Skyrim Console Commands and Cheat Codes: NPC Spawn Helper

Looking to brush up on Skyrim console commands to streamline your adventures in the land of the Nords? Wanted to fly the friendly skies from Looking to brush up on Skyrim console commands to streamline your adventures in the land of the Nords?

Skyrim console commands can do all that. And more traditionally useful things, like making yourself unkillable, maxing out a tedious skill or unlocking a troublesome door when you’re fresh out of lockpicks. All good thieves bend the rules now and then, after all.

Apart from providing the cheats, we’ll tell you how to enter them. We’ve also listed the NPCs here, so let’s dive in.

How To Enter Skyrim Console Commands?

To enable the console, just hit the tilde (~) key and enter one of the appropriate codes, which are listed below. You can turn on more than one in a row, so you can become invincible, fly, and teleport all at the same time.

Make sure that you save your first game because some of the given console commands may cause glitches, problems, or crashes.

Many of these console commands require specifying an NPC or item or place with a reference number. If you’re specifying an item or NPC in front of you, click on them while you’ve brought up the console to get their code immediately. Otherwise, here’s a quick cheat sheet of reference pages where you can find those codes. Remember, CTRL+F is your friend!

Every Skyrim Console Command

Now that you’ve got the console command menu up, it’s about time we gave you some cheats to use. Here’s a list of over 50 console commands in Skyrim for PC, so you can go wild and shape the world as you see fit.

Here are some important console commands of Every Skyrim, such as toggle God mode and immortality.

Most Useful Skyrim Console Commands

Cheat Code	Cheat Effect
Toggle	Settings and states that you can toggle on and off
Target	Effects that you can have on a target character or object. Use ‘player.’ followed by the console command to target your character
Player	Effects that specifically apply to the player
Quest	Commands that alter quests and quest stages
Weather	Allows you to alter the weather
System	System-level changes and effects

Now, listed are all the console commands that you can use in the game.

Type	Command	Description
System	help (keyword)	Lists all console commands that relate to your specific keyword. For example, help sword will show all commands, values, and IDs related to swords (which is a lot). You can scroll through these using the page up and page down keys
Toggle	tgm	Toggles God Mode, making you invincible and granting infinite carry weight
Toggle	tcl	Allows you to fly and walk through walls
Toggle	tai	Toggles AI behaviours unrelated to combat. This disables dialogue, for example
Toggle	tcai	Toggles AI combat behaviour, so you will not be attacked
Toggle	tdetect	Toggles detection, so NPCs and enemies will not be aware of your actions. Does not apply to pickpocketing
Toggle	tg	Toggles grass in the game world
Toggle	tll	Toggles LOD rendering
Toggle	tfow	Toggles Fog of War for your local map
Toggle	tm	Toggles the pause menu, UI, and console command input menu
Toggle	tim	Toggles immortal mode, allowing you to withstand any damage
Toggle	tmm (0/1)	Toggles map markers. 0 disables all markers, whilst 1 enables them all so that you can see every location
Toggle	ts	Toggles the skybox
Toggle	tt	Toggles trees
Toggle	twf	Toggles the frame of objects, removing all textures
Toggle	tws	Toggles water
Toggle	tfc	Switches your control to a camera instead of your character
Target	setunconscious (0/1)	Decides whether your target is awake (0) or unconscious (1)
Target	kill	Instantly kills your current target
Target	resurrect	Instantly resurrects your current target
Target	unlock	Unlocks current target if it is locked
Target	lock(0-100)	Locks the current target. Choose a number from 0-100 to determine lock difficulty. Anything above 100 requires a key, which could result in the target being permanently locked without the help of console commands
Target	setownership player	Makes the targeted item belong to you
Target	sifh (0/1)	Decides whether your target takes damage (0) or not (1) from your attacks
Target	str (0/1)	Decides how visible your target is on a scale of 0-1. 0 is invisible and 1 is visible
Target	setghost (0/1)	Decides whether target is invincible (1) or not (0)
Target	dispelallspells	Ends the effects of any spells and poisons on your target
Target	duplicateallitems player	Duplicates the current targets inventory and places it into your inventory
Target	equipitem (item id)	If your target has the specific item (determined with item ID) in their inventory, they equip it
Target	equipspell (spell id) (instant/left/right)	Equips your target with the specified spell (determined with spell ID) to the specified slot (instant effect, left hand, and right hand, respectively)
Target	equipshout (shout id)	Equips your target with the specified shout (determined by shout ID)
Target	tc	Takes control of your current target, so you will move them and your character at the same time
Target	addperk (perk id)	Gives your target the specified perk (determined by perk ID)
Target	removeperk (perk id)	Removes the specified perk (determined by perk ID) from your current target
Target	addshout (shout id)	Adds the specified shout (determined by shout ID) to your target’s spell list
Target	addspell (spell id)	Adds the specified spell (determined by spell ID) to your target’s spell list
Target	removespell (spell id)	Removes the specified spell (determined by spell ID) from your current target’s spell list
Target	drop (item id)	Drops the specified item (determined by item ID) from your target
Target	getav (actor value id)	Prints the current value of an actor value ID, so that you can then use the following command to either increase or decrease it
Target	modav (actor value id) (amount)	Adds the amount you enter to the actor value ID, allowing you to change behaviours or stats of a target. You can use this to change health or mood, for example
Target	resethealth	Resets the health of your current target
Target	getlevel	Prints the level of your current target in the console
Target	getlocationcleared (location id)	Prints to console whether the specified location (determined by location ID) has been cleared by the player
Target	getrelationshiprank (reference id)	Prints to console the relationship between your current target and the specified NPC (determined by reference ID) on a scale of -4 (worst) to 4 (best).
Target	additem (item id)	Adds the specified item (determined by item ID) to the target’s inventory
Target	removeitem (item id)	Removes the specified item (determined by item ID) from the target’s inventory
Target	removeallitems (reference id)	Removes all items from your current target’s inventory
Target	disable	Disables AI, collision, and model of your current target
Target	enable	Enables your current target if they have been disabled with the disable command
Target	showinventory	Shows the inventory of your current target
Target	addtofaction (faction id) (rank)	Adds your current target to the specified faction (determined by faction ID). Enter a number for rank, starting at 0 for the lowest rank
Target	moveto (reference id)	Teleports your current target to the specified NPC or item (determined by reference ID)
Target	openactorcontainer 1	Opens your current target’s inventory
Target	playidle (animation id)	Makes the current target perform the specified animation (determined by animation ID)
Target	resetai	Resets your target to their default state
Target	resetinventory	Resets your target’s inventory to its default state
Target	setessential (base id) (0/1)	Changes whether an specified NPC (determined by base ID) is essential (1) or not(0)
Target	say (dialog id)	Makes your target say the specified dialogue (determined by dialog ID)
Quest	getstage (quest id)	Prints your current stage in the specified quest (determined by quest ID)
Quest	movetoqt (quest id)	Teleports you to the location of the current quest marker on the specified quest (determined by quest ID)
Quest	completequest (quest id)	Completes the specified quest (determined by quest ID)
Quest	startallquests	Starts every quest in the game
Quest	completeallqueststages	Completes every quest in the game
Quest	resetquest (quest id)	Resets the specified quest (determined by quest ID) back to the first stage
Quest	showquesttargets	Prints quest IDs and your current stage in each quest to the console
Quest	showqueststages (quest id)	Lists all stages and their IDs for the specified quest (determined by quest ID)
Player	playerenchantobject (item id) (enchantment id)	Adds the specified object (determined by item ID) with the specified enchantment (determined by enchantment ID) to your inventory
Player	playercreatepotion (effect id)	Adds a potion with the specified effects (determined by effect ID) to your inventory
Player	playerspellbook	Instantly unlock all spells and shouts
Player	setplayerrace (race id)	Change your character to the specified race (determined by race ID)
Player	centeroncell (location id)	Teleports you to the specified location (determined by location ID)
Player	enableplayercontrols	Allows you to control your character during cinematics
Player	player.advlevel	Levels up your character but gives no perk points
Weather	forceweather (weather id)	Changes the weather to the specified type (determined by weather ID)
System	qqq	Quits the game
System	fov #	Changes FOV to the specified value
System	help	Lists every console command in the console