Cheating in Ultima VI

Ultima VI contains a built-in cheat mode (which was most likely used by the developers for testing and QA).

Cheat Menu Activation
Talk to Iolo, and enter the following:

spam (enter)

spam (enter)

spam (enter)

humbug (enter)

This will bring you to the Secret Cheaters Menu!

Options

 * Get Items (allows you to get any item)
 * Set Flags (set internal game state flags)
 * View NPCs (allows you view anything about an NPC)
 * Edit Party (allows you to add/remove player from party and modify stats)
 * Edit Player (allows you add/subtract Karma)

Get Items
You will be asked for A) the item number (see the main article), B) the Quality number (unless otherwise indicated in the list, use 1), and C) the Quantity (however many you want!) After entering this stuff, when you leave the cheater's menu, you will have the item(s) in your inventory!

Set Flags
You can set various internal quest-related game flags.

View NPCs
You can view the various portraits of NPCs.

Edit Party
You can modify the stats, level, and experience of any of your party members.

Edit Player
You can view and modify the Karma level, and set a quest flag.

Teleportation

 * Holding ALT and 2-1-4 will bring up a prompt (in Gargoylian) for three coordinates - these three hex numbers will bring you to any location in Britannia, the dungeons, or the Gargoyle world. This is apparently the programmers method of travel.

Overhead View and Coordinates

 * To get a good overhead bird eye's view, (just as if you used a gem) hold ALT and press 2-1-3: This will also give you a number: XX YYYY ZZZZZZZ Where XX is the amount of Karma you have. (Which you lose if you steal) YYYY is the current time of the day in military time. ZZZZZZZ is the current location of your party.

Accelerate Time

 * Tired of holding down the spacebar to make time go by? Press ALT + 2-1-5 to wait an hour.

The Wisp of Gold

 * This actually isn't a cheat in itself. The Xoriite Wisp west of Yew wants to read to "Book of lost Mantras". In return it's either information or gold. The information is useless, but the gold isn't, because the Wisp will give you as many gold nuggets as you can carry! (can be exchanged to gold in Britain)


 * The cheat part is, that in some ports and versions, due to a bug this can be done as often as wanted.

The animate-clone Cheat

 * This is a real cheat, taking advantage of a weakness in the programming. If you put an item on the ground, and cast "Animate" on it, it will be alive. This also means you can cast "Clone" on it! The usefulness is limitless! Either you animate and clone a object before killing them to have more of these (Lightning Wands f.e.), or you sell the dead cloned objects! Doing this with magical armour and sell it in Trinsic will make you rich!

The Cheat Menu
To enter the cheat menu in the C64 version of Ultima VI, talk to yourself and say the following.

I (enter)

want to (enter)

cheat (enter)

Also in the C64 version, press the Commodore key and 1 and you will get a set of 8 numbers. 2 sets are the coordinates in hex, one set tells of the level in hex with Underground being a negative number (FF) and the last set of numbers are the karma value (99 max).

Teleport
Press  at the same time. now you can enter coordinates in hexadecimal for the values x/y/z.

Examples:
 * 133/188/0 Drawbridge Castle Britannia
 * 16B/282/0 Entrance of Paws

These have to be real coordiantes, or the game will crash. Also if "z" is graeter than 0, then the transport will go into the underworld.