Tap Paradise Cove: Unlimited Money and Rubies Hack – No Jailbreak Required
***UPDATE 15 MARCH 2014: As of the last update, the Free Mermaid Spins hack no longer works! Some people have reported that this hack works, so go try it! :)***
If you’re still having problems, you can revert to the previous version of the game (ipa found here) by following these instructions.
Remember to always keep a backup of whatever you’re changing in case you have to restore it!***
I don’t even feel bad about posting this because this game is the greediest game ever! After getting super frustrated at the ridiculous Limited Time Quests (LTQ’s) that don’t give you enough time to finish and the exorbitant cost of ruby buildings, I decided to cheat a little:
You need:
1. iFunbox, iExplore, or any other program that lets you view your source files in your app
2. sqlite or a similar basic database viewer/editor
3. your iphone/ipad
You do NOT need:
1. NO JAILBREAKING REQUIRED
2. NO GIVING AWAY USERNAME OR PASSWORD (be careful, there are a lot of scams out there!)
NOTE: You can only use this hack if you’ve unlocked the mermaid (everyone should have it unlocked if they’re running v.2.4 or higher of Tap Paradise Cove and are level 6 or above).
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Open iFunbox and find Tap Paradise Cove.
2. You will see the survivor.sqlite file under ./Library/Application Support/ – download it to your desktop. Don’t forget to save a backup copy before you make the changes in case you screw up.
3. Open the sqlite file from your desktop with sqlite – you can download the program here.
4. Click on the “Browse Data” tab. You should see a dropdown menu next to “Table” – select ZCOUNTEDEVENTS.
5. You’ll see a bunch of information – the one you’re interested in is where it says “mermaidFreeSpins” under the ZEVENTNAME column. Here’s a screenshot to help you:
6. Next to that column will likely be the number 0 in the ZEVENTCOUNT column. Change that number to 999 by double-clicking the cell – a box should pop up for you to type in a new number. You could probably do a greater number, but don’t get too greedy – too many 9’s could get you banned. 999 is safe.
7. Now upload your changed survivor.sqlite file with iFunbox, replacing the original in the app folder by dragging the desktop file back into iFunbox.
8. Open Tap Paradise Cove on your iphone/ipad and find a mermaid swimming around. Click on her – it should say FREE SPINS under each option to search for treasure now!
9. Now you can get unlimited free rubies and money by searching for treasure. Search the UNDERSEA CITY for fast cash and GOLDEN PALACE for fast rubies!
There are many other hacks you can do with the survivor.sqlite file, but be careful not to fiddle around too much or you won’t be able to connect to the game. In particular, avoid editing the ZUSERMODEL table because you will no longer be able to connect to the server if you do – you can’t just directly change the number of rubies or money you have in the file, hence this workaround.
Other useful hacks:
Land Expansions: You can unlock land expansions without spending any money. Here’s how:
1. In the survivor.sqlite file, go to ZBUILDABLEAREA table.
2. You’ll see a column called ZEXPANSIONCOMPLETETIMESTAMP. If you’ve already cleared some land, you’ll see that some of these values contain a 10 digit number denoting the time at which you cleared it. For uncleared land, you’ll see a 0.
3. Go to any 0 cell and change it to a 10 digit number starting with 13. The easiest way to do this would be to copy an existing 10 digit number in the table and paste it – that way you know the number is valid. Also, make sure to change ZEXPANSIONSTATE to 3 so that the land becomes cleared.
4. Upload the changes and go back to your game – now you should see that the land is unlocked and all you have to do is chop down the trees to clear it!
Complete Quests: You can complete quests without actually doing them. It takes some trial and error, but it’s super handy for when you have a ruby quest that’s too expensive or a LTQ that’s going to end too soon. Here’s how:
1. In the survivor.sqlite file, go to ZPGACHIEVEMENTREQUIREMENTSCOMPLETED table.
2. You’ll see a column called ZACHIEVEMENT and one called ZIDENTIFIER. The former is the name of the achievement and the latter is the stage of completion – for example, ZACHIEVEMENT could be “fiddlerwish” and ZIDENTIFIER could be “fiddlerwish_1” meaning that part 1 of the “fiddlerwish” achievement is complete.
3. You can add a new record by clicking the NEW RECORD button in the upper right of the screen. Do it.
4. A new row will be added at the bottom – fill in Z ENT and Z OPT with the same values as the rest of the entries (for me, it’s 26 and 1).
5. Say you want to complete the Fiddler’s Wish quest and there are three parts to the quest. You’ve already completed part one. So, in your new entry, put “fiddlerwish” under ZACHIEVEMENT and “fiddlerwish_2” under ZIDENTIFIER.
6. Repeat step 5 for part three – “fiddlerwish_3”.
7. Upload the changes and go back to your game – all parts of your quest should now have green checkmarks and you can click the “COMPLETE” button!
Harvest from Merchants and Ship Voyages Immediately: You can speed up the harvest time of your buildings, merchants, and ships by editing the file. Here’s how:
1. In the survivor.sqlite file, go to ZGAMEOBJECT table.
2. You’ll see a list of all your assets – scroll all the way to the right until you see the column ZNAME which will tell you the asset names.
3. Find the merchant you want to speed along – scroll back to the middle and you should see a column called ZTIMEATWHICHOBJECTWILLBECOMEHARVESTABLENUM (yes, it’s a long title!). Find the cell that corresponds to your merchant. There should already be a 10 digit number starting with “13” in there.
4. Replace that number with one denoting an earlier time – in other words, lower the existing number. For example, if the existing number is “1351222222”, change it to something like “1311222222”.
5. You can do the same thing with ships that you send on voyages – change the column ZENDOFVOYAGETIME.
6. Upload the changes and open your game – everything you changed should be ready to collect!
Upgrade Every Ship and Merchant for Free: You can do this without a single emerald, sapphire, ruby, or whatever. Here’s how:
1. Follow steps 1-2 in the list above.
2. For Merchants – go to the column ZUPGRADECOUNT. For Ships – go to the column ZUPGRADECOUNT1. They are not the same!
3. You should see 0’s for all the Merchants and Ships you haven’t upgraded yet. To fully upgrade a Merchant, replace the number in the cell with the number 25. To fully upgrade a Ship, replace the number in the cell with the number 45.
4. Sending ships on voyages can become very expensive fully upgraded, so you might want to only upgrade one or two ranks. You can change the number in these cells by increments of 5 – for example, if I only want a Tier 2 upgraded ship, I’d type in 5 instead of 45. Tier 3 would be 10, etc.
5. Upload the changes and open your game – you’ll see the new fully upgraded buildings and ships now, complete with their evolved images.
Did you find this tutorial helpful? Have questions? Let me know in comments!
Hi! Which sqlite do I download for mac? :D
I don’t own a mac so I’m not sure. I want to say that the sqlite download is for both mac and pc because it doesn’t require installation, but I’m not positive. Hope you find a better answer! :(
Thanks! I’ll try to figure it out. If not, I’ll just do it on PC. :)
hi,
Does this work for Android as well? (I could never afford a sh***** apple product)
when I download Sqlite all i get is a black box that wants me to write stuff. nothng like the one on your pictures.
Please Help.
Try downloading from this site instead: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/
Thanks a lot! It helped!
Hi girlsplaygames, if done your spin hack land expansion and upgraded my ships and merchants to max they worked thanks very much.
But ive cleared all the available land done all the quests except relics and wonders and wonders of the world and im yet to see sly sam the pirate but the remaining fog will not clear i have every merchant and every ship thanks to your spin hack and i am at level 60 i can see other land marks in the fog and normally when you click on a foggy area it tells you what quest you have to do to unlock it but now when i click on it it say hidden area can you help thanks. Harrypalmer76.
You’ve reached the max level and progress. You won’t be able to do more until PocketGems releases more quests.
girlplaysgame – If I was not already married I would kiss you. Thanks for the tips.
Hi. Um.. I did the mermaid and it worked perfectly but the thing about land expansion… Do you mean that the fog in the game disappears or that when you try to expand the land it doesn’t cost? or that the expand option disappears and there’s only trees left. Either way it didn’t work at all for me. :( Please help, its way to expansive to expand but i don’t have any more space to build. Thx if you answer.
You have to do it on land that is already uncovered by mist. It can be tricky to figure out which land is which in the long list, so what I do is start at the bottom of the list which is usually the most recently uncovered land. Doing the hack will make it so that the land becomes “unlocked” meaning you can then cut down the trees to clear it.
ok thx, I’ll try :)
I started playing PC on my plane rides in between work and you are correct, it is the greediest $$ grab of any game I have ever seen.
The tips you gave were so clear and easy, thank you much, I agree with Raegan, big kiss to you!
I’m not sure how you all have done this. I keep trying & have absolutely no luck at all
I’m sorry to bother you again but the land thingy isn’t working at all. Do I have to write in a special number in the “ZEXPANSIONCOMPLETETIMESTAMP” bar? Because i just copy and paste the other numbers that I already had… I even filled in every column that had a zero but nothing changed :(
Can you like show pictures on how to do it or explain more thoroughly? Sorry to bother you but its been bugging me O.o
Did you change ZEXPANSIONSTATE to 3?
Um… no. I didn’t know I had to do that :p thx I’ll try.
You’re a really nice person to actually answer these question and not getting tired of me… Really THX allot
No problem – it is probably just easier to use the mermaid spin hack and spend the money on unlocking new land rather than doing the expansion hack if you can’t get it to work :)
I did the hack using ifile, the spin hack worked, but when returning to the game after, it was as it was before the hack.
I’m so lost as to how to do this stuff with ifile, could you help me out!?
same problem,the status is remain before hack, the time is frozen at the time i hack
Weird … I just did it yesterday and it still worked. Don’t know why it’s not working for you …
should i try reinstall the game? i have change any word other than “ZCOUNTEVENTS”, i just make the zero to 999, it works fine, but after i go to other apps , than back to the game, the state is remain,i found that my Z_OPT value is 1, and your record is 198, is there need something change? please help or advise
I don’t think Z_Opt value matters much – I never change mine manually and when I add a new entry, I just put in an arbitrary number :)
i tried reinstall the apps, as i play for a while (level 3), i try using another apps , then back to the game , strange happened, it reconnect the server and then, i back to the state is level 26, that is the time i hack the game, help please
finally got the problem MAY BE, i reenter all the data , gamecenter, apple id, and it works fine now , thanks a lot
what exactly did u do?
I’ve never encountered this problem so sorry I can’t help … are you playing on two different devices (ie. iphone and ipad)?
No just on iphone. I did it exactlu as u said, when i went into the game i had the free spins, i played a little, but when i closed it and opened it again it was on the same point before the hack.. so unlucky it just does not work on me. do i have to da anything with game center or sth?..
and now it does the same thing even if i restore the old file.
Thanks :) Works great! Had a bit of trouble in the beginning, the expanded land kept resetting itself – I would clear trees and next time the game started, the trees would be back (although land was still open). Did that 3-4 times and finally tried moving houses onto the land right after I chopped all the trees and that seemed to work.
The land expansion thing just seems to be kind of random. I put numbers in and sometimes I get land and sometimes nothing. I’ve had a bit more luck looking in ZEXPANSIONSTATE for a 1 instead of a 0 (so look for a 1 in ZEXPANSIONSTATE, change it to a 3, and then add the 10 digit number to ZEXPANSIONCOMPLETETIMESTAMP). That seems to open pieces in and around where I’m working (maybe the ones where I’ve got nothing are still in the fog or something).
Also the free spin seems to randomly turn itself off too. I’m guessing after you take your 999 free spins, she would go back to normal? But this is before spinning that many. But I just go in do it again and she works again.
Glad it worked! You could probably add more spins, but I’m always hesitant to increase the number too high for fear of getting banned :)
Hi folks!
Paradise Cove version 3.41
Im founded land expanding problem. We’ sorry poor english.
– The land begining explore in the game 1-4 explorers. And logoff game.
– Opening squlite file and goto ZBUILDABLEAREA table.
– Search ZEXPANSIONSTATE collums 1-4 numbers the “2”! only 2. – There active explorers. Writing 2 to 3. And uploading modified file.
– Going to back game. :)
I hope help.
And!!!
How to reduce exploring cost?
Wery simply.
Goto ZEXPANSIONMODEL table: and look up one row!
– modified Z OPT and ZTIMEATWICHEXPANSIONWILLFINISHNUM numbers. Better lowers number (Excamle :2. :)
Worked like a charm. Thanks so much.
How do you upload the new database?? I can not find anything on how to do this.. i can save the database but i can not upload or copy a new one
omg never mind i totally knew how to do this…lol sorry i feel stupid haha.
haha glad you figured it out ;)
Oh yea, do u have anything for the Simpsons Tapped Out?? Another game that like to take your money haha
yeah def kicked me of the game. I followed your instructions and no luck when i tried to reconnect to the game it said my system had been corrupted
That only happens if you change the amount of gold or rubies you have manually, as I expressly stated not to do in my tutorial. The mermaid hack works!
If you change the values back to what they are supposed to be, you will be able to connect again to the game.
the freespin is time consuming… but its wicked and it works! i hope we can get max rubies every turn.lol! thanks! and yeah tried expansions slot…loving it! i really love it when girl plays game!!! :D
TPC has a new update(3.3) does this still work if i update it? thanks!
There is another sidegame to paradise cove,holiday cove, exactly THE same, starts on à new island,THE north pole, please any hacks with that game?.. Again costs alot of time And money…..please…thxxx
I was able to follow the steps and do everything else correctly, but once you have changed the value by the mermaid spin section, how do you complete the process and upload the changes to the game? I just need help finalizing it. Oh, and thanks a lot for this, because rubies are expensive lol.
Has anyone gone over a billion coins? If so, what happens? Does it start over at zero?
I’ve gotten to over 600,000,000,000 coins so I assume it will just stop at a certain point. I’m pretty sure it won’t go back to 0.
Jeez! Doesn’t look like there’s even enough room for all those #’s.
I used up 999 and i add another 999. anyone can confirmed i wont get banned just yet? how many can we go? hehe…
Hey I added 9999 and it still works fine :)
PS You can do this exact same hack for Tap Holiday Cove or whatever the new game is – you’ll get mermaids at Level 6 (in the form of penguins and polar bears) so just follow the same steps for getting free spins. You have to spin once before doing the hack or else the option won’t be added on your database. So, use up your first free spin, then do the hack.
any way to refill energy in the sqlite file?
Yes it’s easy – go to the ZUSERMODEL table, ZTIMEATWHICHENERGYWILLREGENERATENUM column and change the 10 digit value (mine is currently 1354627051) to something lower (I usually change the 5th digit so in this case to 1354527051).
Thanks you are the BEST!!!!!!
I did the hack but the game is stuck, every time i open the game the status is same as i had before the hack…
I did it in my iPhone and it was great! .. But when I tried to do it in the iPad it didn’t work and now it’s says that the file its corrupted and it won’t even open the app! Please help!! How can I restored it back???
You can correct it by uploading the original file … did you mess with any of the .csv files or the number of gems/coins you have? Alternatively, did you upload the iphone survivor.sqlite file to your ipad, because they are different files and aren’t interchangeable?
I did the hack and get the free spins but it goes back to where I left off everytime I switch apps and go back to Paradise Cove. Do I need to be logged on to gamecenter?
Thanks so much! Mermaid hack works perfectly! Glad to be able to do it without any jailbreak required.
I don’t normally like it to cheat a game this way, but you’re right though.This is the greediest game I’ve ever seen. No matter what I do, the game economics just never adds up. The more you play, the cost of houses, merchants, upgrades, expanding land, and ship voyages always skyrocket unrealistically quicker than what you can earn. Lucky, the mermaids are always there to help…
is there a solution for the problem where it goes back at the point it was before the hack??
Use a free spin befor exiting the game worked for me
Thanks so much for the info!! I don’t know much about this things, so before I try it I wanna be sure I saved a copy in case I screw it. How do I do that?? Haha
Thanks!!!!
Hi! Thanks so much for the info!! I don’t know much about this things, so before I try it I wanna be sure I saved a copy in case I screw it. How do I do that?? Haha
Thanks!!!!
The same way you save a copy of any file on your computer …
Thanks much for the hacks! They have been very useful. I rely mostly on the free spins, and then use my ill gotten gains to purchase and expedite everything I need. My thinking is that the less I change things, the better.
I found recently that PG has been stipulating Ruby Spins and Mastery spins as quest requirements. In that case I had to reduce my free mermaid spin value back to 0, and pay for spins normally to complete that part of the quest. Mermaid mastery spins are really tough as they require 20 regular spins each to earn 1 mastery spin. At least they do in my version of the game. I know that I can edit the DB to trick the app into believing that I’ve met the quest requirements, but at that point why play the game at all?
One question . . . I’ve read many TPC forums posts about some folks having an option to shake their phone to collect all their coins at once. That would be spectacular! Is there a way to turn on that feature using the tools in SQLite?
Hey – I think you have to wait for PG to roll that feature out to you. I don’t have the Mermaid Mastery spins yet and I tried to manually enable it and it doesn’t work. Same with the Relics and Wonders quest I tried to manually activate it. If you go to ZCOUNTEDEVENTS and change your “availableMermaidMasterySpins” value to 9999 or whatever your mermaidfreespins value is, you’ll get a mastery spin every time you spin so that should speed up the process of collecting rubies and finishing those quests :)
“Ask the mermaids! Finish 3 ruby mermaid searches.” I changed the mermaid free spin from 999 to 0, but all of the recent game saved got erased and took me back to before I changed to 999 initially. Is there any way to continue my saved info and still finish this request?
Yes just manually complete the requirement in the ZPGACHIEVEMENTREQUIREMENTSCOMPLETED table – there are instructions for how to complete quests in the blog post.
Is there any way to automatically clear the trees when you get the land? I uploaded about 10 squares of land, and now there’s a mess of trees to deal with. Thanks in advance!
Hi there,
I followed your instructions for Paradise Cove and it worked out pretty fine. I tried to do the same with Holiday Cove and it also worked out, but then I changed something else in the database, and after doing so, I haven’t been able to play any more (it says “Could not connect to server. You must have access to the Internet to play”). Was I banned? And if so, how can I fix it up so I can play again? I already restore the original survivor.sqlite file but still doesn’t work. Thank you.
What exactly did you change?
I changed ZGEMS and ZENERGY in Table ZUSERMODEL
Oh, you mean like I told you not to? :) Change the ZGEMS and ZENERGY value back to what it was before the last time you exited out of your game. Uploading the original sqlite won’t be enough if the value of your gems changed at any time between the original sqlite and the upload. Does that make sense? Basically, you need to revert the number back to the last time the server saved your data.
How do I upload the new sq file after tweaking it?
Hi there,
Any idea what changes to make in Paradise Cove to allow the Holiday Cove completion reward?
I tried adding the completed beacon quest steps in Holiday Cove as described above, which worked, but that didn’t seem to unlock the reward in Paradise Cove.
May be a long shot, but I can’t be bothered with Holiday Cove frankly – I find it twee beyond belief.
Thanks
If you want the reward in Paradise Cove, you have to tweak the database for Paradise Cove. You don’t even need to do any of the Holiday Cove quests, you just need to fake complete the quests in the Paradise Cover sqlite file. Does that make sense?
I have no idea how to upload the changes. Help please? :[
Omg I figured it out, I’m so stupid haha sorry ;P
What did you do? I’m having the same problem.
I want to try to add on frequency on the whales for the latest quest , it’s pissing me off, I drain my iPad battery half and find no whales
I need to Pay 199 ruby to refill energy how can i reduce That to 3 ruby ??
I, too, am having a problem understanding how to upload the edited file. Would you mind explaining that part a bit? Thanks so much!
You need to copy the sqlite file to pc !!! When your are finnished editing your sqlitei file save it .
Then delete THE sqlite file in your ipod iphone or ipad and put your edit sqlite file in THE directory of your i device thats it ;)
That part was simple
Do You now similar tips and trice for Holiday Cove ???
Pawelsky
THis comment doesn’t belong to Paradise cove but i dind’t know how to comment below Campus life. I need your help. You posted a link where you explained how to get every girl you want. When I click on the link and download the file it tolds me to pay for unzipping. What am I dong wrong?
i cant find mermaidfreespin anywhere. I have v. 3.5 HELP!
i m not having mermaid option in my sql
Hi, i have been trying to dowload the ifunbox and the iexplorer on my iphone 4s, but it keeps saying “safari cannot download this file” is there a way that i can make it download to my phone? Thank you :)
It’s a program you download to your computer, not your phone
O right:) but how can i then change the game settings if its not on my phone? Because i dont have paradise cove on my mac? Do i put the software onto my phone or….?
Sorry, and thank you for helping :)
The program allows you to access the folders on your iphone like any other folder on your computer
Hi,
I did this trick afew months ago, and have since used up all the rubies (greedy as hell game!), went to do it again this morning and have noticed in latest version PG have added “mermaidmasteryspins” to the game, which in game are exactly same as free spins, both can be found in zevents table. Do you think this is an attempt by PG to catch people using this as the 2 values will be different?
No – they have no quests now that involve “mastery spins” … those are spins that earn you higher prizes and a free spin with the mermaids. If you set that value to something high (ie. 9999), you will always earn higher prizes each time you spin and it makes the process much faster :)
So set the mermaidmasteryspins value to same as mermaidfreespins? So then each spin is a mastery one.
Out of interest, is it worth resetting the z opt value for free spins to a lower ‘less obvious’ value? Like mine is over 500 ;)
Thanks for your help!
Hi girlsplaygames i done all the hacks and they work thank you!
Ive done all the available quests except relics and wonders and wonders of the world and the old man in the admirals hat is telling me to attack sly sam the pirate but he hasn’t appeared the remain fog covered land which has some landmarks in it mirror and something with a crystal stuck in it but when i click on the fog instead of telling me what quest i need to do it just says hidden area any ideas thanks.
I have the latest version fo this app installed and I can’t find the mermaidFreeSpins on ZEVENTNAME
plsss help
iexplorer and ifunbox keep quitting unexpectedly on me, and failing to relaunch, anyone else having this problem?? – Mac OS X 10.5.8
how do you get the mermaid??