Fallout 4 Console Commands and Cheats: Complete PC Guide

Fallout 4 console commands are PC-only and accessed by pressing the tilde/backtick key (`) on US keyboards or the apostrophe key (‘) on UK keyboards. Once the console is open, type any command and press Enter. The most essential commands: tgm for God Mode, player.additem f [amount] for caps, and tcl to walk through walls. Fair warning — certain commands can corrupt saves, so back up before experimenting.

Below, every useful command is organized by function so you can find exactly what you need without scrolling through an undifferentiated wall of text.

How to Open the Console in Fallout 4

This trips people up more than it should, because the key varies by keyboard layout.

• US keyboard: Press ` (backtick) — top-left corner of the keyboard, directly left of the 1 key
• UK keyboard: Press ‘ (apostrophe) — to the left of the Enter key
• Other layouts: Try ~, @, or ^ depending on your region

When the console activates, a text input bar appears at the bottom of the screen and a blinking cursor shows up. The game pauses. Type your command exactly as written — Fallout 4’s console is not case-sensitive, but spacing matters. Press Enter to execute, then ` or ‘ again to close.

One critical thing: clicking on an NPC or object while the console is open will select it and display its reference ID at the top of the screen. Many commands (like kill or resurrect) require this ID, so click the target first, then type the command without specifying an ID.

Character Enhancement Commands

The distinction between tgm and tim is worth knowing. God Mode prevents all damage entirely — clean and simple. Immortal Mode lets your health bar drop (so hit reactions and screen effects still fire), but you never actually die. If you want the game to feel somewhat real while removing the frustration of dying, tim is the less immersion-breaking pick.

Environmental and Camera Commands

The tm command is a trap for new console users. It hides the entire UI — including the console itself — so you cannot see what you’re typing. To undo it, open the console blind and type tm again. It works. But if you’ve mistyped something or closed the console, you’ll be staring at a HUD-less screen with no obvious way out. The fix is always: open console, type tm, hit Enter.

For SetCameraFOV, the full syntax is SetCameraFOV [third-person value] [first-person value] — so SetCameraFOV 90 90 sets both to 90 degrees simultaneously. Default first-person FOV is 70.

Combat and NPC Control Commands

A non-obvious edge case: killall will down your companions into the “help me” bleedout state rather than killing them outright — that’s intentional protection built into the game. They’ll be stuck until you hit them with a Stimpak. If a companion dies to a different cause mid-combat and you need them back, resurrect works but sometimes leaves them in a frozen or incorrectly-flagged state. recycleactor tends to produce a cleaner result for named characters.

Inventory and Item Spawning Commands

These two are the commands most people come here for. The core syntax:

• player.additem [item ID] [quantity] — adds any item directly to your inventory
• player.additem f [quantity] — the shortcut for caps (f = currency)

The item ID is the key variable. A few high-use examples to get you started:

Beyond basic items, two additional commands are essential here:

• player.removeitem [item ID] [quantity] — removes items (useful for cleaning up broken quest items stuck in your inventory)
• player.showinventory (or player.inv) — prints your full inventory with item IDs to the console. This is the fastest way to find the ID of something already in your possession.

If you want a specific weapon or armor piece you haven’t found yet, the Fallout wiki’s item ID lists are the practical reference. IDs are consistent across all unmodded installations of the base game.

Quest and Faction Commands

The setstage command is genuinely the most useful of this set, and it’s the one guides underemphasize. Rather than nuking an entire quest with completequest, you can nudge a single bugged objective past the broken point and let the rest of the quest proceed normally. The stage numbers for each quest are documented on the Fallout wiki — worth bookmarking if you’re mid-playthrough with a stuck quest and don’t want to reload 40 hours back.

caqs is tempting on a second playthrough but genuinely dangerous. It fires completion flags for quests regardless of the state of the world, which can lock certain NPCs into post-quest behaviors while the actual quest markers still exist in a broken state. Community reports consistently describe saves where fast travel stops working or doors refuse to open after using it. The safer approach is completing individual quests by ID.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do Fallout 4 console commands disable achievements?

Yes. Using any console command in a session disables Steam achievements for that session. Closing and reopening the game resets this — achievements will unlock again in a clean session where no console commands were entered. There is no permanent account-level flag.

Can I use console commands on Xbox or PlayStation versions?

No. The developer console only exists in the PC version of Fallout 4. Console players have no equivalent access. The next-gen update (patch 1.10.163) did not add any console access for consoles.

How do I find an NPC’s or item’s ID?

Click on the target while the console is open — the reference ID appears at the top of the screen. For items in the world, click directly on them. For items in your inventory, use player.showinventory to print the full list with IDs.

Why isn’t my console command working?

Most failures come from one of three causes: wrong key for your keyboard layout (see the activation section above), a typo in the command syntax, or a missing space between the command and its argument. Fallout 4’s console provides no helpful error messages — it simply does nothing if the syntax is wrong. Double-check spacing and spelling exactly.

Can I undo the caqs command?

Not reliably. Reload a save from before using it. There’s no reverse command, and the side effects on quest flags are difficult to predict and hard to manually correct.