Introduction

Patrician 3 has been distributed by different publishers in different time periods and countries, and has no universally patch naming scheme. This book references to the latest GoG release (1.1 w10), which was released on 2021/04/26. To verify you are on the same version, you can check these md5 sums of the relevant game files:

b19cba7ae0ffd46ec1d4b59ef9ad7c10  Mapeditor.exe
f9ae89baeaa567938e3b267d9bb466ab  P3HardwareSettings.exe
31b0ca57335160f7700e8613fa16b93c  P3Setup.exe
baf7e0f931ce3d35c1ba3f5d81eb990a  Patrician3.exe
809cd5186cedcbc00ccd3c473d23cdcb  binkplay.exe
487ab8252e4b8248db20f00e4f322240  dxcfg.exe
01190d8b6805fd4d2a68750fbd041966  unins000.exe
74c32bab62943da3e9397c57e4afce92  AIM.dll
6050bcc1b23f3df7a1876cbdcbac8232  MSVCP60.dll
b765198036e60c0cfa8b71d3d1dbd5e2  Schnelltransfer.dll
67da997f755ad3c02d626a9ed2aaa2e1  Vto.dll
9dee655ee5a80a3c61c7061530b74b66  WalType.dll
3e6c131e916311a1d80823da8b0fb6d7  archiver.dll
3e1dbf53fb6d3fee8932a1062f5559b0  ddraw.dll
1dc50afed2fadda3cb69c989aea52964  ddraw_Dll.dll
f067b3e660cebed6ac554fe0c9d7d17d  drvmgt.dll
a0ce0247d48fecaac607edb1e2d87fd8  ijl11.dll
253a5cce82e4b2d9a76553790851aff9  mfc42.dll
30873a23430e136247fe3a0f84d9f7b8  mss32.dll
92781a3ddc20089ee165084db0909f63  p2arch0_eng.cpr
9087d5e9c0b1c3314d2c2b6b0a3b4f3c  p2arch1_eng.cpr