This guide will show you a heap of console commands that you can use to tweak settings, spawn items, and alter Skyrim completely.
How to enter Skyrim console commands
To enter console commands in Skyrim, you need to press the ‘grave’ key on a UK keyboard, or ‘tilde’ on a US keyboard. If you’re currently stuck scouring your keyboard, these keys are always sat next to the number 1 and above the TAB key. This will bring up the console command menu. If you’ve never seen console commands before, it might all look a bit complicated, but it really isn’t! To help ease you in, here’s a little example of how to actually type things into the console. Let’s take the setplayerrace command, which lets us change your character’s race. For this example, we’ll change into an Argonian. In the table below, this is listed as:
setplayerrace (race id)
But you should write it in the console as:
setplayerrace argonianrace
The race ID for an Argonian is argonianrace, so we type that in without the brackets. Brackets are only used in this table to help clarify when there are multiple IDs needed in one command. You don’t need to use brackets when typing yourself. Lots of commands will use IDs, which are used by the game to locate the specific assets for you to mess around with. To find the right ID you’re looking for, use the help “keyword” command, which is the first one listed in the table.
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. We’ve included all of the important commands, such as toggle God mode and immortality, as well as some more generic commands, such as toggle trees and change FOV, so that you can play around and alter the settings of your game at your own risk. Beware: if you’re just messing around, do this on a new save, as you don’t want to permanently damage your main save file. With that in mind, we’ve separated this list of commands into 6 different command types. These are:
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
That’s everything you need to know about Skyrim console commands. If you want to commit to the chaotic and often-messy nature of a Bethesda RPG, come laugh at some of the best bugs from the wider world of PC games with us.
