
Other Hotkeys include Unit # Grouping Modifiers (Ctrl, shift, tab, etc), and the Inventory Items (on the Numpad). The main ones are the Spell & Action Commands in the bottom corner like: A for Attack, B for Build, F for farm, P for Peon, M for Move, and many more for each unit and spell. There are over 50 Hotkeys spread across the keyboard in WC3, and with the Default Hotkeys Setup each race is different. Most people know me as the guy who maintains and keeps the DotA map alive for Battle.* Latest update: March 2022 for patch 1.32
If you don’t know / trust me then don’t download it. (Blizzard’s fault that they didn’t considerate it) To fix this problem go to Local Area Network and start a game from there. Instead, it will open a window for saving the game.
Copy and paste the new War3Preferences.txt file into your Documents\Warcraft III\ and try a game.įurther notice: If you wanna test your keys in single player mode, some hotkeys might not work e.g. This will create a new War3Preferences.txt file into the same directory where the app resides. If you wanna undo something click on the button and press Backspace to delete the old hotkey. (Example: First press Alt and release it. Start it (with right click -> open), then click on a button and press any key which you want to use as a hotkey.ģ.If you want to use a modifier (Alt, Ctrl, Shift), press and release the modifier first and after the key. Make a backup of the War3Preferences.txt file which resides in Documents\Warcraft III\ in case something goes wrong. In order to use this program you have to have Java installed on your PC. It provides an easy to use interfaceĪnd edits the War3Preferences.txt file according to the user’s input. Thats why I created this little (minimalistic) program for myself & friends. Moreover Blizzard didn’t implement a user friendly interface, you have to edit a text file and you have to know the ASCII table. “Learn Blizzard” for Archmage) will have ‘B’ as hotkey as well … But I got used to it and you can too So for example if you assign ‘B’ to ‘Move’ the top left spell in the reseach card (e.g. It’s nice to have such a builtin hotkey setting however (apparently) a big disadvantage of the Gridkey layout is that also the research card (when you want to learn a spell) will have the same hotkeys. These keys are applied to ALL unit command cards”. “Gridkey profiles map each slot in the command card to a specific key.
With Warcraft 3 Reforged Blizzard provided a hotkey preset called Grid.