About the encyclopedia

What you will find

• 1,176 items, each with every way to get it: shops and prices, chests, monsters and their drop rates, alchemy, quests, sparkly spots, pots and wardrobes, story, DQVC, special guests.
• 307 monsters: exact drops and rates, locations with each monster's share by day and by night, stats, resistances, actions.
• 109 places, with the game's own maps, numbered chests, shops and monsters.
• 184 quests: where and when to take them, the solution, the rewards.
• The 12 vocations and their 26 skill lines, 208 spells and abilities, the stats and effects of every piece of equipment.
• 444 accolades with their exact condition, 31 party tricks, 44 full outfits.
• Grottoes: decode your treasure map, all 393,216 maps in the game sifted through, single-monster floors (liquid metal slime, metal king slime), legacy bosses.
• The game's mechanics: battle formulas, randomness (the three tables), EXP manipulations (map method) checked in the code, the Hoimi table.
• Playing today: on PC with melonDS, the DQVC at home, local multiplayer, online content.
• The differences between the Japanese version and the US and European ones, read in both ROMs.
• My collection: tick what you have, or read your save file to tick everything at once.

How it is made

Everything is decoded from the game's ROM (official names, data, texts, icons) and then checked in its code. The community's findings are used once checked, and credited (Sources and credits): out of more than 2,000 claims about grottoes (Woodus, wiki, spreadsheet), about twenty turned out wrong. Every page says where its claims come from: read in the code, checked in game, or community.

What is still missing

The story step by step gives the steps and what they unlock, not yet every character to talk to or every path: for a detailed walkthrough, see the other sites.

An encyclopedia by spiffwastaken (direct message on Discord), free; you can support it on Ko-fi.