properties.
• Click on the Set Launch Options button.
• You will now find a textbox. Type -console.
• This will allow you to start the game with the developer console command enabled.
• Once you start the game the console will appear.
• You can use the command “bind <keyboard button> toggleconsole” to show/hide the developer console with the use of a keyboard key.

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Black Mesa Give Console Command

The most important console command in Black Mesa is “give”. You can use it by typing give item_<item name> and pressing Enter.

With the give command, you can acquire any item, weapon, or ammo supply in the game.

Below you will find all the items, weapons, and ammunition in the game, along with the give command you need to enter to get them.

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Give Items Cheat Commands List

Item	Cheat Command
Airtank	give item_airtank
Antidote	give item_antidote
Battery	give item_battery
Healthkit	give item_healthkit
Healthvial	give item_healthvial
LongJump	give item_longjump
Soda Can	give item_sodacan
Suit (HEV)	give item_suit(HEV)

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Give Weapons Cheat List

Weapon	Cheat Command
Magnum 357	give weapon_357(Magnum)
9mm AR	give weapon_9mmar
9mm Handgun	give weapon_9mmhandgun
Crossbow	give weapon_crossbow
Crowbar	give weapon_crowbar
Egon	give weapon_egon
Frag Grenades	give weapon_frag(grenades)
Glock	give weapon_glock
Gluon	give weapon_gluon
Hand Grenade	give weapon_handgrenade
Hivehand	give weapon_hivehand
Hornet Gun	give weapon_hornetgun
MP5	give weapon_mp5
Quantum Destabilizer	give weapon_quantumdestabilizer
RPG	give weapon_rp
Satchel	give weapon_satche
Shotgun	give weapon_shotgun
Snark	give weapon_snark
Tau	give weapon_tau
Tripmine	give weapon_tripmine

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Give Ammunition Cheat List

Ammo	Cheat Command
357	give ammo_357
9mm AR	give ammo_9mmar
9mm Box	give ammo_9mmbox
9mm Clip	give ammo_9mmclip
AR Grenades	give ammo_argrenades
Buckshot	give ammo_buckshot
Crossbow	give ammo_crossbow
Egon	give ammo_egonclip
Gauss Clip	give ammo_gaussclip
Glock Clip	give ammo_glockclip
MP5 Clip	give ammo_mp5clip
MP5 Grenades	give ammo_mp5grenades
RPG Clip	give ammo_rpgclip

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Map Select Console Commands List

You can use the commands below to change Black Mesa maps or levels/sections within the same map:

Black Mesa Inbound

• bm_c0a0a
• bm_c0a0b
• bm_c0a0c

We’ve Got Hostiles

• bm_c1a3a
• bm_c1a3b
• bm_c1a3c

Blast Pit

• bm_c1a4a
• bm_c1a4b
• bm_c1a4c
• bm_c1a4d
• bm_c1a4e

Unforseen Consequences

• bm_c1a1a
• bm_c1a1b
• bm_c1a1c
• bm_c1a1d
• bm_c1a1e

Office Complex

• bm_c1a2a
• bm_c1a2b
• bm_c1a2c

Anomalous Materials

• bm_c1a0a
• bm_c1a0b

Power Up

• bm_c2a1a
• bm_c2a1b

Lambda Core

• bm_c3a2a
• bm_c3a2b
• bm_c3a2c
• bm_c3a2d
• bm_c3a2e
• bm_c3a2f
• bm_c3a2g
• bm_c3a2h

On a Rail

• bm_c2a2a
• bm_c2a2b
• bm_c2a2c

Apprehension

• bm_c2a3a
• bm_c2a3b

Residue Processing

• bm_c2a4a
• bm_c2a4b
• bm_c2a4c
• bm_c2a4d

Questionable Ethics

• bm_c2a4e
• bm_c2a4f
• bm_c2a4g
• bm_c2a4h

Surface Tension

• bm_c2a5a
• bm_c2a4b
• bm_c2a5c
• bm_c2a5d
• bm_c2a5e
• bm_c2a5f
• bm_c2a5g

Forget About Freeman

• bm_c3a1a
• bm_c3a1b

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Xen Map & Level Commands

Gonarch

Command	Description
bm_c4a2c	Start at the area where Gonarch destroys a wall with her green goo attack.
bm_c4a2b	Start at the area where you need to blow a wall with a detonator after following Gonarch.

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Xen

Command	Description
bm_c4a1c	At the alley before you jump down a big hole and encounter ground barnacles.
bm_c4a1c1	At the houndeye bridge.
bm_c4a1b	At the laboratory just before the explosive plant section.
bm_c4a1b1	At the area where 3 rooms have to be solved to open up the path just before the big tree area.
bm_c4a1a1	At the Grotto before the laboratory.

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Interloper

Command	Map/Map Section
bm_c4a3d	Start at the second waste disposal area, just before the elevator sequence
bm_c4a3d1	Start at the end of the elevator sequence, just before the teleporter to Nihilanth
bm_c4a3c	Just before the start of the Assembly line riddle
bm_c4a3c1	Assembly line riddle, before controller ambush
bm_c4a3c2	Assembly line riddle, before going up the flesh trampolines
bm_c4a3b	First green acid melting riddle
bm_c4a3b1	Second green acid melting riddle
bm_c4a3b2	Just before where the first jumping Alien Grunts spawn
bm_c4a3a1	After first controller fight, in the canyon

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Nihilanth

• bm_c4a4a: Arrival

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End Game

• bm_c4a5a: Kaboooooooooooooooooooooooom

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