Fallout: New Vegas Console Commands: God Mode, Item Spawning and Teleporting on PC

Fallout: New Vegas Console Commands: God Mode, Item Spawning and Teleporting on PC

You open the Fallout: New Vegas console by pressing the backquote (`) or tilde (~) key, they are the same key, then typing a command and pressing Enter. The commands players reach for first are tgm for god mode (infinite health, unlimited ammo and encumbrance), tmm 1 to reveal every map marker, player.additem to spawn items and coc to teleport. The console is a cheat console on the PC version of the game.

Back up your save before you type anything. Keep a manual save you can fall back to before experimenting with console commands.

Open the console and read what it tells you

1. Press the backquote (`) or tilde (~) key. The game pauses, the UI vanishes and a cursor appears in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
2. Type the command exactly as written.
3. Press Enter.

You will not always get a confirmation message. Sometimes nothing appears on screen even when the command worked, so judge by the result in the world rather than by a reply in the console.

You can open the console at any time, which makes it double as an emergency escape when something breaks mid-quest. The console is used on the PC version of the game.

If a command does nothing: check the spelling against the table below, confirm you pressed Enter, and if the command uses an xx ID, check that the xx matches the add-on's load order number.

Fallout New Vegas commands: the full reference

Every command below is a toggle or an action applied the moment you press Enter. Where a command takes a number, the example shows the exact syntax.

Spawn and remove items with player.additem

The item commands follow a fixed format:

• player.additem [object ID] [quantity], drop the brackets, use the item's object ID and the number you want.
• player.removeitem [object ID] [quantity], the same format, but the items are removed from your inventory.
• player.showinventory, lists the base IDs of everything you are carrying, which is often faster than hunting IDs down elsewhere.

A note on the IDs below: entries beginning with xx belong to add-on content, and the xx stands in for that add-on's load order number. If an xx ID does not work as typed, that is the reason. player.showinventory gives you a handy list of base IDs for the items you possess.

For example, player.additem 0000432c 1 drops a Fat Man into your inventory. Swap the final number for however many you want.

Teleport with coc and fix stuck quests

coc moves you to a location by its Cell ID. Use it to get unstuck or to jump straight to a place you have already been. The syntax is coc <Cell ID>; a full list of Cell IDs is available on the Fallout: New Vegas wiki.

Two more commands handle quest trouble:

• movetoqt, Moves you to the next quest target, which is handy when a quest marker will not resolve.
• caqs, Completes every objective in every quest it is possible to receive, effectively finishing the game's quest log. Treat it as a last resort.

Cheat safely

Keep the backup save you made at the top of this guide close by, and avoid caqs and Killall on a file you care about. Save before experimenting, run one command, and check the result in the world.

None of that changes the fundamentals: open the console, type carefully, and keep a backup save.

Sources

• PC Gamer: Fallout: New Vegas console commands, cheats, god mode
• IGN: Fallout: New Vegas PC Cheats
• PCGamingWiki: Fallout: New Vegas, Console commands
• Wikipedia: Fallout: New Vegas
• Steam: Fallout: New Vegas