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Editing Your Character
To change the various attributes of your character, you can use "player.setav" to set a new value for them. You can set your health, skills, and several other things this way.
Here are some examples. Note that you don't type in the double-hyphen comments.
player.setav health 88000 -- gives you a vast amount of health player.setav strength 9 -- sets your Strength attribute to 9 player.setav barter 20 -- sets your Barter skill's base value to 20 (bonuses may make it higher)
The "player.modav" command can be used instead of "player.setav," and the results will be pretty much the same. The main difference is that you can use negative numbers to lower an attribute by a certain amount.
player.modav health -40 -- subtract 40 from current and max health player.modav strength -2 -- subtract 2 from your Strength attribute player.modav barter -10 -- subtract up to 10 points from your Barter skill's base value
You can use "player.getav" to get the current value of something, though that's usually possible to do with the game's Pip-Boy display. Below are some more things you can use "player.setav" and "player.modav" with.
* actionpoints - how many action points you have for V.A.T.S. mode * carryweight - the limit of how much weight you can carry * meleedamage - base damage for your melee weapon attacks * unarmeddamage - base damage for your unarmed attacks * critchance - your percentage chance for a critical hit * damageresist - your base resistance to damage (your base AC, in other words) * radresist - your resistance to radiation exposure * poisonresist - your resistance to poisons * fireresist - your resistance to fire-based attacks (like from fire ants and flamer weapons) * waterbreathing - your ability to breathe underwater indefinitely (1 means you can, 0 means you can't)
Here are some other commands that you can use to modify your character.
* player.resethealth - fully heals you (sets current HP to max HP) * player.restoreav radiationrads # - removes # of your rads * advlevel - allows you to level up once via the standard level-up screen * player.setlevel # - sets your level to # without affecting anything else (except XP) * rewardxp # - gives you # XP * rewardkarma # - gives you # karma (use negative numbers to become more evil) * addspecialpoints # - brings up the attribute-increasing screen with # points to distribute * settagskills 3 - allows you to reset your 3 tag skills (can use a higher number for more tag skills, but they may not all stay tagged) * setpccanusepowerarmor 1 - lets you wear power armor before getting special training (change 1 to 0 to disallow) * player.addspell 617be - when exposed to radiation at less than 100 rads/sec, you heal slowly and lose rads (use "removespell" to remove) * player.modscale # - use a 1 to become a giant, and a -1 to return to normal size * shownamemenu - brings up a window that lets you change your character's name * showracemenu - brings up a window that lets you change your character's sex, race, and appearance
