Cheat Engine

[distrustfulness]

im messing around with minecraft, learning a ton about cheat engine and how programs work in general.

so far everything works great. used pointer scan to get a base address off of the exe and is the correct address when you load a level BUT if you save the level and load a new one (without quitting the program), they are all wrong (except one, see note below).

what ive tried:
1. locate target data address
2. find pointer that changes the data at that address
3. pointer scan for the pointer
4. load a new level
5. redo step 1
6. redo step 2
7. rescan memory from step 3
result: zero pointers found
am i doing this wrong?

note: one value (time) ive gotten off of a dll works after a level reload, can i use that to get somewhere?