Gamebryo console commands

 

The Console is a debugging tool left by the developers in the PC version of the game.

It is useful for developing and quality assurance, but it can also be used to cheat.

To access the console, use the tilde key (~) while in-game (Unpaused). The HUD will disappear and you will get a prompt (|) in the lower left corner of the screen where you can type-in code(s).

• The left side of the console might not be visible if you are not using a widescreen display.
• The key is the top left key under escape, on non-US keyboards. (Example: § or ½ on Scandinavian (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian etc), circumflex (^) on German keyboards, ² on french ones.)
• Vista laptop & desktop users must disable/uninstall the "Infrared" device (varies from machine to machine, but has that same line in the name) to access the tilde key. See "Bugs" section (Below) for further info.

For nice screenshots

• Template:FO3 Console - toggle free camera; lets you move around the camera at will. To take pictures of your character, make sure you go into third person mode first.
• Template:FO3 Console - toggle menus; removes the HUD for even nicer pictures (it will not notify you when the screenshot has been successfully captured but it will function)
• Template:FO3 Console, fast, Template:FO3 Console, slow moving camera in tfc.
• Template:FO3 Console, narrow, Template:FO3 Console, wide angle lens. Template:FO3 Console, default lens.

Inventory manipulation

• Template:FO3 Console - add item to your inventory, at full health.

for instance: Template:FO3 Console - add Vengeance to your inventory. http://community.livejournal.com/fallout_ru/91089.html This is a list of items in fallout 3.

• Template:FO3 Console - add item to your inventory, with a specified condition. Quality should be given in decimal form.

Example: Template:FO3 Console will add 1 Gatling Laser at 50% to the player's inventory

• Template:FO3 Console - remove item from your inventory; useful to get rid of useless quest items
• Template:FO3 Console - Show Repair Menu. This lets you use caps to repair items instead of parts.

This command is best used as Template:FO3 Console. Trying to use NPCs that don't normally repair goods will typically cause the game to crash. Template:FO3 Console uses your own repair skill.

NPC manipulation

• Template:FO3 Console - set an id target. Same as clicking, but will work even if the target isn't visible.
• Template:FO3 Console - set NPC as unkillable.
• Template:FO3 Console - create/clone an NPC and place it at the player.
• Template:FO3 Console - displays items in NPCs inventory.
• Template:FO3 Console - Show Barter Menu with the NPC, may crash if not used with Traders(useful if traders are inaccessible like Lydia Montenegro, after helping the ghouls).
• Template:FO3 Console - equip item in NPCs inventory.
• Template:FO3 Console - unequip item the NPC has currently equipped. (Works for Weapons and Clothing/Armor)
• Template:FO3 Console - move player to NPC

The following commands require that you first type Template:FO3 Console and Enter to select the NPC. Then type...

• Template:FO3 Console - move NPC to player
• Template:FO3 Console - kills NPC
• Template:FO3 Console - Will restore NPC's health (can be used with Template:FO3 Console too)
• Template:FO3 Console - resurrect NPC (Will also "reroll" the inventory, meaining you could get different items!!)
• Template:FO3 Console, Template:FO3 Console - disable and enable the NPC in the game (total vanish, reappearing)

(Note the difference: Template:FO3 CArg marks the "character sheet" and Template:FO3 CArg marks an instance of the character with location.) There is a list of the base_ids and form_ids of the major named characters.

• Note: Sometimes resetting a companion NPC will result in him/her giving a generic response to dialogue prompts. To fix this, reset the follower's hire quest using resetquest quest_id in the console. A list of quest IDs is given here.

Example (commands in order)

Template:FO3 Console - target Sydney

Template:FO3 Console - move Sydney to the player

Template:FO3 Console - add Vengeance

Template:FO3 Console - add ammunition to Sydney

Template:FO3 Console - equip Vengeance

Template:FO3 Console - unequip Combat Armor

Template:FO3 Console - make Sydney unkillable

Template:FO3 Console - place a new Super Mutant Master at Sydney. Can be repeated for more.

NPC reset example (in order)

Template:FO3 Console - target Sydney

Template:FO3 Console followed by Template:FO3 Console - disable and enable, make sure the NPC is active

Template:FO3 Console followed by Template:FO3 Console - kill and resurrect, reset the NPC

Template:FO3 Console - move NPC to player (or Template:FO3 Console to move the player to Sydney.)

However it might not work all the time.

Stats and character manipulation

character variables
any skill (without space!) any s.p.e.c.i.a.l attribute actionpoints carryweight karma health xp radresist damageresist fireresist

• Template:FO3 Console - set player scale; Template:FO3 Console is default; Template:FO3 Console is small, Template:FO3 Console is big, Template:FO3 Console is huge (not recommended to use indoors)
• Template:FO3 Console - read out a character value, for instance karma, intelligence or smallguns.
• Template:FO3 Console - modify a value; it will peak normally (100 for skills, etc). Negative values lowers the variable.
• Template:FO3 Console - set a value
• Template:FO3 Console - add a perk
• Template:FO3 Console - remove a perk
• Template:FO3 Console - toggle male/female
• Template:FO3 Console - open the menu to change the name of the player
• Template:FO3 Console - open the menu to change the race and face of the player
• Template:FO3 Console - advance one level
• Template:FO3 Console - set level
• Template:FO3 Console, Template:FO3 Console - give player karma or xp

Example

Template:FO3 Console - add Power Armor Training

Template:FO3 Console - set Small Guns 100, to the maximum of 100

Template:FO3 Console - lower Intelligence by 5 (minimum 1)

Template:FO3 Console - Loses 1,000 Karma.

Warnings

If you max all your skills to 100 and then level, you will freeze your game, as you cannot advance through the level up screens if you can't assign all of your skillpoints. (This issue has been addressed with current patches.) A similar issue happens if you aquire all perks. It is highly recommended that you choose to advance your level to 20 (with the console)- or 30 if you have installed Broken Steel - then use your console to make any remaining skills 100 and perks 10.

Note: This problem can be avoided by using "CloseAllMenus" from the console at the level-up screen.

Note: If level screen reappears multiple times, "player.setlevel #" to a lower level will stop it.

Note: (Tested on PC version) When the prompt menu comes up for you to assign all your skill points, simple press A (Continue) and you won't have the game freeze up. It also works for the Perk menu. If you maxed your S.P.E.C.I.A.L, choosing Intense Training, you can continue without assigning a point. (Tested on both Patched and Un-patched version)

Also, be extremely careful when using setscale to large numbers like 10. You may seem big and powerful, but a very small dropoff (in comparison to your size) will be fatal. Cliffs look very tiny from 50 feet up, but still kill you as if you were normal size. Plus cells will still only load as if you were normal size, and moving through un-spawned cells can cause the game to crash

• • Note: Fixed in latest patch.

Items & world manipulation

This is easiest if you first click on something in the world with the console open, to target it.

• Template:FO3 Console - unlock doors, safes, terminals or any other locked container; you can of course also Template:FO3 Console .
• Template:FO3 Console - activate an item, say a door, that is normally operated by a switch
• Template:FO3 Console - make the item yours (for instance a cabinet or a bed)
• Template:FO3 Console - place an item next to the player; for many items only a Template:FO3 CArg of Template:FO3 Console is valid

It is also possible to change the current weather.

• Template:FO3 Console - forces weather. Replace <ID> with a Form ID from one of these:

EditorID                         FormID 
DefaultWeather                   0000015E
GNRRoofOvercast01                0001E3F0 
gUrbanCloudy01                   00059869
gWastelandClear01                0005CF9C
gWastelandCloudy                 0005C88D
InvertedDaylightWeather          000B362D 
InvertedDaylightWeatherTenPenny  00052928
InvertedDaylightWeatherWarm      000BC39B 
MegatonCloudy01                  0001D776 
MegatonFalloutDecay              0006A076
SuburbanCloudy                   00017906
TranquilityClear                 0002BF97
UrbanDeep                        00065952
UrbanDeepInner                   0006CA4E 
UrbanDeepInnerCitadel            000BE1FF 
UrbanDeepInnerDCMall             000BE1FE 
UrbanDeeplnnerDCMONtop           0003A236
UrbanDeeplnnerMamaDC             000BE3E2
UrbanOvercast                    000154E5
UrbanOvercast01Intro01           00022BD5 
WastelandClear                   00064609
WastelandClearMegaton            00054E12
WastelandClearNoLighting         000B419E
WastelandDecay                   0005A728
WastelandEast                    0003D438
WastelandEastOasis               00054E1D 
WastelandNorth                   00027DF3

Quests

• Template:FO3 Console - move player to current quest target
• Template:FO3 Console - show the quest log, everything the player has encountered and done
• Template:FO3 Console - complete quest
• Template:FO3 Console - reset quest
• Template:FO3 Console - list all quest objective levels (stages). Use with setstage.
• Template:FO3 Console - sets a quest to an objective level useful for resetting bugged scripts
• Template:FO3 Console - list current quest targets

(raw quest base id list here)

Game

• Template:FO3 Console - save current game with description
• Template:FO3 Console - save current game with description and output a .txt file with game information.
• Template:FO3 Console - load a game from a previous named save
• Template:FO3 Console - exits the current game, displays some credits, then goes to the starting menu.
• Template:FO3 Console - exits Fallout 3 without going through any menus.
• Template:FO3 Console - END GAME

Debugging and mapping

• Template:FO3 Console - turn on all Pip-Boy map markers.
• Template:FO3 Console - toggle fog-of-war in the Pip-Boy local map.
• Template:FO3 Console - toggle god mode; gives you invincibility to damage and radiation, unlimited AP (with the exception of reloading in VATS, which will consume some AP), ammo and carrying capacity stops item degradation.
• Template:FO3 Console - toggle clipping, you can move through anything (aka "noclip"), disables physics engine
• Template:FO3 Console - kill all NPCs in the area
• Template:FO3 Console - teleport to cell
• Template:FO3 Console - write console output to the specified file
• Template:FO3 Console - Executes specified list of commands as defined by a text file (.txt)

Batch Example

To create a batch file all you need to do is place a plain text file with the commands you wish to execute in the root directory of the game (in other words, the same folder as falloutlauncher.exe)

This example file allows you to experience the game as if you were a very powerful Super Hero (or Villian):

---FuturePeter.txt---

Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console

By executing this list you will (in this order) Save the game, Toggle God Mode, Toggle Clipping Mode, Increase Running Speed (though not to an insane amount), Increase Speech skill to max, Show all map markers, Toggle fog-of-war, Add fun weapons and ammo (Alien Blaster, Fat Man, Experimental MIRV, Lincoln's Repeater and Frag Grenades).

To execute these commands, you would type Template:FO3 Console

---Info.txt---

Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console

This batch shows the most relevant information about NPCs and enemies. Select a NPC or enemy and type Template:FO3 Console

To find all the positions of a selected object (x position, y position, z position; x angle, y angle, z angle) all at once you can use the bat command with a text file containing the getpos and getangle commands. Example:

---Pos.txt---

Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console
Template:FO3 Console

To execute the command, you would type Template:FO3 Console

Advanced use

All commands applying to the player, npcs or items can be used on any of those, with varying result.

• Template:FO3 Console has already been used like this in the examples above.

Example

Template:FO3 Console - target Sydney

Template:FO3 Console - show Sydney's inventory - and Template:FO3 Console has the same effect

Template:FO3 Console - check her Small Guns skill

Template:FO3 Console - make her very small

To get every hex code available in game type Template:FO3 Console in console (i.e. Template:FO3 Console).

NOTE: Those codes are Template:FO3 CArg not Template:FO3 CArg type and they will NOT work with Template:FO3 Console command

Bugs

Position

Some users can't see the left-most columns of text in the console; they can only see the end of statements, and can't see what they're typing, unless it's very long. This is known to impact some users without widescreens (a 4:3 screen like 1600x1200, 800x600, etc. - not 5:3 or 16:9 widescreen). Fortunately, Fallout 3 has an easy fix for this.

The position of console text can be set in the Fallout.ini file. In Windows XP at:

C:\Documents and Settings\Template:FO3 CArg\My Documents\My Games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.INI

For Vista:

C:\Users\Template:FO3 CArg\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\Fallout.ini

Open the file in a text editor like Notepad. Search for "iConsoleText".

• Set iConsoleTextXPos to 200 or so. Higher figures move console text to the right. This is the main problem.
• IConsoleTextYPos should be approx. 100 or 200 less than your Y resolution. Lower figure moves it up (0 is the top of the screen).

An example for a 1280x1024 (XxY) 5:4 display:

Setting            Default  New Setting  Notes
iConsoleTextYPos     940        900      Y (up/down) pos is 100-200 less than your Y res (here, 1024)
iConsoleTextXPos      30        200      X (left/right) position is higher (which moves it to the right)

You can use a command like Template:FO3 Console to see if the console works. Even though you can't see the editing line or the cursor, it will flood the console with text.

Alternatively you can repeatedly press TAB before entering a command, this way the text gets pushed to the right and will be readable without affecting the entered text.

Other bugs

It's common for Vista users and some XP users to be unable to access the Console. Following are some possible causes & solutions:

"Infrared Device" drivers interfere with the "Tilde" (~) key being able to access the Console, so must be disable/uninstalled.

Here's a direct quote from Bethesda Softworks Technical Support: "If you have a new system with the Microsoft eHome devices, these will conflict with the program being able to read the scan code for the tilde key from the keyboard. Those Microsoft eHome devices or drivers need to be disabled in order to allow the game to "see" the tilde key being pressed. The MIRC (Microsoft Infrared Remote Control) seems to disable the tilde (~) key in both Oblivion and Morrowind. Simply disconnecting the MIRC from the USB port will fix this issue."

To Unistall/ Disable the conflicting device(s), try the following steps:

Open up the "Start" menu, go into "Control Panel" > "System and Maintenance" > "Device Manager". Click "Human Interface Devices". If you see "Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver", right-click and uninstall it. If not, then locate the driver with the word "Infrared" in it's name elsewhere in the Device Manager and uninstall. Unfortunately, when you turn-off and then restart your pc, it will automatically reinstall the driver. As a result, you'll have to repeat the uninstall procedure whenever you go to play and wish to have access to the Console.

-or-

[Temp Fix] Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > uninstall Infrared driver (don't ask me why but this driver interferes).

If using a controller, you have to switch back to mouse/keyboard control to get the console, switching to mouse/keyboard control will occasionally crash the game to desktop, so save before you try, just in case. (Tested with 360 controller on Vista 32)

It has been reported that the console will not work with some Vista 32 and 64 bit systems with NO fix. Those people can only hope for a mod that solves this (example - the ring of console in Oblivion).

HOWEVER, try this, before giving up and using the ring of console.

This editor has no infrared device drivers, and tried this. It worked.

Open regedit (Go into Command Prompt and type in regedit... this will open a new window.)

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

There should be an entry named OverrideKeyboardSubtype with a type of REG_DWORD and a value of 2. Set the value to 0 and reboot.

now, uninstalling the IR drivers in the device manager (if you have them) will work to enable the console to come up.

if you don't have any IR drivers, then just doing the reg change should fix it for you.

Ring of Console fix

Follow the steps on the page to help activate the console. The page can be found at here.

You must have the original ring of console as well.

NOTE: This is only for users who CAN NOT under any circumstance open the console. Please try other solutions before resorting to this option, you might save yourself some time. This mod is in a beta, so use at your own risk.

This mod works in the same way as the Ring of Console, and the item is gained after you escape from the vault.

Console Key Binder fix

An easier alternative to the Ring of Console fix would be the Console Key Binder mod, removing the hassle of equipping/unequipping an item. The file can be found here.

This mod allows you to bind another key to open the console (default is F4) which is very useful if your tilde key does not work. Take note, however, that this mod requires Fallout Script Extender (FOSE). FOSE can be found here.

Microsoft eHome remote/receiver

If you use the Microsoft eHome remote/receiver (official media centre remote and USB receiver) you'll notice under your device manager you have a new device named Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard; this is the cause of the tilde key not working. It also affects your plus, minus, parenthesis, hash, @, and slash keys remapping them to different functions. (some are even Kanji characters)

Solution is as follows and will not affect the functionality of your Media Centre remote:

1. Go into Device Manager -> Keyboards.

2. Right-click "Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard", choose "Update Driver" ("Update Driver Software" on Vista).

3. Choose "Browse my computer for software" (XP users tell it not to install automatically and say you'll specify the location, then when it asks you where you would like it to search for drivers choose the option to choose from a list) then "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".

4. Make sure "show compatible hardware" is checked, then select "HID-compliant device" and click next. Click any remaining "OK" or "Finish" buttons after Windows has installed the driver.

YouTube Videos

Fallout 3 timescale: [1], God Mode and placing multiple creatures: [2]

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See also

• [[Fallout 3 console commands (all)|The unabridged list of all commands, courtesy of the Template:FO3 Console command]]

External links

• complete list at silverlock.org
• most-useful list at fallout3zone.com
• reference IDs for items and perks at Gamefaqs.com