Fallout New Vegas Console Commands and Cheats: Item IDs and Perk IDs

The PC version of Fallout New Vegas ships with the same developer console as Fallout 3, and the Fallout New Vegas console commands below do everything from switching on god mode to dropping a Ranger Sequoia into your inventory. The console is not available on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. This page lists the commands by what they act on, then the form IDs you need for the two commands people actually use most, player.additem and player.addperk, drawn from the Independent Fallout Wiki's command and item pages and Game8's ID tables.

Two of our other pages sit beside this one. The tweaks page covers the INI settings the console cannot reach, such as field of view, mouse acceleration and the cell buffers, and the best mods page explains how the JIP LN NVSE plugin lets you use the console without the achievement penalty described next.

How to Open the Console

Press the tilde key, the one marked ~ or ` directly under Escape on a US keyboard; other layouts map it to whichever key sits in that spot. A text field appears in the lower left of the screen. Type the command, press Enter, and press the tilde key again to close it. Where a command below shows something in square brackets, replace the brackets and their contents with the value you want: player.additem [form ID] [quantity] becomes player.additem 00015169 5 for five stimpaks.

On the Steam version, using a command disables achievements for that session. Opening the console does not; only executing a command does, and quitting and relaunching the game switches achievements back on. Save before you experiment. A few commands, resurrect and disable on quest characters in particular, can break quests in ways a later save will not undo.

Toggle Commands

Player Commands

The values modav and setav understand are the seven attributes by name (strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility, luck) and the thirteen skills as the game spells them: barter, energyweapons, explosives, guns, lockpick, medicine, meleeweapons, repair, science, sneak, speech, survival and unarmed, written as one word. The attributes and skills themselves, and what each one feeds, are on our attributes and skills page.

Targeted, Quest and Faction Commands

Targeted commands act on whatever you click with the console open; the reference ID appears at the top of the screen when you have selected something. prid [reference ID] selects a target you cannot click.

Item IDs for player.additem

The most-searched IDs first. The weapon repair kit is here because our crafting page has it as a workbench recipe and this is the shortcut.

Skill books raise a skill for good, by one point more with Comprehension, and every location for the real copies is on our skill books page. Magazines lend 10 points for a while and are listed by place on our skill magazines page.

Weapon and Armor IDs

The common weapons a player reaches for, then the named ones. Where a unique weapon is also on our unique weapons page, that page has the honest way of getting it.

Perk IDs for player.addperk

Every perk's level and requirement is on our perks page; the IDs below cover the picks that page and our builds page keep coming back to, the eight companion perks and the nine implants, which are perks under the hood and so can be added without a trip to Doctor Usanagi.

DLC Item IDs

Every ID above starts with 00 because the base game is the first file the engine loads. Add-on items start with the position of that add-on in your load order instead, so the same Holorifle is 01 something on one machine and 03 something on another. Wikis write these as xx followed by the last six digits; replace the xx with the two-digit number of the DLC in your load order, which you can read off the Data Files list in the launcher or from your mod manager. The six add-ons and what each contains are on our DLC guide.

Worked Examples

• player.additem 0000000F 10000 gives 10,000 caps.
• player.additem 00140A68 5 gives five weapon repair kits; player.additem 000CB05C 3 gives three doctor's bags.
• player.modav guns 25 adds 25 points to Guns; player.setav luck 10 sets Luck to its ceiling.
• player.addperk 00031DBB grants Better Criticals whether or not you meet its level or requirements.
• player.additem 00034041 1 gives a Nikola Tesla and You to read, with the same permanent Energy Weapons gain as finding one.
• tgm followed by tcl gets a character out of almost any stuck spot; type both again afterwards.

If the game misbehaves rather than the character, the fixes belong elsewhere: launch-week crashes and freezes are on our troubleshooting page, and the modern engine fixes that replace most of them are the first section of our best mods page.