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War in the North (Legacy Edition): Drop Any Item
AUTHOR: Lord Zapharos (www.lordzapharos.com)
DATE: 20 August 2026
VERSION: 2.0
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LICENSE AND CREDITS:
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

You are free to share and transform this work (commercially or otherwise) provided you give proper
credit to Lord Zapharos, provide a link to this license, and indicate if changes were made.

Thanks to Dan Petersen, who kindly gifted me a copy of Legacy Edition to update my original table.


DESCRIPTION:
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This cheat table allows you to obtain any regular item in Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
Generated items can be found in stores or as random loot within chests, barrels, and also from some
enemies, and can even be transferred into a multiplayer session (but see Notes below).

Miscellaneous items such as potions are NOT included in the database due to their ubiquity.

This cheat table is intended for use only with the newer 64-bit Legacy Edition of War in the North.
The original version of the game requires a different table (also available on my website). If you
aren't sure which version you have, the Legacy Edition is located in a "LORWIN/" game folder, while
the original is located in a "War in the North/" folder.


REQUIREMENTS:
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Cheat Engine 7.5
(Legacy Edition) witn.exe* 1.0.0.1 (12.4 MB; 13,075,456 bytes)

* This cheat table is intended for use only with the Legacy Edition of War in the North on Steam. I
have not tested this table with GoG or any other platform. As with all cheat tables, game updates
or minor version differences can break the intended behavior. If you cannot get this tool working,
please make sure to provide your game version when reaching out to me.


CHANGE LOG:
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2.0     Fixed an addressing bug

1.0     Initial release (ported from the original 32-bit version)


USAGE:
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1. Open "witnDropAnyItem.CT" with Cheat Engine.
2. Run the Lua script when prompted; this will cause a window to appear with instructions.
3. Open War in the North.
4. Attach Cheat Engine to War in the North (just like you would with any other process).

Within the window that opened in step #2:

    1. Click "Start".
    2. Browse the available items.
    3. When you have identified/selected an item you want, click "Drop It!".
    4. All newly-generated* loot will contain this item, often in large quantities.
    5. Repeat steps 2-4 for all desired items.
    6. To resume normal loot behavior, click "Finish".

* Items will only appear in newly-generated loot, as defined by the following conditions:

    - Barrels and vases: as soon as you smash them.
    - Chests: when you visit a level, load your save file, or return to town.
    - Stores: when you first open the store itself. After opening a store, its inventory remains
      fixed until you return to town, visit a new level, or exit the game.


NOTES:
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If you have a lot of browser tabs open in the background, or if your CPU is on the slower side, it
may take a few seconds for generated items to appear after clicking on "Drop It!". This delay
occurs because Cheat Engine has to search for the correct item address each time you drop an item.
Items will always appear as soon as you see the confirmation message, and will continue to appear
until you click on "Finish", choose a new item, or close the game.

War in the North has an unusual saving mechanism, which may cause loss of newly-acquired items. To
ensure that any added items remain in your inventory, return to town after you are finished adding
items and talk to a shopkeeper or blacksmith. Click on Buy/Sell/Repair, wait a second, and then
exit out of the dialogue - you should see a gold ring at the bottom-center of your screen after a
second or two, indicating that the game has been saved. After this gold ring appears, it is safe to
exit your game. Pro tip: this is also the safest way to save your game when playing with a friend,
whether you are using this tool or not.

This cheat table does NOT modify your save file in any way; it merely directs the game to drop a
specific item every time new loot is generated.

This cheat table has NOT been tested in multiplayer, and I assume no responsibility for any damage
that may ensue from using it. However, generating items in single player and transferring them to
your friends (or using them in multiplayer yourself) seems to work okay.

This cheat table does NOT affect game stability. However, War in the North can be crash-happy at
times, and if your game ever does crash for unrelated reasons, please keep in mind that you will
need to close/restart Cheat Engine before you can continue using the table.
