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HMM3 - Full Collection + TC + Era2 + VCMI + UTILITY (V 8.0.0)




I present for your attention my own build of everything I have regarding HoMM3, collected over many years. All parts of the game are launched via a utility written by me.

The build includes:
1 - Hero and Mod Management and Launcher:
Main program window.
Hero Chronicles.
Map Collection.
Global Mods.
Era2 - mods.
VCMI - mods.
Cheat codes.
2 - The Restoration of Erathia:
Queen Catherine learns of the death of her father — King Griffinheart, ruler of Erathia. Arriving in Erathia for the funeral, she finds her country in a state of severe war with neighboring kingdoms. Throughout six campaigns, the player must gradually restore the power of Erathia.
3 - Armageddon's Blade:
The first expansion to Heroes III. The plot is a logical continuation of Might and Magic VII. Queen Catherine and her husband Roland Ironfist attempt to stop Lucifer Kaelgorm — a demon who intends to destroy the entire world using the legendary Armageddon's Blade. Many new artifacts, monsters, and heroes have been added to the game. And most importantly — a new, 9th city - Conflux.
4 - The Shadow of Death:
The second expansion to Heroes III. In general, the changes are minor, however, innovations such as an improved moat during castle sieges and several powerful combined artifacts are worth noting. According to the plot, the evil Necromancer Sandro tries to deceptively obtain powerful artifacts that will give him unprecedented power, and four heroes must stop him.
5 - Hero Chronicles (8 parts):
Part One: Warriors of the Steppes
Part Two: The Underworld
Part Three: Lords of the Elements
Part Four: Dragon Clashes
Part Five: The World Tree
Part Six: Flaming Moon
Part Seven: The Uprising
Part Eight: Ice Blade
6 - In the Wake of Gods 3.58F+:
An unofficial add-on developed by an international group of enthusiasts. Among the revolutionary innovations: destruction, restoration and redefining of cities, increasing monster stats as they gain experience, commanders, eighth-level monsters, new specialties for old heroes, new monster dwellings, new neutral monsters, new artifacts, new map decorative elements.
7 - Horn of the Abyss (ver - 1.5.3):
An unofficial non-commercial expansion to Heroes 3, based on a modified Shadow of Death engine. The add-on aims to develop classic gameplay elements and add some new ones, as well as fix certain bugs and restore unimplemented elements of the original game. Among the most significant innovations is primarily the new city Wharf (pirate commonwealth, sea element).
8 - Global Mods (5 mods in collection):
Legend of the Red Dragon
MoP Battery
MoP Ride the Lightning
MoP Seek and Destroy
Mythology
9 - 6543 maps in collection:
- The Restoration of Erathia - 2048 maps
- Armageddon’s Blade - 911 maps
- The Shadow of Death - 2440 maps
- In The Wake of Gods - 1062 maps
- Horn of The Abyss - 82 maps
10 - 312 campaigns in collection:
- Armageddon’s Blade - 73 maps
- The Shadow of Death - 192 maps
- In The Wake of Gods - 47 maps
11 - HoMM 3 HD (ver - 5.0 beta 52):
HoMM 3 HD *does not affect the original gameplay of the game, but improves* the functional part *of the interface*, making the game more convenient and fixing a number of bugs from the original game. All extensions and fixes are optional; each player can configure the game according to their needs. All existing minor graphics changes were made while preserving the original style.
12 - Era II (ver - 2.7.4):
Era is an add-on for creating mods. Era introduces a "Mods" folder, in which each subfolder is called a mod and is processed as if it were the root folder of the game. Era allows running several compatible mods simultaneously. The presented mods have not been checked for compatibility with each other!!!
13 - Era II mods (84 mods in collection):
300 Spartans
A Tribute to Warcraft
Advanced Battle Hints
Alexander the Great
All for One and One for All
Another Rampart
Another summon
Army Management
Artillery Artifacts
Bad Luck
Battle Poker II
BattleHeroes
Chaser
Conquistador
Covenant Town
Creature Overhaul
Crozius Arcanum
Daily quick save
Dragon skin
DragonPeaks
Dream Quest of Lost Kadath
Dtnmang portraits
Eisenhorn
Fairy Town
Giant Titan
Gigamight Resize
Golden Dawn
Grove Town
H2 Succession Wars
Halflings Town
Hero Advanced Level Up
Heroines
Human Castle
Ice Arrow
King in Yellow
King of World
Legend of the Red Dragon
Mage Chests
Masters of Summoning
Mithril Smelter
Morn battlefields
New Commanders
New Difficult Button
New Interface
New Music Pack
New Objects Patch
New Sounds Pack
New Terrains
New Upgrades
New Year
Overflow_Fix
Phoenix
Prijut
Quartz
Quick Army Managment
Rampart
Random skin
ReMagic
Renovated Heroes
Retirement
Road to Victory
Romanian Town
Sand Tower
Seer Huts
Select your Battlefield
Snow Castle
Spell Trainer
StarGate Atlantis
StrikerX Portaits
Sword of Fury
TavernVideos
The Dragon Slaughter
The Empire of the World III
The Empire of the World IV
The Sword of Night and Day
Time of Prophecy
Training Facility
Unmounted Heroes
Upgradable Silos
Upgrade ALL
Usain Bolt
Vallex Portaits
XXL
ZL Deer Hunt Town
14 - VCMI (ver - 0.99) (VCMI-branch-develop-ad2c429.exe 15-Apr-2018 11:30):

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VCMI is an open-source engine for Heroes III developed from scratch. After long years of development, the engine has the following capabilities:
The core gameplay is fully implemented; almost all skills, objects, spells and more are supported.
Many interface improvements: support for high resolutions, a new window with creature information, display of attack queue in battle.
15 - VCMI mods (56 mods in collection):
A Song of Ice and Fire
Abode
abyss
Amethyst
Another Rampart
Asylum
Autumn Rampart
Axolotl Creatures Pack
bastille
Castle Creatures
Centamonths
Christmas
Ciberium
Court
Covenant
Dark elemental
Evergreen
Evil Trees
Extra Creature Pack
Factory
fairy
Forge
Forgotten Field Core
Foundry
Glade
Greenhouse
Grove
H4 arts - commander
H4 arts - hero
Haven
hota
Man at Arms castle
mermaid
Mountain Dwarf
Mythology
Necro
Necropolis creatures
NecroTown
new-menu
NewOldSpells
Northerners
Pavilion
Plane of Earth
Preserve
Red Castle
Regna
Ruins
Sand Tower
SnowCastle
Stronghold
Tarnum - pt1
Tarnum - pt2
Tortofroid
Warlock
witchking-arts
WoG


Download links (mediafire.com):
Heroes3_Setup.part01.exe - http://www.mediafire.com/file/7uyz754dlceg6sl/Heroes3_Setup.part01.exe
Heroes3_Setup.part02.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/76pi9fi4a85naxm/Heroes3_Setup.part02.rar
Heroes3_Setup.part03.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/8qogycwgbb9nakk/Heroes3_Setup.part03.rar
Heroes3_Setup.part04.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/lw0rh2wo5apmi6l/Heroes3_Setup.part04.rar
Heroes3_Setup.part05.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/ed5skys4qw5xy5e/Heroes3_Setup.part05.rar
Heroes3_Setup.part06.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/d9b9qbv55dec21d/Heroes3_Setup.part06.rar
Heroes3_Setup.part07.pak - http://www.mediafire.com/file/0nbnyk9n3katfv0/Heroes3_Setup.part07.rar

Many have experienced problems with VCMI:
download the update -
VCMI-branch-develop-e1857df.exe - https://builds.vcmi.download/branch/develop/Windows/VCMI-branch-develop-e1857df.exe
unpack into the game folder at ...\Heroes3\Complete (must be in the Complete folder!).
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Updated the build: - Added global mods (Legend of the Red Dragon, MoP Battery, MoP Ride the Lightning, MoP Seek and Destroy, Mythology) - Fixed some typos - Modified the utility
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The links are broken T_T
In reply to Uberpanik
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Uberpanik
The links are broken T_T

I've updated all the links!
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Why are there so many links?
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Because there are many parts (6). And there are many parts because the volume is large, and everything cannot fit into one.
Воскресайте, камінні душі, Розчиняйте серця і чоло, Щоб не сказали Про вас грядущі: їх на землі не було…
(Василь Симоненко. Люди – прекрасні)
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The distribution package size exceeds 5 GB. It's impossible to create an installer of that size (at least, I couldn't). Besides, it's more convenient to download it in parts!
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Regarding the original complete collection:
1) When attempting to open the hero window, the game inevitably crashes to the desktop. This happens every time, regardless of how I try to access it.
2) The names of monster groups have been changed; "orde" has become "crowd," "crowd" has become "group," "group" has become "a few," etc., but this is a minor issue.
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Is there a manual that details how and what to install, and what is compatible/incompatible with what? Otherwise, it's a great collection, thank you.
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Pablo Hasan
Is there a manual that explains how and what to install, and what is compatible/incompatible with what? Otherwise, it's a great collection, thank you.

In this build, everything is already set up correctly (in the right places).
Only the mods for Era and VCMI haven't been tested for compatibility with each other.
Also, crashes were found in the non-HD version of Complete (I will check, although in my opinion, there is no point in using the non-HD version these days).
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When installing and launching any MoP mod, the antivirus software flags it, and an error occurs.
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Pablo Hasan
When installing and running any MoP mod, the antivirus flags it and an error occurs.
I checked again for viruses, and no dangerous objects were found! I'm using KAV.
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Good afternoon, thank you for your pack.
I would like to note that in the card collection, when sorting by version, nothing changes; only the Erathia cards are displayed, meaning cards from other expansions are not included. When launching the Paragon map on Heroes Complete, an error occurs, regardless of whether it is launched through the HD mod or the original game.
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[PROBLEM] HoMM 3 The Shadow of Death crashes when loading the Paragon map
Most likely, the problem can be solved in the same way as for EdVS:
I reinstalled the game from a different package – everything worked fine.
That is, first find a simple copy of "The Shadow of Death" or "Complete Collection" where the "Paragon" map will run normally, and then apply the HD mod and anything else you want to it.
Воскресайте, камінні душі, Розчиняйте серця і чоло, Щоб не сказали Про вас грядущі: їх на землі не було…
(Василь Симоненко. Люди – прекрасні)
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terapevtushka@gmail.com

I would like to note that in the map collection, when sorting by version, nothing changes; only the maps from Erathia are displayed, meaning maps from other expansions are not shown.

There is simply a default filter for Erathia. You need to adjust the filter to a different criterion in the context menu. If you need to select all versions, check the corresponding boxes.

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terapevtushka@gmail.com
When launching the Paragon map on Heroes Complete, an error occurs, regardless of whether it is launched through the HD mod or the original game.

I checked - I also get a crash! I've reported it to the HD mod developers. Maybe they can offer a solution. I noticed that this map does not crash in HoTa.

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