Interesting Discovery related to the Goblin Alchemist

Some of you might think now: "Goblin Alchemist? WTF!"

Most of you know that Blizzard added the Goblin Tinker with it's funny abilities to the game as neutral hero in the 1.15 patch.
What most people don't know (apart from TheProphet, me, PitzerMike, FyreDaug and possibly some others) is that on some language versions you can find model, skin and sound files for a new unit called Goblin Alchemist.
It appears that these files can only be found in language versions other than English (me and PitzerMike found these files in the german version, TheProphet found them in the French version). I assume that these files were accidentally added to the patch. I bet they are still under development and will be added in a later patch to add another neutral hero.

These are the facts I found out regarding these files:

• These files can only be found in language versions other than English
• The sound files are English, regardless of the language version (at least they are in the german one)
• There are no entries in SLK/TXT files related to the Goblin Alchemist
• The model can't be loaded in the WE
• The model can be loaded with W3V (you have to add a listfile to War3Patch.mpq though)
• The skin can be viewed and looks quite funny

For those who want to experiment with the files, I extracted the files and put them into a RAR archive.

Here is the text of the sounds. "(...)" indicates that some info is missing (I appreciate any help to complete these).
Pissed 1: "What do you wanna be when you blow up?"
Pissed 2: "I'm a chemical superfreak."
Pissed 3: "No, shake it...boom"
Pissed 4: "Ugg, this potion smells awful. Hehehe."
Pissed 5: "Hey, pull his finger. That's not my finger."
Pissed 6: "*clink* Oh no, what did I drop? OH YEAH *music* Wait, what are you doing? Oh, no, (...) potion."
Ready: "Ready to brew."
Warcry: "For the highest bidder."
What 1: "Wanna blow something up?"
What 2: "I'm unstucked and ready to go."
What 3: "Care for a cocktail."
What 4: "You love my (...)."
Yes 1: "You got it."
Yes 2: "I get that mixed up."
Yes 3: "Don't rush me."
Yes 4: "I'll shake that right up."
YesAttack 1: "Taste my firery potions."
YesAttack 2: "Hurry, I got things to blow up."
YesAttack 2: "(...) you fool."

Cool, awesome find! He's obviously a hero like the Goblin Sapper unit. (as there are clearly two of them). If Blizzard is intending on releasing this guy as another new neutral hero, that would be awesome! (although it's odd that the second unit in the skin looks a lot like one of the sappers, just like the Tinker's first portrait was one of the sappers).

I have the model working:

I need these 2 files however to get it to be perfect:

If somone could upload them here that would be helpful:

Textures\HeroGoblinAlchemistBLUE.blp
Textures\GOLDCoin.blp

Here is the GoldCoin file. The other file doesn't exist.

I also added the text for the sounds in the first post.

Heres what I have so far Ill upload the changed model soon.

Ahh, finally i have him... also, the pissed 4 is "Ugg, this potion smells awful!" And for his 5 "Hey pull his finger" and his warcry is "FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER!"

Interesting, why did blizz stick that in there though?

Might attempt to fill in the blue spots.. Any ideas on what should go there?

Around his mouth would be a scarf as some goblins have. I think those things on his back may be canisters like barrels to hold his chemicals? Since 3 of his abilities are liquid types and sprays, they might also have nozzles on top of each.

MWHAHAH fixed it completely, well someone will have to fix the slk files so u can actually hear the sounds... But the model works and is complete.

There was a missing BLUE alchem file but it turns out its the same file probably as the purple so... that plus some small mdl editing to make the textures appear (Blizzard had turned off the textures) and voila.. we have a working model.

Have Fun!

We don't know if it was intentional or not.

Awesome! But, is it impossible to get the last texture Herogoblinalchemistblue. It would just feel more "complete" with all textures. Also, doesn't exist icons for him?

Yep. Its impossible to get the blue texture. However, from my random guess, if someone were to recolour the ogreish thing from purple to blue like the Ogre Magi, it would look pretty much like what it will look like eventualy

Good find BTW, I was wondering why I couldn't find that unit after seeing it in the listfile

2 questions:

What exactly is it that he's riding? It looks almost like the brain-damaged spawn of a Pit Lord.

and can someone PLEASE make a talking portrait for him?

Well, it turns out the reason his portrait didn't work was because it too was missing the goblinalchemistblue texture, which is simaler to the goblinalchemist's basic skin, but not entirly the same, you can see what i mean since i have attached a working goblin alchemist portrait.