Settings

As you can see, there are hundreds of game settings. Some are relatively innocent, such as fSneakSleepBonus, which determines the Sneak bonus an actor gets if the target is sleeping. Others can break the game in a heartbeat. Be very careful with any changes to make to these settings.

Game settings use a naming convention which identifies what kind of data the setting accepts. "f" settings are floats (numbers with decimals), "i" settings are integers (whole numbers) and "s" settings are strings.

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Note to EditorsEdit

When documenting new settings, please try to add the setting to an existing page documenting a group of related settings. If the setting does not fit well with any existing pages, consider what other settings exist (that may be undocumented) that relate to the new setting, create a new page to document all of the settings as a group, and add this new group as its own category here. Please refer to existing settings pages for stylistic guidance (fWeaponConditionJamXX and Experience Settings are good examples).

Actor SettingsEdit

These are settings related to actors.

Derived Statistic SettingsEdit

These settings control various Derived Statistics, such as default skill levels, weight carrying capacity, action points, etc.

Derived Skill SettingsEdit

Derived Skill Settings control actor skill value bonuses given by stats and starting skill values.

fAVDTagSkillBonus
fAVDSkillPrimaryBonusMult
fAVDSkillLuckBonusMult
fAVDSkillBarterBase
fAVDSkillBigGunsBase
fAVDSkillEnergyWeaponsBase
fAVDSkillExplosivesBase
fAVDSkillLockpickBase
fAVDSkillLuckBonusBase
fAVDSkillMedicineBase
fAVDSkillMeleeWeaponsBase
fAVDSkillRepairBase
fAVDSkillScienceBase
fAVDSkillSmallGunsBase
fAVDSkillSneakBase
fAVDSkillSpeechBase
fAVDSkillUnarmedBase

Movement SettingsEdit

Movement Settings control how fast actors move.

fMoveRunMult
fMoveSneakMult
fMoveNoWeaponMult
fMoveOneCrippledLegSpeedMult
fMoveTwoCrippledLegsSpeedMult

AI SettingsEdit

These settings govern how actors behave in the gameworld.

fCombatFollowRadiusMult

Guard Package SettingsEdit

These settings apply to actors running the Guard Package

Health SettingsEdit

fAVDHealthLevelMult - short: used for calculating new HP when advance a level. A static base.
fAVDNPCHealthLevelMult - short: the same (?) for NPC
fAVDHealthEnduranceMult - short: used for calculating new HP when advance a level based on Endurance
fAVDNPCHealthEnduranceMult - short: the same (?) for NPC
fAVDNPCHealthEnduranceOffset - ???

Sandbox Package SettingsEdit

These settings apply to actors running the Sandbox Package

iSandBoxPreventRepeatedActionTime
iSandboxBreakfastMax
iSandboxBreakfastMin
iSandboxDinnerMax
iSandboxDinnerMin
iSandboxLunchMax
iSandboxLunchMin
iSandboxMealDurationMax
iSandboxMealDurationMin
iSandboxSleepDurationMax
iSandboxSleepDurationMin
iSandboxSleepStartMax
iSandboxSleepStartMin

Experience SettingsEdit

Experience Settings control how much experience the player gains from certain actions and how much experience is required to level.

iXPBase
iXPBumpBase

Leveled Item SettingsEdit

iLevItemLevelDifferenceMax

Combat SettingsEdit

VATS SettingsEdit

VATS Settings control the behavior of VATS

fVATSAutomaticMeleeDamageMult
fVATSCriticalChanceBonus
fVATSDamageToWeaponMult
fVATSDestructibleMult
fVATSDistanceFactor
fVATSH2HWarpDistanceMult
fVATSHitChanceMult
fVATSMaxChance
fVATSMaxEngageDistance
fVATSMeleeMaxDistance
fVATSMeleeReachMult
fVATSParalyzePalmChance
fVATSPlayerDamageMult
fVATSShotBurstTime
fVATSShotLongBurstTime
fVATSSkillFactor
fVATSSpreadMult
fVATSStealthMult
fVATSStrangerDistance
fVATSStrangerOdds
iVATSStrangerMaxHP
iVATSConcentratedFireBonus

Mine SettingsEdit

Mine Settings control the behavior of mines placed in the game world, either in the editor or by actors.

fMinesAgeMax
fMinesDelayMin
fMineExteriorRadiusMult

Weapon SettingsEdit

Auto Aim SettingsEdit

Auto Aim Settings are used to configure the auto-aim feature.

fAutoAimMaxDegrees
fAutoAimMaxDegrees3rdPerson
fAutoAimMaxDegreesMelee
fAutoAimMaxDegreesMiss
fAutoAimMaxDegreesVATS
fAutoAimMaxDistance
fAutoAimMeleeChaseMult
fAutoAimMissRatioHigh
fAutoAimMissRatioLow
fAutoAimScreenPercentage

Weapon DamageEdit

These settings are used in the Weapon Damage Formula to calculate weapon damage.

fAVDMeleeDamageStrengthMult
fAVDMeleeDamageStrengthOffset
fDamageGunWeapCondMult
fDamageGunWeapCondBase
fDamageMeleeWeapCondMult
fDamageMeleeWeapCondBase
fDamageSkillBase
fDamageSkillMult
fDamageWeaponMult
fAVDUnarmedDamageBase
fAVDUnarmedDamageMult

Weapon Critical Hit ChanceEdit

These settings are used in the Critical Hit Chance Formula.

fWeaponConditionCriticalChanceMult
fAVDCritLuckMult
fAVDCritLuckBase
fVATSCriticalChanceBonus

Gun Spread SettingsEdit

These settings are used in the Gun Spread Formula to determine how well the actor can aim their gun. The higher the resulting value, the more the gun will wave around while the actor is holding it.

fGunSpreadSkillBase
fGunSpreadSkillMult
fGunSpreadIronSightsBase
fGunSpreadIronSightsMult
fGunSpreadArmBase
fGunSpreadArmMult
fGunSpreadRunBase
fGunSpreadRunMult
fGunSpreadWalkBase
fGunSpreadWalkMult
fGunSpreadCrouchBase
fGunSpreadCrouchMult
fGunSpreadCondBase
fGunSpreadCondMult

Rate of FireEdit

fWeaponConditionRateOfFireXX settings control the rate of fire for guns based on the condition of the weapon.

fWeaponConditionRateOfFire1
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire2
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire3
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire4
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire5
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire6
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire7
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire8
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire9
fWeaponConditionRateOfFire10

Jamming After ReloadEdit

fWeaponConditionReloadJamXX settings control the chance your weapon has to jam after reloading based on the condition of your weapon. Note that weapons with the "No jam after reload" flag set on the weapon form ignore these settings.

fWeaponConditionReloadJam1
fWeaponConditionReloadJam2
fWeaponConditionReloadJam3
fWeaponConditionReloadJam4
fWeaponConditionReloadJam5
fWeaponConditionReloadJam6
fWeaponConditionReloadJam7
fWeaponConditionReloadJam8
fWeaponConditionReloadJam9
fWeaponConditionReloadJam10

Jamming While FiringEdit

fWeaponConditionJamXX settings control the chance your weapon will jam instead of firing based on the condition of your weapon. There is currently a bug affecting game play using automatic weapons when these settings are enabled, and they are all set to 0 by default because of this.

fWeaponConditionJam1
fWeaponConditionJam2
fWeaponConditionJam3
fWeaponConditionJam4
fWeaponConditionJam5
fWeaponConditionJam6
fWeaponConditionJam7
fWeaponConditionJam8
fWeaponConditionJam9
fWeaponConditionJam10

Non-Actor Activatable Objects SettingsEdit

Lock SettingsEdit

iLockLevelMaxXXX settings control the description that the interface uses to describe a locked object, based on the lock difficulty.

iLockLevelMaxVeryEasy
iLockLevelMaxEasy
iLockLevelMaxAverage
iLockLevelMaxHard
iLockLevelMaxVeryHard
iLockLevelMaxImpossible

MiscellaneousEdit

Barter SystemEdit

These settings are used in the Barter System Formula.

fBarterBuyBase
fBarterBuyMult
fBarterSellBase
fBarterSellMult

Item Value and ConditionEdit

These settings are used to compute Item_Condition_And_Value.

fItemConditionValueBase
fItemConditionValueMult
fItemConditionValueExp

Uncategorized SettingsEdit

Floating Point Numeral SettingsEdit

Integer Numeral Game SettingsEdit

Character String Game SettingsEdit

Unused SettingsEdit

These settings were probably carried over from Oblivion, or superseded by other settings, and are not actually used anymore.

fDamageStrengthBase
fDamageStrengthMult

fMoveLegConditionMult

New Vegas Only SettingsEdit

These settings exist only in Fallout: New Vegas. This section is not comprehensive, nor intended to have any great degree of permanency- it should probably be rearranged.

fMinDamMultiplier

fHCDehydrationRate

fHCStarvationrate

fHCSleepDeprevationRate

iHUDMaxCompassNPCTicks