Dragon Quest Builders 2

Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Abbreviated as DQB2) is Dragon Quest meets Minecraft... again. Also involves something about some twerp befriending a freshly-revived God of Destruction, but that's probably not important.

Prototype Info Prerelease Info Bugs Removed Story ElementsThe cut, untold story of DQB2 Unused ObjectsUnused story props, items, and DLC galore! Hargon didn't know what to do with these apparently. Unused TextThe amount of cut text in this game is actually absurd, and suggests the game had some troubled development. Includes dev notes, unused names, and dialogue for at least three cut islands. Revisional DifferencesJudging by the game's update history, it would not be an exaggeration to say the game Japan got at release was an unfinished one. The trade-off for international players seems to be Hargon talking absurdly slowly.

Hidden NPC characteristics#

To do: Column for the gender flag since there's a few mismatched ones? Or maybe just mention it in the notes. NPCs with any genders of note: Pastor's Pal is flagged as female. The Silvapecthus Sisters are flagged as male (Silvapecthus A) and female (Silvapecthus B). Ooooh no, everyone in rendarak has preferences. Lord Malroth spare us.

There are several NPCs with programmed room preferences that cannot be housed for various reasons, generally, because they never become residents of a base.

* The unit of fanciness goes unnamed in the game, but it uses the same system as Builders 1, where that value is coined "pts". However, "pts" in Builders 1 are essencially fancinness units multiplied by 5. So it is not 1 to 1 the same system, but it's goon enough to give it a unit

All Rendarak NPCs also have preferences.

There are also NPCs that can be housed during certain parts of the story, but whose preferences cannot be ever displayed in-game, as they stop being residents before you get access to the registry.

These preferences are "used", as housing them in their preferred room style will grant more gratitude when they wake up^{[[Dragon_Quest_Builders_2#CitationNeeded1|[citation needed] ]]}. This is, however, not viable in any way, as the only way to know would be trial and error, and is basically simply an interesting oddity.

Monster villagers can have preferences, but there is nowhere in the UI to view them. Monster villagers from the base game often have no preferences, while ones added in the epilogue update do.

Additionally, some monsters are flagged with genders that do not match what is portrayed.

Unused Tiles#

There are some unused minimap tiles. Tile data is not quite 100% understood as of right now, but what can be referred to tiles ID 5 and 21 are unused.

	0x8038	0x8039	0x803B
	0x80E8	0x80E9	0x80EB

There also exists all types of "water bordering land" tiles, even ones that do not make logical sense. Water tiles can have all 4 sides bordering land, and all 4 corners bordering land. Here is an example:

This tile has 4 corners, which happens if all 4 tiles on its diagonals are land and all 4 tiles bordering it are water tiles. And it also has 2 coastlines, which means on those 2 sides there has to be land. This is contradictory and cannot happen, but a tile for it exists anyway.

You can see here all known tiles, with most impossible water tiles.

Misc. Unused Graphics#

Battle Atoll#

An unused graphic for a location on the world map that is never visited or unlocked by any released DLC exists.

Here is a link to the Battle Atoll in-game (Save editing) https://www.tumblr.com/sapphire-rb/760617246324375553/battle-atoll

And here is the full map including Atoll from the artist that originally made all of the art for the map: link

Malroth Artwork#

A cropped portrait of Malroth's human form. He has an outfit and hairstyle not seen anywhere else in the game; it is unclear if this is an earlier design or an alternate costume. The kanji for "tentative/temporary" (仮) is superimposed over the image.

Main Story Quest Icons#

A crude sketch exists of Goldirox holding a mirror, reflecting (heh) the gimmick of the boss fight on the second island.

Builderpedia Monster Icons#

There are several unused icons for the game's monster "dex".

The Goregon is an enemy from Dragon Quest II and a recolor of Madusa, a boss that does appear in this game. Pazuzu and Belial were underlings of Hargon in Dragon Quest II; while all three do (barely) appear in this game, they're never added to the Builderpedia.

Zoma, the final boss of Dragon Quest III, does not appear in this game in any fashion whatsoever.

Untranslated Labels#

Various labels for menus and general notifications/popups are present in the English version that remain untranslated.

Oddities#

The disembodied voice's text speed#

Watch on YouTubeAn infamous issue in this game is the extremely delayed text when the game uses "no text box" speech style for certain characters. This is specifically the cutscene text displayed on the center of the screen while darkening the camera. The English version of the game will wait several seconds or more when displaying each chunk of dialogue. These additional timing delays cause these cutscenes to take over twice as long to play out in the English release than it does the Japanese release, making it likely to be a localization error. The cause of this, and if it is intentional or not, is unclear.

"Fake" chert blocks in Hairy Hermit's mountain#

While the exact cause unclear, it seems that the Hairy Hermit's mountain is made of an unusual variant of chert blocks. If the player breaks them and adds them to their inventory, nothing appears amiss. However, if the player makes a blueprint of the mountain, NPCs attempting to build the blueprint will endlessly search for a block with a blank name. If the NPCs are given chert, or the player places chert blocks into the blueprint, they will not be recognized as what the blueprint requires.

Unshaded umber and arid earth#

On Green Gardens near the final river build there are 8 unshaded blocks that do not integrate with the rest of the blocks around them. When broken instead of showing the cracked texture the 'block health bar' appears. In the final game there is no way to place blocks like this. The only way to approximate it would be using the chisel.

Image of the blocks.

2 Brazier Items#

The braziers in the Hairy Hermit temple have a different item ID {575} than the normal brazier {1285}. These braziers are designed to remain unlit until the first blueprint is finished. However, if you break them later in the game with the Ultimallet they will keep their ID, and with it their propeties. They will not lit up when placed, and they will have a different ambience modifier.
{| class="wikitable" |- | | |- |} There is a chance that the brazier's ambience was changed after the modified version was made, while the duplicate from the prologue remained unchanged.

2 Worn-out Workbenches#

There are 2 different Worn-Out Workbenches:

Item ID	677	1727
Object ID (Debug build)	1002	526
Found at	Prologue ship Malhalla ship	IoA beach Buildable in Builder's Workbench Builderpedia
Description
Crafts

Skelkatraz bedrock hole#

On the northwest corner of Skelkatraz there is a patch of chalk blocks in the bedrock layer, meaning the player is able break past the lowest layer of the map. If the player breaks the chalk it will result in strange upwards flowing water gushing from the hole, water does not behave like this in any other scenario in the game. Additionally, blocks near the hole become unbreakable and this water damages the player when touched.

Hargon#

Hargon, who functions as spectator and cutscene prop, is out-of-bounds during the first fight with True Form Malroth. Despite this, the player can damage him with the fire sword's long range attack. It is possible to reduce Hargon's health to the point where he will play a "defeated" animation where he crouches down for the rest of the fight with Malroth. This has no effect on the fight with Malroth or the following cutscenes. It does however count to the monsters page for the Builderpedia. And if you focus on counting the damage you deal, you can discover that this Hargon "prop" has 14k HP. https://www.tumblr.com/communities/dragon-quest-builders/post/818051391668027392/im-definitely-sure-no-one-takes-the-time-to-count?source=share

Goregon#

The "Shadow Madusas" appearing during the endgame sequence in Malhalla are actually Goregons if their shadow effect is removed.

King of Darkness#

For some reason, within the files of the game, there is a model of a boss from Dragon Quest Builders 1, The King of Darkness, who was formerly the supposed Hero of Alefgard, but fell from grace due to the Dragonlord's deal.

Malhalla's nameplate screen#

Since you're unable to craft nameplates in Malhalla, there's no way to check out your monster allies, however by cheating you can definitely get one in your inventory, almost every resident appears normally, but Adamn? He appears in a funnily tiny manner, this is just for fun though, nothing is necessarily done with the nameplate, other than the fact Malroth is on the list for some reason

References#

* I think that the popups for "you matched one of the 3 preferences!" only happen in IoA, but the gratitude thing I think is applicable to everywhere, but I would have to check. I do remember having big dormitories at Moonbrooke, where some soldiers dropped more gratitude than others....