PC Cheat Codes For Age of Empires III (AOE 3)

Age Of Empires III is the latest in the Age Of Empires series by Microsoft, and as per the expectations, the game delivers! Age Of Empires III has excellent graphics and a complex system of resources and management of the empire without being incredibly hard to understand. Like all the other excellent games, this too is easy to learn, but hard to master. Of course, there are easier difficulties for you to master the stuff on, but otherwise, this is a decent challenge for any gamer. I highly recommend it for any Age of Empires fan in particular and any strategy fan in general.

The following are the cheat codes for Age Of Empires III PC version. Even though I haven't been able to test them all, they are supposed to work for Age of Empires III perfectly.

Invincible units:
Go to the folder containing all of the AOE 3 stuff. Open the folder called data. Right click proto.xml and go to open with and choose notepad. Press CTRL and F. Type in the name of the unit you want to find, e.g.: Explorer. Scroll down until you see all kinds of things starting with . Anywhere in that area, make a new column and press CTRL and TAB twice. Type:
Invulnerable
and on another line type:
DoNotDieAtZeroHitpoints
Save the file then open AOE 3. Send your explorer into battle. HE WILL NEVER DIE!
Note: This secret affects enemy units as well as your own.
Another Note: If you go all crazy and try to type stupid stuff like PWNALLTHEM!!! and the game crashes, it is enitrely your fault.

Increase your card/deck unlock points in Single Player!:
Go to My DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3Savegame open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml (make sure you back up this file) and find the line .
The line should look something like this xx , where xx is the current number of card unlock ponts you have. Change xx to a high number such as 999, save the file, start Age of Empires 3 and go into a skirmish. Go to where you manage your decks and now you will have 999 unlock points to get more cards for your deck.

Unlimited Unlock Points in Single player:
Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file located in My DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3Savegame (dont forget to make a backup of this file) find this line .
The line should look like this xx , where x is the number of skillpoints you currently have. Change the xx to a high number such as 999, save the file and start Age of Empires 3. Go into a skirmish game, go to manage your city and you will now have 999 unlock points to unlock various things for your city.

Easy Leveling in Single Player:
Open the sp_yourcityname_homecity.xml file in the My DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3Savegame (dont forget to make a back up first) folder, search for .
You will see something like this xx , put in 99 for the xx, save the file, go into the game and play a skirmish. Now you are level 99 !

Cheat codes:
Hit the ENTER key and key in the code
Gives you a big red monster truck that can run over anything. tuck tuck tuck
Win in singleplayer this is too hard
Gives 10,000 coin Give me liberty or give me coin
Gives 10,000 XP Nova & Orion
Fattens all animals on map A recent study indicated that 100% of herdables are obese
Turns on 100x gather/build rates Speed always wins
Turn on "Musketeer"ed!" when you get killed by Musketeers Sooo Good
Spawns the Mediocre Bombard at your Home City gather point Ya gotta make do with what ya got
Gives 10,000 wood
Gives 10,000 food Medium Rare Please
Reveals map (fog of war still there) X marks the spot

Unlimited Resources:
Use a text editor to edit the "proto.xml" file in the "data" directory in the game folder. Note: You may first need to uncheck the "Read Only" attribute of that file's properties in Windows Explorer. Search for the text "CrateOf". You will find CrateofFood, CrateofCoin, CrateofWood, CrateofFoodLarge, CrafteofCoinLarge, and CrateofWoodLarge. For all these entries, find the tag "InitialResourceCount" and change the count to whatever desired. For example, the normal crates each have "100.000" of the resources. You can change the "100" to "99999.000", etc.
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