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This page is for the original game. For the 2018 re-release, see The Settlers III: History Edition.


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The Settlers	1994
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici	1996
The Settlers III	1998
The Settlers IV	2001
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings	2004
The Settlers II: 10th Anniversary	2006
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire	2007
The Settlers: Rise of Cultures	2008
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom	2010
The Settlers Online	2012
The Settlers - History Edition	2018
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici - History Edition	2018
The Settlers III: History Edition	2018
The Settlers IV - History Edition	2018
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - History Edition	2018
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition	2018
The Settlers 7: History Edition	2018
The Settlers: New Allies	2023

Key points

Cannot use Alt+Tab ↹ while in-game

General information

Official game site

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Copy protection would sabotage the gameplay after a while. It was known to malfunction with old CD-ROM drives or virus infected systems. The 1.23 patch fixes it.
GOG.com		Ultimate Collection.

Version differences

The special edition of the Quest of the Amazons, released only in the German-speaking market, also comes with the base game.

The Settlers III: Ultimate Collection (also known as The Settlers III: Gold Edition) includes the base game, the Mission CD, and Quest of the Amazons.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Mission CD
Quest of the Amazons	Does not require the Mission CD.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bluebyte\Siedler3\1.0\General^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

External video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use `F1`, `F2`, and `F3` in-game to switch between 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 respectively. A widescreen patch exists for the Gold Edition version.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

External control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

External audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian				Unofficial translation by «7 Wolf»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		20
Online play		20

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	2300-2400, 47624
UDP	2300-2400, 3343-3400

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game process starts, but never opens fullscreen/windowed on Windows 10

Download fixed winmm^{[citation needed]}

Before continuing, make a backup of the file <path-to-game>\winmm.dll

Download fixed_winmm_win10.zip.
Extract the contents of the download to <path-to-game>, replacing existing files.

Notes

Some versions of the game may have winmm.dll named differently, eg. win32.dll

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, NT 4.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 100 MHz	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB	1.3 GB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[HKLM-1] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-2] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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 ===Configuration file(s) location===
 {{Game data|
-{{Game data/config|Windows|{{p|hklm}}\SOFTWARE\{{p|wow64}}\Blubyte\Siedler3\1.0\General}}
+{{Game data/config|Windows|{{p|hklm}}\SOFTWARE\{{p|wow64}}\Bluebyte\Siedler3\1.0\General}}
 }}

Developers

	Blue Byte\|Ubisoft Düsseldorf\|Blue Byte
Publishers
1998-2000	Blue Byte\|Ubisoft Düsseldorf\|Blue Byte
2001-present	Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows	November 20, 1998
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select, Multiple select
Genres	Building, RTS
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Asia, Classical, Egypt, Fantasy
Series	The Settlers