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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.



42 comments:

  1. THANKS SEAN... YU R ABSOLUTE GENIUS.. THANK U SO MUCH...

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    1. A million thanks to you too Sean... this one is very much easier.. what a genius Sean.. thanks again...

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    2. You're a genius, thanks.. this one is better.. the best

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  2. is that really waiting for hours? i've tried it but i think its doesn't work, cause i've waited more than one hour...

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    1. Don't just wait. Keep trying. Think of what you might be doing wrong. Reread the article carefully.

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  3. a million thanks to you sir.

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  4. sir thanks a lot i think this is better than the depot hack co'z it will send your unit directly to your inventory...=)

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  5. So if you refresh the page you cant build more Artemis??

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    1. I explained this in the article. You just have to read carefully. You cannot build anymore if you have any in your inventory or depot. If you want to build more, you have to sell your Artemis or let them be destroyed in battle.

      If you want to make many Artemis, you have to do it all at once without refreshing (and maybe not exiting Survival Mode). For this, you need to have lots of units to convert.

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    2. Hello Sean, thank you for this great tip. I have tried this trick and i noticed that we do not necessarily need a lot of units to be converted to produce tons of units. For example, one can possess just 5 units of the same code and produce the whole arsenal for that type of unit,provided it is of the same theater(land,air and sea) I tried it and just repeated steps 3 to 6 until i got tired and almost got everything i wanted. I just think it's worth adding in your tutorial. On a different note, when will you post tutorials for hacks using Charles?

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    3. Thanks Anonymous, but I already mentioned that in the article as you'll notice if you read carefully all the way through to the end.

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  6. Dude, they patched CE!!!! *killing self*
    Funny how you can get used to these things, isn't it?
    Oh well, life goes on... lol!

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    1. Zynga didn't patch CE--just the Depot Hack. You can still do other hacks using CE, like this Survival Mode hack.

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    2. Well, that's what I meant. My mistake. :)
      Thanks for the info, btw.

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    3. I did this one with the Elite Bazooka Soldiers ("UL86") 'cause that's why I had at the time. Worked like a charm. Thanks!

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    4. have you tried doing it more than once?

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    5. I haven't. Maybe it sounds silly but having 5 units of each is more than enough for me.

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  7. thanks a lot sir but i did it more than once without refreshing but only one Artemis appeared, whats the problem?

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    1. Yes, I have done it more than once. You can make as many as you want up to inventory limit if you do it correctly and have enough units to use for transformation.

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  8. it works perfectly..... thank you sean

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  9. its not working for me i tried as told above more than 10 times
    i have 2 triton carriers, 2 harpy, 2 kraken and 2 each of land and air units and ALL OF THEM ARE ON SEA,LAND AND AIR NOT IN INVENTORY AND DEPOT BUT I CANNOT PRODUCE ANYMORE whenever i try it happens the battle stops and those units appear in the survival mode and then the survival mode stops but when i check the inventory nothing happens no increase in units plzzzzzzzzzz help

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    1. You can't have any of the units you want to create in your empire as well. I should have clarified that. I've edited the article to make this more clear.

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    2. i previously had pegasus copter but i lost them all and when i wanted to produce them again i couldnt i dont understand what the problem is i have previously used depot hack and i have tried this survival hack but its not working plz help btw when i tried i got 5 artemis but no pegasus copter even though i have none

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  10. hmmm... i build 20 cerberus without using many source units...
    i have about 20 SU-122 tank ("U111"), i select 5 of them, scan it, and change the code to cerberus ("UM14"). then the battle not proceed, i turn the code back to "U111" and the SU-122 tank is back. i do this 5 times, without refreshing, and got 20 cerberus :D

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    1. Good job Rinaldo! I mentioned that in my Depot Hack but did not realize to include it in this hack. I've updated my article to include as an optional step.

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  11. Thank you very much...really happy..

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  12. it works.. try using another unit.. not only ATV.. THX Sean!!! keep trying guys,,

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  13. Can this tactic be used for building and deco, Energy and Z or power-on consumable? I have tried to do building and deco, but never appear in my inventory, :(

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    1. I get many comments from readers asking questions whose answers can be found by reading the article carefully.

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  14. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

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  15. You are a genius man!!! dude, later, please explain how to make the flashservices show up on Charles, because in mine it sows only default pocessess.

    Thank you

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    1. Turn off secure browsing in your Facebook settings.

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  16. THANX MAN FOR THIS CHEAT .... I MAKE 75
    THANK U SO MUCH

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  17. thanks a lot, sir. i got 85 units of Artemis=)

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  18. I sent Zynga a message with this link. It will be patched soon. Ha!

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    1. I don't care. I don't even really play E&A anymore. I just like to write about it sometimes. But it's nice to know that you are a vindictive person that cares enough to follow this blog and snitch. Just so everyone knows, Dodo is one of the admins of E&A wikia.

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    2. It's only fair then to snitch on you. Dodo's other name is Dragos Visan, and according to his Facebook, he is only 14 years old. I don't know why he willingly spends so much of his valuable time contributing freely to the for-profit corporation, Wikia.

      http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002197311319

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    3. dodo asshole

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  19. Ty Sean you have do very nice work about empires and allies !!!

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  20. hi Sean, seems this has been patched.. once you put in the codes and hit fight, the pop screen come up asking to redeploy and if you proceed to fight (either way), it will forced you to refresh.. Sean, you are the guru and once more we need your help to have another way on how to hack a unit. i was too late to get on to your site and not able to do a single one of the unit. please help..

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