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Witcher 3 console commands & item ID database

The Witchers' Forge

SecondaryKaer Morhen
Geralt followed the directions found in the tome's notes and arrived at an old iron mine. After dispatching an earth elemental guardian, he found the tome could be used as a sort of key opening a passageway leading to an old forge. To his great surprise, this forge began speaking to him. Though some might suspect the witcher had merely breathed a bit too much of the musty mine air, he claimed an ifrit, a fire elemental of some kind, had been used ages ago by a mage who created special equipment for the Wolf School witchers. This elemental remained vigilant all these years after the mage's death and thus Geralt had to defeat it in order to get at the secret stash of high-quality gear hidden behind the forge.

Fixing a softlock

Enable the debug console, then look for a fact under Gates the quest checks — one the quest is actively waiting on. If that flag never got written, addfact it to the value shown and the gate clears.

Setting a Set these to advance fact only marks a step done — it won't run the step or skip the quest forward, and it can't fix a softlock caused by a scene that never played or an NPC that didn't spawn (reload an earlier save for those). Save before forcing any fact.

Quest facts (3)

Set these to advance

2 facts

Completion flags this step writes — they record a step as done but won't run it or skip the quest forward on their own.

Fdb ghost scene
mq4006_fdb_ghost_scene
>= 1

Also used by The Bastion

Stop burning
mq4006_stop_burning

Add mq4006_stop_burning

Gates the quest checks

1 fact
Illusion stove dispelled
mq4006_illusion_stove_dispelled
>= 1

Gates: Armor

Objectives

  1. 1.Read the copy of the tome.
  2. 2.Go to the mine near Kaer Morhen.
  3. 3.Search the mine using your Witcher Senses.
  4. 4.Kill the earth elemental.
  5. 5.Put the tome on the pedestal.
  6. 6.Search the mysterious chamber using your Witcher Senses.
  7. 7.Kill the ifrit.
  8. 8.Remove the illusion.

Objectives a quest can show, in roughly the order they appear; some are optional or mutually exclusive branches.