Westward 3: Gold Rush
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Good news for all Westward series fans, Westward 3: Gold Rush is now available for download!
When gold is discovered in the Northern California wilderness, speculators flock west in hopes of striking it rich.
Along the way the kind-hearted, but financially struggling, Baron family welcomes three weary travelers into their home and offers them a place to rest.
Grateful for their hospitality, the pioneers make a promise to repay the family for their kindness and generosity when they are settled.
Steer the fortunes of three adventurous pioneers as they build and defend their ever-growing settlement from dangerous bandits determined to cheat or steal from anyone they cross.
Explore uncharted terrain rich in natural resources – where gold is abundant and treachery hides behind every handshake – and gather the supplies needed to build your dusty tent settlement into a thriving boomtown.
Customize your town with over 50 buildings, upgrades and luxury items, and hire lawmen and gunslingers to keep the peace.
In Westward 3: Gold Rush, fortune is yours for the taking!
- Explore all-new environments.
- Powerful building, weapon and environmental upgrades.
- Battle new enemies, including ferocious wild animals.
- High degree of replayability.
- Depth and challenge.
- Unlock secret items hidden throughout Westward 3.
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current rating 3.60
Settler – Complete the tutorial.
Pioneer – Complete the game.
Master Builder – Build every building at least once.
Researcher – Purchase all locked items in the game.
Marshal – Complete all the wanted poster bounty quests.
Horseman – Upgrade your sheriff with a horse.
Green Thumb – Plant 15 trees.
Fur Trader – Collect 100 animal skins.
Food King – Produce six different Food sources at the same time.
Economist – Save 10,000 or more at the bank.
Prospector Trio – Employ three prospectors at the same gold mine.
Paradise – Get Town Happiness to 200 and population to 30 citizens.
Superior Force – Have 10 combat units that have weapon upgrades at the same time.
One Tough Hombre – Defeat 200 Bandits.
Disaster Challenge – Complete the disaster challenge in sandbox mode.
Bandit Showdown – Complete the Bandit Showdown in sandbox mode.
Fashion Designer – Collect all nine hats and sell them.
Generosity – Toss 10 coins in fountain.
Butter Churner – Unlock and build a Butter Churn.
Wine Meister – Unlock and build a winery.
Master Merchant – Unlock all three special general store items.
Treasure Hunter – Solve both hidden Treasure Quests.
Grape Farmer – Unlock and grow grapes at your farm.
Ostrich Handler – Raise ostriches at your ranch.
The 2 hidden luxury items are the butter churn and the winery
everyone check out this link it will give you a complete walkthrough – my last post was all of the trophies Priya I hope this helps you.
thank u so much Cindy..u were a gr888 help…..so u will no longer post here??we will miss u…wish u a wonderful life ahead…
Take care Dear..c ya
thank you Cindy. I been looking all over for that. You are wonderful. :) :)
i will still post my little sister just got a new computer so she can now pllay WW3. Her other computer crashed and her back up computer didn’t have a big enough video card for ww3. So I will still be here to help. I check this website everyday at least twice a day. i stay up late and check before I go to work in the afternoon.
where did all the posts go?
@cindy – comments are back! Sorry for the inconvenience!
eric-glad they are back. Hopefully the rest of the people will be back too.
having problem with food king trophy. I have 3 farms and 3 ranches all producing a different thing why do i not have the trophy yet
Matt-sometimes there is a glich in the system. I had the same problem trying to get the wine sold in the general store to get the master merchant trophy. I had to blow up all three farms and my winery and rebuild them. are you in the last settlement yet? If not if you don’t get it on this town you might get it on the next one.
Okey, seems like a have a little problem, today when I got to the haunted town quest, I didn’t complete it , so I went back to town. But when I go to the tunnel to get to the haunted town again, my hero wont go through the tunnel! It seems like I can’t get there anymore! :O please, can someone help me with this? :)
hey Cindy glad that u still here….
i am having similar problems…i have got 3 ranches and a tannery and one of the ranch is raising cow ..but i don get the boots….next one is there r 3 diff varities of animals in 3 ranches n 3 farms growing diff things..yet i don get the food king trophy..not fair….tell me how do i get things right???
thanking in advance….n ya how do we collect all 9 hats..i guess except the first 3 given hats i hav got a deer hat n a cheese hat…how to get the rest…thanks again…
cheers!!
Priya-I went back through some of the older posts and found this information. hope it helps.
to get the boots you have to have tannery, a ranch raising cows and a blacksmith all manned.
I had the issue with the food king trophy on one of my games also. I also had an issue getting wine sold in the general store and had to blow up all of my farms growing grapes and my winery and rebuild them to get the wine in the general store and the trophy. I copied some of Todd’s posts from earlier as you can see by his last line he has moved on to other games. I think these were his last posts.
wtg neener on the egg hunt. thank you for the info on the rabbit. i did find
out about that and am in the process of starting over for the third time to get it.
now about the hats
1. magician, viking and big cowboy hats you already get i think.
2. deer hat- employ someone at tannery and collect one deer hide
3. fruit hat- either get the food king trophy or by having a grape field and a winery ( not sure which gave me it )
4. cheese hat- move to greenbay wisconsin, lol jk , build 3 butter churns and have two cattle ranches (need to beat all trading post quests to get butter churn)
5. pirate hat- solve both of the hidden treasure quests- the rabbit one in the first camp and the sunken treasure at the second camp
6. indian headress- finish the game
hope this helps
todd says:
January 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm
ok here i think is the solution to the mystery items in the general store
1. boots- need to employ a tannery and a cattle ranch
2. cheese- same as cheese hat, build 3 churns and 2 cattle ranches
3. wine- grape field and a winery( i think it need to say winery not sour grapes. may need more then one winery too. not positive
i’m guessing the fruit hat you get when you unlock the food king trophy then.
dont hold me to these but i think this is how i got them. let me know if they work
todd says:
January 5, 2009 at 8:46 pm
krista- to get easter egg hunt you need to unlock the white rabbit( have 3 carrot farms and he will appear) then have one chicken farm. egg quest should appear for you then
im not sure how you only need 2 vote from all the things i have read the least amount of votes you will get is 3 for any of the quests for votes. the only thing i can think of is that you dont have Jake as your mayor. See who you have
sorry for all the post. ill leave now and go play some
to whoever is running this link I liked it a lot better when you were listing the posts by page numbers. It was a lot faster and easier to go and look at older posts/comments. This new way is time consumming and a big pain in the you know what. I don’t know if other people agree with me or not. If you do let the people running this link know your opinion and maybe just maybe they will change it back to the original way it set up with the page numbers. I do like the characters in the corners of the posts now. thanks for listening and providing this forum.
@Cindy – Implementing the page numbers in comments with the latest version of WordPress (which I’m using to run this site) is not easy. Hopefully, this feature will be back in the future. Thanks for your support.
hey everyone this is a copy of post I made earlier. You might find it helpful. I know some poeple haven’t taken the time to go back and read all of the eariler posts.
cindy says:
January 12, 2009 at 11:18 pm
hey I found that when you are fighting the bandits on the wanted posters if you fight them and collect all the wood and gold as you come upon it that before you leave the area to go back to your town that you can use their money and wood with your experience points and buy stuff from the store before you leave. also collect the first aid kits and use them before you leave. You can’t take the money, wood, or first aid kits back with you so might as well use them to your advancetage. It can help get your stuff unlocked fasted and not using your resources. Hope this helps someone. also you have to have 3 farms growing grapes and 3 wineries to get the wine to sell in the general store. If one of your wineries says sour grapes blow it up and build a new one.
I cant grow grapes
Hi – I’m new at this – can any one tell me how to get the ubiquitous scarecrow? I think I missed him somewhere. I am atrying to read thru all the other posts – I get a bit lost though, but thanks to everyone for their help
Jim- have you bought the 5 flower pots and watered each pot 2 times? you have to do this and then a lady will show up and offer to sell you grape seeds for 50 gold. Buy them and then you can grow grapes. It will also open up the grape farmer trophy. to get the winery trophy you have to complete the smuggler challenge (guy who wants to smuggle stuff back to your old town) and he will give you plans to build a winery. To sell wine in the general store you need 3 farms growing grapes and 1 winery. I posted a list of all of the throphies above on this page unless this kicks over to a new page then go back one. Along with the list it gives you the requirements to get the trophies. Although I think todd left out that you also need a employed blacksmith to get the boots. At least I did and I know from earlier posts some others also did. maybe todd just got lucky.
Eric-thanks for the fast response. I appreciate all of your hard work. I sure everyone else does too.
aussiedot-you have to buy dynomite and blow up the rocks on the right side and it will fall on to the pressure plate and open the gate on the left side.
hie Cindy!
I agree wid u…..so in earlier posts when u said go to page no# .. i cud not find it..coz’ there were no page numbers on them……ya i wud love to have page numbers too..it wud b far more beneficial n easy 2 check….
Besides..i’m badly stuck…..i can’t have the trophy related 2 the treasure hunt coz’ i missed my treasure in the scarecrow section….n now i am here trying 2 win the election..i can neither finish the earthquake valley nor the haunted town quest……it seems so tough……is there any hint or gud way i sud follow 2 complete it widout being irritated???
priya-you can start a new game with the same player after you finish this game and get the trophies you missed the first time although you have to earn all of you experience points again or just start a new game completely.
As for the haunted town it can be done but it is not real easy. go back on page on older comments and click on the link to the walkthrough and she goes over earthquake valley and the haunted town quest.
priya-the link to the complete walkthrough in on the top of this page. It is the 2nd post right after the one with a list of all of the trophies. If this post rolls to the top of a new page go back one page
hey how can i grow ostrich ……and toss coins in a fountain …..plzzzzzzzzzzzz tell me
lora234-you have to complete the easter egg hunt to get the ostrich. You trigger this quest by having 2 ranches with chickens, no other ranches are required to get the people to toss coins into the fountain take them over to the fountain and each person will throw a coin into the fountain.
priya-hey are you still playing? Haven’t seen any posts from you since the 16th. Hope you at least have been able to check in and get the answers I posted for you.
I need help how do you repair all the stuff for when you get that machine from the inventor cause that is confusing.
alex-
Talk to Willy and he tells you where the mechanic is. This gives you a new
quest, “Find the Mechanic.†When you are ready to do this quest, talk to Willy again. Your hero and all of your guns will be taken to a new scene.
Your hero and guns will appear outside of the town where the mechanic is hiding. Before you approach the town, take your group around the outer perimeter of the area and collect all available resources.
Start at the gold mine just below where your group is standing when they arrive in this scene. Place 2 of your guns in front of the gold mine. After you collect all of the gold around the mine, move the rest of your group on around the perimeter and collect all available resources as you go.
After your group has gone around the entire perimeter and collected everything that can be collected, approach the town and talk to the gunslinger guarding it. He tells you that the mechanic is hiding in one of the buildings and you will have to search the town to find him.
At this point, I divided my remaining guns. I put half of them by the north side of the lumber camp and the other half on the south side of town. I then moved my hero, by himself, from building to building searching for the mechanic.
To search a building, move your hero in front of the building. When your hero gets to the bank, the mechanic will appear and want talk to you. Talk to the mechanic and he will agree to help you if you fix the town and make it safe. While you are talking to the mechanic, a couple of bandits show up. After you kill them and finish talking to the mechanic, he will go hide until you are through fixing the town.
Town Repair
After he leaves, one of the citizens says you need a least 5 people to fix the town. This gives you a new quest, “Town Repair.†The first thing you need to do is put the 2 people that are standing in front of the buildings to work. Put one of them to work on the farm and the other at the lumber camp.
Next, build 2 log cabins and when the new people arrive, put 1 to work at the General Store, 1 to work on the farm, and 2 to work at the gold mine.
If you feel like you still need more guns to defend the town, temporarily move the worker from the General Store and employ them at the Saloon. Hire more gunslingers and then move the worker from the Saloon. Employ them at the General Store again.
Have your hero start to work repairing the buildings as you have available resources. Have your hero to continue to repair the buildings until all of them are repaired.
While your hero is repairing everything, let your guns defend the town. Don’t forget to check on your guns after each bandit attack in order to collect any money dropped by the bandits when you kill them and to heal anyone that has been injured.
Once everything is repaired, the “Town Repair†quest is over. The mechanic will then come out of hiding.
Talk to him and he will tell you that you will need a diversion to get through the gate to the southeast of town. Keep guarding the town until you have enough money to buy 1 box of dynamite. After you have bought the dynamite, blow up the rocks blocking the road to the west of the town.
Wait for the bandits to open the gates and head toward the explosion. Move your entire group along with the mechanic through the gates. Continue to follow the road to the red arrow. This ends the quest. You, the mechanic, and the rest of your group are then taken back to town.
Recover the Drill
hey cindy..thanks 4 remembering me….ya i’m still playing but its really tough i’m still stuck….can’t finish neither of the quest yet…..but i’m trying…….may b i will b going 4 a tour very soon tomorrow or day after if possible..may b i’ll again try the game after my return….
u keep enjoying the game n being a gr888 help 4 everyone out there…….take care..c ya…Cheers!!!
priya-Edit: ****. I don’t know what you went on tour for but I hope you had fun and had a safe trip. Hopefully will see you back on this site in the future.
cindy- hie..i’m back…ya i went to beijing jus a trip wid frens..had a gr8 time ….if u wish u can search me in fb…..i hav uploaded some pics of beijing….c u…
Hi, I am tryng to figure out how to build the winery. I got the winery itself but I need to grow grapes and I dont know how to do this. Anyone have any ideas.
hgdiver-to get grapes you need to build 5 flower planters and water all of them 2 times each until the flowers turn purple. They start out yellow, when you water 1 time they turn red, when you water the 2nd time the flowers turn purple. a lady will show up and offer to sell you some grape seeds for 50 dollars.
hey priya glad you are back and had a safe trip how are getting along with your quests on westward 3. you can find me on fb also.
How do I get the rock to fall on the plate when I’m rescuing Redd’s family?
hey cindy!!
shall i look for cindy hampton in Fb?? ok i will do that…n westward3 it drives me crazy cud not finish it..oh its irritating..that possesing part is 2 much….i’m playing westward2 side by side now…..but seems like i’m stuck in that 2…heheheh
hi im new to this and my boyfriend has been playing ww3 for awhile and were stuck with the part were we have to fine the hidden treasures and the meaning of the blue rocks and the dried up entrance ..and also we cant find the red flowers can somebody help me pleaseeeeeeee… Edit:****
ı find the key but ı couldnt find the blue rocks and also the sunken entrance colud u help me please………….
Hey everybody I am back. I have been playing other games and went to a couple of conferences for the union and went to see my daddy in NC.
Priya yes you can find me on fb as cindy hampton. Keep trying you will complete the game. go to the 2nd post on this page by me and click ont the complete walkthrough link.
Natacha and Baris go to the 2nd post on this page by me and click on the complete walkthrough and it will give you a complete walkthrough. It is very helpfull. Everyone again I know it is a pain in the you know what but go back to the beginning and read all of the posts. It is very informative.
Help! I am building the town to 20 and have run out of gold. I don’t have enough to build anything. I have already searched out all the gold mines (can’t get into the wall gold mines–not enough gold to build gold mine) and even killed all the bandits for money. Anything else I can do?
ibg=do you have a trading post? if you do sell food and wood for gold. also if you have a trading post do the trading post challenges. click on the little symbol or it might be question mark on the trading post and do the challenges have you build a sheriff’s office yet? it also has wanted bounties you can do to get gold and stuff. if you don’t have any of these things you may have to start over. sorry
Thanks Cindy–I didn’t get a chance to build a trading post yet, but I do have a sherriff’s office–I’ll check there. Otherwise I do have a game I saved from earlier, but I didn’t want to go through the challenges again! Thanks for your help!
hej fokz. i have a problem, hov do i built a firecamp ? (:
please, i cant do annything, thers no more gold anywhere on the map.
need help in finding sunken treasure
anja you need wood not gold to build the firecamps
dhkdon007 you need to blow up the big tree by the top of the screen and go into there and get the quest for it out of the treasure chest. then go to the bottom left side of your screen and catch the fish so you can go into the water and look under the ledge and get the key then build a well in the blue rocks and you should get a bubble telling you to jump in
I’m still at the beginning of the game and I can’t find Redd’s hidden supplies :(
I’ve been to everywhere around the rock arch, but still nothing.
Can anyone please give me a specific location or post a picture for where the supplies are?
nilecrystal-go to the top of this page and click on the walkthrough link i posted and it will help you out
cindy-thank you for your reply. I’ve been read the walkthrough a zillion times but still can’t find it. Am I stupid or something :(
hi i would just like to ask if there was any way to get the winery if the resource smuggler guy left early or do i have to restart the whooooolllleeeeeee game? if i do have to restart it is there anyway to just go back to that quest and not have to redo the whole game?
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hi , im at the stage where i have to get 3 bare hides and i cant find the biggest tree to cut down, must my hero cut down a tree or must i build a lumber camp and let the other workers do the cutting.. let me know .. thanks