Guide To Oblivion remastered console commands – How to use cheat codes

How to Open the Console in Oblivion Remastered?

Press the tilde key (~) during gameplay. It’s that squiggly line sitting above Tab, left of the 1 key. Hit it and a text box appears at the bottom of your screen. Type your command, smash Enter to execute, press tilde again to close.

Some keyboards (especially non-US layouts) need the backtick key (`) instead. If neither works, you can manually assign a console key:

Navigate to

C:\Users\[Your Username]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\Config\Windows 

and open Input.ini.

Add these lines:

[/script/engine.inputsettings]
ConsoleKeys=F10

Replace F10 with whatever key feels comfortable. Saves you from hunting through keyboard layouts at 2 AM when you’re desperately trying to unstick an NPC.

God Mode and Infinite Magicka Commands

Two ways to become untouchable, depending on how much you wanna break things.

Standard god mode:

tgm

This toggles invulnerability. Your health, stamina, and magicka don’t drop. Clean, simple, effective.

But Oblivion Remastered added something absurd called ObvGodMode:

ObvGodMode

This doesn’t just make you invincible. It dumps 1 million gold into your inventory, gives you 10,000 lockpicks, maxes all skills and attributes to 100, and unlocks every spell in the game. It’s ridiculously overkill, but if you’re testing builds or just want zero restrictions… there you go.

Both commands give you infinite magicka since your resources stop depleting. I mostly use tgm when I’m trying to explore without combat interruptions.

Adding Gold, Lockpicks, and Items 

The syntax for spawning items is:

player.additem [ItemID] [Quantity]

Here are the IDs you’ll actually use constantly:

Need 50,000 gold right now?

player.additem F 50000

Want 100 lockpicks to skip the minigame entirely?

player.additem A 100

If you mess up and need to remove items:

player.removeitem [ItemID] [Amount]

The gold command is probably the most-used console cheat in existence. Because let’s be real, grinding for coins in a single-player RPG gets old fast.

How to Find Item IDs For Oblivion Remastered

Here’s where things get annoying. Unlike Skyrim, there’s no reliable built-in help command for looking up item IDs. You’ve got three options:

Method 1: Direct clicking method 

Open console with tilde

1. Click the item in the world while console is open
2. The ID appears in the console window
3. Copy it for your player.additem command

This works great for weapons lying around or armor on NPCs. Not so great for unique quest items you haven’t found yet.

Method 2: Online databases

• UESP Wiki has complete item lists at https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Items  or https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki 
• Reddit’s r/OblivionRemaster maintains community ID compilations

I keep a notepad file with my favorite item IDs because looking them up every time gets tedious. The Umbra sword is always worth grabbing early if you’re doing a melee build.

Console Commands for Skills and Attributes

Leveling skills through console uses this format:

player.advskill [SkillName] [Amount]

Critical detail: Skill names must be written exactly as they appear in your menu. Two-word skills get combined into one word with no spaces.

Examples:

player.advskill heavyarmor 50

player.advskill destruction 25

player.advskill acrobatics 100

For attributes, you’ve got two commands:

Add to existing value:

player.modav strength 50

Set to specific value:

player.setav strength 100

The main attributes you can modify are strength, intelligence, willpower, agility, speed, endurance, personality, and luck. I usually bump endurance and strength on new characters because the carry weight system in Oblivion is… let’s call it aggressively punishing.

How to change Carry Weight 

The carry weight struggle is absurdly real in Oblivion. Here’s the fix:

player.forceav encumbrance -99999

Using negative numbers reduces the encumbrance penalty, basically removing carry weight restrictions. Some players reported this doesn’t always stick permanently across saves, so you might need to reapply it occasionally.

Alternative method some people prefer:

player.modav encumbrance -9999

TBH, the carry weight system always felt like artificial difficulty. It’s not fun inventory management, it’s just annoying busywork (kinda like how Morrowind handled it, except Morrowind at least had the fast travel restrictions that made weight management somewhat meaningful). Here it’s just… why?

Changing Your Race or Appearance Mid-Game

Want to redesign your character after 50 hours? Type:

showracemenu

This opens the full character creation menu. You can change race, appearance, hair, body, name – everything. When you’re done, hit Escape and your changes save automatically.

Big warning though: This command resets your character level. Weird skill point issues possible, so back up your save first. Seriously, don’t skip the backup.

Other appearance commands worth knowing:

Change birthsign:

ShowBirthsignMenu

Change class (resets all skills though, so… yeah):

ShowClassMenu

Change character name without opening menus:

SetActorFullName "New Name"

Example:

SetActorFullName "Shadow Thief"

The showracemenu command is useful when you realize 20 hours in that your character looks ridiculous in actual gameplay lighting. Screenshots at character creation can be deceiving 😉

How to Reset NPCs or Fix Broken Quests?

NPCs glitching out or stuck in weird AI loops? Click them in console and type:

recycleactor

This resets their behavior pattern and usually fixes whatever broke. I’ve used this dozens of times for NPCs who decided walking into a corner forever was their new life purpose.

For dialogue problems where conversation options won’t appear:

startconversation player infogeneral

Click the NPC first, then run the command. This resets their dialogue tree for one conversation, potentially unlocking blocked quest starts or missing dialogue branches.

If you really messed up and killed someone important:

resurrect 1

Click the dead NPC first, then execute the command. They’ll come back, though they might still reference being dead in dialogue (which is hilarious but also breaks immersion).

Loading a previous save is honestly better for critical NPCs because resurrection can cause weird quest inconsistencies.

Quest Related Console Commands

Before using quest commands, you need to enable them first:

Altar.Cheat.AllowSetStage true

Then you can use:

Complete a quest:

completequest [QuestID]

Start a quest:

startquest [QuestID]

Check current quest stage:

GetStage [QuestID]

Jump to specific quest stage:

SetStage [QuestID] [StageID]

View all active quests:

sqt

Teleport to quest objective:

movetoqt

That last one saved me countless times when quest markers bugged out or I couldn’t figure out where the objective actually was. Sometimes the marker points at a door, but the actual objective is three floors up in a tower you didn’t know existed.

Console Command Lists

Movement & Teleportation

The testinghall room is a developer testing area containing every item in the game. It’s useful for finding item IDs or just browsing what exists.

Visual & Environment

Free camera mode is perfect for screenshots. I use it constantly when capturing architecture or landscape shots for the blog.

Player Statistics

Spell & Magic

The psb command (player spell book) is ridiculously overpowered. It gives you every spell in the game instantly.

Lock & Unlock

Click the door or chest first, then run the command. Makes lockpicking completely optional.

NPC & Combat Control

The tcai command (toggle combat AI) makes all NPCs completely passive. Useful for exploring hostile areas without fighting.

Object Manipulation

The setscale command can create some truly bizarre situations. Scaling NPCs to 0.5 or 3.0 breaks conversations in hilarious ways.

Mastering Console Commands Not only for Cheating but for Troubleshooting Also

Console commands aren’t just about cheating (though that’s definitely fun). They’re genuinely necessary for fixing the jank that Oblivion is kinda famous for. Broken quest stages, NPCs stuck in geometry, items falling through the world, dialogue options not appearing – these commands let you actually finish the game when bugs try to stop you.

Just remember the achievement thing. And maybe don’t go too crazy with ObvGodMode on your first playthrough, because maxing everything instantly ruins the progression system. Keep a clean save somewhere if you’re experimenting, because some commands can’t be undone and will permanently alter your game state.

The console is your friend when Oblivion decides to be … Oblivion. Use it when you need it, ignore it when you don’t. That’s the beauty of PC gaming – you get to decide how broken or balanced your gameplay should be 😊

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