Fallout 4 Console Commands

Press the tilde, grave or apostrophe key depending on your keyboard layout. All three are reported as working on different layouts, and the key is generally the one immediately below Escape and left of the number 1.

The game pauses while the console is open. Commands are not case sensitive. Anything prefixed with player. applies to your character; anything without a prefix applies to whatever you have selected, and you select something by clicking it with the console open — its reference ID appears at the top of the screen.

One command worth knowing before you need it is tm, which hides the entire interface for screenshots. It also hides the console itself, so you have to type tm a second time without being able to see what you are typing. It works, but it is unnerving the first time.

Bottle caps use item ID 0000000F, the same code Skyrim uses for gold, because both games inherit it from the same engine. player.additem 0000000F 1000 gives you a thousand caps.

For anything else, help "item name" 4 searches the loaded data and prints matching IDs. The 4 filters to items; without it you also get quests, perks and NPCs. Page through the output with Page Up and Page Down, because a broad search produces a great deal of it.

IDs are not portable between installations. Anything from a DLC or a mod carries a load-order prefix in its first two characters, so an ID copied from a website may point at something else entirely on your setup, or at nothing. Looking them up in your own game is the only reliable route, which is why this page does not print a table of them.

The alternative is coc qasmoke, the developer test room. It contains boxes holding one of every item in the game, including things never obtainable in normal play. Leave with another coc command — the room has no working exit.

Fallout 4 does not disable achievements when you use the console. This is a genuine change from Bethesda’s earlier games and from the assumption most guides carry over. Players have documented completing the full achievement list using console commands alone, including commands that unlock achievements directly.

That makes the console far more useful here than the warnings suggest, and it removes the usual reason for keeping a separate cheating save. The remaining risks are the same as in Skyrim: commands that force quest stages can leave a quest unfinishable, and killing or removing an NPC the game still needs breaks whatever depended on them.

Settlement building is the one area where the console solves a problem that has no in-game answer. The build limit is a hard cap, and there is no legitimate way to raise it. Commands that clear it are the standard fix for anyone building something ambitious, and god mode also removes settlement resource costs entirely, which is the quickest way to build without scrapping half the Commonwealth for materials.