Windrose Cheat Menu

In-game ImGui checkbox menu for Windrose with per-feature toggles for player buffs, ship buffs, free building, item unlocks, and infinite inventory stock.

Standalone UE4SS mod — no other mod required.

Features

Section	Toggle	Effect
Player	Unlimited health	Health and MaxHealth set to 5000
Player	Unlimited stamina	Stamina pool, regen rate, and consumption modifier maxed
Player	Super defence	Defence power + all damage-taken resists buffed
Player	Super armor	Armor, armor modifier, and final damage reduction by armor maxed
Player	Super damage	Attack power, all damage-done types, crit chance + multiplier, armor penetration
Ship	Ship invincible	Hull / sail health, hull armor + cannon damage-taken resist buffed
Ship	Ship cannon boost	Cannon damage-done flat + multiplier buffed
Building	Free build	"Build anywhere": writes bRequiresBuildingCenter = false on every R5BuildingItem, removing the must-be-near-a-building-center placement check. Does NOT yet remove resource cost — that's deferred to v0.2 (needs hooking the placement-validation UFUNCTION).
Building	Unlock all build items	All R5BuildingItem entries unlocked regardless of recipe gating (via DrawData.bLockedByRecipe)
Inventory	Infinite inventory stock	Diagnostic-only in v0.1.x. The mod doesn't yet know which UE class actually holds player resource counts in your build. Run wcm dump in-game and the R5InventoryComponent/similar class names found will be logged — share to help refine v0.2.

Each flag is independently toggleable and reversible. Toggling a flag off restores the original values it wrote (per-container, per-flag snapshot).

Requirements

• Windrose (Steam AppID 3041230) — tested against buildid 23065453 (May 2026 patch).
• UE4SS Latest Experimental build (g06474186 or later recommended). Download from https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS/releases.
• Windows 10/11, 64-bit.

Installation

1. Install UE4SS into <Windrose install>\R5\Binaries\Win64\ if you haven't already (extract the zip there so dwmapi.dll sits next to Windrose-Win64-Shipping.exe).
2. Extract WindroseCheatMenu-<version>.zip into <Windrose install>\R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\ so you have:

   ...\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\WindroseCheatMenu\
       enabled.txt
       Scripts\
           main.lua
           gui.lua
           runtime.lua
           player.lua
           ship.lua
           world.lua
           attrs.lua
   

3. Open <Windrose install>\R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\UE4SS-settings.ini and set:

   ConsoleEnabled    = 1
   GuiConsoleEnabled = 1
   GuiConsoleVisible = 0

   This gives the menu an ImGui rendering surface. GuiConsoleVisible = 0 keeps the UE4SS console window hidden by default; F8 will still toggle the cheat menu.
4. (Optional) Edit <Windrose install>\R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\mods.txt and add WindroseCheatMenu : 1 above the ; Built-in keybinds line.
5. Launch Windrose via Steam. Press F10 in-game to open the UE console, then type wcm to see commands.

Usage

Primary UI is the in-game F10 console. Type wcm for help. Example session:

wcm status                       show every flag's state
wcm health on                    enable unlimited_health
wcm all on                       enable every flag in one line
wcm freebuild on                 enable "build anywhere" (bRequiresBuildingCenter=false)
wcm unlock on                    unlock every R5BuildingItem (bypass recipe gating)
wcm dump                         log inventory class candidates to UE4SS.log
wcm probe <ClassName>            log first 3 instances + known boolean field values
wcm setfield <Class> <field> on  write a single boolean field (diagnostic)

Friendly aliases supported: health, stamina, defense, armor, damage, invincible, cannon, freebuild, unlock, inventory.

Hotkey (legacy / future ImGui builds)

• F8 — toggle the (currently inert) ImGui menu. Will activate automatically on a UE4SS build that exposes ImGui to Lua. Latest Experimental g06474186 does not, so for now use the F10 wcm console instead.
• Apply now button — force an immediate re-application of every active flag (useful after loading a new world)
• Re-scan world button — clear cached player/ship/build references; useful if cheats stop applying after a long session
• Dump inventory button — log every inventory class candidate to UE4SS.log for diagnostic purposes (helps refine the infinite-inventory implementation for new game patches)
• Disable all button — clear every flag in one click

Lua API

The mod exposes a global WindroseCheatMenu table:

WindroseCheatMenu.Set("unlimited_health", true)   -- toggle a single flag
WindroseCheatMenu.Get("unlimited_health")         -- read a flag
WindroseCheatMenu.GetFlags()                      -- whole config table
WindroseCheatMenu.Apply()                         -- force one tick
WindroseCheatMenu.Rescan()                        -- clear caches
WindroseCheatMenu.DumpInventory()                 -- diagnostic log
WindroseCheatMenu.DisableAll()                    -- clear every flag + apply
WindroseCheatMenu.Toggle()                        -- show/hide menu
WindroseCheatMenu.Show() / WindroseCheatMenu.Hide()

Save data warning

Windrose autosaves continuously (see <game>\R5\SaveWorkflow.md). Any cheats active when the game autosaves will have their buffed values persisted to RocksDB. Before activating any cheats:

copy "%LOCALAPPDATA%\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles\<your_steam_id>\" to a safe location

The game itself also keeps _Latest-marked backups at <save_root>\RocksDB_v2_Backups\ — useful if you forget to back up first, though they're overwritten on every autosave.

Project layout

windrose-cheat-menu/
├── README.md              this file
├── LICENSE                MIT
├── CHANGELOG.md           release history
├── nexus-page.md          mod page description draft for Nexus upload
├── WindroseCheatMenu/     installable mod folder (zip contents)
│   ├── enabled.txt
│   └── Scripts/
│       ├── main.lua       entry point — public API + hotkey + boot
│       ├── gui.lua        ImGui checkbox menu
│       ├── runtime.lua    tick loop, delegates to per-module appliers
│       ├── attrs.lua      attribute read/write + snapshot/restore helpers
│       ├── player.lua     per-flag player attribute tables + finder
│       ├── ship.lua       per-flag ship attribute tables + finder
│       └── world.lua      free_build, unlock_all_items, infinite_inventory
└── dist/                  built release zips
    └── WindroseCheatMenu-<version>.zip

Building a release

Manual:

cd C:\Users\keato\repos\windrose-cheat-menu
Compress-Archive -Path WindroseCheatMenu -DestinationPath dist\WindroseCheatMenu-0.1.0.zip -Force

Or use the helper that also publishes the GitHub Release:

# one-time
gh auth login

# every release (builds zip if missing, creates the Release, attaches zip)
.\scripts\publish-release.ps1 -Version 0.1.0

The release zip should contain a single top-level WindroseCheatMenu/ folder — that's what users drop into <game>\R5\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\.

Credits & prior art

• Inspired by Windrose Cheat Suite by [original author] (Nexus mod 171) — different code, similar problem space. Cheat Suite was the first published cheat mod for Windrose and informed several class-name / attribute-name choices in this implementation.
• Built on top of UE4SS by the UE4SS contributors.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.