Survival Mode Hack Using Cheat Engine

[PATCHED May 3, 2012]

The Depot Hack was patched on April 12, 2012.  Here is another hack to take its place.  Better take advantage of it before it's patched as well!

The Survival Mode Hack has been around for a while, but was never as well-known as the Depot Hack.  However, it has been spreading very quickly in the last week, and even more now since the Depot Hack has been patched.



The Survival Mode Hack is better than the Depot Hack in that the newly created units are sent to your inventory rather than your depots.  If you want to place them in your depots, that's a choice you have.  Another advantage is that you don't have to wait for source units to be built in your military buildings.

The essence of this hack is to transform military units you use in Survival Mode into other units or even into other items.  It is essential that you have ZERO of the item you want to transform into in your inventory, depots, or empire.  For this reason, some people call this hack the "Zero Hack".  (It is okay to have the units in your Marketplace.  Note, however, that Tier 8 units cannot be placed in the Marketplace.)

This hack can be done using Cheat Engine or Charles Proxy.  As far as I know, if you use Cheat Engine, you can only transform to other military units that have codes of the same length; you can only transform to other units of the same theater (land to land, sea to sea, air to air); and you cannot make items that are not military units.  You can avoid all these limitations by using Charles Proxy.

This article is for Cheat Engine only.  There will be an article in the future on how to do this hack using Charles Proxy.

WARNING: If you make a mistake, be prepared to surrender and pay a ransom or finish Survival Mode!  The most common mistake is to have items that you want to create already in your inventory, depots, or empire.


Step 1 - Preparation

As an example, I will demonstrate how to create the new Artemis Infantry from Tactical ATV's.  You do not have to use Tactical ATV's.  You can use other units, but you need to know their codes.

You should have:

• NO Artemis in your inventory, depot, or empire.
• Many Tactical ATV's available for battle (or other units if you know their code)

If you already have the units you want to create, but you want to create even more of them, you can place the units you already have in your Marketplace temporarily.  (Tier 8 units cannot be placed in the Marketplace.)  The Survival Mode Hack will then work.  You run the risk of someone buying your units from the Marketplace, so be careful.  You may want to have a neighbor temporarily hold the units for you.


Step 2 - Set Up Cheat Engine

Set up Cheat Engine by using the button in the upper left to select the process belonging to your browser.  For most browsers, you select the process that has a similar name to the browser's name.  Firefox is an exception.  For Firefox, select the process that contains the phrase "plugin-container".  In the image below, you can see that I selected the process "000021EC-plugin-container.exe".


Step 3 - Set Up Survival Mode

Enter Survival Mode.  Select at least one Tactical ATV to use for battle, but it's better to use five.  DO NOT press the red "Fight!" button yet!


Step 4 - Transform Code

Next, change the "Value Type" to "Text".  In the "Text" field, enter "SU03" (this is the code for a Tactical ATV) WITH quotation marks.  Hit "New Scan" then "First Scan".  The results will show up in the box on the left side.

Highlight all the results (select the first one, hold down shift, then either press the "End" key or keep hitting "Page Down").  Hit the red arrow button to move the results to the bottom box.  Highlight all the results in the bottom box (select one of the entries by left-click and then hit Ctrl-A).  Hit the Enter key.  In the pop-up, enter "UM43" (this is the code for Artemis Infantry) WITH quotation marks.

This is what Cheat Engine looks like after you've done all this:

Step 5 - Transform Units

Now press the red "Fight!" button.  If you did things correctly, the battle will not proceed.  Instead, you will see this:

The units you started out with (5 Tactical ATV's in my example) are no longer available unless you refresh the game.  If you refresh the game, however, you will have the new units in your inventory and won't be able to create more unless you get rid of them (or place them in your Marketplace if that's possible).

One way to deal with this is to have many source units--they don't all have to be the same type.  In this case, skip to step 7.


Step 6 - Transform Code Back (Optional)

The other way uses this extra, optional step.  The extra step is to use Cheat Engine to transform back to the original code.  You don't need to do a new scan.  Just change all the scan results back to the original code.  In my example, you would change "UM43" back to "SU03".  Do this before hitting the green "Next" button.


Step 7 - Repeat and Refresh

Repeat steps 3-5 (and 6 optionally) if you want to transform more units.


Done

When you are done, exit Survival Mode.  If you check your inventory, the new units might not be there yet.  Refresh the game.  The new units should be there now, and the old units you used for the hack should be back.  It might take some time for the new units to appear, so be patient.