cheats

[Joël Dazé]

Hey folks…

 

My name is Joel.  I’m a new gamer.  I bought the game just after Xmas and have been slowly plahing since.  I like it.  It’s the first video rpg I’ve played since I last could play Baldur’s Gate II nabout 10 years ago. 

 

It’s great.  I love the ability to select different parts of an opponent to hit.  Never seen that in a game I’ve played.  Anyways…  I got the post about the cheats last week but did not get the file.  I’m wondering if someone would copy the text from the *.RTF file into a response to this post?

 

Also…  If I have a char who is looking for secrets, do I have to search every square of the dungeon manually by pressing the “Z” key or is there an easier way?  I know about the Adventurer’s skill set and the detect secrets scroll.

 

If I’m using an adventurer, will he automatically look for secrets as I roam the dungeon?

 

Ps: Jason, great job on the game!  If you are looking for someone to write new music for you I’d love to contribute.

Thanks…

 

Joël

Joël Dazé

Freelance Musician & Itinerate Music Teacher for the Blind

[Harry and Glorie]

The Detect Secrets scroll works well enough, but there aren't a lot of secrets to locate in the game. The adventurer can pass by a secret and it might pop up automatically, but the skill level has some influence over it and the Adventurer really isn't much of a class when you have so limited a number of points. I tend to just ignore the rooms and not worry about them.

 

Harry

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[Allan Thompson]

Hi Joel,

Below is the list of cheats by Jason Smith.

The version of the current Entombed game is 1.05B test.

I am an old Dungeons and Dragons gamer and I loved Baldur's gate and Icewind dale and others! I don't think I could see well enough for Baldur's gate 2 though.

The cheats for the entombed game are below.

Welcome aboard.

al 

 

 

By Jason Smith
Hi,

 

Here's the list of cheats a few people have been asking for. Note, if you
are the type of person who doesn't want to be tempted by cheats, close this
message right now, delete it, empty your deleted items or trash folder, and
forget you ever saw this message.

 

A word about the official cheat. There is, as far as I know, one official
cheat. To get it, you need to donate via Paypal to blind-games. For this
reason, I will not disclose the cheat code or what it does.

 

First, some notes on these cheats, then the cheats themselves!

 

These cheats require you to be good at manipulating files, and to know where
Entombed keeps your game saves. On a Windows XP machine at least, the saves
are deep within your documents folder, which on XP is c:\documents and
settings\your username goes here\my documents. Within that folder, navigate
to SavedGames\EntombedSaves\AllPlayers and you'll find several files of
interest. The two of interest to cheaters are EntombedSave.sav and
EntombedWorld.dat. What makes these cheats possible is that the information
about your characters and, more importantly, what they're holding is stored
separately from the information about the dungeon and, again important, the
enemies and objects within. In this discussion, when I talk about the save
file, I mean EntombedSave.sav and when I talk about the world file, I mean
EntombedWorld.dat. You will need a folder or several folders to stash copies
of save and world files, and you will need to be extra careful not to
accidentally overwrite something you'll need later.

 

Another thing to say about these cheats. Some of them involve taking your
party out of the world they're in now and tossing them into a different
world. Since the world file contains the map of the dungeon levels, it's
entirely possible that you'll end up inside a wall I.E. in a location
inaccessible to the character which was supposed to occupy that world. If
this happens, you'll hear wall type sounds if you try to move in any
direction. The easiest thing to do in this case is probably to throw away
that world and create a new character as appropriate in order to hopefully
get a different map. And now, the cheats!

 

The original army cheat! This is what, as far as I know, got this whole
thing started. I did not come up with this one, but it certainly got me to
thinking about the implications and allowed me to come up with lots more!
This cheat gives you a party of as many rescued characters as you want.
Here's my rewriting of this cheat.

 

1. Start a game with a character you want to play. Go to the second floor
and rescue your first character. Save. Copy the save and world files
somewhere safe.

 

2. Exit that game and start a new game. The character you're creating here
is a total throwaway. You do not actually want to play this character, but
you do want a different rescue. As soon as the game begins and you find
yourself on the first level, save.

 

3. Copy your original save file, but not the world file! back into
EntombedSave.sav. Reload the game.

 

4. As I stated earlier, if you're inside a wall, just go back to step 2
above. That character was a throwaway anyway, so no great loss. Note that,
since you're in a totally different world, the map has changed, so your
information about unexplored spaces may be inaccurate, and if you've
discovered a stairway, it won't be where you think it is. Anyway, go and
find the new character and rescue them.

 

5. Save again, copy the save file elsewhere, and go back to step 2 above if
you want another rescue. This can be repeated as many times as you like.

 

6. When you want to get on with it, have the game freshly saved after your
final rescue, then put your original world file back in place as
EntombedWorld.dat. Reload. Now you can keep playing.

 

Note, the characters you get to rescue depend on the race of the throwaway
you started with in order for that world to be generated. I don't know the
exact correlation.

 

The Easier Army cheat!
Here's my answer to the original army cheat above. It's easier in that no
new game is required, but there is one disadvantage. You'll get the same
thing each time. Here goes.

 

1. Start a new game. This should be a character you want to play. At any
time between when the game first starts and just before you do the rescue on
the second floor, save your game and copy the world file somewhere safe. You
don't need to copy the save out, but if you want to be extra safe it might
not hurt. I'd suggest doing this either when you first start or when you go
down to the second floor. Once the rescue has happened, it is too late.

 

2. Once you have your first rescue, leave that room, then save. Copy the
world file you copied in step 1 back into place, then reload. Go back into
the room and do the rescue again. Watch out, as you'll have to fight the
enemies again. Once the rescue is done, leave the room and save. Repeat this
step as many times as desired.

 

3. Since you never switched to a totally different world, nothing needs to
be copied back into place when you have all the rescued characters you want.
Just keep playing as usual. You will probably want to rename your rescued
characters so you can tell them apart, since they'll all be the same, and
have the same name!

 

The original item multiplier cheat! Again, I didn't come up with this one,
and I assume this is an outright bug in the game itself, not a cheat. This
one doesn't require any fiddling with files at all. It only works if you are
able to create a town portal. I've heard it doesn't work on the third floor,
but haven't verified this. Here goes.

 

1. On the forth floor or below, find a spot not inside a room. If you walk
around, your footsteps should not echo. There should be absolutely nothing
in your current location, not even corpses. Drop the items you want to
multiply here.

 

2. Create a town portal by pressing F1. Don't actually do anything in town,
but just go down to the third floor, then hit F1 again to get back.

 

3. Now pick up your items. The bug here is, although the items are now in
your inventory, they're still on the ground. So you can keep picking them up
over and over and over again. Don't get too carried away though, as the
maximum number of any particular item you can have, as far as I know, is
2,147,483,647. If you go over that, the game errors out.

 

4. Save the game.

 

5. Very important! You must reload the game in order to continue! If you
don't, when you kill future enemies, their stuff will not appear!

 

The harder item multiplier cheat! This is the first cheat I figured out. The
original army cheat gave me the inspiration for this one.

 

1. Go to any space in the dungeon. If enemies appear, kill them.

 

2. Save the game.

 

3. With the game still running, navigate to the folder where your saves are
located, and copy the EntombedSave.sav file to a safe place.

 

4. Go into the inventory menu. Drop the items you want to multiply.

 

5. Save the game again.

 

6. Exit the game by hitting Alt+F4.

 

7. Copy the save you put somewhere safe in step 3 back to EntombedSave.sav
in its correct directory.

 

8. Launch the game, and load your save.

 

9. Hit g to pick up items. You should see your items there on the ground.
Pick them
up.

 

10. Go back into inventory. Your items should now be doubled. This
entire procedure may be repeated as often as you wish.

 

From what I understand, this cheat/bug works because when you drop items,
they are removed from the data for the game save, and added to the world
file. By copying the save *before* you dropped the items, you have a
snapshot of your inventory when you still had them. By saving after you drop
the items, the world file is updated. Then, by reloading from the earlier
save, you put the items back in your inventory, but they're still sitting in
the world file, ready to be picked up.

 

The Stash cheat! I came up with this one. It lets you carry over items from
one game to another! Cool, huh? Here it is.

 

So your wonderful character has just been defeated.
Fortunately, you have a recent save. Unfortunately, it had a huge stash of
items which you're going to lose when you start fresh. Right? Wrong! Note,
in the following steps, when I refer to the save file, I am talking about
EntombedSave.sav. When I talk about the world file, I mean
EntombedWorld.dat. Veteran cheaters should have no trouble finding these. So
here goes with today's fabulous cheat!

 

1. Load the game in question. The object now is to get to the first floor.
If possible, hit F1 to create a town portal. Don't do anything in the town,
but immediately go up to the second floor. Now find your way back to the
first floor and go up. If you can't create a town portal, you'll have to do
it the hard way, going up floor by floor until you hit the first floor.

 

2. Now that you're on the first floor, look around for a nice place to rest.
It shouldn't have any corpses or other items, just to minimize confusion.
Hit l to find out your current location, and make a note of the coordinates
you're given. The tricky bit here is, there is absolutely no way for you or
anyone else to know if the spot you choose will work before you proceed. The
reason is, you're about to start a new game, which will randomize the map.
So where you decided to rest may be inside a wall! See later.

 

3. Save your game. Copy the save file and, just to be safe, the world file
to a safe place.

 

4. Start a new game. This should be a character you want to play, and not a
throwaway character as in the original army cheat. Don't get too attached to
your new character though, as you may have to ditch it later. See below for
why.

 

5. Once you're started, try to move to the same coordinates you noted down
earlier. Hit l to see where you are. If it seems this is impossible, it
probably is. In this case, just start a new game. If you get sick and tired
of this, just try moving close, and hope for the best. Note, you'll have to
fight any enemies that come up without the benefit of your old character's
items.

 

6. Now save. Copy the new save and world files to somewhere else safe, being
sure not to overwrite the ones you copied earlier. Copy over the old save
file, but not the world file, and reload.

 

7. Now's the time to say your prayers. If hitting all four arrow keys makes
the sound like you've hit a wall, that means you are, in fact, inside a wall
and can't go anywhere. This also means your new character can never get to
the spot where your old character is standing. The easiest thing to do at
this point would be to go back to step four above and create a new
character, throwing away the one you created earlier. That's why I told you
not to get too attached. If you really really want to make this work without
recreating, see below.

 

8. Assuming you're not inside a wall, find the spot where your new character
was standing when you saved. If you were able to get it to the same
coordinates as the old character, just make sure you're there. Now, drop
everything you want to preserve. Save.

 

9. Copy your new character's save file, but not the world file! back in.
Reload.

 

10. Pick up all the stuff that's now laying there!  Save. Have fun!

 

11. If you really want to try to make a character work and you end up with
your old character inside a wall, you'll have to follow a procedure
involving swapping both the save and the world files in order to find a
location which will work for both characters. In short, assuming you've
explored a bit with your new character, put the old character's save and
world back in, reload, move to a spot you know the new character can access,
save, copy the new world file in, reload, drop your stuff, save, copy the
new save in, reload, pick up the stuff. It's quite complicated.

 

The corpse cheat! My as yet final cheat. This one, well, let's just tell you
what it does.

 

This cheat takes advantage of the fact that, as far as I know, anytime you
find items and pick them up, at least while not in a battle, they go in your
primary character's inventory. If there's a way to change this or shift
items around, I'd love to know! I get tired of running out of room in my
inventory. So here goes.

 

First, you must have at least two characters for this to work. This means at
the very least you need your primary character and one rescued character.
You should also have some harmful scrolls. Here's the cheat.

 

1. Go to a nice quiet place. There should be nothing in your current
location, no corpses, no items. Save.

 

2. Copy the save file somewhere safe. As with other cheats of this type,
you'll need it later.

 

3. Do something to get your primary character killed. If you have an unholy
light scroll or two laying around, I find this does the trick. Be sure your
primary character is the one getting this totally unfair treatment, as
that's where all your items are. Once he or she is dead, save again. This is
also why you need two characters. If it was just your primary, once the
cruel murder is committed, you'd be defeated and the game would end.

 

4. Now, copy over the save from before you murdered your primary, and
reload.

 

At this point, your primary should be alive again, and its corpse should be
laying there, along with everything it was carrying! So what this does is to
double everything in your inventory assuming you pick everything up.

 

Note that you can actually make any character in your party the target of
your violence if you wish, not just your primary. One reason to do this
would be if you had a good character you thought would make a good undead
slave. Just kill them, save, copy over the pre-kill save, reload, grab their
corpse, then have a necro summon their bones. Now you've effectively got two
copies of that character, one controlled by you, the other controlled by the
undead AI. Duplicating corpses is also useful if you want to summon one
particular corpse, then have one or more backups available in case that
undead slave meets an untimely end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: Joël Dazé

To: entomb...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:10 AM

Subject: [Entombed] cheats

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[Allan Thompson]

Oops, sorry forgot.

The adventurer automatically looks for secret locations everytime you move around the dungeon. Just pressing Z key to look will not work, the secret location has to be discovered either thru adventurer or scroll.

 

al

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,

I don’t think the items cheat works on rare items. It looks like it does, but I’m not getting 2 of the same item...

Thanks,

 

Brandon Keith Biggs

[Allan Thompson]

I think that cheat only works for arrows, bullets, and scrolls/potions.

 

For true multiplication of items, that will require some clever moveing of files around in your saved games folder. I believe that cheat is listed in the file pasted into the email. I haven't read the whole thing in a long while, but if you find nothing to help with that, I can try and run thru the cheat with you.

 

al 

 

 

 

 

 

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: Brandon Keith Biggs

To: entomb...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 7:49 PM

Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,

Perhaps I’m mistaken. I don’t think you can have 2 of one item with the exact same coding in your inventory or equipped at once.

 

Brandon Keith Biggs

[Allan Thompson]

Hey,

Maybe I don't understand the whole situation.

I do know that you can indeed equip the same duplicate items using the file manipulation technique. The only real problem you got in that situation is if you  go below twilight town. From that moment on, all duplicate items can get lost or  stuck in some kind of inventory   purgatory. The only way to retrieve items then, is to kill the character  that was holding the item, even though it shows that it doesn't exist.

 

If you are duplicating items using the scroll and potion multiplier thingy,  then everything, minus the scrolls andpotions end up disappearing when you got back to town, so it is kind of useless in that way.

 

Using the file exchange method, I got guys that can wear the same boots, bucklers gloves...the whole nine yards.

 

al

 

 

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: Brandon Keith Biggs

To: entomb...@googlegroups.com

[reed dcl]

NO, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MOOVE FILES AROUND.

just use the own bug that is built in to the game and exploit it.

if you want to know more let me know.

 

[reed dcl]

you can,

[Jason Symes]

Hmm, I've been playing Entombed since version alpha 7, and I've never heard of this own bug before. The only cheats I'm aware of are the Allan has kindly repeatedly sent to the list, as well as the cheat Jason gives you if you donate to his site.

-----Original Message-----
From: entomb...@googlegroups.com [mailto:entomb...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of reed dcl
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:09 AM
To: entomb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

NO, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MOOVE FILES AROUND.

just use the own bug that is built in to the game and exploit it.

if you want to know more let me know.

 

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[Allan Thompson]

What is this "own" cheat? Could you provide an example of how this works?

 

al

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

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[Richard Sherman]

Hi,

Yes you can have 2 of the same item on, but not in your inventory. But if
the same character has them both equipped, and you take one off, you will
lose one.

Shermanator

----- Original Message -----
From: reed dcl
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:09 AM

you can,
From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:13 AM

Hello,
Perhaps I�m mistaken. I don�t think you can have 2 of one item with the

[Richard Sherman]

HI,

 

I would be happy to give a "cheat". Which is the one I think that is being talked about here. sometimes referred to as the doubling bug.

 

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Read further at your own risk.

 

Now that the pleasantries have been dealt with . 

 

Its pretty simple. But only works on the 4th floor and below. Have never seen it work on the 1st 3 floors.

 

1. After you clear a floor, save your game. Best if you are standing on a blank space wit nothing else on it. Usually, I am standing in the doorway of the room with the stairs leading down.

 

2. Go back to town via the orb.

 

3. Once you are done in town with any business, go down the stairs to the 3rd floor.

 

4. Press the f1 key to return to your original location.

 

5. Drop any scrolls, potions, or anything you want to duplicate. Have never been able to duplicate armor or weapons. But anything in the expendables list, and arrows.

 

6. Pick up those dropped items.

 

7. Once all items are picked up, press the G key again and pick up all the items again. This time, the items will be doubled. So first time, you pick up 1 of each, next time 2, then 4 , 8 , 16, and so on. repeat as necessary.

 

What's nice about this bug is you never run out of potions or good scrolls. Plus, you can sell off a bunch to the general store.  this will give you a bank roll of a bunch of gold so you will never again need to horde items to sell at the store. You will only be concerned with picking up better items than what you already have.

 

Good luck

 

shermanator

----- Original Message -----

From: Allan Thompson

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:12 PM

What is this "own" cheat? Could you provide an example of how this works?

 

al

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: reed dcl

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:08 AM

[reed dcl]

hi, ok spoiler spoiler
no thats out of the way,
lets get started.
remember there was a few emails back where some on posted cheets.
in another email some one was looking for a selution to have more then one
item of any particular goods. or more then 1 item of the same thing in there
inventory?
i then wrote by saying that the game has got a nice ug built in to it.
whether its a bug or just plain down right fortune I do not know.
it was mensioned in the file of cheets but no one seemed to pic up on it.
so what I wil mension here is how to get more items in your inventory, and
also have more then 1 of the same hings in there as well.
I wil quote from the very helpfull person who posted the cheets file. but I
also wil explain as I go along.
and yeah I prommiss, no mipulation of files is necessary!
this was 1 of the things the previous writer did not want to do.
so here goes.
wait, woops, i just got more mail now and I see that what I was about to
send has already
been explained.

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From: "Richard Sherman" <squi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:40 AM

To: <entomb...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

> Hi,

>
> Yes you can have 2 of the same item on, but not in your inventory. But if

> been explained.

> the same character has them both equipped, and you take one off, you will
> lose one.
>
> Shermanator
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: reed dcl
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:09 AM
>
>
> you can,
> From: Brandon Keith Biggs
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:13 AM
>
>
> Hello,

> Perhaps I’m mistaken. I don’t think you can have 2 of one item with the

> exact same coding in your inventory or equipped at once.
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>

[reed dcl]

hi, that was very well put, but watch out, you did forget to mension the following.

do not have to much items of the same kind in your inventory

I am still investigating this but in vursion 1.2k, when I save on the higher levels for some reason my entombed world.dat file becomes corrupted when saving a game and the game crashes N I have to substitute the existing coppy of the world before I can reload from the last save and continue

its best to have say, about 1000 of each items to be safe.

any one pleas correct me if I am wrong on this. but if any one has help on this it would be greatly appreciated

as it is very very very frustraiting when this happens.

 

 

[Adriano]

Hi richard, I just tried what you wrote in the email below but no luck. It doesn’t work for me.

 

Maybe because I was going back and forth between the game and my documents reading your instructions or maybe I’m just lousy at this ... Who knows?

 

I’m on the forth floor so it should work shouldn’t it? Or do you have to be on a lower floor for it to work?

 

Adriano

 

From: Richard Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:03 AM

To: entomb...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

 

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[Richard Sherman]

HI,

Interesting. I have never had this happen to me. I've had over 1000 of some
scrolls or potions, and maybe about 20 combined scrolls and potions, but
never had this happen. I do however usually only have 1 of each type of
scroll. But I don't have over 1000 of each scroll. I usually stop around
256. But I might take potions higher and sell them to make some gold for the
store.

Suggestion, stop before it crashes. LOL.

Shermanator

----- Original Message -----
From: reed dcl

[reed dcl]

um, you don't quite no when it wil decide to crash, it seems to do it on
random and when it feels like it.
but yeah, maybe its the fact that I had too many items. but I tried cutting
down on it but still no go. every so often I get it crashing down on my so
loudly that the windows error reporting ap come screeming in to assure me
that a selution to the problem is not yet available but all is well. just
close it and all will be good again.
lol!!!!!

[Harry and Glorie]

I once had in the neighborhood of 200K excellent steel arrows for a ranger.
I loved it.

Harry

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[Allan Thompson]

Hi,

Ok, I get it know. This is the multiplier cheat. Works great for missiles and potions/scrolls. As for the items that can be equipped it doesn't work so well. When you go to twilight town, you lose all those extra items, and if you unequip  one of those extra items, it disappears. So when  I do cheat, It is usually just for the expendable stuff.

 

al  

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.

----- Original Message -----

From: reed dcl

To: entomb...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:38 AM

Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

[NancyLoverNancy Lover]

In order for the cheet to work, you have to be between a dor. Or els it won't work. Try that. Hope it helps :-)
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[Richard Sherman]

HI,

I have been able to do the doubling bug from anywhere on any floor from the
4th on down. I just choose to do it in the doorway of the room with the
stairs leading down because then I can just stop picking up the items, save
the game, step thru the door, and go down the stairs. No need to reload the
game. Once you go to another floor, the doubling bug goes away.

Shermanator

[Adriano]

Yeah, yesterday when I finally got the doubling bug to work I picked up all
the scrolls/potions that I wanted from the level I was on, but on lower
levels, scrolls and potions kept popping up here and there and every time I
stopped to pick them up, more of them kept coming out. Of course, I didn't
save the game beforehand so that might have helped stop them appearing.

Adriano

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From: Richard Sherman
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:54 AM
To: entomb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Entombed] cheats

HI,

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