Fallout 4 Console Commands, Cheats, and Tips

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Fallout 4 Console Commands, Cheats, and Tips

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This page is a personal reference guide for Fallout 4 console commands, cheats, and gameplay tweaks. It includes codes for spawning items, NPCs, creatures, and robots, as well as settlement fixes, weather and time controls, and perk adjustments. If you’re looking to troubleshoot quests, disable limits, or add to your settlements, this guide provides quick access to the most useful Fallout 4 commands. Additionally, you’ll find modding tips, glitch fixes, and a curated list of recommended mods that improve performance, visuals, and gameplay.

 

Console Commands

 

Common Filters

  • help <text> <filter>
  • <text> = the search term (like dogmeat)
  • <filter> = a number that narrows results to a specific record type
  1. 0 → All results (shows everything with that name: NPCs, items, quests, etc.)
  2. 1 → Items (weapons, ammo, armour, etc.)
  3. 2 → Stats (actor values like health, carry weight, etc.)
  4. 3 → Global variables
  5. 4 → NPCs & actors (characters, creatures, companions)
  6. 5 → Quests
  7. 6 → Cells (interior/exterior locations)

 

Notes

  • player.additem – Adds items to your inventory
  • player.placeatme – Drops items beside you.
  • player.removeitem – Removes item from your inventory
  • Use the PGUP and PGDN buttons to scroll through the console list.

 

Top Console Commands

  • tgm – God Mode: Makes you invincible (infinite ammo, no AP drain).
  • tcl – No Clip: Toggle collision off so you can walk through walls and objects.
  • tim – Immortal Mode: You can take damage but can’t die (may cause weird glitches).
  • tfc – Free Camera: Detach the camera from your character for screenshots or exploration.
  • tm – Toggle Menus/UI: Switch off all HUD/UI—including console—for cleaner camera shots.

 

Gametime & Weather Cycle

Gametime

  • Noontime: set gamehour to 12
  • Midnight: set gamehour to 0
  • Morning (8 AM): set gamehour to 8
  • Evening (6 PM): set gamehour to 18

Weather

  • Clear day: fw 15e
  • Clear day (variant, bright blue sky): fw c8221
  • Foggy: fw 15f
  • Rain: fw 152
  • Radiation storm: fw 31f2e
  • Institute blue skies (very clean): fw 11eb4
  • Far Harbor clear: fw 2f7b6
  • Far Harbor fog: fw 2ac7b

 

Disable Settlement Size

  1. Walk to the workshop toolbox
  2. Open build mode.
  3. Open up the console menu.
  4. Click on the workshop toolbox
  5. Enter:
    setav 349 -1
    setav 34b -1
  6. Close the console and build mode.
  7. Open up the build mode again, and it should be reset to empty (permanently)

 

Settlement Tweaks

Same as settlement size.  Click on the workshop toolbox when the console command is open, so the command is directed to the correct settlement.

  • Make Settlers 100% Happy: setav 129157 100

 

Spawn Items

player.additem <BaseID> <quantity>

  • Acid Ammo: player.additem 06030076 9999
  • Fusion Cell: player.additem 000C1897 9999
  • 500 Caps: player.additem 0000000F 500
  • Nuka-Cola Formula: player.placeatme 0604F646 1

 

Spawn People (NPCs)

  • Nate – player.placeatme 000566BB 1

 

Spawn Creatures (NPCs)

  • Dogmeat – player.placeatme 0003D766 1

 

Spawn Robots (NPCs)

  • Codsworth Clean – player.placeatme 000AA763 1
  • Codsworth Dirty – player.placeatme 000179FF 1

 

Add Perks

  • Wasteland Warlord (must be in this order)
    Level 1: player.addperk 060277D0
    Level 2: player.addperk 060277D1
    Level 3: player.addperk 060277D2

 

Console Command Fixes

 

Annoying Game Fixes

Bethesda’s annoying last update broke some of the quests, and I had to run commands to proceed.

  • setstage DLC03MQ06 130 (Checks off the “Listen to the Safe Room Security Tape”)
  • setstage DLC03MQ06 250 (Advance “The Way Life Should Be”)
  • completequest DLC04MQ04 (Complete Home Sweet Home “Forces completion if it bugs out”)
  • setstage DLC04MQ05 5 (Starts Power Play if it won’t trigger.)
  • player.removeitem 03032C52 1 (Removes High Confessor’s Note from your inventory)
  • player.placeatme 03032C52 1 (Respawns the High Confessor’s Note near you (fixes bugged/missing note))

 

Game File Modifications

 

Disable Out Of Bounds Border

  1. Navigate to “Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Fallout4.ini“.
  2. Add “bBorderRegionsEnabled=0” under the [General] section.
  3. Open the console and type: “refreshini“, then go to the location.

 

Game Glitches

 

Common Glitches (Console Friendly)

 

Fallout 4 How To Mod & Mods I Use/Have Used

 

How to Mod Fallout 4

A video that can help if my instructions are confusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATqYEUJnEA

  1. Download the following:
    – Fallout 4 Script Extender (F4SE)
    – Vortex Mod Manager
  2. Open the Fallout 4 Script Extender (F4SE) zip file.
  3. All contents inside the folder “f4se_x_xx_xx” needs to be extracted to: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4“
    If you need to overwrite the contents in the main Fallout 4 directory, do so.
  4. In the Fallout 4 directory, right-click on “f4se_loader.exe” and create a shortcut to your desktop. It will now be your primary Fallout 4 launch shortcut. You can change the shortcut name to Fallout 4 if you wish.

To revert to the Fallout 4 icon, follow these steps.

  1. My f4se shortcut is called: Fallout 4 Mod Loader
  2. Right-click “Fallout 4 Mod Loader” and go to “properties” from the context menu.
  3. Click on “Change Icon”
  4. Click on “Browse”
  5. Navigate to your Fallout 4 Directory.  In this case it’s C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 4
  6. Click on “Fallout4.exe” and press Open, then press “OK” and press “Apply” and “OK“

Now you’ll see the Fallout 4 Icon

 

Mods I Use

Addon Workshop Packs

Core Functions

Fixes

FPS Fixes

Lots More Settlers and Enemies

Person Skins

Top Mods

Weapons

Workshop Tweaks

World Design

World Weather

 

Fallout 4 London Mod

 

Fallout 4 London

I’ll eventually add to this after I have done everything in the main game.  (Yes, I played it before)  One thing I hate about it is too excessive in loading from the wall sections.  But an amazing mod in general.

 

Fallout 4 Extras

 

Useful Sites

 

Extras

 

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