You know the old saying: “Nobody likes a cheater.” And that’s true, you really shouldn’t cheat – not on your taxes, not on your math quiz, and certainly not on your significant other. But cheating in computer games? Hey, if you’re not competing in them professionally – cheat away! Nobody has to know.
Different people play different games for different reasons. Some do it for the challenge and crank the difficulty all the way up, while others play it exclusively for the story, with combat being something they have to suffer through, not something they enjoy.
At the end of the day, computer games are fantasies, and it’s up to us how we want to play them. Give your character a few million bucks (or bottle caps), outfit them with the best gear, set their abilities to max level, become invulnerable, move through walls, get in good with a faction that hates your guts – all of this, and more, can be done with Fallout: New Vegas’ console commands.
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First Things First
Fallout: New Vegas is, without a shred of doubt, one of the best RPGs of all time.
Developed by renowned studio Obsidian Entertainment, and designed by some of the same people who worked on Fallout 1 and 2 (as well as the never-completed Van Buren – a game that Fallout: New Vegas is heavily inspired by), F:NV managed to do the impossible – it bridged the gap between fans of the “classic” Fallout and those of Fallout 3 (which it surpassed in every possible way).
Just like in my Oblivion mods list, the same rules apply here as well – I’m going to presume that you are using the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition that has all the assorted DLCs included. You can buy it on Steam or GOG. Highly recommended, since the DLC for this game feature some of the finest content in the entire game.
Also, a word of warning before we begin – by using these commands you are essentially “bending” the internal workings and consistency of the game, so things like difficulty and game balance go out the window when you give yourself the best gun in the game right at the start.
Not to mention, there’s always the chance that messing around with variables like reputation gains, killing and reviving important NPCs, and teleporting to a location you weren’t supposed to be in yet can lead to broken quest scripts and similar issues. And now – on to the console commands themselves!
Enabling the Command Console in Fallout: New Vegas
To input your cheat codes, you first have to open the command console itself. Now, this depends on the type of keyboard layout you’ve got. For the standard U.S. keyboard, this is done by pressing the tilde (~) key. For other keyboards, it can be the backquote key (`), and so on, but a good rule of thumb is that it is usually the key to the left of the number 1, and directly below the Esc key.
You will know that you have pressed the right key when the HUD disappears and a command prompt in the lower left side of the screen appears. This is where you type in the codes and press enter to activate them.
General Useful Console Commands
These are the commands the common player is most likely to use throughout their run.
God Mode – “tgm”
The player character is invincible, has unlimited ammo, doesn’t need to reload, and can carry unlimited weight.
Demigod Mode – “tdm”
Similar to God Mode above, but the PC doesn’t have unlimited ammo and still has to reload their weapon.
No Clipping -“tcl”
You can now “fly” and pass through any wall or another surface by pointing the mouse in that direction and pressing forward. Be careful when using it, you can easily mess up the quest strings. Also, re-enable normal movement only when you are on solid ground, or your character can “clip through” the surface and plunge to their death.
Add Money – “player.additem 0000000f <#>”
Adds a set amount of bottle caps, the (main) currency of F: NV, to the inventory of the PC. The code for Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps, special bottle caps that are found all over the game and are needed to complete a certain quest, is 00103b1c.
Teleport to a Location – “coc <cell name>”
This can be anywhere in the game, either outside or inside. Here’s an example of how to use it: coc Novac.
Unlock All Fast Travel Points – “tmm 1”
Additionally, using the “tmm 1 0 1” command will uncover all the locations on the map, but they will not have the “discovered” status, meaning it will not be possible to fast-travel to them until you travel there and uncover them like you normally would.
Player Level & Skill Commands
Set Your Level, from 1 to 50 (max level) – “player.setlevel <#>”
Level Up by One – “player.advlevel”
Levels up the PC by one level
S.P.E.C.I.A.L Commands – “player.modav <ActorValue> <value>”
Adds or subtracts from your current skills or S.P.E.C.I.A.L. score. For example “player.modav science 35” will give you a plus 35 on your science skill, while “player.modav intelligence -3” will lower your intelligence score by 3 (to a minimum of 1).
Set Skills or S.P.E.C.I.A.L Scores to a Specific Amount – “player.forceav <ActorValue> <value>”
Example: “player.forceav speech 70”. This sets your speech skill to exactly 70, regardless if it was lower or higher than that. This can be used to see what the skill and attribute requirements for checks you do or don’t qualify for are like.
Add Perk – “player.addperk <base id>”
Gives the player a specific perk, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for it.
Remove Perk – “player.removeperk <base id>”
Removes a specific perk from the PC.
Changes the Sex of the PC – “sexchange”
Unlocks a Door or a Container – “unlock”
You first have to select the locked object by clicking on it while in command console mode and then entering the unlock command. Some rare objects with a setting of “lock 255” will not be unlockable this way, and they can only be unlocked with a specific key.
Power Armor – “setpccanusepowerarmor 1”
The PC will now be able to wear Power Armor.
Repair Weapons – “player.setweaponhealthperc <percentage>”
Your weapons downgrade with use, so by using this command, you can set the percentage of your currently equipped weapon. If you want to completely repair it, type player.setweaponhealthperc 100.
Toggle Grass On and Off – “tg”
Grass is one of those non-essential graphical options – it’s nice to have in a game, but can negatively impact game performance. Still, Fallout: New Vegas is an almost decade-old game at this point, so if you still have trouble running it, perhaps it’s time to invest in a new gaming PC.
Base ID’s for Factions & Settlements
Fallout: New Vegas is a very quest-heavy game, where the interests of the various factions of the Mojave often intersect and come into conflict with one another. It is impossible to see and experience all the content in the game in one playthrough.
Unless, of course, you use console commands to do so.
List of factions and their IDs:
Boomers – 000fed3f
Brotherhood of Steel – 0001d3fe
Caesar’s Legion – 000ee68a
Followers of the Apocalypse – 00117e12
Great Khans – 000e78c5
Powder Gangers – 00101f42
New California Republic – 000a46e7
White-Glove Society – 00116f10
List of settlements and their IDs:
Freeside – 0010bf00
Goodsprings – 000daebb
Novac – 0008434b
Primm – 000e1a13
New Vegas Strip – 00118f61
Factions And Quests Console Commands
Faction Reputation – “addreputation <base_id> <variable> <amount>”
The reputation with factions and settlements in Fallout: New Vegas comes in two types: fame (positive) and infamy (negative).
You can use this command to add to both of these, with 1 (in the variable section) designating fame, and 0 for infamy, on the 1-100 scale. Example: addreputation 0001d3fe 1 25 will give you a +25 fame with the Brotherhood of Steel, while “removereputation 000a46e7 0 10” will subtract 10 infamy with the NCR.
With this, you can set every faction to be as friendly, or as hostile, to you as you want.
Faction Hostility – “setally <base_id_1> <base_id_2> <variable_1> <variable_2>”
Some factions in the game, like the NCR and Caesar’s Legion, are hostile to each other and will attack members of the opposing faction on sight.
With this command, you can set otherwise warring factions to be friends (0) or allies (1). To give you an example: “setally 00101f42 000a46e7 1 0” – now Powder Gangers will consider members of the NCR to be their allies, and the NCR will be friendly to the Powder Gangers.
The same thing, only now the factions you input will be hostile (0) or neutral (1) to each other:
“setenemy <base_id_1> <base_id_2> <variable_1> <variable_2>”
Move to Quest Target – “movetoqt”
Sets the status of the specified quest to complete – “completequest <QuestID>”
Complete All Quests (Why would you do this?) – “caqs”
All the stages of all the quests, even the ones you have not received yet, are marked as complete, without ending the game. Essentially, this command allows you to play the game without quests.
Quest Progression – “setstage <QuestID> <Quest stage number>”
Moves the indicated quest over to the next stage in the quest. This is an excellent command for bugged quests that can’t be completed the usual way anymore – simply advance them to the part of the quest that works as intended.
Actor (NPC) Manipulation Console Commands
“Actors” are NPCs and other creatures in the game you can manipulate with these commands. For most of these commands to work, you first have to enter the console command mode and click on the “actor” in question to get its ID, and only then will you be able to affect it.
Give Perk – “addperk <base id>”
Select an NPC and type a perk you would like to give them. For example, “addperk 00031dbb” will give the NPC the Better Criticals perk.
Revive a NPC -“resurrect <base id>”
Brings the character or creature back to life, with all of the items in their inventory renewed. Note that this will command will not affect quests that have been already failed – for example by the death of the quest-giver you later revived this way.
Alternatively, “resurrect 1 <base id>” resurrects the NPC, but without replenishing their inventory items.
kill – Kills the selected NPC. Of course, this can obviously lead to failed quests.
Kill all the NPCs in the area – “killall”
Use with extreme caution – this can kill even NPCs you don’t see, causing many quests to fail and other problems. It also works on your companions – rendering them unconscious in Casual mode, but outright killing them in Hardcore mode.
Invisibility! – “tdetect”
Toggles the AI player detection on and off, causing the player to always appear hidden to NPCs.
Peace – “tcai”
Toggles the combat AI, meaning it won’t fight anyone – including you – anymore.
Reset all the dialog trees of the NPC – “rdf”
Similarly to the “setstage” command, this is also a very useful command for those times when quests have bugged out.
Adds the NPC to a specific faction – “addtofaction <faction id>”
Removes the NPC from a faction – “removefromfaction <faction id>”
Final Words
With these console commands, you will be able to finely tune practically every aspect of Fallout: New Vegas – from your own character and their skills and attributes, their relations with the factions of the game, how quests play out, and even controlling the behavior of NPCs.
These are not all the commands found in the game, merely the ones you will get the most out of. Even players who otherwise never use cheats such as these can find themselves stuck because of a nasty bug and need to play around to get their game functioning properly again.
For the rest of us, cheats such as these can allow us to skip the early parts of the game we have replayed time and time again, and to get to do things we’ve never done before (like having maxed out skills at the very beginning of the game), or skip over areas we find tedious by directly teleporting to the New Vegas Strip.
But, just like these commands can help you resolve your issues, they can also lead to other unexpected problems, so be wary when fiddling around with quest commands and NPCs – or you can irreparably break your game or player character.
The Fallout: New Vegas console commands are very similar to the Fallout 4 console commands, so when you’ve had your fill of the Mojave, you can always explore the next part of Fallout’s ongoing saga and see what post-apocalyptic Boston has to offer.