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Skyrim console commands and cheats: the most useful on PCFus Ro Dah what you want
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Want to know which console commands you can use in Skyrim?After a decade,The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimcontinues to endure for many reasons. Whether you love the world, the characters, the pure meme potential, or thehuge modding communitythat strives to deliver endless content, it’s easy to sink hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into theRPGbeast. However, sometimes it’s fun to just play God, and console commands let you do just that.
This guide will show you a heap of console commands that you can use to tweak settings, spawn items, and alterSkyrimcompletely.
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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:
But you should write it in the console as:
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.
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:
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 thebest bugsfrom the wider world of PC games with us.
