Tolfdir not spawning at saarthal?

[Skyrnir]

Ok Ive done all the qusetlines including the main quest except for college of witnterhold. Tolfdir wil not spawn at saarthal. ive tried waiting and fast traveling

[HS]

Try reloading.

[bobczes]

Occasionally, Tolfdir may not show up at all and the quest will be stuck because he cannot unlock Saarthal. This may be triggered by Tolfdir fighting an animal nearby and remaining at that position.

Use the console command prid 0001C1A1 followed by moveto player to solve this issue.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Under_Saarthal

[brumbalbee]

Originally posted by bobczes:

Occasionally, Tolfdir may not show up at all and the quest will be stuck because he cannot unlock Saarthal. This may be triggered by Tolfdir fighting an animal nearby and remaining at that position.

Use the console command prid 0001C1A1 followed by moveto player to solve this issue.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Under_Saarthal

How is this supposed to be typed in?

[|||R D X|||]

Originally posted by bobczes:

Occasionally, Tolfdir may not show up at all and the quest will be stuck because he cannot unlock Saarthal. This may be triggered by Tolfdir fighting an animal nearby and remaining at that position.

Use the console command prid 0001C1A1 followed by moveto player to solve this issue.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Under_Saarthal

thats just the dumbest way to put a command couldnt u just put it in there for him to copy paste? even i dont know how to do that and am having the same issue

[|||R D X|||]

Originally posted by hvar:

Try reloading.

arent u the helpful one GENIUS come on u can do better we aint dumb to not try tthat ! that doesnt help solve ♥♥♥♥

[strangerblues]

Using console is ultima ratio, normally wait some hours and Tolfdir will appear.

[258789553873]

Tolfdir doesn't 'spawn' at Sarthaal, he walks there from the college.

To open the console, press the ~ key. This will bring up a transparent black box at the bottom of your screen. You can press the ~ key again to make it go away. While its up, your game will be completely paused and you can type stuff in it.

For entering refIDs, you don't need to type the leading 0s. Thus for 0001c1a1, you just have to type 1c1a1. And no, the console isn't case sensitive to my knowledge.

As for what was said above, you need to use two commands. First, you type in:

prid 1c1a1

Those numbers should appear at the top of the console. That means you now have Tolfdir selected. Note that you can also select things by clicking on them (though you'll often end up selecting the wrong thing when you do that, such as the fog you're in rather than the character you clicked on).

Anyway, moving on, you then type in this:

moveto player

This will teleport the selected npc to your location.

If you want to know the most useful command for the console, its this:

tcl

It turns off collision. This is immeasurably useful whenever you get stuck somewhere, and that happens fairly often. I can't even begin to imagine how people manage to play this game on console (as in a video game console) without that command to free themselves every time they get stuck. Without that, their only options are to re-load or fast travel, the latter of which isn't always possible.

[no1schmo]

What are you doing that you get stuck all the time? I've rarely had that happen and I have never used tlc.

[258789553873]

Walking around doing quests. This game is filled with places you can get stuck. Probably the most infamous is that one falmer hut in some cave that you can enter, but not walk out of! That thing is really infamous since you can't fast travel to escape, because its in an interior cell! If you walk into that one hut, you have to reload to escape. Unless, of course, you can use the tcl command to escape. Most of the time though I get caught on rocks in the wilderness.