As we all know, player.advlevel and player.setlevel does not work toward this end. I have also tried different things like player.forcelevel, player.forcelevelup, player.addperk(s), player.mod av level #, player.modavlevel, player.forceperk, player.addperkpoint(s) and so on and so forth.

I'm sure we haven't discovered every possible command for this game yet. There may still be more out there that we don't know, including hidden ones that may or may not be released to the public. So if you've found it, please let us know here.

To the Bethesda employees/developers who worked on Skyrim: Is there any such console command to give or add perks in this game? If so, may we know the command? Thank you.

Also, if anyone has a Twitter (I don't and do not want to sign up for one), then can you please message Pete Hines regarding this matter just to see if he may know and see what he says? Thanks if you do.

Much appreciated.

Edit: I know about the command to add each perk individually, but as stated, there's 251 of them and it's quite annoying trying to add all 251 perks, especially when you get to the ranked ones. I'm also asking about this for research purposes as well. Thank you, that is all.

This CAN be used to give yourself perks that you wouldn't normally be able to get due to low skill levels.

player.addperk 

and to find the perk ids

help "perk name" 4

edit: This obviously wont give you a spendable perk point, but rather just give you the perk, which works well enough, since you'd just spend the perk you gave yourself anyways. Also, for perks with multiple ranks, the help command will give you IDs for all of them, but not in any particular order as far as I can tell, so you have to just add them one at a time till you find the rank you want.

Thank you, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. From what I hear and read on the wiki, there are 250 (Or was it 251?) perks and I'm not about to add each individually as that is too time-consuming, since I am trying to go for all of them.

I'm trying to acquire spendable perk points. I have no idea why Bethesda did not include a perk command to simply acquire perk points instead, but I admit I think it's a little silly that there isn't.

Thank you for trying to help, though. I appreciate the kind thought.

Well, I believe those includes unmarked perks you get as a result of quests, not just the ones in the skill tree, if its those you're after you'd have to add them by name.

psborplayerspellbook

MIGHT give you all of the perks, but it will also give you every spell in game, so have fun with your MASSIVE new spell book.

If you just want all the perks in the skill tree, I know player.advlevel wont give you perks, but you could try

player.advskill  

which could give you a "legit" level which might yield perks, then mod your way back down to the level you want to be at. Though you would have to mod your skills down and advance them again, since the levels you would gain by maxing out all of them wouldn't be enough to get you all of the perks. Still time consuming, but not quite as much as searching for and adding every perk manually.

That's a fair point. Although I don't want all of the spells and the other method is as you said, time consuming.

But you DID give me an idea!

Are there skillbooks that give you a spendable perk point or two? Or a "perkbook" as it were.

Moderators/Administrators, please delete ONLY this part of the post if it's against the rules or ToS/ToU: The reason I'm asking is because a friend and I are trying to make a PC Save Editor (As opposed to trainers, which I believe are illegal and I DISLIKE) for the game and as far as I know, Bethesda is mod-friendly. (I would assume they are also okay with save modding/editing.) So to that end, we are looking in and researching the save and its values/offsets. Being able to give ourselves a certain amount of perk points would make it much easier to find inside of the file. This would help and benefit the PC Modding community.

Edit: Thanks for the quick responses and the help so far Shizzleicious!

why would you want to do this??? Why cheat your way through the game?

I haven't found any "perkbooks" in my travels, but If you are trying to provide all of the perks you get via skills, it might be worth the effort. It doesn't take THAT long, I did it myself just to mess around with them and it only took me a little over an hour. If you want to be able to do it for future saves, you can just make a text file with all of the player.addperk commands on a separate line, put that file in the main skyrim folder (where the .exe is) and call it via

bat filename.txt

in the in-game console and it will execute all of the commands saved in the file, so you can use it for other saves.

edit:

why would you want to do this??? Why cheat your way through the game?

Because some people find cheating fun? We can't all be bothered to earn everything legitimately, and there's plenty of fun to be had in scenarios that can only happen via cheating. It's also a good way to scope out an aspect of the game for say, a future character, to see if its worth the effort before you waste your time to find out that its not.

That is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

As it is our game that we paid for (I bought both the PC AND Xbox 360 versions to support Bethesda), we can play however we want, except in illegal ways or through illegal means. If it's not against the rules or laws, then there's no reason that we couldn't or shouldn't. Not to mention that this is a single-player game.


Thank you this response. This is FANTASTIC news and dare I say, even better than what I was looking for!

Could you perhaps private message me a detailed tutorial on how to do that method since I didn't quite fully understand it? I would love to be able to do that for future saves. Brilliant!

Also, thanks for backing me up in the edit of your post. I've been using cheat device since the GAME GENIE (I believe that was the first ever cheat device) and I'm not about to stop now. Besides, I have played many games legitimately before and I still do. I'm playing legitimately on Xbox 360 (Although there is indeed a way to edit Xbox 360 saves, but it's against the EULA, apparently and so I cannot go into detail on that.) and I use console commands on PC version. Nothing wrong with that!