Black & White Glitches and Easter Eggs (PC)

Black & White is a computer game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive. It is a god game released in 2001, which included elements of artificial life, strategy and "beat 'em up" games. The player takes on the role of a god, ruling over an island populated by various tribes. The player's control over the island is manifested in the Hand, an animated on-screen hand which can move or throw people and objects, tap houses to wake their occupants, cast miracles and do many other things. The use of the keyboard and buttons in the game is purposely low; to add to the sense of realism, the mouse-controlled hand can perform every function in the game.

Generally speaking, the goal of a level is to gain control over every village on the island. This is accomplished through the performance of impressive acts that will cause the villagers to believe in the player. Villagers can be swayed by everything from helping them with day-to-day tasks to terrorizing them with fireballs and lightning storms.

Easter Eggs

April Fools joke
Set your PC's clock to April 1st, then run Black and White. All of the creature footprints in the game should be faces.

Conscience Hilarity
Stay in one place and don't do anything for a while. After sometime, the two consciences will start talking to each other about your inactivity.

South Park Parody
In the first level you will come across 3 sailors that need your help. Kill one of them and enjoy.

Telephone Joke
In the first island, draw a line with your hand going up, right, down, right, up, right, down in straight lines. If you do it correctly, you will hear a phone ringing and your consciences will tell you to pick up the phone and you will hear some of the designers talking on the phone. They say some pretty funny stuff they were going to add in the game.

Glitches

Change Starting Miracles and Text
To change the miracles you start with in the beginning of each level, go to Local Disk (C:). From there go to program files, then to Lionhead Studios Ltd. Click Black and White, then click scripts. Find the folder Playgrounds and click it. Then select the skirmish map you want. I selected TwoGods.

From there you can change stuff like the starting village type. It should say CREATE_TOWN(0, "2185.72,2315.78", "PLAYER_ONE", 0, "CELTIC") Change CELTIC to what ever village you want.

You can also Change your starting miracles, just copy this: CREATE_NEW_TOWN_SPELL(0, "****") and paste it under CREATE_NEW_TOWN_SPELL(0, "HEAL") and change the stars to the name of the miracle.

Also, instead of selecting playground folder, select the document InfoScript2 and change the text to whatever to what. You can also change the headings in the temple like Save Game Room to whatever you want.

Get the Chimp creature without using the Ape.
Start the challenge by activating the silver reward scroll on top of a hut near Lethys' temple (once taken over the third village). Give the old lady some old people then when she gets tired command your creature to pick up a child and bring it to her door. While this is happening press F5 to save your game in the temple then drop the child at the door and watch a cinematic scene. You should have the APE swap your creature. Load the game you have just saved and now you should have the APE creature running to the hut and drop the child at the door. Watch the scene and you will have the CHIMP creature.

How to get the Cow, Ape and Tiger with the creature breeder!
Firstly you need to have at least one creature with the creature breeder (horse, leopard, mandrill, or gorilla) then start the gold story scroll to proceed. Once completed you get to choose any creature from the Cow, Ape and the Tiger. Choose and go to the creature breeder, once taught how to use the leashes. Then swap to any creature there and save the game then start a new game and choose another creature. Repeat the steps and eventually you should have the Cow, Ape and Tiger with the creature breeder.

Living Dead + Creature Healing
This is a weird little glitch that lets you bring Skeletons (dead people) back to life. Create 2 Teleport Miracles, drop the dead person in one end and when they come out the other they'll be either walking around or crawling around. They can breed, farm and everything! But, don't pick them up with your hand or they'll go back to being dead. This also happens when your Creature picks a dead person up. Also, if your Creature picks a normal person up, regardless of whether they know the Healing Miracle or not, the person will be healed.

Tons of food/wood from miracles (unpatched version only)
Take a food or wood miracle and then go to the thing that you want to give food/wood to. DO NOT go directly over the ground, but rather on top of the building that you're giving it to (put your hand on the wooden part at worship sites, for example). Now, TAP the action button a lot, and the miracle will give tons of stuff but never run out! You can get up to 10,000 food just from one food miracle. This may also work with rain miracles, but I haven't tested that yet.