Easy Cheat for Skills, Perks, Stamina, Magika, and Health

Are you tired of grinding skill levels just so you can learn to deflect arrows with a shield? Sick of stealth-attacking Ralof waiting to learn the Deadly Aim perk? Well then this bat file code is what you need! Instantly sets all your levels to 100! Then you can choose your own levelup rewards (health, magicka, or stamina) AND you keep the perk points after you reset your skills to Legendary. Can be used multiple times for increased perks and h/m/s gains.

How to Use this Cheat

This cheat will NOT add anything to your inventory. It will NOT affect any of your quests. It will work with ANY mods (or no mods) whether official or community made. It will NOT affect your graphics, sound, or any other technical aspect of the game.

Now if you want a PURE cheating experience that only affects your character's skills and levels, without "breaking the game" in any way, that is what this is for. All it does is max out all of your skill levels. That's it. But it does it in such a way that the game will recognize them as being "naturally earned" and so you will gain the associated levelup like normal, the next time you open your Skills menu. This will allow you to earn perk points AND choose whether to increase your magicka, health, or stamina for each individual levelup that you gain.

Here is how it is done:

1. create a text file in your favorite word processor or text editor. Name the file something you will remember, such as "skillcheat.txt" but DO NOT have any spaces or special characters in the file name - letters and numbers ONLY. Save the blank file in your Skyrim\Data folder.
   
2. copy the code lines below and paste them into the text file. There should be NO other text in your file... see the final section of this guide for a note on this.
   
3. save the text file again. Remember the filename! "skillcheat.txt" or something equally easy to remember.
   
4. run the game, load your save - you MUST be at some point after they untie your hands during the opening sequence when the Imperials behead the other priosner.
   
5. open the console using the `~ key.
   
6. type the code "bat skillcheat" but leave out the quotes (duh) and then hit enter. Close the console by hitting the `~ button one more time. **See note below
   
7. BAM! Instant levelup for all your skills.
   
8. If you require more perk points than the game "normally" allows, you can now set all your skills to Legendary. This will revert them all to level 15 and return any spent perk points to you so you can use them again.
   
9. After your skills are Legendary, repeat steps 5 to 8 as often as you want. This allows you to level past the normal cap of 81 or whatever it is so you can get more than 1000 on each of your vital stats AND earn enough perk points to buy every skill in the game.
   
10. after you hit level 235-ish, SAVE YOUR GAME! If you accidentally go over 253, your available perk points get reset to zero which defeats the whole purpose of this cheat!
    
11. leave a few skills at level 100 instead of making them Legendary for the next run, so you gain fewer total levels and may avoid resetting your perks. Whichever skills you leave at 100, you should spend some points to fill out their perks now.
    
12. when you feel like you have enough magicka, stamina, health, and perk points you have to make a choice: you can either continue on with all skills set to 100 already, or else you can set some or all of them to Legendary one more time and let them grow naturally through the rest of the game. Whatever works for you is fine.

** If you named your file something other than "skillcheat.txt" you will use that filename for the bat code instead. Open the console, type "bat <filename>" but remember to leave off the .txt part.

The next section has the lines of code needed to make this cheat work. Happy dragon hunting!

Code List

Copy and paste this list into a TEXT (.txt) file. Name it something you will remember, like cheatfilename.txt. Put the file into your Skyrim/Data folder. Run Skyrim and once you are in the game, open the console and use the code "bat cheatfilename" to get the effects. Effects are: instant level 100 to all skills. That is all.


advskill Alchemy 2000000
advskill Conjuration 2000000
advskill Destruction 2000000
advskill Restoration 2000000
advskill Illusion 2000000
advskill Alteration 2000000
advskill Enchanting 2000000
advskill Smithing 2000000
advskill Lockpicking 2000000
advskill Pickpocket 2000000
advskill Sneak 2000000
advskill OneHanded 2000000
advskill TwoHanded 2000000
advskill Block 2000000
advskill HeavyArmor 2000000
advskill Marksman 2000000
advskill SpeechCraft 2000000
advskill LightArmor 2000000

A word of WARNING

The first time you use this code, you will likely gain about 80 levels. After the first use of this code, you will gain fewer levels with each run. At level 200 if you run the cheat again you will probably gain about 17 levels instead of the huge number you got from the first and second runs. Still, it works. To unlock ALL perks, you will need to reach level 252, because there are 251 available perks in the game and you get your first perk point at level 2 (because you start at level 1 not level zero). BEWARE: going over 252 will reset your perk points to zero!! So, when you reach level 235 or so, if you are planning to go all the way to 252, leave a few skills at 100 instead of making them legendary on the next run. Then use your available points to fill out those skills' perks, thus reducing the chances that you will accidentally hit 253 and lose all your available perk points. Depending what level you were when you started using this cheat, it will take some fine-tuning to get it right. So SAVE YOUR GAME when you hit level 235!

You can level past 253 to gain more magicka, health, and stamina, but the game limits the AVAILABLE perk points (the ones left for you to use) at 252. If you USE those perk points, then the activated perks are safe and will not reset. You just cannot have more than 252 available points at any time or they reset to zero.

No-Perks, Just Stats

If magicka, health, and stamina are all you want, without the perk bonus, there are other codes that will do that. Try these instead of messing with perks...

player.modav health 1000000000000
player.modav stamina 1000000000000
player.modav magicka 1000000000000
player.modav carryweight 1000000000000

You can set the values to whatever you need. 10^12 will be "infinite" for all practical purposes, but you can set it to a lower value (say 5000) if you want to avoid the whole "God Mode is for weaklings" issue. Or set it to a lower value for an increased challenge (can you beat the game with just 10 health?) You can also use these codes to lower your stats by putting a negative number in there. The modav code is an ADDITION engine. The setav code is a DIRECT CHANGE engine.

I will warn you again: god mode is an issue for some people who feel like it completely breaks the game. SO, rather than starting with such a huge number, try something like 5000 first, and then if you want more you can add more later. Removing stats after you add them is a bit of a challenge. You have to use a NEGATIVE number that is basically 1 less than what you added. So...
player.modav health 100000000000 - adds a TON of health, too much, want to lower it...
player.modav health -99999999999 - removes all but 1 of the health you just added...
player.setav health 20000 - sets your health directly to a "less invincible but still tough" value.

Other uses for the code list

This list includes ALL of the skill names for you, so you don't have to look them up later. Notice how each name is spelled, some are different from the way they appear in your game's skill menu. If there are other codes you want to use with skill names, now you know how to spell them all. Yay.

If you only want to gain a few levels instead of all 100, you can change the value 2000000 to something lower, say 12000 or so.

If you have additional codes that you want to run all at once, and run them several times, you can paste them into the same text file with this list! Then using the bat code will give you all skill levelups PLUS whatever other cheat effects you included yourself, without having to type them all in 20 times. I CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE for any side-effects of mixing additional code lines! Modify this list at your own risk!

[autism crime]

mkay, i was just wondering about file placement. Thanks!

[Mr. Moyer]

If it is in the correct folder but still the console says it is not finding it, try changing the filename to something a bit longer maybe?? Also, no spaces or special characters allowed in the filename. And make sure it is not saved in a different format like .docx or .csv or something weird. It also cannot contain any extra text in the file (such as a title and description) - ONLY lines of code for it to work properly.

[Mr. Moyer]

The list of codes you want to use has to be saved as a TXT file inside the game's Data folder, not on your desktop or in your documents folder. Should be like this: "...Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Data\yay.txt" Then you can run "bat yay" from the in-game console and it should work.
It should work for ANY text file, bat <filename> should just paste the contents of the text file into the console. So even if your file just said "hello dolly" instead of a list of codes it should still find the file, it will just not recognize it as a valid command so it will not do anything in the game.

[autism crime]

Update:
the command "bat yay" doesn't work at all for some reason. it just says it doesn't exist in my skyrim folder.. was there something i missed?

[Mr. Moyer]

Yes

[autism crime]

so "bat yay"
got it

[Mr. Moyer]

@Gundamliam: yes.

[autism crime]

So, if i named my file "yay" (which i did) would the command be "bat yay" or something else?

[Mr. Moyer]

Glad you got the numbers you wanted. :)

[K1eaner]

Hello, thank you for replying so promptly, apologies on my end for the late reply.

I tried the setav command as you requested, it didn't work.

BUT, the modav command with the -9999 option worked perfectly.

So, in conclusion, to reverse the stats to 50,000. I did the following.

First,

player.setav health 50000
player.setav magicka 50000
player.setav stamina 50000

Then, I did the following

player.modav health -999999999999
player.modav stamina -999999999999
player.modav magicka -999999999999

All three stats are now at 50,000.

Cheers.