Starfield Console Commands and Cheats on PC

One key opens it, and the save it touches stops earning achievements

The console in Starfield on PC needs no launch option and no file edit. Press the tilde key, which sits near 1 and Escape on most keyboards, and a command line opens. The key moves with the layout: ~ on a US keyboard, ö on a German one, the % / ù key on a French one, º on a Spanish one. The Starfield Wiki console page covers the other layouts and how to remap the key in ControlMap.txt if none of them work.

The cost comes first, because it changes how you should use everything below. Bethesda’s support page on Steam achievements says plainly that achievements do not unlock when console commands are enabled, and that Starfield keeps a console save separate from saves without it. For a while some commands slipped through. Patch 1.14.74 of 19 November 2024 closed that: its notes list a fix for console commands that had not disabled certain achievements. The current version is 1.16.244 of 11 June 2026, according to the wiki’s patch history.

So the honest advice is short. If you care about achievements on a character, keep the console away from that save. If you do not, the console is generous.

The commands, by what you came for

Syntax follows the Starfield Wiki. Item IDs for credits and digipicks are the ones Starfield shares with Fallout 4, 0000000f and 0000000a.

Command	What it does
player.additem 0000000f 10000	10,000 credits
player.additem 0000000a 20	20 digipicks
player.setlevel 40	Sets your level
advlevel	Adds exactly one level
incPCS <skill>	Raises a skill to its next rank
player.addperk <perkID>	Adds a perk by ID
help "<name>" 0	Finds the ID of an item, perk or setting by name
psb	Every power at once, short for player spell book
tgm	No damage, no stamina use, no encumbrance, no cooldowns, no ammo use
tcl	No clipping, fly through terrain and buildings
tmm 1	Shows all map markers
player.setav carryweight 1000	Sets carry weight to 1,000
unlock	Opens the targeted door or container, even “Requires Key” locks
showlooksmenu player 1	Reopens character creation for looks, background and traits
coc qasmoke	Teleports you to the QA test hall
setstage <questID> <stage>	Moves a quest to a later stage, e.g. setstage ms01 100
killall	Kills every loaded non-essential actor

tgm has one gap worth knowing: it does not protect against scripted damage. The looks menu keeps the trait limit at three, so it is a way to swap a trait, not to stack them. And setgs changes to game settings, such as jump height, are not stored in the save and vanish on the next load.

Skill points come with levels, and the challenges still stand in the way

Starfield has 82 skills with four ranks each, and you get one skill point per level, according to the wiki’s skills page. The console route to more points is therefore a level command: player.setlevel for a jump, advlevel for one level at a time.

The catch sits in the skill tree, not the console. Rank 1 of a skill costs a point and nothing else. Ranks 2, 3 and 4 each require the skill’s challenge before a point can go in, and higher tiers want four ranks spent in the lower tiers of the same category. A stack of free points does not move a skill past an open challenge. That is where players who typed setlevel find their points stuck. The wiki lists incPCS as the command that raises a skill to its next rank directly; save before you try it, since the wiki marks parts of the skill commands as untested.

Where the console breaks quests

Quest commands carry real risk. The wiki marks caqs, which completes every quest including the ones you never started, as not recommended for general use and prone to crashes. completequest can finish a quest while the NPCs tied to it never register that, and keep handing you follow-ups. resetquest sets every stage back to zero.

The wiki’s own advice holds for all of it: create and archive a permanent save before you open the console, and use the weakest command that fixes the problem. setstage to the next stage is weaker than completequest, and usually enough.

What the trainer does differently

The lockout Bethesda describes is tied to console commands. The Starfield trainer changes values in memory while the game runs and never types into the console.

It lists 34 cheats, seven of them free: add credits, subtract credits, unlimited cutter energy, fill health, 2x experience, no item decrease and 2x walk speed. Five of the 34 are experience multipliers, from 2x up to 50x, which is the trainer’s answer to the level grind that setlevel solves in one line. Add skill points and subtract skill points sit next to them.

Four switches are for the ship alone: infinite hull, infinite shield, infinite weapon energy and infinite boost. The rest covers the character: godmode, infinite oxygen, infinite boostpack, prevent injury status, infinite weight, perfect pickpocket, infinite dialog turns and free build.

Console or trainer, by what the save is for

The console for a save where achievements do not matter, or a fresh one you made for testing. Credits for a ship you want to try, a stuck quest pushed one stage on, every power from psb.

The trainer for a character you want to keep clean on the console side, or for effects you switch on and off during play: ship shields in a dogfight, oxygen on a long walk, an experience multiplier for one evening.

Fallout 4 handles this differently. Its console leaves achievements alone, see the Fallout 4 console guide. Single-player only, in both games.