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Easy Item Customization（mem editior）Tutorial

By Shun

This is an easy and basic tutorial for customizing any item(mostly weapon/shield/grenade etc) in Borderlands 3, in less than 5 minutes.

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Secrets, Weapons

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

the important b4 you start

something you need for the customization

Set up the tools

customization

Weapon part

Comments

the important b4 you start

Always make a backup of your game save files.
Skip this guide if you're supposed to simply change weapon damage or something strange.
Please DO NOT join a multi-player game with any modified gears, which devastates balance and game exprience.

中文版本教程
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025081763
日本語版
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025119089

something you need for the customization

To make this work, you need
Cheat Engine Installed (v6.8 or higher) Download here[www.cheatengine.org]
Borderlands 3 Cheat Engine Table
Borderlands 3.dll
Memory editor
ce table/dll file/memory editor please go to the discord channel[discord.gg] to make sure all the files are up to date.

*If the Cheat Engine you downloaded is not working, you might use the elder version.
With all these files ready, let's go ahead.

Set up the tools

*Acutally the entire steps for modifying a gear is pretty easy, but I am going to make all the steps clear as possible as I can. A video tutorial for this guide will also be uploaded later.

First run Borderlands 3 and enter a game. DO NOT remain in the main menu that does not work.
(NO)
(Correct)
Run the Cheat Engine Table-Select a process to open-Choose Borderlands 3-Open
Memory View-Tools-Inject DLL

*Navigate to the Borderlands3.dll file and inject it.
Click on the Tooltip Pointer(once it activates successfully it will extend the sub-functions)

customization

With all the above done, we can now start to customize an item. In this tutorial, I will take a weapon for example.

Go back to the game, open your inventory and move your mouse pointer to an item that you want to modify.(*Make sure you choose a specific item, otherwise the Cheat Engine won't pup up the number.)
Turn to Cheat Engine, this time you will see a value pups up in the Base Address Raw. Double clip it and copy the value.
Run BL3Memory edit, paste the value you copied and click go. The details of your item will appear below.
Current Item Components indicate all the parts of the item you choose, available components show all parts you can use to customize the item.

Let's do this now. The item I want to modify is a MALIWAN smg I looted today. As you can see It provides Corrosive/Electric Elemental effect and costs 2 ammo per shot, reduce 32% DMG with a 3.0x scope.
Here I want to REPLACE the part that provides -32% DMG(negative effect) , REPLACE the scope, ALTER its element effect and a new magzine size.
There are tons of parts that make up a weapon and each part is granted with a specific name, therefore, please navigate item parts/stats[docs.google.com]here to see the part you are goint to replace with.(This file can be found in the Discord - Borderlands 3 Modding[discordapp.com]
Since my weapon is a MALIWAN smg so I navigate to the SM_MAL section. If you have no idea what catagory your item belongs to, check out the memory edit.

From the item parts doc, you can decide what you want to modify and select them from the memeory editor. Here, I will simply write down the parts I am going to modify mentioned above, for more information please check out the next section.

I would like to remove the part that provides -32% DMG, so, I need to change the Barrel (-20%) and the Magzine(-10%) with the parts with both provide +10% DMG.
Select the barrel_01_A and C from the current component colum and click delete. Add barrel_02_A and B from the available component colum.

Other parts take the same step as above, all the parts you added will be listed at the end. As you can see I replace the new mag 24R+10% DMG, a new scope +5%, change the primary element to FIRE.

Once you confirm all the parts are added, it's time to write them to the memory to take effect.
Click write to memory and it will pup up a small window. DO NOT click Yes immediately but do exactly what it says.
Back to your game, press Esc and if upate game promotes, click No. (I never come across this so far)
Click Exit the game, and press NO.
Now back to the memory editor, click Yes. If everything is done correctly, a window says Complete pups up.
This time go to your game and exit it to the main menu.
So far so good we're done here. Continue to your game and check out what happened. The smg changed physically and functionally.

Weapon part

This section is introducing basic contents of a weapon concerning to customization.

A weapon mainly consists of

Body - No replaceable
Barrel - contains A B C 3 different parts - mainly for damage and accuracy
Foregrip - mainly for accuracy, damage and recoil
Grip - mainly for accuracy, damage and recoil.
Scope - mainly for aiming style and accuracy
Stock - mainly for recoil and accuracy
Trigger - mainly for fire rate
Mag - mainly for magazine size and damage
Element - elemental effect (if the weapon applies)

Most of the time, the Body cannot be removed and there is no replaceable one. If you remove it, it might misfunction. You can check out the details of each part in your inventory and see how it works.

By doing this, you can decide how to customize it and it's recommended to keep the part counts same as before. Adding too much parts might crash the game. So far I modded over 10 items and no crash occurs.

This also applies to grenade, shield and other gears. Any as I mentioned before, don't play it in a multiplayer game. It's for testing only.

12 Comments

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Sir Coban 8 Nov, 2022 @ 9:48pm

alright thanks

Shun [author] 8 Nov, 2022 @ 8:58pm

@Sir Coban
the file might be out of date as of today, you can find it online for latest file to make this work in current game version.

Sir Coban 8 Nov, 2022 @ 7:44pm

why dosent this work now

littleevie 15 Aug, 2021 @ 7:07pm

脚本都注入了,下面方框里的点不开是怎么回事。

MuzzledDoggy 1 Jul, 2020 @ 4:20pm

Could someone make an eriduim dropping grenade and transfer it to ps4?

Shun [author] 23 Mar, 2020 @ 5:29pm

@_Qu[AA]rK_
Thank you for the link.

_Qu[AA]rK_ 23 Mar, 2020 @ 4:16pm

The tools required for modding are listed in Borderlands 3 Modding
https://discord.gg/ZVNpYsf then move to #downloads-and-updates

if you want to be up to date and avoid misunderstanding I'd recommend to direct people to the main source (discord), so if you happen to get idea, don't publish files to other websites so people won't come to discord and ask why something does not work when they use outdated version.

All credits to shdw & Digital Marine.

Vantrasillian 22 Mar, 2020 @ 8:17pm

yeah if I can get a link that is not to the discord server I'd love to do this

Lord of Pain Valak 21 Mar, 2020 @ 10:33pm

@Shun
FYI, sending link to the download in a discord server won't send someone into that server.

Shun [author] 21 Mar, 2020 @ 7:13pm

@Lord of Pain Valak
You should go to the download section in the discord channel.

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