Teleporting Yourself Around
  • You can teleport yourself around this huge game easily with the "centeroncell" and "positioncell" commands. They can be great for zapping straight to a faraway or hard-to-find location. "Centeroncell" (COC for short) can be used to teleport your character to an indoor or outdoor region by name. For instance, to travel to the cave called Shallit, you'd type:

    coc shallit

    The trouble with COC is that you have to know the exact map name of the region you're teleporting to, and some of them can be a lot more complicated than in the above example. For instance, you'd have to use the name "Vivec, Foreign Quarter Plaza" to get to Vivec's Foreign Quarter Plaza, and "Caldera, Hodlismod: Armorer" to get into Caldera's armorer shop. The spelling and punctuation have to be exact, with nothing left out. You can get the exact name of an area from the title bar of the map, but you'd have to already be in the area in order to get the name if you didn't know it. Another problem is that for indoor areas, you sometimes appear jammed inside a wall or door when you COC in, and often don't appear anywhere near the entrance to the area.

    Due to all that, the "positioncell" command has its uses, despite being a more complicated command to use due to its reliance on an XYZ coordinate system. The format for the command is this:

    positioncell X,Y,Z,Zrot Cell_ID

    NOTE: For "positioncell" to work, your character has to be selected so that the console window's title bar reads "Console (PlayerSaveGame)." Or instead of that, you could put "player->" at the beginning of each command, as in: player->positioncell X,Y,Z,Zrot Cell_ID.

    To teleport to an outdoor region, you have to know the XYZ coordinates of the place you're going, but that's all. The Z-Rotation number is just which way your character is facing, and isn't very important. The Cell_ID for outdoor regions doesn't matter -- you can just put "x" or any old thing there. To teleport to an indoor area, though, you need to not only know the XYZ coords for the spot you want to go to, but you also have to know exactly what the game calls the indoor area. For example, this is the command to teleport to a certain spot inside Vivec's Foreign Quarter Plaza:

    positioncell -570,95,355,270 "Vivec, Foreign Quarter Plaza"

    You can use the console's TDT (Toggle Debug Text) command to bring up a display that includes the current XYZ coords. They're shown down in the bottom left corner of the screen with the label "COLLISION Pos." With this, you can use the "positioncell" command as a sort of super "mark and recall" system. Whenever you're at a spot that you want to be able to teleport back to later, but you don't want to drop a Mark spell there, then simply turn on the debug text long enough to note down the XYZ coords of where you are. Later on, when you're ready to come back, you can use "positioncell" to teleport straight back there. (Don't forget to check the map's title bar and write down the exact name the game has for the area you're in if it's an indoor area. Note that you can also use the same area name with the COC command if exact coordinates don't matter.)

    I've put the coordinates of all the things that are on my area maps for each game region in lists called "Map Positional Coordinates." Each region's hint section has its own list, and you can use it to zap straight to where you want to go.

    NOTE: Yet another way to get around is with the "centeronexterior" or COE command. It's used with a two-number grid reference, and is useful if you're trying to track something down strictly by grid reference. For example, when I checked the TES Construction Set to see where all Pilgrim's Lanterns (the only infinite portable light sources in the game) could be found, one place was grid -10,17 in the West Gash Region. There were no coordinates to use with "positioncell," and when I COCed to "West Gash Region," I wasn't even close -- it's an *immense* region. So I then did a COE to -10,17 and I was right there near the lantern! (If you ever want to find out the grid coordinates of your current outdoor location, type TG to toggle a grid display on.)