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There are few exploits in Dragon's Dogma and Dark Arisen that allow unintended, or fourth wall breaking effects.

The most common exploit is Godsbaning , which uses the Godsbane item to speed up reloading from a save game when seeking the best results from chests. Godsbaning may also be used to exploit an infinite mining glitch.

There are also exploits to farm Discipline points post game, and to duplicate items and armour.

For Loot and Monster farming, see Farming Exploits.

1 Godsbaning
- 1.1 Description
- 1.2 Other uses
- 1.3 Notes
2 Save/load exploits
- 2.1 Mining exploit
- 2.2 Dragon's Horns and Wings
- 2.3 Creature loot and dragonforging
- 2.4 Item duplication
3 Pawn hire exploits
- 3.1 Alt account rift crystals
- 3.2 Quest item duplication
- 3.3 New Game pawn knowledge
4 Hard mode switching exploits
5 Farming exploits
6 "Barrel Glitch"
7 Other
8 Notes

Godsbaning

Godsbaning is a save/reload exploit in Dragon's Dogma that utilizes the Godsbane item to circumvent the main menu in order to have a quick reload of the game. When using the Godsbane the player kills him/herself, going straight to the retry screen from which where the player may load the previous save. Godsbaning is generally used to obtain a desired or rare item from randomly generated loot.

Description

To use the exploit the game must first be saved. An action giving random rewards, such as opening a chest, or killing a monster is then performed. If the rewards are unsatisfactory, the player uses the Godsbane dagger to kill themself, and then selects the "retry" option from the restart menu. If the player has a Wakestone, an option to use it will be given first; to return to the previous point with this exploit, the wakestone must not be used.

The Godsbane is used by many players to "farm" loot in The Everfall and Bitterblack Isle. Saving before opening a chest or killing bosses, then killing themselves with the Godsbane and reload from the Retry menu takes less time than quitting the game to the Main Menu and loading the game from there.

Other uses

Additionally the Godsbane can also be used for reversing Purification in Bitterblack Isle; in general, the contents remain the same, but the outcome of purifying Bitterblack Armor or Bitterblack Gear is altered dependent on vocation. More suitable, or non-duplicate equipment may be obtained by purifying under a different vocation. This can also be used for fixing the content when gifting to Support Pawns.

Also works with gathering, such as when trying to obtain Giant Fish.

Using the Godsbane after Hired Pawns are taken by the Brine, slain by Death, fall off a cliff, or die in battle will prevent a default 3 star rating from being given. As long as the player does not sleep at an inn or Resting Bench before Godsbaning, no pawn data (such as Rift Crystals earned, Bestiary Knowledge, or gifts) is uploaded to the server.

Notes

Deaths caused by Godsbane will not register in the player's death history.
The equivalent of Godsbaning can be accomplished by pausing the game, selecting "Save" and then choosing "Quit game without saving" (useful for players during their first Pre-Game playthrough).

Save/load exploits

Mining exploit

Ore deposits can be mined indefinitely using a save/reload glitch. Steps: Partially mine the deposit but do not completely mine out the deposit; then save the game, and Godsbane; on restarting the ore deposit will be renewed. This process is useful for rare ores.

Alternatively "mine" the deposit without using a pickaxe (for example using Warrior's attacks). Save, Godsbane, reload. The deposit will appear to be empty, but mining it without a pickaxe again will result in another set of ore drops. This can be done indefinitely.

Dragon's Horns and Wings

A similar exploit exists for Dragon's Horns and Wings. After a reload or retry a Dragons's critical body parts regenerate, even if previously broken.

This effectively means that after a save and reload more horns and wings can be broken allowing for multiple Dragon Horn, Great Dragon Alula, Dragon Scale, aso drops in one fight. (Note that saving is disabled while in active combat)

Creature loot and dragonforging

The save/reload exploit can also be used to optimise Dragonforging or to obtain rare loot from defeated foes. When fighting a large foe first reduce them to minimal health, then move away from their initial area until they decide to return to their original position, and exit battle. (Battle music should stop). A Save Game can be made. They can be killed and the loot examined - if not the desired items reloading the game results in them being restored but with the minimal amount of health, and the process repeated.

Moving too far away will cause the creature's health to return. Move just far enough away for the battle music to stop.
Creature parts like Dragon Horns will also regrow by this method.

Example creatures include:

The Drake at Devilfire Grove - moving away southeast towards the medium sized tree not far from the road to the Rest Camp is far enough.
Prisoner Gorecyclops at the Midnight Helix - hiding near the exit.
Wyrm at The Watergod's Altar (Post-Game) - moving outside the Offering Chamber should be far enough. The Wyrm is unusual in that it continues to cast spells even though the battle status has ended.

Item duplication

Caution! Exploiting the pawn hire system can lead to temporary or even permanent bans, and may violate certain software license terms of service.

Items can be duplicated by Trading and Gifting - equipping on a hired pawn, dismissing the pawn to give the gifted items to the pawn's Arisen, and then reloading from a previously prepared save to regain the items.

In addition to being limited to giftable items, and weapons and armour equippable on pawn, use of this exploit is limited by the game as when reloading a game from an earlier save any pawn hires and associated gifting will be subsequently blocked for one to two weeks, or possibly longer.

Pawn hire exploits

Alt account rift crystals

Instead of being dependent on other players to hire their pawns to earn Rift Crystals, players can create a second (or multiple) accounts to hire their own pawns.

This has the added benefit of the player being able to gift the other accounts with items and equipment.

See the Trading and Gifting page for further details.

Quest item duplication

Whilst the related quest is active, any Quest Items associated with that quest will be immediately be placed in the stock of The Black Cat on being lost. By gifting quest items to friend or 'alt' acound pawns the item can be regained later (by return gifting), and a copy of the item bought from the Black Cat.

This exploit can be used repeatedly and rapidly to duplicate items by hiring and releasing the same pawns near the shop.

Unlike forgings the duplicated item is never a non-functional forgery. (For example a proper the Wyrmking's Ring can be re-bought at 66,660 G, comparing favorably with the forgery cost of a non-functional copy of 99,990 G.)

New Game pawn knowledge

When starting a New Game (and resetting from a previous playthrough) it is possible to restore the Arisen's pawn's knowledge from the previous game by having a pawn hire extending across from the old save to the new save. For details see New Game.

Hard mode switching exploits

Switching to Hard Mode restarts the game from the beginning, but with all character progress and items kept. Switching to hard mode and back to normal can be used to farm early stage items.
- In Dark Arisen this method can be used to collect a few easily accessible Macabre Sculptures, then reset (switch to Hard mode, then back), then re-collect the same sculptures again. Several resets allow sufficient sculptures to be collected to complete Visions of the End I, Visions of the End II, and Visions of the End III, collecting substantial gold and valuable rewards along the way.
- Other Bitterblack suicide runs allow early collecting of (multiple) items found behind Moonbeam Gem doors.
Restarting the game allows unlocking of the two other Basic Vocations wihout paying the usual fee in Discipline, by simply picking different Vocation upon each restart.

Farming exploits

Main article: Farming Exploits.

There are several exploits for "farming" various foes for either Experience Points, Discipline Points, Gold, Loot, or special items.

"Barrel Glitch"

Main article: "Barrel Glitch".

Jumping with a carryable object in close proximity to a barrel may allow the Arisen to pass through solid walls, doors and other barriers and gain access to otherwise un-obtainable areas.

Other

For a list of articles with exploit content, see Category:Exploits.

In Dark Arisen, the Arisen can avoid Fall Damage by running and executing the skill Skull Splitter off ledges and cliffs.
Saving the game whilst petrified and reloading or godsbaning removes the debilitation. Note that the game can never be saved whilst in combat.
Ore can also be mined quickly by initiating the mining action, immediately go to the inventory menu and selecting either a Dragon Spit or Throwblast item to hold. When the mining animation ends, the Arisen will drop the item and thus strip mining the ore deposit without further need to initiate the mining animation. More importantly, this doesn't use the explosive item in the inventory so it can be used multiple times when mining several ore deposits.
Gifting key quest items to other players will result in a usable copy of that item appearing for sale at The Black Cat - this allows multiple copies of items such as the Wyrmking's Ring to be created in a single playthrough.
Hired Pawns can be exploited as an easy way to return items to one's storage. Load up a pawn with excess items and either toss them off a cliff to their death, or into the Brine. All carried items are returned to storage. Online pawns will automatically receive a 3* rating when they are sent home dead, though. Alternatively, using default offline pawns might be considered.
xone You can have your primary pawn as an Hired Pawn. This "fake" primary pawn will be treated like the pawn of another player. This means you use one of the 2 Hired Pawns slot and the pawn will be updated if you rehire him after sleeping once. If you fire this pawn then sleep twice you will receive a report of Hired Pawn and receive the Rift Crystals (sleep once to send the report, sleep a second time to receive the report). To hire this "fake" pawn you must : Launch the game with a different account who has already hired an online pawn, sleep and have your account as a friend. Save and go back to the title screen. Put the xbox in sleepmode without doing anything else Exit the sleepmode. Connect to your account in the home menu, go back to the game and press a touch. If it works you won't be ask to select an account, thus start the save, go to the rift and look for your pawn. Put him into your favorites menu to hire him without doing this trick again.

Notes

In the original Dragon's Dogma the vegetables Carrots or Twigbeans could be bought in large quantities (at 75 and 25 Gold respectively), then allowed (over two days, sped by sleeping) to turn into the more healing, and more valuable Moldy Carrots or Moldy Twigbeans, which then could be sold for great profit; this process was fairly rapid, simple, and risk free. This exploit was patched in late June of 2012, and never worked in Dark Arisen. Iola's Shop now only stocks a maximum of 99 of each, and re-stocks slowly at a rate of 1 per day.