There you go now you have 10,000 wood added to your resources.
Card Hack for Skirmish Mode
Locate the sp_NameOfCity_homcity.xml file in your \...\Age of Empires 3\savegame\ directory. Edit or open the file using Notepad or a similar text editor. In the file, search for the text similar to the string and you should find a list of all the cards available for the game.
Place the technology card you want in between the and section and you should be able to play any of the cards you want. Save the XML file and boot the game. Note that normal game restrictions of having only eleven cards is still in effect.
Cheat Codes
While playing a game, press [Enter] to display the chat window and type one of following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:
Effect - Code
Disable fog of war - x marks the spot
10,000 Food - medium rare please
10,000 Coin - give me liberty or give me coin
10,000 XP - nova & orion
100X Gather/Build Rates - speed always wins
Win Scenario - this is too hard
Spawn Monster Truck - tuck tuck tuck
Spawn Mediocre Bombard - ya gotta make do with what ya got
"Musketeer'ed!" When Killed by Musketeers - sooo good
10,000 wood - Fatten animals on map - A recent study indicated that 100% of herdables are obese
Destroy All Enemy Ships
Press Enter to open the chat window and type in 'shiver me timbers!'.
Edit resources
Use a text editor to edit the "proto.xml" file in the "data" directory in the game folder. Note: You may first need to uncheck the "Read Only" attribute of that file's properties in Windows Explorer. Search for the text "CrateOf". You will find CrateofFood, CrateofCoin, CrateofWood, CrateofFoodLarge, CrafteofCoinLarge, and CrateofWoodLarge. For all these entries, find the tag "InitialResourceCount" and change the count to whatever desired. For example, the normal crates each have "100.000" of the resources. You can change the "100" to "99999.000", etc. Make sure you do this for all the crates; sometimes a map will give you a large crate of something, and smaller ones of something else, etc. This works best because every map you play in Campaign mode or Skirmish mode starts you with some "crates" of resources, which your settlers will gather out. This will edit the crates to have large amounts of resources in them. However, it still takes a long time to get the resources out of the crate for the settlers, because there are so many. If you are impatient, search for "Settler" in the "proto.xml" file and find the tag for GatherCrate. Change the value to whatever desired, preferably something very high (for example, "99999"). They will pull the resources out of the crate instantly.
Free recources
10000 wood = 10000 food = medium rare please
10000 coin = give me liberty or give me coin
Free wood
Type in for free wood(10,000).
Invincible units
Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the "proto.xml" file in the "data" directory in the game folder. Find a the heading for a unit in the file (for example, "Explorer"). Locate the area below the heading that starts with the tags. Add a new line under that area with:
Invulnerable
DoNotDieAtZeroHitpoints
Unlock George Crushington
Press Enter to open the chat window and type in 'where's that axe?'.
10,000 Wood...