Unused content

This page contains unused content found in the game files. The Forge town was planned, but then scrapped earlier on in development. Also, see Cut content trivia for some little known facts!

Restoration of Erathia

Adventure Map Objects

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  Certain maps include Market of Time (e.g., Titan's Winter, Warmongers in RoE 1.0).
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  Alternate (fast) Windmill
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  Alternate Gnoll Hut (present in Gelea's Champions scenario)
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  Alternate School of Magic
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  Alternate Campfire
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  Red Obelisk for underground terrain ^{*(added in Horn of the Abyss)}
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  Alternate underground hole (current is identical to sand hole) ^{*(added in Horn of the Abyss)}

• Adventure map versions of Ballista, Ammo cart, First Aid Tent, Spell book, Grail and Catapult, however, only with placeholder graphics

You can still easily add these Adventure Map objects into your map editor. Map with this objects will work correctly even for players without these objects enabled. For SoD simply put this Objects.txt in your "data" directory or insert it in H3Bitmap.lod using Grayface's MMArchive. For HotA (1.6.1 and prior only, this will crash your editor on 1.7.0 and above) put this EdObjts.txt in your "data" directory or insert it in HotA.lod using Grayface's MMArchive. All unused objects can be found under "Towns" category.

Creatures

Creature	Image	Notes
Lobstrosity		Cut Stronghold creature
Will-o-the-Wisp		Cut Fortress creature

Animations and Sounds

Creature	Animation	Sound	Notes
Zealot	Media:Zealot Cast Up crop.webp		Spell casting animation
Centaur	Media:Centaur Shoot Straight crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - Centaur - ShootSound.webm	Shooting animation and sound (HoMM2 leftover)
Centaur Captain	Media:Centaur Captain Shoot Straight crop.webp	???	Shooting animation and sound (HoMM2 leftover)
War Unicorn	Media:War Unicorn Cast Up crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - War Unicorn - CastSound.webm	Spell casting animation and sound
Gremlin		Media:Heroes3 - Gremlin - ShootSound.webm	Shooting sound
Magog		???	Fireball sound
Efreeti	Media:Efreeti Cast Straight crop.webp		Spell casting animation
Efreet Sultan	Media:Efreet Sultan Cast Straight crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - Efreet Sultan - CastSound.webm	Spell casting animation and sound
Devil		???	Moving sound
Vampire Lord	Media:Vampire Lord Cast Up crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - Vampire Lord - CastSound.webm	Spell casting animation and sound
Lich		???	Alternate melee sound (HoMM2 leftover)
Dread Knight	Media:Dread Knight Cast Up crop.webp		Spell casting animation
Harpy Hag	Media:Harpy Hag Cast Straight crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - Harpy Hag - CastSound.webm	Spell casting animation and sound
Beholder	Media:Beholder Unused Death crop.webp	???	Alternate death animation and sound Added in Horn of the Abyss as a result of death from a spell
Evil Eye	Media:Evil Eye Unused Death crop.webp	???	Alternate death animation and sound Added in Horn of the Abyss as a result of death from a spell
Minotaur King	Media:Minotaur King Cast Up crop.webp	Media:Heroes3 - Minotaur King - CastSound.webm	Spell casting animation and sound
Manticore		Media:Heroes3 - Manticore - CastSound.webm	Spell casting sound
Scorpicore		Media:Heroes3 - Scorpicore - CastSound.webm	Spell casting sound
Cyclops King	Media:Cyclops King Cast Up crop.webp		Spell casting animation
Dragon Fly		Media:Heroes3 - Dragon Fly - CastSound.webm	Spell casting sound
Gold Golem	Media:Gold Golem Unused Death crop.webp		Alternate death animation Added in Horn of the Abyss as a result of death from a spell
Arrow Tower		???	Shooting sound (HoMM2 leftover)

Spell Effects and Sounds

• The game contains alternate animations of Berserk, Bless, Curse, Stone Skin, Cure, Dispel, Forgetfulness, Frost Ring. They're very similar to the final animations, just slightly slower coming up and fading out.
• Leftover sounds from HoMM2 for Armageddon, Elemental Storm, Cold Ray, Cold Ring, Death Ripple, Dragon Slayer, Fireball, Haste, Magic Arrow and Mirror Image. Also unused sound from HoMM2 called PROTECT and Leftover sound of ending creature teleporting from HoMM1.
• Alternate Fire Shield sound

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  Alternate Fireball animation
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  Unused petrify animation probably for Medusas and Basilisks

Morale and Luck values

In the game files, there are lines intended to show the hero's army's luck as a descriptive value, instead of a number (such as +1, or -3). The values for Morale were intended as follows: Treason (-3), Awful (-2), Poor (-1), Normal (0), Good (+1), Great (+2), and Blood! (+3). The values for Luck were intended to be Cursed (-3), Awful (-2), Bad (-1), Normal (0), Good (+1), Great (+2), and Irish (+3).

Miscellaneous

• Negative luck ^{*(added in Horn of the Abyss)}

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  Fear (spell)
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  Fear (spell) scroll
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  Watermill building for Fortress
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  Unnamed Hero render
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  Unnamed Heroine render

Armageddon's Blade

Creatures

Animations and Sounds

Creature	Animation	Sound	Notes
Rogue		???	Sounds
Faerie Dragon		Media:Heroes3 - Faerie Dragon - CastSound.webm	Shooting sound Added in Horn of the Abyss as a casting sound

Building names

In the game files, alternate names for some of the Conflux creature dwellings are listed. They are as follows:

• Flower of Life - Pixies
• Enchanted Flower - Sprites
• Temple of Clouds - Storm Elementals
• Temple of Ice - Ice Elementals
• Temple of Magma - Magma Elementals
• Temple of Magic - Magic Elementals
• Funeral Pyre - Phoenixes

The Shadow of Death

Combination artifacts

• • Diplomat's Suit ^{*(added in Horn of the Abyss as Diplomat's Cloak)}
  • Mire of Neutrality
  • Ironfist of the Ogre ^{*(added in Horn of the Abyss)}

Miscellaneous

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  Favorable Winds battlefield

Horn of the Abyss

Miscellaneous

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  Airship building for Factory

The original concept for the airship was to have it tied to the Factory. Ultimately, the decision was made to have airship yards only as map objects instead.