Advanced Melee AI

[Bogdanov89]

Thank you!!!
Please tell me will the AI be smarter/better if i disable the "optimized scripts" , so that it can use more CPU/memory?

 

[IceSandslash]

Thank you!!!
Please tell me will the AI be smarter/better if i disable the "optimized scripts" , so that it can use more CPU/memory?

Νο. Consider extra CPU/memory just wasted memory for all intents and purposes.

 

[VPanda]

If I'll use some previous version, will it solve UD grieving problems?

 

[Squaresoft]

You should make to the Altar of Heroes!,

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Best AI mod !

 

[Mint Blancmanche]

any news on a fix for the undead AI? they ruin every game by haunting allied gold mines lol.

 

[Strategy Master]

any news on a fix for the undead AI? they ruin every game by haunting allied gold mines lol.

Its been noted, but haven't had time to investigate.

 

[Strategy Master]

Hello guys! what happened to Dynamic AMAI? a long ago it was adjusting strategies midgame.
And what about Undead Ally griefing, will it be fixed?
thx!

Dynamic Strategies are included. The built in strategy build orders are still followed and still change during game, but once current strategy build order is exhausted it will just build units by itself based on what it thinks is best. Or you can make your own empty strategies for the same effect immediately.

any news on a fix for the undead AI? they ruin every game by haunting allied gold mines lol.

3.4.2b now out with fix and another lag fix.

 

[Bogdanov89]

Thanks for the update!

Sorry if i missed something obvious but is there a way for me to choose the general behavior for allied and enemy AI while in game?
For example i would love if ALL the AI would first build up to 50+ population before they attempt to fight each other, so big battles happen.

Also more aggressive expansions would be great, if the AI runs out of the current gold source.
Thank you!

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Thanks for the update!

 

[Strategy Master]

Thanks for the update!

Sorry if i missed something obvious but is there a way for me to choose the general behavior for allied and enemy AI while in game?
For example i would love if ALL the AI would first build up to 50+ population before they attempt to fight each other, so big battles happen.

Also more aggressive expansions would be great, if the AI runs out of the current gold source.
Thank you!

Yes the commander manually allows you to stop all attacks from AI allies or cancel that. But you have to decide when, you can't set up conditional settings.

 

[Strategy Master]

Reuploaded 3.4.2b to fix an issue with the Strategy Manager unable to run.

 

[alex11chr]

Reuploaded 3.4.2b to fix an issue with the Strategy Manager unable to run.

Great news! @gartoll any chance we could get an updated map pack please?

 

[IceSandslash]

I suggest waiting for next version for 2.0.2 support.

 

[gartoll]

Great news! @gartoll any chance we could get an updated map pack please?

I know its already been 2 weeks but you'll have to wait like 1 more, I'm away from my pc so i cant work on it yet

Also nee patch being released might mean new AMAI as well, not always, but there is a chance

 

[Strategy Master]

Released 3.5.0 with 2.0.2 support. Had to release as is as oblivion remastered modding taking all of my modding time at present.

 

[gartoll]

yo thats awesome tysm, btw here are the patch notes Release 3.5.0 · SMUnlimited/AMAI

BTW

• Fixes to random hero mode not being responsive enough in detecting the hero and its skills.
  Does that mean that ATR (random heroes, races & mercenaries) work with AMAI now?
  
  
• Fixed a small issue where if AMAI upgraded to tier 2 a second time, it could trigger the tier up block when its not tiering up.
  Does that mean upgrading with a different building? In a real game if a player has tier 2, he will never tech to tier 2 with another building. Unless it means something like teching to t2 -> losing that building -> building new one -> upgrading the new one to t2

 

[Drukhari]

yo thats awesome tysm, btw here are the patch notes Release 3.5.0 · SMUnlimited/AMAI

BTW

• Fixes to random hero mode not being responsive enough in detecting the hero and its skills.
  Does that mean that ATR (random heroes, races & mercenaries) work with AMAI now?
  
  
• Fixed a small issue where if AMAI upgraded to tier 2 a second time, it could trigger the tier up block when its not tiering up.
  Does that mean upgrading with a different building? In a real game if a player has tier 2, he will never tech to tier 2 with another building. Unless it means something like teching to t2 -> losing that building -> building new one -> upgrading the new one to t2

I just tested it, doesn't seem to be able to play ATR.

 

[gartoll]

I just tested it, doesn't seem to be able to play ATR.

Ye I know I just tested it too.


Anyways as usual I have my own ready-made map packs

9-5-2025 update: Tidehunters updated to latest version D:

500 maps pack here:

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

This time I also created a mini pack with all the ladder maps on W3Champions from 1v1-4v4 + FFA. 75 maps, way smaller file size for those who care. Link: Dropbox




I HAVENT TESTED THE AMAI ITSELF BECAUSE ITS LATE AND I WANTED TO COMPLETE IT TODAY IF THERE ARE ANY MISTAKES TELL ME. change logs in the top pack

 

[Youkohieama]

Ye I know I just tested it too.


Anyways as usual I have my own ready-made map packs

500 maps pack here:

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

This time I also created a mini pack with all the ladder maps on W3Champions from 1v1-4v4 + FFA. 75 maps, way smaller file size for those who care. Link: Dropbox




I HAVENT TESTED THE AMAI ITSELF BECAUSE ITS LATE AND I WANTED TO COMPLETE IT TODAY IF THERE ARE ANY MISTAKES TELL ME. change logs in the top pack

Thank you for these maps, it's awesome!

I had a question related to the updated maps though. I noticed W3C have updated maps, such as Tidehunters 1.2. But your map just says Tidehunters. Are these the current versions of the maps, or the older ones?

 

[gartoll]

Autu

Thank you for these maps, it's awesome!

I had a question related to the updated maps though. I noticed W3C have updated maps, such as Tidehunters 1.2. But your map just says Tidehunters. Are these the current versions of the maps, or the older ones?

Autumn Leaves, Boulder Vale, Last Refyge and Twisted Meadows are all on the latest version

I just noticed that Tidehunters is still on version 1.1 tho, so I created this updated version. Thanks for pointing it out!

Updated links to the old pack rn so new installers will get the fix automatically

AMAI link: Dropbox
AMAI vs Blizz: Dropbox
Blizz only: Dropbox

 

[Youkohieama]

I've tested a few 2v2 games without using commander, and so far my ally has been a pretty bad sport. The AI enemies will group up and attack together, but my ally doesn't listen to pings or even TP to help defend me. They will ping some random place on the map and announce they're creeping as my city burns. I've noticed they also don't TP to even save themselves, often dying with their portal.

Could you elaborate on the how the AI works a bit more? Does it recognize when an ally is being attacked and prioritize that? Does it listen to pings at all if I ping a camp I'm about to take, or an ally I'm attacking, or my own base? Why do AI and AI seem to sync up better than AI and myself, do I just need to follow what it's doing rather than wanting it to respond to my plans? Do they trigger their TPs based upon some internal logic with some randomizer, so sometimes they escape and sometimes they die with it?

This might be alleviated by the commander, but I'm a little confused how it works. Can I have the commander active in 2v2s with humans involved? Human and AI vs human and AI, would each player get to command their AI?

And lastly, is there a big readme somewhere where I can find these answers instead of bugging people lol.

 

[Youkohieama]

Separate post with specific bug report:

I've been watching AI vs AI to see how they move and react. My undead player walled itself in fully and couldn't get its heroes out of base.

The orc player had 5 grunts at half health or lower grouped around their fortress. They never made an effort to heal them, just leaving wounded units in a circle around their base.

 

[dark_future]

3.5.0 installed (macOS) works fine in 1 x 1, but campaign is broken in March of the Scourge mission, at first 10 sec all the 2 or 3 liches with all armies coming to my base and cu... on my face hardly, i swithched to normal difficulty - no difference.

 

[dark_future]

Also: if i play battle.net 1x1 game ends at 00m 00s with message: blizzard: warning game desync detected by plahyer [*******], my searches led me to the fact that this is a problem in the files, or the paths in the files

 

[IceSandslash]

Both of your issues are normal behavior, @dark_future. You have installed AMAI as a mod, which messes with campaigns and online play. If you don't want that to happen, uninstall the mod and download the maps instead.

 

[dark_future]

download the maps instead.

I just deactivated the scripts folder, it helped. Question, I want to make sure that I understood you correctly, do you mean download hotel rooms that are patched with an AMAI script?

 

[Ravager16829]

I just deactivated the scripts folder, it helped. Question, I want to make sure that I understood you correctly, do you mean download hotel rooms that are patched with an AMAI script?

If you are going for the map packages that has AMAI (not the entire mod), please ask gartoll.
His posts always contain several map packages that use the AMAI script built-in, which doesn't interfere with everything (like vanilla maps, campaigns, etc).
Make sure you have the latest patch of the game. Older versions of WC3 might not work (probably due to the latest version of AMAI only supporting the latest patch of the game).

 

[IceSandslash]

I just deactivated the scripts folder, it helped. Question, I want to make sure that I understood you correctly, do you mean download hotel rooms that are patched with an AMAI script?

If my understanding of broken Korean translation is right, yes. See gartoll's post just a few floors above.

 

[Mint Blancmanche]

same game AI comes to fuck up my 1st and 2nd expo lol.
latest game
latest amai (3.5.0)

 

[gartoll]

@dark_future AMAI is not made for campaigns, so bugs are expected. It's made to only work with the normal version of warcraft. This means that you also won't achieve much if you for example try to make the AMAI bot play as Naga through a mod. As they say in their Github page, "Advanced Melee AI is made to be used on melee maps only so please don't try to use it on completely custom maps (e.g Tower Defence). It will make no difference on such maps."

To play on your chosen maps without having problems when queueing online for bnet, you need to extract the maps from the game files and save them on a DIFFERENT folder. To do this:

1) Download "Casc storages" from here.
2) Open the .zip file (do not extract), click the x64 folder and then CascView.exe
3) When the app opens, click "Game Storage" on the top left. You will see two icons with the Battle.Net logo, where you'll press the leftmost one
4) Click on Warcraft III Reforged, then OK
5) Open the war3.w3mod folder, and then the maps folder.
6) There you will find all the maps that are shipped by Blizzard with the game themselves. Pick the ones you want, press rightclick on one of them, and then "Extract".
7) You will see a new box appear and on the top, you will see a text saying "Enter the directory that the files will be extracted to." One line below it and to your right, click on the icon with the 3 dots
8) Select Look in: Documents on the top, then open the Warcraft III and then "Maps" folder.
9) Press "Extract" and wait as this process is automatic (and quick ). You dont need to change any other settings
10) Your maps will be saved on "...\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\Wave 6\test or depends\war3.w3mod\maps". You can change where they are in the game (for example you can create a folder so they appear under "...\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\AMAI) and then install AMAI as usual.




Don't be intimidated by the list, I go into detail to make sure that you and any1 reading this in the future can understand this easily. Feel free to ask any questions. Sorry for the late reply, I didn't see the comments

 

[myjian]

Hello everyone
Given that version 2.03 has been launched, the administrator is still unable to extricate himself
Please allow me to modify an official version for simple adaptation to 2.03

GitHub - jzy-chitong56/AMAI-CN at patch-2

This version still suffers from various issues found in the official version, especially regarding rescue operations among allies

But this version is completely based on modifications to the official main branch, and the core content does not incorporate any of my changes

difference

• Support for random heroes and random mercenaries - simply check the box for random heroes when creating a room to enable this feature
• Compatible with 2.02a and 2.03 -- this refers to the new ultimate ability of the Death Knight. This means that the reset branch must run under 2.03, while other versions can only use TFT
• When AMAI is pitted against AI, AI also supports learning the new ultimate ability of the Death Knight

I will not provide compilation services for this branch. I apologize if it causes any inconvenience to your use
My compilation service only provides compilation for my main branch, and there are currently no updates

My installation can be conducted using the InstallAppointVERToMap.bat file in the root directory, which is relatively convenient, but this is in Chinese


I hope the administrator will allow me to provide this branch here
I know you come back from time to time, perhaps you are too busy. If no, please take a few seconds to tell me to edit this reply

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Hello everyone
Given that version 2.03 has been launched, the administrator is still unable to extricate himself
Please allow me to modify an official version for simple adaptation to 2.03

GitHub - jzy-chitong56/AMAI-CN at patch-2

This version still suffers from various issues found in the official version, especially regarding rescue operations among allies

But this version is completely based on modifications to the official main branch, and the core content does not incorporate any of my changes

difference

• Support for random heroes and random mercenaries - simply check the box for random heroes when creating a room to enable this feature
• Compatible with 2.02a and 2.03 -- this refers to the new ultimate ability of the Death Knight. This means that the reset branch must run under 2.03, while other versions can only use TFT
• When AMAI is pitted against AI, AI also supports learning the new ultimate ability of the Death Knight

I will not provide compilation services for this branch. I apologize if it causes any inconvenience to your use
My compilation service only provides compilation for my main branch, and there are currently no updates

My installation can be conducted using the InstallAppointVERToMap.bat file in the root directory, which is relatively convenient, but this is in Chinese


I hope the administrator will allow me to provide this branch here
I know you come back from time to time, perhaps you are too busy. If no, please take a few seconds to tell me to edit this reply

For some reason it doesn't work for me
We'll have to wait for the release build from Strategy Master.

 

[gartoll]

Haven't downloaded it yet but Blizz's "Random Heroes" option is different that what the community refers to as "Random Heroes" or ATR

Blizz's option simply gives you 1 random hero from your altar at the start of the game. Not a tavern one, not from any other race

ATR means that the heroes are trained normally from the altar, but you get to see them when they come out, and can be any of the 24, including duplicates. Similarly to atr, you know the level of the merc and can only see what kind they are if they are available for hiring.

Just saying that in case that might cause a conflict

I'll wait for the official release for a new pack

 

[Flow Malorne]

The best Warcraft III AI ever made. It may not be perfect, but it's so much fun in team games and sometimes they do crazy things. I love this AI so much.

 

[16646461]

AI's army is often stuck in its own home by buildings. Please turn off Zoomkey by default.

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Hello.
I noticed that the mod has been updated several times since the last release and there is a version for the latest Warcraft 3 patch, but why hasn't the release branch of the mod been updated?
When can we expect an update? Now the mod is called BUG-MORE-AI? jzy-chitong56 changed the name in the update thread.

 

[Ravager16829]

Hello.
I noticed that the mod has been updated several times since the last release and there is a version for the latest Warcraft 3 patch, but why hasn't the release branch of the mod been updated?
When can we expect an update? Now the mod is called BUG-MORE-AI? jzy-chitong56 changed the name in the update thread.

The one made by jzy-chitong56 was quite buggy since it's not an official one (it's in Chinese locale).

I'm not quite sure if Strategy Master decided to update this mod since his last appearance in this forum was way back in August 2025.

The original AMAI intended for ROC/TFT (up to 1.31) is available to use. It's been this way for years. It's not changed.

 

[gartoll]

Prob update not completed yet, github page is getting updated quite frequently, which means that Strategy Master is building something but its not finalised yet

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Prob update not completed yet, github page is getting updated quite frequently, which means that Strategy Master is building something but its not finalised yet

Yes, I saw it. I hope the update will be released soon.

 

[Strategy Master]

Thanks for waiting, 3.5.1 is up patching a number of known critical issues.

### Added
- Support for 2.0.2a and 2.0.3, increasing optimal version for REFORGED scripts.

### Changed

• Removed more trace messages from optimized map scripts to improve performance.
• Undead scroll of healing priority in tier 2 is slightly higher but still less than tier 3. (jzy-chitong56)
• If you no longer add the current dynamic counter unit as a counter in a strategy, that unit will stop building entirely and counters will wait until the dynamic strategy is re-evaluated. This gives strategies more direct control of counters if necessary.

### Fixed

• (DevTools) Fixed cases where disabling chat allowed some give up messages to still occur.
• (DevTools) Fixed cases where disabling surrender the AI could still give up.
• Fixed undead unable to upgrade creature armor past the first tier.
• Standard AI hero ability fixes for TFT and 1.31/2.0.3 compatibility (jzy-chitong56)
• Disabled multi mine fix as was blocking orcs/human/undead from mining entirely on maps like ice crown.
• Fixed an issue where expansion cycle could get stuck trying to build expansion in same place if it cannot get a good ground location for it.
• Fixed an issue where upgrading a hall temporarily blocked expanding.

 

[gartoll]

Thanks for waiting, 3.5.1 is up patching a number of known critical issues.

LFG NEW AMAI VERSION BABY!!!!!!!!!!

Irrelevant but looking at markdown.md at the installer (which has the changes of every single AMAI version) apparently this thing is older than I am O_O

 

[Strategy Master]

LFG NEW AMAI VERSION BABY!!!!!!!!!!

Irrelevant but looking at markdown.md at the installer (which has the changes of every single AMAI version) apparently this thing is older than I am O_O

And thats not all of them either, just starts from when I was involved

 

[YouMoMCallME]

Thanks for waiting, 3.5.1 is up patching a number of known critical issues.

YEA !!!

 

[gartoll]

And thats not all of them either, just starts from when I was involved

when did AMAI start & who was before you? Was it AIAndy?>

 

[Strategy Master]

when did AMAI start & who was before you? Was it AIAndy?>

Yes, AIAndy and Zalamander. I'd be unsure when exactly at this point as original websites are not accessible, but war3 released in 2002 so its sometime between 2002-2006

Last official communication I can find from the old AMAI website:

AMAI 2.50 Beta 7 06/05/06
Beta 7 of AMAI 2.50 is now released by Strategy Master.
On bottom of download page you will find a special version for oberving games with AMAI vs Original War3 AI with this new beta as well.
There is lots of changes and improvements and almost every single bug is gone, enjoy.

New site location 2005
AMAI has been pretty frozen in development over the past year mostly due to lack of interest, annoying bugs and World of Warcraft. Our old site location have been ripped and is now used for money making puposes by someone making use of our popularity, please do NOT visit the old adress.

AMAI site has a new feature 2005
It has been here a while already but for those who haven't noticed yet, there is a new button in the menu to the left, "Add Chat" allows any visitor to contribute with chat taunts for coming versions of AMAI. Read the DE version manual last section for instructions on how to enter advanced chat strings.

AMAI 2.0 Released and site re-opening​

As anyone might notice the site has changed a 'bit'.
Thanks to Teddy AMAI will have a respected site from now on but that's not all that's new here.

Let us present AMAI 2.0, the very best AMAI ever to be released in all ways, totally redesigned from inside and out it brings a huge pile of new features and possibilities both for map makers and players.
This version needed a lot of work and we were lucky to get a lot of help from people like Hrothgaar and WargH.
Also Vidstiges JASS precompiler has become an essential part of AMAI.

We release AMAI 2.0 in 2 versions. The first is the player edition that is small and made for those who just want to download and enjoy a good time playing with AMAI as it is.
The second version is AMAI 2.0 Developer Edition, a larger package with a powerful AMAI strategy and profile editor that makes it easy for anyone to create own strategies and profiles to share on the internet in the new strategy database for AMAI.

I have AMAI 2.40 as the earliest version in my possession, plus an adapted version of the AI for the war3 TToR (The Tale's of Raviganion) mod. I found a file dated at 14/03/2004 so consider it maybe started near beginning of 2003. And AMAI existed before the release of war3 The Frozen Throne expansion which was July 2003.

But more importantly I've found AIAndy's copy of Dawn of War :

 

[gartoll]

BTW if anyones wants maps ready from the get go, I updated the 500 map pack to the newest version of AMAI, no changes made in the maps themselves, you can download it here (750mb)

The version with only the w3c maps from the 1v1/2v2/4v4 map pool can be found here

 

[Bogdanov89]

Thanks for AMAI!
Please tell me am i doing something wrong with the installation.

I just copy the maps from "\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\Download\Season7" into "\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\AMAI" and then install the latest AMAI into that AMAI folder?

However in a 1v1 match on those AMAI maps i could not get the help command or the ESC command to work (after selecting the english language from the UI popup).
Thanks for helping out.

 

[Ravager16829]

Thanks for AMAI!
Please tell me am i doing something wrong with the installation.

I just copy the maps from "\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\Download\Season7" into "\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\AMAI" and then install the latest AMAI into that AMAI folder?

However in a 1v1 match on those AMAI maps i could not get the help command or the ESC command to work (after selecting the english language from the UI popup).
Thanks for helping out.

Maps that are intended for W3C use Lua as its script language. If you want to use AMAI on those maps, you need to convert the map first into JASS mode per disclaimer above in description.

EDIT: You might need to reinstall AMAI as well after doing this trick since any map changes made by World Editor will overwrite everything. That includes the required AMAI script files.

 

[Bogdanov89]

BTW if anyones wants maps ready from the get go, I updated the 500 map pack to the newest version of AMAI, no changes made in the maps themselves, you can download it here (750mb)

The version with only the w3c maps from the 1v1/2v2/4v4 map pool can be found here

Thanks for this, i downloaded "only the w3c maps" pack but i am confused with the folder content inside.
There is AMAI vs AMAI, AMAI vs Blizz and Blizz vs Blizz.

Which of these i use if i just want to play something like 3v3 where its me and 2 AMAI versus 3 AMAI?
I suppose its AMAI vs AMAI but frankly i would rather just ask instead of making more mistakes.
Thanks for helping.

Edit: even on the AMAI vs AMAI maps (from the pack) when i play on one of the teams the ESC button and -cmd:help does nothing.
The AMAI talk in chat but i have no control over them.
Really have no clue what i am doing wrong.