Starcraft Map Editor Removed?

[Leviathan-1945]

Indeed, Staredit is no longer shipped with Starcraft. As a substitute, Bliz has officially endorsed the 3rd party editor ScmDraft 2.

StarEdit Deprecation in Patch 1.23.0

Attention Map Makers, With the release of our 1.23.0 patch July 9th, we’ll be deprecating the support and distribution of StarEdit. The MM community in StarCraft is fantastic, and we recognize this. Countless amazing maps have been created over the past 20 years, and we hope for many more years to come. For this reason, we highly encourage folks to use SCMDRAFT 2: SCMDRAFT is not only more robust than StarEdit, but it’s also much more user-friendly. Although SCMDRAFT is an unofficial editor …

For those who want to use StarEdit while it still functions, Bliz is providing an updated copy that they will not support going forward. Meaning, it may slowly cease to function as SCR is continually updated:

Public StarEdit download

Attention Map Makers, As explained here: StarEdit Deprecation in Patch 1.23.0 we’ve recently deprecated our support for StarEdit in favor of SCMDraft 2. We’ve been working towards this (in collaboration with the author of SCMDraft 2) for the last couple of years. SCMDraft 2 is a widely used and superior map editor, and we decided that our engineering resources were better allocated to focusing on the game itself rather than competing with our community. However, if you are still loyal to StarE…