Debug Console and Commands Guide (WIP)

Overview

This guide covers the recently discovered debug console and the commands that can be used: spawn rideable mounts, enemies, change player skills, assign spells, alter levels, alter your party, add NPCs, etc.

NOTICE

Any feature that is exclusive to Definitive Edition is clearly noted in the new guide.

Unlocking the Command Console

In order to access the built-in console in the first place, you will need a small modification to be able to open it in-game — here are your options.

DQXIhook by the Orchestral Overhaul Team

**NOTE for Special K users: check the instructions in the link above, rename “dxgi.dll” to “dinput8.dll”. Then, add this section to the end of “dxgi.ini” in the same directory:

Universal UE4 Unlocker [UUU]

Once you have one of these modifications installed, you can press the tilde (~) key in-game and a console will pop up at the bottom of the screen. Press it again, and it will open completely:

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Press it once more to close the console.

Adding/Changing Party Members, Guest NPCs

As you (probably) know, there are many points in the game where a character will join your party for a short time, they’ll follow you around in the overworld, and basically do their own thing in battle. Now we have a way of adding them to your party at any point! But here’s the caveat: you can only have 2 in your party at a time. Unlike the switch version, you cannot have 8 party members follow you in the overworld. This was not some feature that was “removed” or “toggled off” in the PC version, after all

Here’s the command syntax:

GuestNpcJoin <GuestID>

Example: Get Gemma and Sandy as party members

Removing a Guest NPC:

GuestNpcLeave <GuestID>

FriendJoin <CharacterID>

Example: Have Jade join the party before Octagonia

**NOTE: any characters added with FriendJoin are reset to level 1 (including characters already in your party)!

Removing a character from your party:

FriendLeave <CharacterID>

To keep their equipped items:

FriendLeaveKeepItems <CharacterID>

Spawning a Rideable Mount

Please ride responsibly.

Command syntax:

VehicleSpawn <VehicleID>

Example: Spawn a purple dragon

Changing Character Skills/Spells (WIP)

Many people have specifically requested a way to “Reawaken” Serena in Act 3, lamenting that she loses her Mage/Sage skills for more powerful healing abilities. Now, we have a way to address that.

We have a couple commands for this: “SetFlag” and “ActionLearn”. SetFlag has a lot of potential for altering not only player states, but game states as well. Much of this we are still learning about.

ActionLearn can be used to give any player character any ability or spells in the game (including monster-exclusive spells/abilities). However, if that player character does not have any animation assigned for that skill, they will stand there and do nothing (effectively wasting a turn). For spells, ActionLearn requires the Japanese name of the spell (you’ll need to use Google / Dragon Quest wiki for this).

For our example, let’s go ahead and “reawaken” Serena:

TokugiPoint <CharacterID> <SkillPoint#>

<SkillPoint#> can be 1 – 1000 (this is the total number of skill points, including those already allocated to skills)

Example: Give Rab 600 skill points

ActionLearn <CharacterID> <ActionID>

Example: Teach Jade both ‘Kazing’ and ‘Kamikazee’

Unlocking Zoom Locations

Just like in the last section, we’re going to use ActionLearn and SetFlag to unlock Zoom locations. Normally the game sets these flags when you first visit a location so you can warp back, but now we can unlock all areas right from the get-go (and enable some major sequence breaks in the game as a result).

Let’s make sure our character(s) know the Zoom spell first:

ActionLearn <CharacterID> Rura

Now let’s unlock the locations:

Unlock all locations:

SetFlag “System” “/Rura/RuraXXXX” 1

Example(s): Teach “Zoom” to Erik, unlock “Nautica” and “The Last Bastion” Zoom locations

Other warp points / shortcuts / “inaccessible” locations

Example: Warp to The Seer’s Sanctuary

Alter character levels

Similar to the “Changing Character Skills” section, you can also alter a character’s levels (research is still being made into changing a character’s growth stats, so stay tuned). Here’s the syntax:

LevelSet <CharacterID> <Level#>

<Level#> can be 1 – 99

Example: Set Veronica to level 42

Obtaining Items / Equipment (WIP)

ForceGetItem <ItemID> <ItemCount>

Example: Get 12 of every item in the game

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Example: Seeds for stat growth

I_USE_030 – Seed of Life
I_USE_031 – Seed of Magic
I_USE_032 – Seed of Strength
I_USE_033 – Seed of Deftness
I_USE_034 – Seed of Agility
I_USE_035 – Seed of Defense
I_USE_036 – Seed of Sorcery
I_USE_037 – Seed of Therapeusis
I_USE_038 – Seed of Skill
I_USE_039 – Pretty Betsy (boosts charm)

Example: Get 50 Seeds of Strength

Custom Battles

Ever wish you could re-fight a boss later in the game, or better yet: a boss rush mode? Now you can!

First off, you can spawn any enemy anywhere (even in towns!), but unless they’re in the overworld or somewhere that is designated by the game as a “battlefield” you won’t be able to fight them. Instead they’ll be friendly, and townsfolk won’t even bat an eye to their presence.

To spawn in the overworld:

To spawn another enemy during an active battle:

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Miscellaneous

This covers all the little things we’ve missed so far:

Disable random encounters when sailing

Triple the game speed (everything is faster, including monsters!)

Change your main character’s name (without creating a new file!) — changes the name on your saves as well. The new name can be as long as you want and contain anything.

Set your gold to <GoldAmount>

Set your character’s HP to <HP#> (see above for <CharacterID>)

Set your character’s MP to <MP#> (see above for <CharacterID>)

Instantly change the time of day, wherever you’re at, no campsite or inn required!

Example(s):
ForceSetWorldTime 12 0 0 0 –> Set time to midday
ForceSetWorldTime 24 0 0 1 –> Set time to midnight and reset NPCs

Reset back to the title screen (useful if you softlock)

Credits and Resources

The credit for the vast majority of these discoveries go to KomodoXeno[www.nexusmods.com] of the Dragon Quest XI Modding Community

Additional information and resources can be found at:
[link] <– There you’ll be able to find a complete command list. It is being regularly updated as more information is datamined about the game’s internal structure, various asset IDs, etc.