December 2025: Fallout's post-nuclear star continues to ascend, hitched firmly to its explosively popular Fallout TV series adaptation. With the show turning its attention to what's going on in neon-lit Nevada, we've done a little housecleaning and spruced things up to celebrate Fallout's latest Walton Goggins-powered resurgence. So kick back, turn on God Mode and let us help you drive off any lingering wishes for a nuclear winter.
War… War never changes. And neither do the fundamentals of playing around with New Vegas console commands. With Fallout: New Vegas being a notoriously janky piece of software (with a heart of gold), it's worth taking a look at our recently-updated New Vegas guide on getting the most out of this dusty old gem of a game. Once you're up and running, it's a good idea to have a handle on how the cheat console works—both as a fallback in case something breaks, and also if megalomania ever strikes and you feel like reshaping the wasteland on a whim.
How to open the console and use commands
To open the console, tap the backquote (`) or tilde (~) key (they're the same key). The game will pause, the UI will vanish, and you'll see a cursor appear in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. That's where you input your console commands. After typing a command, press enter.
After this, you may see a notification of what your code did, but not always. You can input console commands whenever, so if you do find yourself in a sticky situation, don't feel like all hope is lost. Here are a few of our favourite console commands.
tgm | God mode! Infinite health, unlimited ammo and encumbrance. |
tdm | Demigod mode. Health and encumbrance is infinite, but ammo isn't. |
tfc | Activates and deactivates the free camera. |
tm | Turns menus and UI off and on. |
tcl | No clipping or collision, letting you move around like a ghost. |
tmm 1 | Adds all map markers to your map. Use 0 to remove them. |
set timescale to | Speeds up or slows down time. The default value is 30. |
Killall | All NPCs and animals in the vicinity die, you monster. |
Give yourself items
You can use Fallout: New Vegas console commands to summon monsters and move items into your inventory. There's a little bit of process involved, because you need an object or creature's ID to be able to summon it, but fortunately the Fallout: New Vegas wiki has a comprehensive list of every item in the game, with base IDs for all of them.
player.additem | Switch in the object ID for the (no need to keep the brackets, and the number of the item you want for the . It should look like this. Example: player.additem 0015FD5C 1 |
player.removeitem | Same as above, but the items you identify will be removed from your inventory and obliterated forever. |
player.showinventory | Gives you a handy list of base IDs for stuff you possess. Might be quicker than visiting the wiki for numbers in some situations. |
New Vegas item codes
There are thousands of item codes available in Fallout: New Vegas, but here are a few fun pieces of weapons and armour to try if you're just messing around. Note that items with an xx in the item ID are from expansions, and may not work if you don't have the expansion installed.
Lucky revolver | 000e2c86 |
Mysterious Magnum | 00127c6c |
Li'l Devil pistol | xx000805 |
Anti-materiel Rifle | 0008f21c |
Assault Carbine (GRA) | 0008f21e |
Christine's CoS silencer rifle | xx0112ba |
Silenced .22 SMG | 0008f218 |
Sturdy Caravan Shotgun | 001735e3 |
Minigun | 0000433f |
Alien blaster | 00004322 |
Euclid's C-Finder | 0014eb3c |
Pew Pew laser rifle | 00103b1d |
Flamer | 0000432d |
Plasma caster | 000906cf |
Tesla cannon | 000e2bec |
Fat Man | 0000432c |
Mercy | 0015fff4 |
Missile launcher | 00004340 |
Chainsaw | 0015fe44 |
Power Fist | 00004347 |
Brotherhood T-45b power armour | 00075201 |
T45d power armour | 00014e13 |
Combat armour, reinforced | 00126500 |
NCR Ranger combat armour | 00129254 |
Stealth Suit Mk II | xx00c12f |
Advanced Radiation suit | 0003307a |
How to cheat your character
Sometimes you may want to instantly alter your appearance in New Vegas, and fortunately there are commands to do so. If you're not satisfied with how you look, the level of your character, or if you want to alter your perks, there's a command to scratch every itch.
player.setscale | 1 is normal. Numbers below that will shrink you. Number above that will make you massive. You don't need the brackets around the number. |
player.setlevel X | Where X is the level you want to be. |
player.rewardxp 15000 | Gives you 15,000 XP. |
sexchange | Changes your sex. |
showracemenu | Change your race. |
showbarbermenu | Change your hairstyle. |
shownamemenu | Change your name. |
player.addperk | Give yourself a perk. Replace the with the ID for the perk you want and drop the brackets. You can find all the perk base_ID values on the Fallout: New Vegas Wiki. |
player.removeperk | Take the ID'd perk away. |
player.setav speedmult X | Where X is your speed percentage. At 100 you move at normal speed, at 10 you move really slowly, and at 200 you go very, very fast. |
addreputation | Replace with one of the codes below. Select 1 to add reputation; select 0 to add infamy. Then replace with the amount of rep you want to add or remove. You can only add 5 rep at a time, to a maximum of 100 total. |
Boomers | 000ffae8 |
Brotherhood of Steel | 0011e662 |
Caesar's Legion | 000f43dd |
Followers of the Apocalypse | 00124ad1 |
Great Khans | 0011989b |
Powder Gangers | 001558e6 |
NCR | 000f43de |
White Glove Society | 00116f16 |
removereputation | Same deal as addreputation, except the amount you set will be subtracted from your rep with the specified faction. |
New Vegas NPC commands
This is similar to item manipulation, but you might sometimes need the NPC's ref_id. The Fallout: New Vegas wiki has all those as well.
resurrect | Brings an NPC back to life. This won't help with quest completion but if you killed someone by accident, you bend the rules of the universe to bring them back. |
tdetect | Switch NPC player detection off or on. This gives you perfect stealth. |
addtofaction | Replace the with one of the codes below, and then select 0 if you want the targeted NPC to be friendly with that faction. Select 1 if you want them to be allied with that faction. |
Player's current faction | 1b2a4 |
Boomers | 000ffae8 |
Brotherhood of Steel | 0011e662 |
Caesar's Legion | 000f43dd |
Followers of the Apocalypse | 00124ad1 |
Great Khans | 0011989b |
Powder Gangers | 001558e6 |
NCR | 000f43de |
White Glove Society | 00116f16 |
removefromfaction | Similar to the addtofaction command, insert the factionID to remove the NPC from that faction. |
tcai | Turn off the all NPCs' combat AI so they don't fight. |
tai | Toggle targeted NPC's AI off. |
Freecam, disable HUD, NoClip and more
If you want to adjust your camera settings or toggle your HUD, you can also use console commands to do that. Great news for anyone looking for a more cinematic way to enjoy the New Vegas experience.
tfc | Toggle free cam. Add a 1 after tfc to also freeze everyone in the scene. This is good for taking dramatic screenshots. |
sgtm | Where X is how fast time moves. It's a multiplier so 1 is normal speed, 0.5 is half speed, and so on. |
tcl | Noclip mode. |
twf | Wireframe toggle. |
tm | Switch HUD on and off. |
tmm | Type 1 to show discovered map markers, 0 to hide them. Type tmm 101 to reveal all markers, even undiscovered ones. |
tfow | Switch local fog of war on or off. |
movetoqt | Moves you to next quest target. |
coc | Moves you to a location. A full list of the Cell IDs is available on the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. |
caqs | Completes every objective in every quest it's possible to receive in the game, essentially removing quests so you can wander without objectives. |
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