Endurance is one of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes in Fallout New Vegas (FNV). Read on to see how to increase and decrease Endurance using console command, what it does, how to increase Endurance, all Endurance levels and their effects, as well as all Endurance-based skills and perks.

What Does Endurance Do?

What Does Endurance Do?
Affects the Survival and Unarmed Skill Better Resistance Against Poison and Radiation Increases Health Dictates Affinity Towards Implants

Affects the Survival and Unarmed Skill

Investing in Endurance gives the Courier more skill points for survival and unarmed. Living in the wasteland requires you to adapt to situations where you are bare-naked, and Endurance promotes that!

Better Resistance Against Poison and Radiation

With a high enough Endurance, the Courier can withstand high doses of radiation and poison. Cesspools of radiation and taking a sting from a radscorpion is the everyday situation in the Mojave, so your body needs to adjust and nullify the potency of poison and radiation.

Increases Health

Surviving the Mojave's hazards requires your skin to be thick in a literal sense. With the right amount of Endurance, you will have enough health to shrug off a hail of bullets!

Dictates Affinity Towards Implants

Augmenting your body requires a seasoned body and a will of steel. With each point you have Endurance, you can install an additional implant from Dr. Usanagi. For example, if you have 7 Endurance, you can have seven implants as your body can handle them!

How to Increase Endurance

How to Increase Endurance
Buy Implants Wear Armor

Buy Implants to Permanently Increase Endurance

You can permanently increase your Endurance by buying the Nociception Regulator implants from Dr. Usanagi at the New Vegas Medical Center.

It costs around 3,000 - 4,000 caps, so make sure you have enough before you employ her help.

Money Farming Guide
How to Get Caps Fast

Wear Armor to Temporarily Increase Endurance

If you don't have the right amount of bottle caps yet, you can rely on a variety of armor to temporarily increase your Endurance.

Here is a list of armor that you can equip to increase your Endurance temporarily.

List of All Armor

Endurance Console Command

Increase Endurance Command

You can use the command above to permanently increase your Endurance in the game.

Simply hit the tilde (~) button on your keyboard to open the console. Then, type the command above and the value you want to add to your Endurance.

Decrease Endurance Command

Likewise, you can decrease your Endurance using the same command. Just make sure that the value you add at the end is negative.

Endurance Levels

Levels and Skill Modifiers

Endurance-Based Skills and Perks

All Endurance-Based Perks

Best Perks and List of Perks

All Endurance-Based Skills

Skill	Benefits
Survival	Effectiveness of Food and Drinks + Crafting Recipes
Unarmed	Effectiveness of Melee Weapons

Best Starting Skills and List of Skills

Fallout New Vegas Related Guides

Best Starting SPECIAL Stats and
SPECIAL Explained

All SPECIAL Attributes

All SPECIAL Attributes
Strength	Perception	Endurance
Charisma	Intelligence	Agility
Luck	-	-