BLACK & WHITE =============== HOW TO BE EVIL GUIDE Version 0.4 Written by : Crisis First Created:07.04.2001 Last Updated: E-mail : omikron_the_nomad_soul@hotmail.com Software (c) 2001 Lionhead Studios Ltd. Black & White, Lionhead and the Lionhead logo are trademarks of Lionhead Studios Ltd. All strategies and advices are welcome just e-mail me. _____________________________________________________________________ Contents: I. Disclaimer II. Version info III. How to be Evil IV. Basic Strategies * Misc. Info V. Islands - Island 1 * Strategy * Quests Boulder Throwing Drowning Fishermen Circle of Stones Building a ship Kidnapped Children The Hermit Ogre Farmers lost sheep VI. Choosing your creature VII. Raising your creature VIII. Changing Creature by "cheating" IX. Strange things X. Credits XI. About the author Sections marked with * are sub-sections _____________________________________________________________________ I. DISCLAIMER This faq is made for personal use only.You can post this faq to other sites as long as it remain unchanced and proper credit is given to me.This faq is copyright Crisis 2001. --------------------------------------------------------------------- II. VERSION INFO For next update date check about the author section. Version 0.1 , Date 07.04.2001 : First version of this faq,some basic info and strategies was included. Version 0.2 , Date 09.04.2001 : Corrected some typing errors,Added Credits section,Added basic strategies send by Brian772. Version 0.3 , Date 15.04.2001 : Corrected lots of typing errors,Added strategies and Misc. section. Version 0.4 , Date I am tired of spamming messages (meaning those awfully spelled street lanquage messages that tell me "oh... friggin man you can't write" and " GeT YoUr nEwBiE a** OuTa h3rE " this day on they will be ignored and deleted without reading.Of course if someone disagrees with some fact that is written in this faq messages will be read . Added new section system,Added couple sections... --------------------------------------------------------------------- III.HOW TO BE EVIL Being evil in Black & White is much more harder than many would thought.Kill everyone and you will end up restarting the level again. You want to be evil? then you instead of killing you should sacrifice little children, make people suffer,Starve your followers,Be the most sinister god that has ever lived be creative... Just read this guide if you want to be evil... --------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. BASIC STRATEGIES These are some basic strategies for being evil.Currently these are send by many people all over the world.I will add my own strategies in later versions.. Please send more.New strategies are always welcome My strategies : 1. Sacrifice is good,You should sacrifice many little children since they give you lots of prayer points ( near 16 000 ). 2. Breeders are the key for success.More breeders -> more little kids -> more people to sacrifice. 4. Looking after farmers is also very important,because if there are too many people won´t starve.You should have 1 farm for 30 people. 5. Teach your creature following miracles fireball,lightning (increased or extreme version if possible) and Megablast. These spells should be enough for your creature. 6. Good way to get your people believe more in you.Make some shields ( Spiritual or Physical ) they give you near 100 belive points per time. 7. A good way to impress opponents villages is to release a flock of wolves or bats in there since these spells give you lots of points you can impress his/her village very fast. 8. Good way to make your temple look evil.Is to download a custom skirmish map called playground from PlanetBlack&White.Once the custom map is installed,start it and use exreme megablasts to destroy the village.Do this until your temple looks evil. These strategies are send by some readers of this Faq ; - Send by Brian772 An effective way of taking over enemy villages the evil way is to first set fire to their totem so the enemy god doesnt get points, then set fire to their food/wood holder, then send in your creature to capture and sacrifice them until they see you are their new god. Oh and lightning helps to set more fires also. - Send by Grant 2 Gather some trees 3 or 4 and a rock or 2, put them on top of each other, now get the Fireball miracle & cast it on the trees & the rock now the rock(& the trees) should be on fire, you now have a Rock On Fire and can toss it at enemy villages (or you're own) and gain belief. This tactic is good if you need to take over an enemy village, toss the rock it will crush/burn their village a very good. - Send by Eli Tayrien This isn´t a purely evil technique of taking over villages, but i have found that if i have influence in a villiage, sometimes i can get up to 300 belief by "dribbling" fireballs - i cast one fireball, and then just click the right mouse button really fast, dropping it and catching it... the more people you do it around, the better. * MISC. INFO This section contains information about many things in game for exsample silver scroll solution,misc tips & tricks etc. Just read and find out.... These are send by readers of my faq... Send by Mystic1999 ==================== - One thing that some people have not seemed to notice is that in boulder throwing, you can throw the man that watches you too. - You can also beat your creature for being scared instead of stroking him. - And for the drowning fishermen, I immediately threw the woman into the water. - After Nemesis showed up, another silver scroll appeared by the beach. It was some guy and girl yelling at me for killing their sister when she only wanted me to help them. They screamed that they won't forget this. Regardless to say, they were thrown into the ocean along with their sister. - Oh yeah, one more thing... the miracle flock is good to teach your creature because it gives good belief, and when you are evil it releases bats rather than doves. Send by Richard Watson ========================= - In the opening when lots of little black, white, and grey dots swirl around and form either the Lionhead logo or your "godly symbol". well if you move your mouse during this time you can disrupt the sequecnce, as in where ever the mouse cursor goes, it drag little dots with it. - You'll have to confirm for yourself, but when i played land three i place 3 combined scafolds next to a field of grain and got a miracle dispenser (which should have cost me 6) this field WAS NOT under construction.The same has happened when i place 3 scafolds next to other "high scafold cost" buildings.... - You do know that man made miracle dispensers only act as a meat packageng plant for your own miracles, they don't create new ones like they did in land 1 - Read the read me notes in the game directory, they have helpful hints with custom logos and vilager names and stuff. C:\Program Files\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White\Profiles\Yourprofilename\Saved Games\vortex.txt - This is an interesting text file, i have not messed with it yet but inside it is a list of parameters describing everything i have chucked into a vortex.... - I think with a little 'cut -n- pasteing' you could load up a map with several hundred beach balls, of megablast one shots in it... attempt at own risk. - In land three you know that invulerable guy who can't die, feed him to your creature and he gets "pooed" out a few mins later, i'm not sure but i think you can kill/banish to the void this guy by tossing him in the vortex. you'd think he'd pop out on the other side but when i got there. - I didn't hear his smart ass comments, but then again i didn't look real hard. - Suggestion for raiseing an evil creature. initially choose the chimp he will learn and grow the fastest. then once you have the basics learnt (and don't require as much intellicence) do a brain swap with either the sheep creature (although it'd require doing 'good' in order to get it) or find a creature CD download and get a leopard or ape - When killing large/tall buildings find a big rock, carefully position it on the VERY TOP of the building and let it fall, it does more bang for the buck in terms of effort. sorry about writing so much, hope some of it is enlightening... Send by Ross Campbell ======================= - on the boulder throwing quest... instead of just crushing the house, use the man standing outside it to knock the boulder off the pillar.... - And when getting the gatestones, don't kill the woman and her brother, just kill the brother and show the woman his corpse, after destroying her house that is.... More by Richard Watson ======================== - For looking in on your creature's developement not all of the i important information is in the same place. in the creature cave amoung other things check your creature's strength, realize this will go down if you don't give your creature lots of rocks to hold. When you press the 'Esc' key, click on the statistics tab, then on player stats and scroll down. you can see your creature's alignment change as well as your creature's growth (the percentage of its full size reached). Under creature stats the only important thing to note is the creature's alignment shown in numeric form (ranged from +1.00 (100%) to - 1.00 (-100%)), the rest you can get from the cave or by foucusing the creature. - Remember, if you as a god do a good deed, and do it while your creature is not looking, you WILL NOT corrupt your creature with the harmful knowledge of benevolence. also its easy for you as a god to undo any 'goodness' you spread. - Don't forget, when you swap creatures you will loose some of its growth. - in level two 'The Sea' silver scroll, bite the bullet and save the kids, the enlarge creature miricle dispenser is worth it. Once you have that enlarge your creature and make it hold and carry the largest rock you can find. as long as your creature is moving when it shrinks to normal it will still carry the large rock, a rock to big for it to usually carry. have your creature carrying around a mega rock (for its size) should increase its strength rateing. - IMPORTANT!! when slaping your creature aim for the legs and slap it hard and fast. If you do it right you can litterally knock your creature flat on its back. Also PLEASE slap your creature around when ever it gets scared, the last thing you need is a mega monster thats 100% evil and afraid of the dark. - Try and increase the creature's evil rateing by training it to use the lightning blot on fish, yes fish. It is possible (as well as birds) with alittle luck and skill and it has little chance of hurting you by mistake. - When you first start the game and are going to your village run ahead of the villagers as fast as you can, you might be rewarded with a temple that starts out looking evil ( at least I was). - You can teach your creature how to use fireballs with only 1 one- shot miricle. with the leash of learning on drop the fire ball on the ground close to the creature, and don't set anything on fire. then quickly 'catch' the fire ball (pick it back up with the action button). the creature (if it paid attension) has ow had a light bulb go off over its head, wait for that to disappear and for your creature to stop pointing. then recast it and catch it again. (repeat for awhile) --------------------------------------------------------------------- V. ISLANDS Now it is time to begin.... These strategies will guide you through each of the islands in game.Just read forward to find out what would be the most evil way to solve all the quests in the game. * FIRST ISLAND * Completing Strategy : Just follow gold story scroll instuctions.Nothing more really.. Also when the woman asks you to bring his brother back crush her house with boulder and kill both her and her brother by throwing them to the lake.. When your creature throws Sable the trainer be sure to praise your creature,when Sable has taught you everything eat her with your creature or just kill her thats the evil way.. - SPOILER - Just before following the big animal to the mountain,go back to your village and use lightning bolts to make destruction in the village.Also by doing this your creature will slowly learn to use lightning miracle. At this point destroying your village doesn´t matter since Nemesis is going to come and destroy it anyway so go on and kill & grill. * SILVER SCROLL QUEST SOLUTIONS : Throwing Boulders ( Practice ) Pick up the boulder aim it carefully to the house..Throw and crush the house and people who are living inside it. You will get a Beach Ball for the reward of this quest. Drowning Fishermen Let fishermen drown also throw the woman who gave you the quest to ocean. You will gain one time miracle dispenser "Creature Strenght". Circle of Stones Once you have taken the quest crush/burn the the house of the man who gave you the quest and then eat him with your creature. You will gain nothing by doing this. Building a ship Bring your creature near the singing sailor pick them up one by one and eat them with your creature. You will see a scene after killing them nothing more... Kidnapped Children ( Dead piper is the best piper ) This is a must complite quest since the reward is so good. Follow the piper with your creature pick him up eat him,him no matter what there is only one fact the Piper man must DIE ! Once he is killed you will get lightning bolt miracle dispenser. The Hermit Use your creature to throw a boulder to his house thus crushing it,Hermit will now try to set a fire in your village but before he has time to do eat him with your creature.. You will gain one shot water miracle when you kill/eat him. Ogre When your creature learns to fight this quest appears beat Sleg ( Ogre ) take treasure and get out... You will get yet another beach ball and healing miracle dispenser. Farmers lost sheep Burn the farmers house,eat his sheeps and finally throw him until he is dead or drown him.Just use the most sinister way that you can imagine You will get nothing from doing so except your alignment goes to more evil. -------------------------------------------------------------------- VI.CHOOSING YOUR CREATURE First you should choose what creature you will be using in the game here is the list of creatures that will fall to the path of evil more quicly... For better creature info you should check out Masked Moogle´s creature faq available in www.gamefaqs.com Creature : Lion How to get : Island 5 ,complite lion puzzle Good things : Very aggressive/Violent,Learns quickly since he has high intelligence,Good in battle.. Bad things : You get it in island 5,unless you hack him.... Creature : Wolf How to get : Island 4,complite blind woman quest Good things : Pretty average fighter,learns fast, Bad things : Almost impossible to get without hacking,Looks ugly. Creature : Tiger How to get : You can choose it on the island 1 Good things : Pretty good in fight and looks cool Bad things : Absolutely stupid creature ( learns slow ) Creature : Leopard How to get : Download it,Then you can find it on island 1 and 4 Good things : Good fighter,very fast Bad things : Dumb creature not much intelligent than tiger but still... Creature : Gorilla How to get : Download it,Then you can find it on island 1 and 4 Good things : Excellent fighter, Bad things : Likes to smash your town Creature : Brown Bear How to get : Complite the "clean up forest" quest in island 5 Good things : Average in everything.. Bad things : No bad sides except you get it so late in game... Creature : Ape How to get : You can choose it on the island 1 Good things : High intelligence.Good to begin with and then change some other... Bad things : Not so good fighter. Creature : Ogre How to get : Hack the game to get him Good things : Good fighter Bad things : Impossible to get without hacking. ===================================================================== VII. RAISING YOUR CREATURE "THE EVIL WAY " After choosing your creature it is time to teach him a trick or two. More is coming in next update : 1. Teach your creature to go walk with a large stone in its hand when it does this,It will gain more strength. 2. Making your creature goes walking, it prevents your creature to become fat. 3. Remember to beat up your creature when it is scared. 4. Teach your creature to eat little kids or adults,they boost alignment very much to the bad way of course... 5. Remember to praise your creature when it wants to sleep,since your creature grows better when he rests it is good to make him rest. ===================================================================== VIII. CHANGING YOUR CREATURE BY " CHEATING " This information is Ripped straight from Voodoo Extreme.I just thought to pass it along Dustin L. shot us off the following email regarding "Functing with files in Black and White". Of course, I think you've heard of Black and White (call it a hunch). Check it out (Kind of a plump bastard, but oozing with information): I was messing around with some files in the Lionhead dir and came across the creature files. I then figured out how to change your current creature to any other creature in the game. Even the Orge! All the files you need to mess with are in the Data\CRT\ directory. Make sure you back it up just in case. Lets say you are the Cow. Your creatures file is bcow.CBN. Now lets say you want to be the Wolf. All you do is delete your current file, which is bcow.CBN and rename bwolf.CBN to your old creature, which was bcow.CBN. Start the game and you have a Wolf running around. I'm going to explain it again. To be the Orge you do the same thing. Lets say you still have the Cow. The Orge's file is bgreek.CBN. Simply delete bcow.CBN and rename bgreek.CBN to bcow.CBN I have noticed one thing odd... The first creature I changed to was the Orge from the Madrill. I have tried most of the other creatures and have noticed that their foot prints no longer change. They are stuck at the Orge's foot print. Also the Rhino is there, but I have yet to try him. My Tortise running around land 1 is so cool! Changing creatures like this seems to have no effect on you or your creatures alignment. Their current stats stay the same regarding damage and food. Scars and bruises also seem to disapear. As always, make sure to wrap your rascal if you try this (back-up your files, etc). ===================================================================== IX. STRANGE THINGS These are some strange things that have occurred while i was playing. 1. I have spotted that your creature can eat rocks/stones/boulders and even like them. 2. Also my creature likes to eat beach balls,i wasn´t watching in the first island my creature ate his beach ball.I thought he ate a human so i praised him ever since it has been eating beach balls. ===================================================================== X. CREDITS / SPECIAL THANKS This section is filled with names of people who have helped me making this faq. Following people have helped me to make this faq : Brian772 ,Grant 2 ,Mystic1999 ,Richard Watson ,Ross Campbell , Eli Tayrien , ! Special Thanks ! Lionhead Studios - For making the game GameFaqs ( CJayC ) - Thanks for publishing this faq on your site. Petri Rantala - He helped me to complite the game.Couldn´t have done it without his help.. ===================================================================== XI. ABOUT THE AUTHOR This is third faq i have written. My Faq´s are: Black & White - How to be Evil guide Format: PC Version: 0.4 Language: English Next Update: 26.04.2001 Omikron:The Nomad Soul - Character Guide Format: PC Version: Final ( 1.99 ) Language: English Next Update: None DiscWorld Noir - Walkthrough Format: PC / PSX Version: Final ( 1.0 ) Language: English Next Update: None