| --- |
| pretty_name: Warcraft III Community Map Archive |
| license: other |
| license_name: community-authored-maps |
| license_link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/magicwenli/war3-maps#rights |
| language: |
| - zh |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - games |
| - archive |
| - warcraft-iii |
| - warcraft |
| - w3x |
| - mpq |
| - digital-preservation |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: maps |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: catalog/maps.jsonl |
| dataset_info: |
| config_name: maps |
| features: |
| - name: sha256 |
| dtype: string |
| - name: name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: author |
| dtype: string |
| - name: description |
| dtype: string |
| - name: category |
| dtype: string |
| - name: collection |
| dtype: string |
| - name: collections |
| sequence: string |
| - name: filename |
| dtype: string |
| - name: extension |
| dtype: string |
| - name: format |
| dtype: string |
| - name: content_type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: size |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: recommended_players |
| dtype: string |
| - name: max_players |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: player_count |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: playable_width |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: playable_height |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: tileset |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: format_version |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: editor_version |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: build_version |
| sequence: int64 |
| - name: name_source |
| dtype: string |
| - name: parse_status |
| dtype: string |
| - name: parse_error |
| dtype: string |
| - name: modification |
| struct: |
| - name: tool |
| dtype: string |
| - name: label |
| dtype: string |
| - name: variant |
| dtype: string |
| - name: activation |
| sequence: string |
| - name: evidence |
| sequence: string |
| - name: reference |
| dtype: string |
| - name: cover_status |
| dtype: string |
| - name: cover_source |
| dtype: string |
| - name: cover_path |
| dtype: string |
| - name: cover_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: dataset_path |
| dtype: string |
| - name: download_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: source_paths |
| sequence: string |
| --- |
| |
| # 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`](https://github.com/war3-archive/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. |
|
|
| ```python |
| 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](https://space.bilibili.com/2534568), 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. |
|
|
