magicwenli/war3-maps

Warcraft III Community Map Archive

This public dataset preserves community-created Warcraft III maps and campaigns for interoperability testing, search, research, and long-term access. Files are deduplicated by SHA-256. Titles and other metadata are extracted with war3-manager where the format permits.

• Search and download individual maps: https://war3-archive.github.io/war3-maps/
• Source and issue tracker: https://github.com/war3-archive/war3-maps

Layout

• objects/<sha256-prefix>/<sha256>.<ext>: immutable map or campaign objects
• covers/<sha256-prefix>/<sha256>.webp: minimap / preview thumbnail, when one could be extracted; the same SHA-256 as the object it belongs to
• catalog/maps.json: versioned website catalog
• catalog/maps.jsonl: one record per line for downstream processing
• catalog/failures.json: inputs that could not be extracted or parsed

Catalog records point at both files by path and by resolve URL (dataset_path / download_url, cover_path / cover_url), so the catalog stays small enough to fetch directly from a browser.

Dataset viewer

The preview and load_dataset both read only catalog/maps.jsonl — one row per archived object. The map files themselves are binary MPQ archives and are not loadable as tabular data; fetch them from download_url (or dataset_path via hf_hub_download) once you have selected rows from the catalog.

from datasets import load_dataset

catalog = load_dataset("magicwenli/war3-maps", split="train")
melee = catalog.filter(lambda row: row["content_type"] == "map" and row["max_players"] == 2)

The record schema is pinned in this card's metadata, so a new catalog field is invisible to the viewer until it is added there as well.

Catalog fields

Field	Meaning
sha256, size, filename, extension, format, content_type	object identity; content_type is map or campaign
name, author, description, category, collection, collections	presentation metadata; name_source records where the title came from (w3i, filename, …)
recommended_players, max_players, player_count, playable_width, playable_height, tileset	gameplay metadata parsed from war3map.w3i
format_version, editor_version, build_version	map format and authoring-tool versions; build_version is a 4-part list when known
parse_status, parse_error	ok, carved (salvaged from raw sectors), metadata_error, or metadata_unavailable (campaign packs are not parsed for metadata)
modification	third-party script modification detected in the map, when any: tool, label, variant, activation strings and evidence
cover_status, cover_source, cover_path, cover_url	thumbnail availability and origin: preview, map (minimap), or salvage — recovered from an unreadable archive's raw member data, correct in about 95% of cases
dataset_path, download_url, source_paths	where the object lives here, and the original paths it was ingested from

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Bilibili creator 关先生丶的游戏实况, whose collection and sharing work is the source of a substantial part of the classic maps here.

Rights

The original maps remain works of their respective authors. Inclusion in this archive does not claim ownership or grant rights beyond those provided by each author. The other license tag on this dataset refers to this section, not to a single license covering the contents. Source provenance is retained in the catalog. For attribution fixes, copyright concerns, or takedown requests, open an issue at https://github.com/war3-archive/war3-maps/issues with the SHA-256 and supporting details. Confirmed requests will be handled by removing the public object and recording a tombstone in the catalog.