To bring up the cheats console during gameplay, hit the tilde (~) key.

Then, insert the cheat listed below on the left for the corresponding result on the right. addspecialpoints X - Add indicated amount of Special Points (X = amount) addtagskills X - Adds indicated amount of Tag Skill Points (X = amount) advlevel - Level up your character one level GetQuestCompleted - Complete current quest getXPfornextlevel - Gain one level help - List all console commands modpca Y X - Add indicated amount of points to your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats (Y = stat type, X = amount) modpcs Y X - Add indicated amount of points to your skills (Y = stat type, X = amount) player.setlevel X - Set player level (X = level) player.additem 000000F X - Get indicated amount of caps (X = amount) removefromallfactions - Remove player from all factions rewardKarma X - Add indicated amount of Karma Points (X = amount) setpccanusepowerarmor X - Toggle Power Armor use (X = 0 or 1) setspecialpoints X - Set Special Points (X = amount) settagskills X - Sets Tag Skill Points (X = amount) tcl - No clipping mode tmm1 - All mapmarkers tdt - Toggle debug display tlv - Toggle leaves tgm - God mode For a list of weapons, armors, items, etc., please click on this archived article. Submitted by Policia24, Alex Soto Cheat: Infinite Experience in Big Town Heres a glitch that will allow you to get infinite amounts of experience (as long as your Speech skill is high enough). Try the following steps: 1.) - Go to Big Town and find the NPC named Pappy. 2.) - Select the dialogue choice You came here with Bittercup, right? If this dialogue choice doesnt show up, find Bittercup, exhaust all of her conversation chains, and then try speaking with Pappy again. ([Speech 100%] should appear next to the dialogue choice if your Speech skill is at its highest. If its not there yet, dont risk trying to convince him. Speech failure will result in this glitch permanently disappearing.) 3.) - Selecting that dialogue option successfully will net you six experience points. Speak to him again and you can get the experience again. Repeat as much as you want for as much experience as you want.

Submitted by Wootacular Hint: V.A.T.S. Spotting If youre heading into seemingly-hostile territory or simply want to survey the area around you for enemies you might not yet see, try hitting the VATS button over and over again as you make your character turn around, searching all angles. Doing so will alert you to any enemies you may not yet see by zooming in on them in VATS mode. Youll realistically be unable to do damage to your foes from such a distance, but its a good way to spot foes before they spot you so you know what youre getting yourself into before the crap hits the fan. Submitted by Colin Moriarty Hint: Hacking Indefinitely Heres a great tip (though it will be obvious for some people).When you hack a computer in the game, you have four tries to hack it successfully. If you dont hack it successfully on the fourth attempt (as in, you dont guess the proper password), the station youre trying to hack will permanently shut down. But if you only try three times and bail out of the process before trying for a fourth time, the password will reset, giving you three more options. You can do this indefinitely without risking shutting the terminal down. Submitted by Tonyman13us Hint: Extra Inventory Space If youre running out of room in your inventory and dont want to ditch any of your gear, consider trying to find a companion character. These companions can be found at various places throughout the world and will agree to join you on your journey (temporarily). You can trade equipment with these characters, which will allow you to dump your equipment on them, making you virtually unencumbered. Consider this option when you not only need help with bad guys, but help carrying your crap as well! Submitted by TheWarmWind Hint: Carrying Goods Heres an interesting way to avoid becoming encumbered by holding too much gear and too many items. Say you pick up a heavy piece of gear, like forty pound Power Armor, but when its added to your inventory, it makes you encumbered. Drop the item and then press the right analog stick (or corresponding button for PC gamers) to pick the item up and hold it in front of you. Since its being held and is therefore not part of your inventory, you wont be charged for its weight and can get to where you need to go from there without being too encumbered. Submitted by jtbuduc Hint: Infinite Experience in Andale To try this, youll need to have the Mister Sandman perk activated, which will mean you have to be at least at level ten. Youll also need a sneak skill of at least 60. If that fits your character, then travel to Andale. Andale is full of kids that cant be killed (killing kids in Fallout 3 is an impossibility). During nighttime, when everyone in Andale is sleeping, break into various houses and kill the kids while sleeping using the Mister

Sandman perk. They wont die, but youll still be rewarded experience for having killed them. You can then repeat the process over and over again for infinite experience points. Submitted by zerratar Hint: Stowing Goods on Dead Bodies Heres another great technique, if youre carrying too much stuff and find yourself encumbered. You know how you can search downed enemies corpses for the goods they carry? Well, you can also place your own goods onto the corpse. Since corpses tend to stay around after they die seemingly indefinitely (or, at least, for a good long time), you can drop presently unneeded items onto the corpse of a foe youve slain, and then go back at a later date to get your stuff back. This is a great way to never become encumbered. Submitted by anthum_dbd Hint: Never Break A Bobby Pin If you want to avoid breaking precious Bobby Pins when picking various locks in Fallout 3, exercise patience. If youve failed opening the lock on the first two tries, chances are a third try will break the Bobby Pin. If you back out of trying to pick the lock and then immediately reattempt it, however, your Bobby Pins strength will reestablish itself, giving you several more tries. Repeat this technique to never break a Bobby Pin. Submitted by Lost Fox Hint: Super Mutant Behemoth Locations The games five Super Mutant Behemoths can be found at the following five locations: Evergreen Mills, Galaxy News Radio, Jury Station, Takoma Industrial, and The Capitol Building. Submitted by trapper40 Hint: Free Evil Items at Paradise Falls If you have bad karma (or dont mind having even worse karma), head over to Paradise Falls, a place a group of evil slavers call home. To gain entrance without having to open fire, you have to be friendly with the slavers, which will give you an evil slant. But if you can do this, youll find a guy endlessly walking around the settlement (hes usually at or near the bar, but can be elsewhere). When you get near him, hell stop you automatically, tell you he found some cool stuff on a recent raid, and give you some of what he got (it will be either some ammunition, Bottle Caps, or various aid items). After your first encounter, all you have to do is keep speaking to him to earn more and more free stuff. Submitted by Sock1990 Hint: Unlimited Items If you have a sneak rating of at least 60, you can attempt this infinite goods trick, which takes place at Fort Independence. Head to Fort Independence with a bunch of Scrap Metal in your inventory. Once there, speak with Protector Casdin and tell him youve got junk youd like to give him. In return, hell offer up 5.56mm Rounds, Frag Grenades, RadAways, and Stimpaks, and you can choose which you want. Then, save your game

(in case you fail the following) and steal your Scrap Metal back from the Protector. Sell the Scrap Metal back to him over and over again, thereby netting you infinite amounts of 5.56mm ammunition, Frag Grenades, RadAways and Stimpaks. Submitted by zerratar Hint: Finding Dogmeat If you want your character to have a pet dog in the game, then head over to an area known as Scrapyard, which is northeast from Megaton, just over the river. The dog is automatically named Dogmeat, and you can get him at any time, whether its early in the game or otherwise. The dog can attack enemies endlessly and cannot die. An amendment from druidfire1: Dogmeat can die. Keep him healed using Stimpaks! Once hes dead, hes dead for good. Submitted by Director5by5 Hint: Boosting Your Experience Heres a great (albeit cheap) way to gain lots of experience. Before you do anything thats going to net you some experience (such as picking locks, hacking, et cetera), change the games difficulty setting to Very Hard. Then, hack the computer or pick the lock (or whatever). Successfully doing so on a harder difficulty level will get you more experience. You can also utilize this technique on mortally-wounded enemies to gain more experience from them as well. Just be sure to change the difficulty back to a more manageable level when youre done! Submitted by JayaloneXboxLive Hint: Infinite Good Karma Outside of towns like Rivet City and Megaton, you can find thirsty Wastelanders who ask you for Purified Water. Each time you give these guys a bottle, you will get a slight boost to your karma. Do it more and more, and youll gain more and more karma. You can theoretically do this as much as you want to any of these thirsty characters for as much positive karma as you desire. Submitted by Ndangerous