Warcraft III v3.0.0 Patch Notes

Warcraft III: Reforged - Forsaken Kingdom Patch Notes

Version 3.0.0
Build 24268
September 12, 2026

General

• Added new UI Theme - Forsaken Kingdom 
• Added new Music - Forsaken Kingdom
• Added new first time launch cinematic
• Max selection group increased from 12 to 24
• Added unit occlusion
• Added air to ground indicators for HD graphics
• Campaign flow screen has been updated
• Updated IBL maps for better visual fidelity in HD modes
• Players can now choose what graphic they want in the mission select screen
• Players can unlock progress of the campaign regardless of what mode they are playing in (IE Playing Classic Human Campaign will also unlock progress in Reforged Campaign)
• Added new DLC Campaign (requires purchase of Forsaken Kingdom)
  • The Last Days of Lordaeron
  • Forsaken Kingdom
• Game now supports OOG audio files
• Floating text cap increased to 10k
• New stats added: Ability Amp, Ability Vamp, Ability Speed, Mana Efficiency, Crit Chance / Damage, Ability Crit Chance / Damage, Resolve
• Main Menu now changes music theme and ambient sound depending on selected UI Theme
• Classic HD has now been replaced with a new mode Definitive Edition
• Addon system has been deprecated, players can now choose between Classic, Definitive Edition and Reforged
• 1.36 Terrain has been re-added to Reforged Mode
• Improved water for HD
• Improved fog of war in HD for large doodads and destructibles
• Unlimited lights in HD
• Culling fixes for doodads and terrain images

Neutral Hero

• New Tavern Hero Added - Forsaken Paladin for SD,DE, and HD

Custom Lobbies

• Custom Game Lobbies can now be password protected

Networking

• Added new game servers in the following locations:
  • Jurong West, Singapore
  • Osaka, Japan
  • Delhi, India
  • Saint-Ghislain, Belgium
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil
  • The Dalles, Oregon, USA
  • Hamina, Finland
• Lan mode has been removed (players can still play LAN via the Classic Client)
• Reforged client now requires players to be< online at all times (offline mode still available via the Classic Client)

Options

• Added new options for Point Light Shadows, Water and Supersampling
• Removed Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, Portrait Bloom, Particles, and Spells.
• Renamed Shadows to Environment Shadows
• Added new campaign tab in hotkeys menu for campaign units

World Editor

• Added new lighting editor
• Doodads are now able to be rotated with pitch and roll
• Doodads and items can now have team color assigned
• Added editable omni lights
• Added shadow casting omni lights
• Can view shadows and fog in HD
• New HD water
• Added doodad decals in HD
• Added water doodad in HD
• Added shadow blocker doodads in HD
• Added more fog options (height fog, new exponential, draw over sky, max opacity)
• Live editing of fog and HD water settings
• Players can now assign team color to destructible, doodads and items
• Added new alpha tile functionality
• Added the ability to paint the mini map with different colors
• Added option for the minimap to be generated dynamically within camera bounds
• Added new equipment category
• Added new category for item instances
• Added option to choose HUD skin (including new Forsaken HUD) per player
• Added free camera
• Added the ability to freely edit the file path of an existing sound variable
• Added new native to reset a unit's attack cooldown
• Added new native to set the remaining cooldown duration of a unit's ability
• Added new native to enable or disable all aura abilities of a unit
• Added "Copy As Script" option for triggers
• Added option to convert triggers to Lua
• Objects can now be scaled along their local axes instead of world axes
• Added a gameplay constant for AI call for help range
• Added option for copied objects to preserve their height
• Added various new ability natives
• Added a post processing tool to apply post-processing effects at map level
• Added a tool to adjust string IDs
• Added data editor option to display HP of invulnerable buildings
• Added GUI interface to leak cleaning natives
• Added light range visualization
• Added flag to disable HD shadow
• Refactored GUI interface of some natives, as well as their built-in documentation
• Increased default undo stack size, user configurable to near infinite

Bugfixes

• Fixed various Save/Load issues regarding LUA serialization
• Fixed an issue where mini-map icons would not scale with HUD scale
• Fixed an issue where map makers could not change the race crest of their map or decide if to have one at all
• Fixed non-en Keyboard layout for login entry
• FIxed .tif file imports crashing the world editor on map load
• Fixed an issue where projectiles would not appear if target was too close to the caster
• Terrain images without a transparent border no longer render beyond their file's pixels
• Fixed an issue where spawning new lightning effects would remove old ones
• Fixed an issue that would erroneously reset a custom campaign map custom loading screen
• Fixed an issue that would corrupt map imports in custom campaigns
• Fixed an issue that would cause custom campaign and AI editor to open up with the wrong dataset
• Terrain images now follow walkables
• Fixed several editor UI rendering bugs with regions and selections