All kingdoms turn to war when a malevolent wizard appears and tries to bring them under his control. Defeat Evil Wizard and his pet dragon to restore peace and save the world!
Fly, townportal, DD and blind not found in mage guilds.
Author: lebedyan (Germany), 28-03-2025 15:32 Dr - Element Land there are three maps in zip file - element land, elemant land expert and hard. What is the difference? And which version is the hardest and most challenging?
Author: NbSiR (Bulgaria), 03-03-2025 18:16 Great Map - Element Land Finished 535 on a first try playing teal (Tower), its a true masterpiece. Thank you Tadanga!
Author: Greg (Stuttgart), 23-12-2024 18:07 great and unusual map - Element Land Finished with pink (necro) on 735. The beginning seems very hard at first but managed to get the white tent using the dragon breath tactic mentioned earlier. After that I just delivered all heroes behind white border guards and amassed around 200k liches, so it was not a problem killing evil wizard and the dragons after that.
Perhaps giving a TP scroll at the beginning on easier levels (you can do that in pandora's boxes) would be a good idea. Thank you for this excellent map!
Author: Ano (DE), 29-11-2024 17:38 Strange map - Element Land This map is somewhat strange. Lost two times until I noticed, you have to go in aggressive.
Third time with Tower beat the map but it was a lot of running around. Also the color/ground schemes and the layout was very confusing as there were snow areas all over the map next to desert and green again.
Main bummer is, that Evil Wizard abandonded his post when all of his castles got sacked. No interest to reload an old savegame. Feeling sad.
Author: Gluon (Austria), 03-11-2024 14:12 Masterpiece 11/10 - Element Land brilliant mapdesign
highly detailed beautiful map
exciting exploration
perfectly designed and challenging enemy evolution
Huge amount of possible yet optional quests
endless replayability
43 days (Cove - as green Player)
Killed white keymaster and Petdragon at Month: 2 Week: 3, Day 1
After five playthroughs i am still excited and i can honestly say:
"This map is my alltime favourite"
I am looking forward to future replays!
Big shout out to the author named Tadanga!
Author: Heroes enjoyer, 16-10-2024 11:05 Wow - Element Land Лучший симулятор логиста в моей жизни
Author: iEnjoy (Tampere, Finland), 13-09-2024 21:57 Like 40 days - Element Land 40 days, I dont think it can be done much faster
Author: iEnjoy (Tampere, Finland), 01-09-2024 23:36 Like Damn I love this map - Element Land I have played this map so many many many many many times, its getting unhealthy. Best is 54 days, even made a video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Loa2G1xZQQ
Gluon (Austria) writes:
03-11-2024 14:22
Respect and congratulations! - Element Land
Wow, thats awesome!
43 days as green is my best so far. Took the extra challenge and succeded in killing the white keymaster in the same run aswell.
Absolutly love this map and will try teal next time.
Very interesting! I didn't know the white tent was possible to do at all, let alone so fast! How did you do it?
Gluon (Austria) writes:
04-11-2024 20:37
Killing white keymaster - Element Land
Credit goes to Рашид, who posted his idea at 08-05-2021 15:49 (Author: Рашид)
I tried to relize and optimize the strategy, so i would be able to finish the white keymaster parallel to my speedrun vs. evil wizard.
The basic idea is to use their dragon breath attack against each other.
You need:
hero(es) with expert haste and +2 speed
at least one Phoenix, dozens of dragon flies
the city of darkness
I did it by multiple hit & runs:
From Darkness through white portal to white keymaster
You attack with 1 phoenix and 4 dragonflies:
Phoenix for initiative
expert haste (dragon flies get faster than azure)
3 dragon flies for attack
and 4th dragon fly for retreat
respawn at darkness and hand over artefacts to next suitable hero
Each run you loose 3 dragon flies, while your opponent looses thousands of dragons and titans at the beginning.
As green player I was able to start my daily hits at Month 2 Week 1 Day 7 with 2-3 heroes.
At Month 2 Week 3 Day 1 white keymaster was "down" to 7018 azure dragons and 20015 titans.
Then i went allin with Eovacius (specialty clone) and had the battle of my lifetime :)
If the focus is only against the keymaster i might be possible way earlier than day 43.
Since you fight the final battle on cursed ground and can only cast level 1 spells, the main issue is getting the vital artifacts in time.
Author: R, 13-06-2024 21:02 Unique journey for very homm3 fan - Element Land Finished it twice once as no aggression co-op and another one as purple.
This map is absolutely excellent, balanced and randomized in a way that creates demanding challenge upon human player. I started my first try as necro with a plan to steamroll through the map with task to farm as many liches as possible. After failing to get white tent and seeing that cloak locked on my starting territory behind white gate I had to struggle, roam, navigate through portals, seas, lands, avoid overpowered enemies to get strong enough to take control over the map. Most of the armies available by doing quest were stolen by AI so running around with anything that I could get was the only way. Best way to quickly get powerful is to free some good heroes from prisons, get every tent (except white), get town portal scroll, finish important quests and you can whatever you want. Be careful of certain heroes behind white gates - some are ridiculously strong and until I got enough power I had to guard entrance to one on desert and quickly chase one nasty necro before it would be too late. Good advice is to conquer purple main town with spell that you lack and will help a lot. Get orb of vulnerability (there are 2 on the map that you can get), master fire magic, easily accessible berserk, armor of the damned, golden bow/sharpshooter bow and with them game finally becomes easier.
If you play as purple there is a way to get white tent from the beginning area - get lvl 60 and unlock DD (you also need every tent except white) from your main town area, go to place with 2 archer heroes prisons (to the left of Oldtown). You can DD next to sharpshooter's dwelling and then up to the white tents area.
The biggest flaw of this map is amount of artifacts - there is too much trash that can block your sack and because of that some of the key artifacts will be lost after defeating enemy heroes. For some reason all defeated heroes were nor available in tavern at any point in the game so if I wanted to get Gelu from tavern that AI freed and make archer's bootcamp that was not possible.
Author: Платон мне друг (Latvia), 25-04-2024 13:16 TWO STEPS FROM HELL - Element Land Bravo for creator. One of the best map ever. I was using 3 lines of savings for 3-5 steps ahead. Exploration, economy, speed, hits, runs, traps... how to stop strong enemy in front of your town and using hit and run for removing his mana or reducing his hordes. One more time BRAVO!
Author: Justice (Slovakia), 21-03-2024 12:21 Bravo - Element Land A fascinating map. Beautifully designed, decently challenging, virtually endless replayability with all the variations one can try in the next playthrough. One way monoliths are a pain if you're not save scumming them but I guess it adds to the charm in a way. Also love the memes, Great Hero, DragonSlayer.. The best part in my opinion is that the challenge is sort of linear. Played it about 10 times now with different factions and I never got overrun in a first few months by a ridiculously strong AI. I have encountered them throughout the map but nothing like in the famous DIITD where playing as Fortress, Teal basically decimated me in month 2 a few times. Here it feels as if if you're not comparably strong to the other players it's because you're just aimlessly wandering around the map, not completing enough quests or you haven't found the one that should kickstart your faction. I haven't played all the factions but those that I have - each has at least one early available and pretty easy quest you should definitely try to complete ASAP that will help you immensely. The other thing I loved and that I only found recently - you could be beaten at almost any point if you take too much time actually winning the map. I felt invincible, was scouting the whole map while casually killing evil clones instead of going for the win and suddenly the EW appears in month 10 and destroys me. I'm pretty sure I would have won even without my main if I went on playing but I took it as a lesson to avoid becoming complacent and went on for a new faction instead :) For me the best map in any HOMM I've ever played
Author: R, 09-02-2024 16:40 bug - Element Land month 3 week 3 day 3 - lag on orange's turn. Playing green. any advice?
Lauge (Danmark) writes:
04-03-2024 05:49
Problem with Hota 1.7.1 - Element Land
I had this happen too first 4 times i tried playing the game. Had to switch to Hota 1.6 to fix it.
Hope this helps.
tcai9406 (tokyo,japan) writes:
16-03-2024 05:21
hello - Element Land
where to download hota1.7.1?thx
Author: iEnjoy (Tampere, Finland), 08-01-2024 04:21 Like Great map - Element Land I have played most of the popular maps on this site, and Element Land is hands down the best. So many ways to go, so fun to play again and again. My best is 75 days playing Teal.
Just played for the Nth time and got new record, 61 days. My favourite tricks:
- There's at least 16k Sharpshooter variants on the map (best one is 2k Grand Elves on the southeast Rampart island, need only level 20 hero to get them, super early)
- Focus on intelligence, get Wizards Well to fill your mana, defeat Orb of Vulnerability azures by force field + berserk as soon as you have like 800 mana
- Get blind from purple heroes using Eagle eye (everyones fav skill) on some helper hero
- In final battles, blind + disrupting ray will destroy everything
Jeff (United States) writes:
27-08-2024 11:53
Pink? - Element Land
Have you beat it starting with Necro (pink) already? That's the only one I played so far. Thought it was going to be easy, but it wasn't.
Author: Eternal35 (France), 12-08-2023 01:53 Like 100% recommended - Element Land Very good map, really challenging and balanced.
Must be played if you seek fun and tough fightd
tranchien writes:
26-09-2023 07:27
the CoTK - Element Land
do u know where's the Dead Man's Boots ?
Author: TheMortalOne, 08-08-2023 07:17 Like Loved map, few minor issues - Element Land Loved the map, beat it once as purple, then once as pink, plan to replay as others in the future, but going to take a break first.
One issue applies to both sides, especially purple, in that it's very hard to get main win condition. I beat too many enemies by stealing their towns and them just disappearing, so I couldn't kill their heroes for the gates. This is also applies as a risk playing against purple, but is easier to manage as it's just one enemy.
Talking about the evil wizard facing purple, when I first got to him, he went and hid behind a white gate, so I had to either load an older save or leave and come back later so I could attack him.
Seems kind of pointless to have the white removable gates near purple guarding Elemental King/Queen and the HoTA, given that the AI will clear those long before you get there, and there is a long period when you can go in and steal it, which I assume is not intended.
Author: Sandro (The Pit, Deyja), 06-08-2023 19:05 Like Great - Element Land Excellent map. Even if you get most of the OP spells in the game it makes you work for it.
Author: Nightfmare (Moscow, Russia), 31-07-2023 00:29 Like Perfect! - Element Land Great map! If you like long games, you should definately try it. I spent the whole week on it and got a lot of satisfaction and pleasure!
Sadly i became too strong at month 9 =) Evil wizard wasnt a real problem for me. But the map is brilliant!
The first try i failed to win a chase for the power in the middle of the game.
I tried to raise demons half of a game, but all it was useless. - Element Land
My army in the end.
Да, я плюшкин =)
Author: Vasya Pupkin, 10-06-2023 06:30 adventure~ - Element Land One of a kind map that offers a very different gameplay from any other I've seen so far. I take it was inspired by Crapcore, but it feels nothing like it and imo is way way better.
The main point that makes the map unique is how rewards from quests work -- you get huge creature stacks from seer huts, pandora boxes and prisons, and they overshadow everything you could hire normally from towns and dwellings. As the result, rather than stacking up a single army, you naturally end up with several strong heroes running around with very weird armies that you would never see in a normal game. And the same goes for AI.
Some other points i'd like to mention:
1. Geography is very well designed. You play sim city at the start, but after the first month or two the map becomes very dynamic with all kinds of enemy heroes running around all over the place.
2. Town portal is difficult to get, which means the player gets it very late, but AI just never gets it at all, so it creates disbalance later in the game, when AI can't jump between towns easily, but player can.
3. I think giving so many AIs expert berserk was a bad idea, and the spell is better off just not existing on the map at all. On one hand, it forces the player to keep pendant of dispassion equipped at all times, on the other hand, in player's hands the spell is just too OP and not really necessary to win.
4. Difficulty seemed a bit low for me. When white border heroes came out, their army and stats were just too far behind to make them actually dangerous.
Author: Vasya Pupkin, 20-05-2023 07:38 adventure~ - Element Land Not sure if that's intended, but Cove player can take off the 100 Rust dragons from the sea garrison that he controls from the start, i noticed that other players can't do that with their garrisons.
Author: JohanTheBoss, 17-05-2023 10:10 Like the best map maker - Element Land Hey Tadanga, please make other similar maps like this, you are the best map maker I ever seen and I played this map for 5-6 times already. I really love this map as it consist of many traits that I like:
- Though AI heroes are strong with various strategies, they are still defeatable without the need of using Berserk (I think Berserk should be banned of this game once and for all)
- Most quests are challenging with nice rewards
- No lame hidden route/ treasures. I dont want to play any map that requiring players to spam map editor to look for route and treasures.
Author: Roman (Russia), 08-05-2023 12:40 Like This is The Map! - Element Land I've opened Heroes 3 for myself again with your map. Insane details, this map turns it into a full scale RPG with hundreds of quests and stories.
Thank you sir for your incredible work!
Author: corn flakes (Somewhere), 07-05-2023 02:40 Also - Element Land Also could add a screenshot before final battle against Evil Wizard. I also had Vidomina with Necro army and 133k Liches in case I failed, but in the end this hero crushed Evil Wizard with ease.
The map was tough during middle of game because Purple had tough heroes like Gunnar, Dragon God, and other from prisons, plus the Ring of Oblivion with heavy losses... Struggled lot fighting Purple, until I managed to randomly hire Element Queen from tavern that had superior primary stats and managing to get 2nd town portal scroll. And then the map because much easier once I managed to get Cloak of Undead King for Vidomina (I was lucky, I only got this item because the enemy picked it up behind white border gate, so killing this enemy granted me this ultimate artifact)
Author: corn flakes (Somewhere), 28-04-2023 16:07 Fun map - Element Land Overall fun map which rewards exploration a lot. Very similar to another map called "cr*pcore".
The most annoying thing in the map are the randomized one-way portals. Some of them have too many ends, so getting the exact location require constant save/loading. It is alright if there are few ends for them, but with many, it is just waste of time (reloading a save also takes loading time with such giant map). Please fix them by adding more copies of their inputs to some of their outputs.
Another things I didn't like were Ring of Oblivion, please ban this item which makes overpowered enemies too hard to handle at the middle game.
Anyways, I can recommend
Author: Asker (Denmark), 24-03-2023 21:23 Like Incredible map - Element Land At first I was sceptical about this map since it didn't seem to embrace building and gathering ressources efficiently like other maps.
But then I realised it is simply just a different HOMM3 experience which totally grew on me. I've done four playthroughs over the past week, as you can see from my highscore.
My latest game was Tower in which I managed to beat it on month 3 week 3 day 7. I've been playing HOMM3 for a long time but never ventured much into custom maps or pvp, therefore I'm not the most skillful HOMM3 player, hence I'm very proud about this run.
This map is my favorite HOMM3 map alongside The Devil is in the Detail. Incredible stuff, well done mapmaker!
Author: JohanTheBoss, 20-02-2023 06:12 Best map ever - Element Land Okay so I managed to finish this map with Cove after 7 months (could have make it quicker if I know the way to Evil Wizard earlier).
Actually we can win this map without Blind and Berserk, so expert fire is not a must. For my case logistic and archery work better.
Tip to win this map, for me, is to find the Red tent and conquer the Old town soonest - they are the keys to boost up ur stat and your army quickly.
A minus point for this map is that it has too many variations with all those random portals cuz in some scenario, computer can reach right destination and manage to recruit OP heroes or open strong pandora boxes to surpass you easily
Author: gnollking, 19-02-2023 22:14 Like Best map - Element Land After a few years and countless playthroughs, this is still the greatest map I have ever played. I love massive maps with many playable factions and strategies for re-playability and a special victory condition to go for instead of chasing down the AI opponents once you're strong enough to basically beat anything. This is what every map maker should strife for, despite some minor flaws.
Author: Spiff (Chicago, US), 19-02-2023 17:15 Awesome Map! - Element Land Amazing map, so much detail and well thought out positions, teleports, boxes, artifacts, pathing, everything just amazing! 10/10 One of the best H3 maps ever made hands down.
Played twice, first game I played dungeon was too slow and couldn't win by month 9, second game played castle won mo7. If you're having a hard time I'd suggest playing more aggro and gathering troops as you explore.
Author: dan (Israel), 11-02-2023 19:48 map wont show on my game map list - Element Land please help! I really want to play this but it just wont show up, I have unzipped and put it in the maps folder..
I am playing heroes 3 complete HD.
labrice (France) writes:
10-03-2023 16:42
HOTA - Element Land
Cause you need HOTA not complete edition
Heilari writes:
27-02-2024 20:49
? - Element Land
а какая версия нужна?
Author: Adrian and Jessica (Poland), 13-01-2023 23:12 Like We played it for 1month coop with my gf - Element Land We always play h3 as allies after work sitting on a couch. This map was just incredible. So well balanced and full of challenges and till the very end. Tadanga you should be paid for this!
Author: Konstantin (Greece), 23-11-2022 17:04 Konstantin - Element Land perfect
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