ARK: Survival
Admin Command Builder
ARK's admin commands are capable, thinly documented and strict about argument order. Here the everyday ones come with each parameter labelled, so nobody has to count positions in a console window.
If you joined the server as a player, start with EnableCheats <your admin password>; until then the server refuses every command below.
GFI matches part of the item’s blueprint name, so a short distinctive fragment works better than the full display name.
Your command
Paste it into the in-game console. Over RCON, drop the cheat prefix if your RCON tool adds it automatically.
cheat GFI Rifle 1 0 0
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How it works
First, the prefix: most admin commands need cheat in front, and joining a server as a client means running EnableCheats with the admin password before anything else works. Arguments here carry names rather than positions, which pays off on commands with four numbers in a row. GiveExpToPlayer is the classic: its closing zero and one are tribe-sharing switches, not digits of the amount, and misreading them is how people end up granting zero experience.
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Common mistakes
Learn GFI first. It searches by any fragment of an item's blueprint name instead of requiring the whole path, so a short, unusual piece of the name will find items the full display name cannot. SpawnDino is the strict one: copy its blueprint path from the wiki exactly, single quotes included, because a path that is off by one character just does nothing.