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 While there are some very nice lists of cheats already out there, I've found that most of them tend to repeat the same cheats over and over. However, this does not reflect the number of cheats that can be used in the game. In reality, the "cheats" you use in-game are nothing more than snippets of regular old CAOS coding, the same sort of coding people use to make new agents. The CAOS Command Line, or "cheat box", is nothing but a nifty way to inject an extra line of code into the game, much like the CAOS tool--in fact, if you inject a cheat using the CAOS tool, it has the same effect as if you had entered it into the Command Line. The only real difference is that the Command Line has a limit on how much code you can inject at a time. To make up for this fact, the Command Line allows you to put more on that line than you could using the CAOS tool, "squishing" your statement together to make it fit. Thus, a statement that looks like this when written using the CAOS tool:
becomes this when written on the command line:
Formatting aside, you can see that the two statements are exactly alike. So those lists of cheats you see online, are only the commands that are common knowledge in the Creatures Community at large, and the number of things you can do using "cheats" is only limited by the capabilities of the game's engine. Anyone who knows how to program using CAOS, such as to make a new object, can piece together their own cheats from the commands they are familiar with. This page is meant to be a comprehensive list of the cheats I find myself using, including some of the better-known ones like "kill hots", as well as ones that I or other players came up with from scratch. In fact, you are welcome to contact me if you would like to submit a cheat that you feel should be here! I do hope that you will find them useful. I know I have! Jump directly to Egg cheats, Creatures cheats or Miscellaneous cheats.
A few notes: * It appears tha some versions of the game, at least, require a Creature to die before you use the "kill" command to remove them, or else they will still be counted as a part of the population. * Pausing a Creature or agent using the "paus" command only lasts so long as you don't pause the game. When you unpause the game, any paused objects will be unpaused as well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||