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.
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.
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.
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) |
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 |
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 |
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
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. |
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. |
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 |
Nihilanth
- bm_c4a4a: Arrival
End Game
- bm_c4a5a: Kaboooooooooooooooooooooooom
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