Dungeons II Offline vs Online Hero: Can You Switch?

Players say there is no way to switch a Minecraft Dungeons II (Minecraft Dungeons 2) hero between offline and online. Offline and online heroes are separate, and the game asks you to pick one when you create a hero. If you started offline and now want to play with friends, the only route players describe is making a new online hero. Mojang has not confirmed or explained this, so everything below is player reports.

What players report

• No way to go from offline to online. A Reddit poster who started offline says the game shows “playing offline” with no option to change it, and accepts that the offline character will be abandoned. Another, on Switch, says they wanted both online play with friends and offline play on trips, and says they may refund if there is no swap.
• Online heroes are not playable offline either. A poster with a poor connection says they get lag spikes while playing alone online, and asks for a way to play online characters offline and vice versa.
• Starting over several times. A parent describes creating offline heroes for two players, finding the second player’s guest hero only plays alongside the first, making a new hero for the child, then making an online hero and finding that online local co-op only works with online heroes. They restarted the story three times.
• Online hero creation stuck. A Switch 2 player says that after creating an online hero the game hangs on “connecting”, and since an offline hero cannot be converted they are stuck. See Switch 2 and PS5 stuck signing in.

Guest heroes and local co-op

• Guest hero needs the main profile. A Reddit poster who plays offline couch co-op with their son says the son’s guest hero was not available in any menu unless the parent’s hero was logged in. Logging in with the son’s PlayStation profile gave a fresh level 1 hero.
• Hero only appears in a specific host’s lobby. A Switch 2 family says one spouse’s hero showed only in lobbies hosted by their son’s account, in offline mode. The poster guesses it could be a glitch because their own account is the console’s main one.
• Second profile asked for Nintendo Switch Online. One Switch 2 poster says adding a second controller at the campfire screen asked them to sign up the second profile for Nintendo Switch Online, and they found no way to join as a guest.
• Cloning a hero. A Switch 1 poster who cloned a main hero in the first game says they cannot find how to copy a hero to a child in Dungeons II.

All of these are single posts, so treat each as a symptom rather than a rule. See co-op and crossplay connection issues for quest reward problems with guests.

What to do

1. Decide before you start. If you will ever play with remote friends, create an online hero. If you will play without a connection, create an offline hero. Players say you cannot change this later.
2. Do not delete your offline hero to test. Nobody has posted what happens to progress when you do.
3. Make a separate hero for each person in a family setup rather than relying on a guest hero.
4. Check the hero list before assuming progress is lost. See hero level reset or wiped.
5. Send feedback. Mojang’s Steam update post links aka.ms/Dungeons2Feedback for feedback and aka.ms/Dungeons2Bugs for bugs.

What we could not verify

Whether Mojang plans to let heroes move between modes, whether online heroes can be played without a connection, and how guest heroes are stored. We will update this page if Mojang says anything in its update notes.

For other beginner questions, see beginner tips.