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The Most Useful Skyrim Console Cheat Commands

Published

November 26, 2020

Skyrim will probably have another edition in the ninth generation of video game consoles before the next Elder Scrolls title gets released! Nevertheless, there is a reason why Skyrim is popular and undying. The game is extremely entertaining.

Speaking of undying, sometimes, you just want to have all the power and money to entertain your self. Here is the a list of all Skyrim console cheats and commands for PC players.

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How To Open The Developer Console

Skyrim employs the same method as the majority of PC games as regards to console commands. Pressing the tilde key (~) gets you access to the developer console. You can then enter multiple commands and all of them shall have their effects. To close the developer console, just press tilde again.

Major Skyrim Console Commands

Below are the console commands that are most important for most players regardless of what you want to do.

Console Command	Effects
tgm	Turns on God Mode: invincibility, infinite stamina, & infinite magicka.
tim	Turns on Immortal Mode: invincibility, infinite stamina, & infinite magicka but you will still receive damage but still not die.
tcl	Turns on no-clipping
TDetect	Toggles AI Detection.*
TAI	Turns off non-combat AI for NPCs
TCAI	Turns off combat AI for NPCs
ModAV carryweight [number]	Set the carry weight to the number you set
AddShout [Shout ID]	Add the specified shout to the player’s skills.
Player.AddItem [item ID] [number]	Adds the item specified to the player’s inventory at the set amount.
Player.SetLevel [number]	Sets the player level. This is useful for removing greyed-out icons. Although greyed out, these skills are usable if learned by the console command.
Player.AddPerk [perk ID]	Adds perks based on the perk codes.
AdvSkill [[[[[Skill\|skill]]\|skill]]] [number]	Provides the specified number of Skill-based XP. There is a separate table for the XP required.
Player.PlaceAtMe [Item/NPC ID] [number]	Places the NPC next to the player.
showracemenu	Accesses the character creator even in-game. Unfortunately, this will also reset your progress. You can use the cheats provided in this guide to correct that.
player.resethealth	Refills health.

* Does not work in pickpocketing.

An archer in Skyrim completing a quest

How to Level Up Using the Console Commands

The console commands can also increase your abilities in all of the skill trees. You can add individual perks to each skill tree or add experience for each skill tree. To obtain a certain amount of experience for a skill category just use the AdvSkill command as mentioned above.

Below are the required experience points in order to increase a skill.

Skill Tree / ID	XP Points Required
Alchemy / alchemy	506
Alteration / alteration	132
Archery / marksman	43
Block / block	86
Conjuration / conjuration	188
Destruction / destruction	192
Heavy Armor /heavyarmor	104
Illusion / illusion	86
Light Armor / lightarmor	173
Lockpicking / lockpicking	7
One-handed / onehanded	110
Pickpocket / pickpocket	37
Restoration / restoration	197
Sneak / sneak	20
Speech /speechcraft	1914
Two-handed / twohanded	179

How To Affect Quests Using The Console Demands

Below are the commands affecting your quests. Be careful, some of these cheats cause the game to crash.

Console Command	Effects
caqs	Completes the main quest stages.
saq	Starts all of the quests.
sqo	Displays all the objectives of the current quest.
sqt	Shows all the targets for the current quest.
Completequest [questID]	Completes the quest.
Resetquest [questID]	Resets quest. Useful in resetting quests that crashed for some reason.