Starfield Console Commands & PC Cheats Guide (God Mode & Item IDs)

How to Open and Enable Developer Console in Starfield

Activating the developer console in Starfield on Windows PC is built natively into Bethesda's Creation Engine 2 and requires zero external injectors, modified executable files, or command-line launch arguments. While playing the game, simply press the tilde key (~ or `) located in the upper-left corner of standard United States QWERTY keyboards, situated directly below the Esc key and to the left of the number 1 key.

Upon pressing the key, world rendering halts, background audio dims, and a translucent command interface pops up in the lower-left corner of your display. On first activation, the game displays a formal warning notifying you that entering commands may disable achievements in that playthrough. Press ~ or Enter to dismiss this warning prompt and access the command line. You can type any valid engine instruction and press Enter to execute it immediately. To close the console overlay and resume real-time space exploration, tap the tilde key (~) again.

For players using international and non-US keyboard hardware, the key scan codes differ across regional distributions. On United Kingdom British English keyboards, the terminal opens with the grave accent key (`). On German QWERTZ keyboards, press the circumflex key (^) or the Ö key. On French AZERTY setups, press the square superscript two key (²) or the ù key. If the terminal fails to register input, confirm that no external controller or game overlay is stealing active input focus.

God Mode, Immortality & Movement Commands

Exploration across high-gravity moons, extreme radiation biomes, and abandoned research facilities can quickly drain your resources and oxygen meters. Creation Engine 2 includes traditional Bethesda survival cheats tailored for high-speed exploration.

1. Complete God Mode (tgm) vs Immortal Mode (tim)

Entering tgm toggles true God Mode. In this state, your character enjoys full invulnerability to kinetic ballistic fire, laser weaponry, fall damage, and environmental afflictions like hypothermia and lung damage. In addition, your oxygen gauge remains perpetually full, jetpack boost pack thrusters can fire continuously without overheating, and guns fire infinitely without consuming ammunition from your reserve stockpile. If you want a more authentic combat challenge where you still take physical damage and monitor oxygen consumption, typing tim enables Immortal Mode. Your health fluctuates normally during firefights, but your hit points cannot drop below 1 HP, preventing death screens.

2. Noclip Flight & Freefly Camera (tcl & tfc)

When inspecting sprawling starship hulls or exploring complex labyrinthine outposts, terrain collision can occasionally pin your avatar inside walls or beneath loading ramps. Entering tcl toggles collision completely off, allowing you to fly freely through solid bulkheads, locked security vaults, and mountain faces. To compose breathtaking planetary landscape photos, type tfc to detach the camera from your character's body and fly around freely, and combine it with tm to hide the user interface entirely for cinematic captures.

Unlimited Credits, Digipicks & Carry Weight Codes

Shipbuilding in Starfield demands hundreds of thousands of credits, while opening expert security lockers requires a steady supply of Digipicks. Rather than selling weapons across vendors with limited merchant cash pools, developer commands allow instant inventory enrichment.

Carrying multiple spacesuits and mineral ores quickly causes oxygen starvation from encumbrance. To fix this permanently without running God Mode, execute player.setav carryweight 50000. This permanently alters your baseline inventory threshold to 50,000 kg, allowing endless hoarding while preserving all combat physics and environmental hazards.

Weapon & Space Suit FormID Reference Directory

To spawn specific weapons, space suits, helmets, and boost packs, use the universal format: player.additem [FormID] [Quantity]. Below is a curated directory of the most potent firearms and armor suites in the galaxy.

Quest Fixing, Teleportation & NPC World Debugging

Starfield features intricate procedural quests and scripted companion dialogues that occasionally stall due to unrendered triggers or misplaced NPCs. The developer console enables rapid debugging and objective progression.

To examine where a mission is failing, type getstage [QuestID] to inspect your active numeric index. When an objective refuses to update after speaking to a character, enter setstage [QuestID] [Stage] to advance to the next step cleanly. If your quest marker points to a location across a planetary system that is unreachable due to docking bugs, entering movetoqt instantly teleports your character directly onto the mission target coordinate.

If key companions like Sarah Morgan, Sam Coe, or Andreja get downed or trapped inside terrain geometry, target them with the console mouse cursor and type resurrect 1. This resets their animation tree and AI package while keeping their equipped weapons and spacesuits intact. If a companion has completely vanished from your ship roster, type prid [RefID] followed by moveto player to summon them to your feet.

Achievement Disablement Warnings & Save Safety

Using cheat commands in Starfield has a direct impact on achievement progression. Creation Engine 2 marks your save file with a [Modded] prefix whenever powerful gameplay commands are executed, which permanently disables Steam achievements and Xbox Gamerscore for that save branch.

To protect your progress, always create a clean manual hard save before executing console commands. For players who wish to retain full achievement tracking while using developer commands, community modding tools like Baka Achievement Enabler or the Starfield Community Patch via the Starfield Script Extender (SFSE) automatically hook engine callbacks to prevent the modded flag from attaching to your save files.