Cheating

From Tiny Tower Wiki

This page serves as a compendium of methods of cheating in Tiny Tower. Not that we think you should do that.

Contents 1 Time & Date Exploits 1.1 Warning 1.2 Methods 1.2.1 Fast Foward 1.2.2 Instant Birthday 2 iExplorer Hacks 2.1 Warnings 2.2 Methods 2.2.1 Change Stock Level 2.2.2 Make an Apartment a Profitable Floor 2.2.3 Free Costumes and Bux 2.2.4 Mission Hacks for Free Bux

Time & Date Exploits

Tiny Tower functions on the Time and Date settings of your iOS Device. Therefore, by setting the internal clock on your device to a future time and/or date, the game will progress as such.

Warning

Whenever you alter your time in your iOS device, you run the risk of:

• Losing game data
• Harming your software
• Harming your personal data
• Odd glitches from messing with Date and Time

To ensure that no game data is harmed, it is suggested that BEFORE you set your time forward:

• You know how much time you will need to set the device for (ie; a floor has 1 Day to be built.)
• You have the items you'd like to sell quickly stocked
• You have the items selected that are to be stocked

To ensure that no game data is harmed, it is suggested that AFTER you set your time forward:

• You have accepted all stock updates and "Floor Completed" notifications (ie; your floor is built after 1 day, and you have accepted it.)
• You have NOT started any new stocking or building processes (ie; you have not tried to stock another item in your building.) This is crucial, because by stocking another item/building another floor, you effectively extend the amount of time needed to stock the item/building another floor.

Methods

Fast Foward

Follow these steps to quickly stock, sell, or build floors in your tower.

1. Open up your Settings on your iOS Device, then proceed to General>Date & Time.
2. Make sure the setting is at "Set Automatically" or the current date and time of your location.
3. Open the Tiny Tower Application.
4. Request to stock any items, stock any items, or request to build any floors. Look for the longest time required to stock an item, or the time it takes to build a floor.
5. Return to the Date & Time menu on your iOS Device, and set the Date and/or Time forward according to the length of time needed to fully stock or build your tower. For example, if your next floor takes one day to build, set the clock forward one day. If the item that would go in stock last takes 5 hours, progress the clock 5 hours. When aiming to quick sell your items, it is suggested that you move forward about a day or two.
6. Stock all remaining items in your tower and accept all finished building notifications, and DO NOT restock anything or build any floors. MAKE SURE even if you did not get a finished building notification, you still check on the floor that was being built. In some cases, a notification may not pop up, but the floor could be completed.
7. Return to your Date and Time Settings, and change the clock back to "Set Automatically".
8. For the best results, close out and reopen Tiny Tower (ie; shut down the application process in the Application Switching Dock, and then reopen it on your Home screen)

Instant Birthday

The Instant Birthday method is similar to the Quick Stock/Quick Sell/Quick Build Method, and is used to quickly gain Tower Bux. Follow the steps below to easily gain Tower Bux

1. Open up your Settings on your iOS Device, then proceed to General>Date & Time.
2. Make sure the setting is at "Set Automatically" or the current date and time of your location.
3. Open the Tiny Tower Application.
4. Go to any residential floor. Select one Bitizen, and see what their birthday is.
5. Open up your Date and Time preferences, and change the date to the Bitizen's birthday. If it had already passed in the calendar year so far, set it to the next (ie; if the Bitzen's birthday is 27 August, and the date that you are playing is 19 September 2011, Set the date to 27 August 2012).
6. Open up Tiny Tower, and claim your free Tower Bux!
7. Make sure that all of your stock requests have been accepted, as well as all building notifications.
8. If you would like to continue gaining Tower Bux, progress the Date and Time on your device by 1 year, and go back in to Tiny Tower to claim your Bux. Continue this until you have the desired amount of Bux.
9. MAKE SURE that all stock requests have been accepted, all building notifications have been accepted, and that there are no current countdowns for more stock or building projects have been created.
10. After fulfilling the step above, return to your Date and Time to the "Set Automatically" option.

iExplorer Hacks

iExplorer, formerly iPhone Explorer, is a free program that allows you to view files on your iDevice without a jailbreak. It can be downloaded here.

Warnings

Make sure to make backups of the original file in case you make a mistake.

Methods

Change Stock Level

1. Open com.eeenmachines.tinytowers in iExplorer.
2. Open Tiny Tower.app
3. Click and drag floors.csv to your desktop.
4. Open floors.csv in Notepad, or another text editing program.
5. You will see a bunch of text like 0,Sushi Bar,0,1,California Roll:2,Tuna Sushi:8,Sea Urchin:25
6. What you want to pay attention to is California Roll:2,Tuna Sushi:8,Sea Urchin:25.
7. The numbers after the name of the stock item refer to that item's level. The higher the number, the more items that will be stocked, and the longer that it will take to stock. Each level adds one minute and 15 items of stock.
8. When you're done editing the levels, save the file.
9. Click and drag it back to Tiny Tower.app in iExplorer, and when it asks if you want to delete the file, select yes.
10. Make sure to fully close Tiny Tower in the multitask bar to see the changes.
11. YOu can also change the name of the stock by changing where it says the name of the stock..

Make an Apartment a Profitable Floor

1. Open con.eeenmachines.tinytowers in iExplorer.
2. Open Tiny Tower.app
3. Click and drag floors.csv to your desktop.
4. Open floors.csv in Notepad, or another text editing program.
5. Scroll down until you see apartments. You will see text like 50,Eclectic Apts.,5,4000,
6. What you want to pay attention to is the ,5,.
7. Put 10 in the 5's place (not sure if any other number will work).
8. When your done editing, save the file.
9. Click and drag it back to Tiny Tower.app in iExplorer, and when it asks if you want to delete the file, select yes.
10. Make sure to fully close Tiny Tower in the multitask bar to see the changes.
11. When you tap on the apartment, it should have three spaces for employment. Employ them and you will be able to stock 2nd Bedroom, 3rd Bedroom, and 3 Bed. Each player will have a skill number for the apartment and apparently people will still be living there.

Free Costumes and Bux

1. Open com.eeenmachines.tinytowers in iExplorer.
2. Open Tiny Tower.app
3. Click and drag costumes.csv to your desktop.
4. Open costumes.csv in Notepad, or another text editing program.
5. You will see a bunch of text like panda suit,panda,5,58.58.58
6. What you want to pay attention to is the very first number. That is how many bux it costs.
7. For a free costume, change the first number to a zero. For free bux, put a minus sign in front of the first number.
8. When you're done editing, save the file.
9. Click and drag it back to Tiny Tower.app in iExplorer, and when it asks if you want to delete the file, select yes.
10. Make sure to fully close Tiny Tower in the multitask bar to see the changes.

Mission Hacks for Free Bux

1. Open Tiny Tower Application folder using iExplorer.
2. Open the Documents folder.
3. Drag the 'missions.plist' file to the desktop.
4. Open the 'missions.plist' file on your desktop in a text editor.
5. You will see <key>reward</key> followed by <string>5</string> (or some other number) at the end of each reward set.
6. Change the number in the <string></string> set to the reward you would like to receive. I used 999 and it worked but higher numbers might not.
7. Use iExplorer to delete the existing 'missions.plist' file on the device.
8. Drag the edited 'missions.plist' file to the documents folder
9. Complete the reward and get the number of bux you entered.