The motherload list of cheats
Ron Schamerhorn
From: "Jayson Smith"
Date: Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:24 PM
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.
Agent Orange
Wow, that's quite a list. Well done to all those ingenious folk who worked
them out. In addition to the cheat code available if one makes a donation,
I imagine that Jason will have built other cheat codes into the software, if
for no other reason than to make testing easier. I believe this is pretty
standard in game development. It would be really interesting to know what
those are but I expect we'll have to keep wondering :)
Hi,
4. Save the game.
2. Save the game.
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Salem
I feel rather stupid asking this question since it has probably been
hashed over and over and over again out here and I probably just should
have saved the emails relating to it, but I didn't; go figure. I am
ready to try the latest version of entombed but cannot because I don't
know where it is. A link would be very welcome if anyone has it, and
very much appreciated. Also, I've heard talk that I was supposed to be
looking for something related to SQL. Does the installer download these
packages I'm suppose to install or is there a site I can get them from,
some sort of search I can type into google, or anything else that would
minimise the pain of hunting them down?
Don't get me wrong, I'd be willing to do whatever legwork necessary.
From what I read out here from just skimming over the messages since I
really didn't have the time available to truly take in everything, it
actually doesn't sound all that complicated. It's the not knowing where
to start bit that is hindering me right now. Thanks to everyone in advance.
Allan Thompson
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
shaun everiss
The url.
I forget where the url is but the installer has the packages.
shaun everiss
your 32 bit system.
once installed with the game you should be able to run either x86 for
32 bit and if 64 bit x86 and x64 packages and it will all work fine.
At 06:40 p.m. 14/11/2011 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had to dig around but I think this is the link. If it isn't, then
>the only other place I can think of to look for it is at driftwood
>games website.
>
>The link is:
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