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Tap Paradise Cove: Unlimited Money and Rubies Hack – No Jailbreak Required

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***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!

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549 Comments

  1. This worked great! Thank you so much. I was so sick of wasting money on a stupid game that was driving me crazy…I am going to donate my money to you instead!

  2. I’ve got to the ifunbox part, I can see the survivor.sqlite it has an iTunes icon above it…I downloaded the program, every time I click on the survivor.sqlite it takes me to iTunes… I’m stuck at this step and can’t get any further… any suggestions

  3. hi, like this blog but whenever i make changes, and try to reenter the game, it wont connect and let me get on the app. i deleted and reinstalled, but it took away a weeks worth of progress! Please Help!!

  4. Followed your instructions, game worked great! Then I changed too much (my bad I did not heed your warning) and it wouldn’t connect with server. So I deleted and tried to relaunch the old version I saved. This did not work. So I deleted again and when it asked if I wanted to load a saved game I said “No” and it did finally connect me to the server, but set me back to 0. Grr. I feel really stupid. Deleting and relaunching again from the saved app before I used your hack just puts me back to this 0 status. I saved the sql file from my last play and I try to use this, but that just gives me a data corruption error and still will not sync the app.
    I can see in my Game Center my old trophies and achievements, but cannot get this to load to the app.
    Submitting a ticket and asking the developer for help worked in the past, but this time I have hacked the app.
    If I am well and truly screwed and have broken this app for good I deserve it for my stupidity and greed in changing too much. But before I gave up completely and just stopped playing after more than a year I thought I would post here and see if you or anyone here had any suggestions.

    • Carpe, u probably changed some values in the zmoney table; u can’t do that directly. That will result in an ‘error your database has been corrupted…’ message. Try changing all your currency values back to what they were before you changed them if you can remember. If you can’t remember, change the values to zero. This will at least put u back where you were, you’ll just have to earn money again.

  5. Did you know you can get as many of any kind of hull or cannon as you want?
    Go to zmoney, find what you want more of, and save that file.
    Go back into the game, equip that item on any ship, and as many as you have. Then save the new survivor.sqlite and modify both the amount and hash value to the same as you had in the previous save file. Upload that to your phone, and you’ll see that you have that many in your inventory, and you still have them equipped on your ships!
    This works with anything in the zmoney tab. Just be sure to change both the amount and hash value.
    Case in point: I have 2 binding rope pieces and multiple binding ropes, plenty of ships equipped with 3 longshot cannons and lads of ribbons and stuff from the holiday edition.

    • You can probably put the following in:

      ZCURRENCY ZAMOUNT ZROWHASH
      Reindeer cannon 4 6wZimg7CQzF3ZH95y+TlA8PMvnk=
      longshotCannon 12 uGJJkkkWeG1MQ9AQ0oAYum3Bf18=
      Binding rope 4 AD8yNPA1sOUFPDFdULvZ28QtlUE=

      Copy and paste the ZAMOUNT and respective ZROWHASH and save, upload, and open the game to check out your new hardware.

      If anyone has the above for the Titanium Cannon – spread the love and reply with it.

      • wow totally reformatted my reply. Maybe this will be better:
        ZCURRENCY
        Reindeer canonn
        ZAMOUNT
        4
        ZROWHASH
        6wZimg7CQzF3ZH95y+TlA8PMvnk=

        ZCURRENCY
        longshot
        ZAMOUNT
        12
        ZROWHASH
        uGJJkkkWeG1MQ9AQ0oAYum3Bf18=

        ZCURRENCY
        Binding rope
        ZAMOUNT
        4
        ZROWHASH
        AD8yNPA1sOUFPDFdULvZ28QtlUE=

      • First of all, thank you all for this great information – super helpful. There is a bunch of new equipment coming out of recent quests, and I would love to know how I might be able to get them. Titanium Tanker, Ultra Tanker, Leaf Blower etc. I imagine it’s just a matter of knowing the right values to put in the right lines in ZMoney – if anyone would reply with that information, that would be super helpful!

        Thanks!

      • Danger mouse, if I give you some of the higher value items that are like 500-600 in value, can you post how we all can multiply those and get them so that all our ships can have them?

        Can you direct me where to find you the info you need?

        David

  6. Thank you for the tips on the free spins, however the land expansions and the upgrades to the ships and merchants no longer work. I did also do this on the holiday paradise cove and everything worked perfectly.

    • OK, I have looked more into this and the upgrades work, I was not thorough in my changings and missed some of the items due to them having a 0 value. However I am not able to get the land expansions to work. I used previous numbers, and copied and pasted, and changed all the values to 3 as per the instructions and I a still have to purchase land in order to cut down trees.

      • I’d like to know what I’m doing wrong. I can’t get past step 3 of opening the SQLite file. I’ve downloaded the program, but when I try to open the file, it keeps going straight to iTunes

  7. what happens when they catch you….is there any way they could bill you for what you got through the free ruby spins…. or would they just kick you out

    • I have never heard of anyone being billed and legally they can’t anyway. They can ban you but I’ve only seen people banned on Campus Life, not Paradise Cove, even though it’s the same company.

  8. Just a future reference for anyone, DON’T, and I repeat, DON’T, spend your first free spin… I did that and had to go in and change the mastery for the mermaid spins in order to get another free one to make it 999 free spins.xD I hadn’t played the game in a while, so I forgot how it worked.xD

  9. hi, i tried the sqlite modification with Liya (sqlite browser doesn’t work with mavericks). So i modify the free spins to 999. then i copy back to ipod and open the game and -no free spins. I checked sqlite-the count is back to zero. Help! Game being run is v.5.4, iOS5. OS X 10.9

  10. Hi, I love this hack but I want to know if the latest version contains runed cities and atlantis in it? If not are u going to add it, also if it is how do we add sand dollars please. thanks for all your hard work and allowing us to use it

  11. Hi, does anyone know how u unlock the “eerie” looking castle? Or where the “build a sword maker” task is? Or how to unlock any of the cloud covered areas? I have no more tasks listed

    • BrillianT post. Have used this and have 9999 rubies and over 1000 Easter cannons and Easter hulls which are powerful. I have also set one ship up with test cannon and test hull which have a huge power rating.

    • Hello, everything was working great for a few days, upgraded everything, free spins, etc., just about everything, had no issues for 2 days, then just today i went in to use the hash generator, followed everything to a T, but since then, all day, I have the “Could not connect to server. You must have access to the Internet to play” error. I have checked and double checked everything, uninstalled app and reinstalled, used itunes to reinstall, I’ve restarted phone, etc., obviously I have internet access, that is not the true problem. All day I’ve been reading and rereading this blog and Steven’s, including all comments, and haven’t seen a single other person that has run into this problem. I have also reuploaded the original saved file before the changes and still nothing, can’t even get into the fresh (unplayed) game. Seems like a deeper issue with a phone to server connection but certainly induced by the change in hash. Even with the new clean app installed I still get the error. Any ideas? Do you think their servers bumped me out for the day and will let me back in eventually? Thanks anyone for your help.

  12. Does this hack still work as of 2/15/14 and version 5.5? Also, if I have multiple mermaids swimming will this happen with every mermaid?

  13. OMG! sooooo helpful! thank you sooooo much! without sounding like a total nerd, you’ve basically given me my life back! you’re right, this is such a greedy game! thank you x infinity! i will continue referring to this article in the future!

    • Yay, glad you found this post useful! I know, the game is almost cost prohibitive in how much it expects you to play – i don’t even feel bad telling people how to hack it :)

      • Are you sure you don’t need a jail broke iPhone. I’m having no luck with this & no one here has responded to my requests for addition help

      • Ok, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong but I can’t open the SQLite file, it keeps opening up iTunes when I try

      • Gamegirlplay – we need your help yet again, we need to find an older version of the game prior to March of 2014. Looks like they found your loop hole and closed the hack in the latest update

      • Same here. The mermaid spins reset to zero every time. This awesome hack is gone… Girlplaysgame…HELP!!!

      • Sorry everyone – I think they patched this hack. I’ll try to come up with a workaround! :)

  14. Ok so I now have a 620 attack magma blaster and a 720 defense heart warmer.

    Please – can someone explain to me exactly what steps I need to take to multiply these to like 100 each, so that I can equip all my ships with them??

  15. Not sure what happened, but I can no longer find “Mermaid Free Spins” under counted events to modify. Anyone else having this issue? How do I add the field back in?

  16. Wow! The field somehow completely disappeared, but after I did a few spins – I found a new field at the very end of the list of counted events. Changing that field to 999 and we’ll see if that helps.

  17. is this hack still functional since the latest update? i have done everything right, but whenever i start up the app it changes the freemermaidspins back to 0. am i goofing it up or have they fixed this hole in the game?

    • I think they might have. Same shit is happening to me. Even triple checked to make sure I was saving everything correctly

      • Anyone have any idea how to back out the update to see if the older version will still accept the hack? How do we do that and not lose all of our recently acquired ships and stuff?

    • Not sure Aaron.
      I too noticed last night that the game hack of Free Mermaid Spins kept resetting to 0.

      Can anyone / everyone else please check if the hack still works? And if yes, what exactly should / does the entire line of code read?

      Thank you.

    • Anyone have any idea how to back out the update to see if the older version will still accept the hack? How do we do that and not lose all of our recently acquired ships and stuff?

    • Need to find an older version of the game and not update. Anyone know of a link to a semi new version of the game and how to prevent the game from installing any new updates?

  18. This hack does not seem to work anymore with v.5.7-276 update. The mermaid free spins counter seems to reset to 0 after the first spin.

  19. bad news: they have since updated the app and now each time when you terminate the app and open it again, it will revert back to 0 free spins. it used to work but i guess they figured it out. do you know of any other alternatives at this point in time?

  20. With update downloaded today, this mermaids free spins hack stopped working. Every time I set it to 999 and then go back in the game, it is set to 0. It was a great run…

  21. Your post is great!!! it worked for a long time but is no longer useful with the 5.7 release of the game.

    Will you check it and update as well??? Please do !!!!

    • Loads, can u please explain in more details for us simple people how and what u did to get it to work? Please start with how u found your udid and them what fields you changed and how you calculated the hash values and which hash field did you change?

  22. stevens hack works, you need to fill all the boxes User table (rubies, coins, xp, wood)
    Amount of wood: as in zusermodel
    XP: as in zusermodel
    Coins: as in zusermodel
    Rubies: 500
    Energy: as in zusermodel

    • But I am looking for 9999 rubies. So just change that field and use all the others that are already there BEFORE I hit calculate hash? And do I need to calculate BOTH hashes or only one of them??

      Also, how do I add in the new shields and cannons into this to make more of them??

      • OpenUDID:
        Type of currency:

        amount:

        User table (rubies, coins, xp, wood)

        Amount of wood:
        its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        XP:
        its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        Coins:
        its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        Rubies:

        Energy:
        its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it

        DzCsVczXQjxWymoDjZLbSxE1eRU= example dont use it its with my id

      • OpenUDID:
        Type of currency:

        amount:

        User table (rubies, coins, xp, wood)
        Amount of wood:
        input type=”text” name=”Wood” value=”4041″ / its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        XP:
        input type=”text” name=”XP” value=”20034″ / its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        Coins:
        input type=”text” name=”Coins” value=”4401266338510″ / its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        Rubies:
        input type=”text” name=”Rubies” value=”9999″ /
        Energy:
        input type=”text” name=”Energy” value=”15″ / its the nr in zusermodel, i dont want to change it
        Calculate User Hash
        DzCsVczXQjxWymoDjZLbSxE1eRU= example dont use it its with my id

      • I can not get Stevens thing to work for me. I don’t know if I even have the correct OpenUDID or what I am doing wrong. Please help. I have spent hours trying this and I am losing my patients. I am a ‘lay’ person when it comes to this stuff.

    • I tried that but I’m having the same issue with it not working. Did exactly as you said, but it says my data file is corrupt. Kept everything exactly the same, and only changed amount of rubies. Copied that into the survivor file and synced to my phone, but no dice. Is it because I’m on v5.7?

      • I’m on v5.7 and got Steven’s hash calculator to work. I now have 999,999 rubies!!! :D THANKS!!! The basic steps are 1) to open the “Library\Preferences\com.pocketgems.paradisecove.plist” file Steven mentioned to get your OpenUDID for THE GAME (not globally for your device). I had to use Xcode on my Mac to see the file properly, but just opening it in a text editor WILL show you the alpha-numeric string you’ll need. 2) Open your survivor.sqlite database and browse the ZUSERMODEL to get the values for wood, xp, coins, rubies(ZGEMS), and energy. 3) TO VERIFY you have all the right info, enter your UDID and values from step 2 in Steven’s calculator and click “Calculate User Hash”. The bold value returned on the page should match exactly to what you already have in ZROWHASH of the same ZUSERMODEL table from step 2. 4) If they match, change the rubies to whatever you want, click the calculate button and copy that new hash ALONG WITH whatever new value(s) you changed into your ZUSERMODEL fields. 5) Save and upload in iFunBox. 6) Enjoy cheating those greedy bastards at PocketGems!!!

    • i have a problem with the UDID, first i tried the iTunes UDID it didn’t work then i found out that i should get the UDID from the plist file of the game , i used plist editor to open the file but i didn’t find the 40 characters UDID instead i found this (OpenUDID gc/G:1857520052) ! can anyone help please?

  23. I accidentally changed the zopt column next to the zeventcount column and saved that sequel version over my old one. When I realized it I immediately changed it back and put 999 in the CORRECT column. Even when I overwrite the file I open the app on my phone and it will no longer give me fee spins. I don’t recall ups reading the game. I’m way past level 60 and I don’t want to revert or start over. What can I do?

    • Debra, please read prior posts. Latest version of the game “fixed” or closed that game hack. It no longer works. We found a work around – but it will take a little more time and patience. Please check out Karel-Steven’s blog. I think I have his link under my name as well as it should be listed in the info of Girls Plays Game.

  24. Thanks to webninjataylor I could understand much clearly what Steven’s hash calculator does and how to do it, it is great!!!! Now I also have 999,999 rubies!!!! :-D

  25. I found this helpful if I was a computer genius lol I understand you have to download this and do that but still a little advanced for me thanks

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