Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III

Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
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Actualización: 5 OCT 2024 a las 11:08 p. m.



Version 1.13.0 "Anna Komnene"

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds of no account and deeds which are mighty and worthy of commemoration.”
– Anna Komnene (1083-1153), Byzantine princess and historian, in the Alexiad


Remember you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe for mods to update properly (multiple times if necessary). Please start a new game with this version of RICE, as it comes after a major vanilla patch.

  • Added new flavor pack – Lesbos: Island of Poets
  • Added 5 Mediterranean themed songs
  • Added many new historical landless characters in all start dates (see bottom for full list)
  • Added 4 RICE bookmarks in 1178, 3 for landed and 1 for landless
  • Added new RICE Landless bookmarks for 867 and 1066
  • Moved a few now adventurer characters from 867 and 1066’s old bookmarks to the new landless bookmarks
  • Modified some decisions, activities, interactions, etc. to be available to landless characters, sometimes if they are in the relevant geographical vicinity
  • A few RICE decisions are now available when traveling
  • Added Nabati culture to the Syriac heritage in southern Iraq in 867
  • Added Contentious Colonists tradition to the Siculo-Arabic culture, replacing Religion Blending and Culture Blending
  • Added Image of China tradition for Khitan culture
  • Added several new regional innovations: Almadraba, Monsoon Trade Routes, and Dragoman innovations
  • Added a decision to Finance Almadraba fishing, unlocked by the Almadraba innovation
  • Horse sacrifice activity now unlocked via a special Sacred Horses doctrine that's inherited, for easier compatibility with mods seeking to add it to their faiths
  • Added Ibn Jubayr as a character in the court of the Emir of Granada in 1178
  • Added Wo Daochong, a Confucian scholar-official in Xixia, as a playable character in 1178
  • Added some changes to RICE’s Sicily code to make it run more smoothly with Muslim Enhancements (credits to iFrunx from the ME team for assistance with this)
  • Added a few new catalysts for the Sicily struggle
  • Kara-Khitai, Xia, and Guiyi now start off with Admin government if you have Roads to Power
  • Various Guiyi vassals no longer hold land but are instead noble families in Guiyi if you have Roads to Power
  • Removed fictitious ruler of Damot as a RICE bookmarked character in 1066 (superseded by the legendary Motolomi in the 1178 bookmark)
  • Decision to Collaborate with Indian Ocean pirates now gives legitimacy loss
  • Tweaked renown gain for the decision to Collaborate with Indian Ocean Pirates
  • Pirate Den and Bawarji Den buildings now give a malus to control
  • Decision to Commission a Work from Nasir Khusraw no longer requires for him to be in your court, but is now only available to Ali ibn Asad
  • Han culture now has Cultivated Sophistication instead of Water Rituals
  • Changed Khitan ethos to bureaucratic instead of communal
  • Thabit ibn Qurra’s education level buffed to level 5
  • Yarsani appearance event is more likely to happen after the Yazidi appearance event, though this is not guaranteed
  • Caucasian heritage now counts towards the Greek world of Sicily
  • Syriac heritage now counts towards the Arab-Berber world of Sicily
  • Rollo game rule and event chain has been modified slightly to account for if the player has Roads to Power (i.e. making Rollo an adventurer)
  • Added legitimacy malus to the Uncrowned by Ooni modifier, but reduced its piety and prestige malus to compensate
  • Reduced Aghlabid event troops since vanilla buffed them
  • Makhazen and Siba, Seasonal Migrators, and Bantu Migrators traditions now allow voluntary landless adventuring and increased chances of becoming landless adventurers
  • Karaism is now automatically involved in the Persian struggle
  • Rabbinism and Karaism are now automatically involved in the Iberian struggle
  • Halved control malus of the Between Three Worlds tradition
  • Tweaked vassals to be more likely to refuse demands with the Between Three Worlds and Contentious Colonizers traditions
  • Tweaked Adventurers and Aristocrats and Legacy of the Northmen traditions to have less overlap with the Audacious Cadets tradition
  • Tweaked the starting traits of Genghis Khan, his wife Borte, and his mother Hoelun
  • Removed duplicate song in Tuareg and Sus flavor packs
  • Removed Norman MAA as it was superceded by Roads to Power’s Norman MAA
  • Zhang Qiu now is friends with Zhang Huaishen in the 867 start date
  • Liberator of Dunhuang modifier now gives a Influence and Legitimacy bonus
  • Fixed old decisions to Pray for a Good Nile Flood being available (since it was replaced with the Activity version)
  • Fixed AI being able to reinforce relations with Silk Road communities it shouldn’t have access to if it doesn’t meet the geographical requirements
  • Fixed wrong loc for the decision to Recruit Soldiers from Sicily saying Palatini MAA instead of Arimanni and Picchieri MAAs when taking the Latin option in earlier and later eras respectively
  • Fixed Sicily language event triggering outside of Sicily
  • Fixed traveling for activity and hunt catalysts not triggering in the Sicily struggle
  • Fixed code for adding a university to Salerno
  • Fixed guests getting Baia-related modifiers when doing the hot springs activity outside of Baia
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks

40 New Landless Adventurers
Made existing RICE characters landless adventurers:
  • Thabit ibn Qurra (867)
  • Hiwi al-Balkhi (867)
  • al-Kashgari (1066)
  • Ibn Nabhan (1066)
  • Nasir Khusraw (1066)
  • Longibardopoulos (1066)
Made existing vanilla characters landless adventurers:
  • Ali Kalbid (867)
  • Fu Murong (867)
  • Ottar (Ohthere) av Hålogaland (867)
Added new landless adventurers:
  • Plausible fictitious Korean in Dunhuang (867)
  • Ibn Wahshiyya (867)
  • Cynewulf (867)
  • Al-Balkhi (867)
  • Eldad ha-Dani (867)
  • Wulfstan of Hedeby (867)
  • Manikkavacakar (867)
  • Tughj ibn Juff (867)
  • Azjur al-Turki (867)
  • Bartholomew Leslie (1066)
  • Chakrapani Datta (1066)
  • al-Wuhsha al-Dallala (1066)
  • Japheth ibn Bundar (1066)
  • Ibn al-Qatta’ al-Siqilli (1066)
  • Solomon ibn Ghabirol (1066)
  • Trapelicino (1178)
  • Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rukuniyya (1178)
  • Michael Scot (1178)
  • Oranmiyan (1178)
  • Hugo von Hildesheim (1178)
  • Guglielmo Grasso (1178)
  • Li Shichang (1178)
  • Plausible fictitious Malays in the Indian Ocean (all dates)
  • Plausible fictitious Swahili in the Indian Ocean (all dates)
  • Plausible fictitious Soninke Wangara merchant (all dates)

Actualización: 8 SEP 2024 a las 10:44 p. m.



Version 1.12.3 "Syracuse"

“Sicily was the first of the provinces. She was the first who taught our ancestors how glorious a thing it was to rule over foreign peoples.”
- Cicero (106 – 43 BCE), Roman statesman, lawyer, and thinker


Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Added decision for Byzantine rulers or vassals to Restore the Glory of Syracuse
  • Added event to spawn the Sicilian Muslim poet Ibn Hamdis if playing from the 1066 start date
  • Added a couple narrative events at game start for Sawdan in 867, for players to choose his ethnic origins and focus as a ruler
  • Added decision for rulers of Messina to Affirm u Liotru as the Symbol of Catania (i.e. Catania’s famed elephant statue)
  • Added a few historical characters related to Sicily:
    • Erchempert, a 9th century Lombard historian
    • Barsakios, 9th century Byzantine general active in southern Italy
    • al-Hasan ibn al-Abbas, 9th century Aghlabid general active in Sicily
    • Agyros of Bari, an 11th century Lombard general of the Byzantines in Bari, and son of Melus of Bari
    • Longibardopoulos, 11th century Lombard general/mercenary of the Byzantines
    • Amatus of Monte Cassino, 11th century historian from southern Italy
    • William of Apulia, 11th century Lombard poet and chronicler
    • Geoffrey Malaterra, 11th century (possibly Norman) historian and monk
  • The option to attract immigrants in the decision to Manage the Sicilian Frontier now has a chance of spawning Strongholds in your territory
  • The culture and/or faith of rulers who take the decisions to revitalize/occupy the Sicilian frontier will now automatically become involved in the Sicilian struggle if they aren’t already
  • Siculo-Arabic and Afro-Roman now also wear Byzantine clothes
  • Increased the chances Frontier Raid CBs create and destroy strongholds
  • Disabled a few more Sicily decisions when run with TFE
  • Slightly nerfed control maluses during the Borderlands phase of the Sicily struggle
  • Ruling class modifiers (Imperiality ending) now reduce development rather than control
  • Substrate modifiers (Periphery ending) now reduce control rather than development
  • Removed initial dev/control hit when arriving at the Imperiality and Periphery phases of the Sicily struggle; instead, the resulting county modifiers have been buffed
  • Create a Second Pavia decision is now requires the Longbeard tradition, rather than being descended from Lombard culture
  • Create a Second Pavia decision is now visible to anyone with territory in southern Italy
  • Non-Slavic pagans are less likely to take the decision to offer gifts to Svetovit
  • Fixed Sicilian Signore trait not being given out while the Sicily struggle is not active
  • Fixed potential cause of CTDs with the Periphery/Imperiality ending phases’ interface
  • Fixed potential error with religious rights contract effect triggering for RICE-added independent rulers at game start
  • Fixed development maluses for some Sicilian content not giving maluses properly
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks

Actualización: 31 AGO 2024 a las 11:14 p. m.

Version 1.12.2.b Hotfix for "Palermo"

  • AI rulers now affected by the hidden timer to reduce grain interaction spam
  • Hellenic pagans now count as the Greek world for the Sicilian struggle
  • Fixed Sawdan’s historical aspiration success condition not counting vassal-owned counties for the 8 county requirement

Actualización: 30 AGO 2024 a las 12:51 a. m.

Version 1.12.2.a Hotfix for "Palermo"

  • Added missing Spanish translations, courtesy of Ferchu
  • Reduced how often AI rulers do Sicilian grain character interactions
  • Implemented a hidden timer that will prevent AI rulers from spamming you with grain-related interactions too soon after each other
  • Slightly buffed the amount of special event troops Sicilian Muslim rulers get at game start in 1066
  • Reduced the chances AI will pick Experienced Whalers tradition
  • SwedishGuy360’s easter egg character is now cynical instead of stubborn
  • SwedishGuy360’s easter egg character is now heterosexual
  • Cybrxkhan’s special easter egg characters are now heterosexual
  • Fixed missing loc for the Sicilian struggle game concept
  • Fixed Sicilian struggle happening when playing with Fallen Eagle
  • Miscellaneous fixes

Actualización: 28 AGO 2024 a las 12:35 a. m.



Version 1.12.2 "Palermo"

I have seen the world map
And the navigational chart,
But Sicily seems to me
The most beautiful in this world.
- Ayo visto lo Mappamundi, 15th century Sicilian folk song


Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Added new flavor pack: Sicily: Between Three Worlds
  • Added 10 new European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern themed soundtracks
  • Added new activity option for all local pilgrimages: Votive Offerings
  • Added new travel option to Venerate at Local Shrines
  • Added a lot of French translations by various translators from Paratranz
  • Added Makhazen and Siba tradition to Baranis, replacing Granary of Africa
  • Added Khalaj culture, a divergent culture of Turco-Hephthalite, around Afghanistan and events to spawn in if playing in early start dates
  • Added Elamite namelist for Elamite and Elymaean cultures
  • Added Gissur, the father of Isleifur (Icelandic “duke” in 1066), in character history
  • Added a game rule to remove easter egg characters at game start
  • Added Swedishguy360’s easter egg character in Benavert’s court (for correctly guessing Sicily)
  • Local Pilgrimage activities are no longer allowed for faiths with the Pilgrimage Forbidden doctrine
  • William the Conqueror only requires the Early Medieval rather than High Medieval era for completing the Normandy struggle
  • Changed Tajik culture’s name to Khorasani
  • Kashmiri culture’s Equal Inheritance tradition replaced with Caravaneers
  • Darada culture’s Frequent Festivals tradition replaced with Equal Inheritance
  • Malagasy moved to Malayic heritage
  • Malagasy made a hybrid of of East African and Malayic cultures
  • Burman heritage renamed to Irrawaddy heritage
  • Rasht is now Pamiri culture at game start
  • Abdul-Hasan Al-Muddabir starts with decent stewardship and learning in the 867 start
  • Reward troops from completing Vijayabahu’s aspiration are now inheritable and subject to supply limits
  • Struggle ending events for older struggles will now have a more appropriate sfx sound play when the option is selected
  • Tweaked language of the Vinland Realism game rules for more clarity
  • Nerfed the Founders of Normandy and Norman Conquest modifiers again by changing their Dynasty Prestige bonus to a legitimacy bonus
  • William the Conqueror (AI or player) has easier requirements to end the Normandy struggle
  • William the Conqueror AI will now generally try to end the Normandy struggle
  • Afro-Roman now has Cosmopolitan ethos
  • Afro-Roman now has African Tolerance tradition instead of Philosopher Culture
  • Decision to adopt Arctic Adaptations now has a warning about losing culture tradition if the culture is at the tradition limit
  • Increased likelihood AI will take the decision to Convene Iceland’s First Althing after time has passed
  • Made it easier for the AI to take the Historia Normannorum decision
  • Historia Normannorum now has an alternate trigger with having a high diplomacy skill
  • Fixed annual catalysts not triggering for several struggles, particularly the Normandy struggle
  • Fixed potential CTD from several activities due to being able to select wasteland as a destination
  • Fixed missing legitimacy effects for Norman adventurer and border raid CBs
  • Fixed loc error for the Free Range Pastures culture requirement
  • Fixed loc for reformed Shamsi paganism using Vedda paganism text
  • Fixed event for the Destroy the Sangha ending of the Sri Lankan struggle not triggering for other rulers
  • Fixed Iceland geyser event triggering outside of Iceland
  • Fixed some text in the Bamian Pilgrimage activity referring to Sri Pada
  • Fixed missing loc concerning building requirements for Alhambra and Santiago decisions
  • Fixed missing loc for NOT_RICE_maritime_silk_road_geographical_req
  • Fixed Oromo culture having wrong traditions for the RICE+EPE compatch
  • Fixed random event chances for Tarim Basin entertainer event being visible
  • Fixed localization issues with some god names for Omotic and Sidamic faiths
  • Fixed Terek Pass not being given to al-Kashgari when playing with ROA
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks

Actualización: 30 MAR 2024 a las 12:05 p. m.

Version 1.12.1.a Hotfix for "Dioscorida"

Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Various decisions related to the Greenland struggle and Vinland are no longer blocked off if you have a major illness
  • Wendish Confederations and People of Boika now unlock tribal elective
  • Changed localization for Buddhist afterlife
  • Changed Rollo’s difficulty level in the bookmarks to Easy
  • Slightly buffed the Marc’hegion MAA for Bretons
  • Fixed Nile Repentance decision still existing after it was already adapted to be an activity
  • Fixed Sinicize as a West Asian decision being available to other East Asian cultures
  • Fixed decision to change Xwedodah to cousin marriage leaving you with only two tenets; third tenet will now be Religious Law
  • Fixed possible cause of a gamebreaking/freezing event that pops up without options due to Norman code (thanks to user SpunkyGamer1900 for helping me investigate this!)
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes

Actualización: 16 MAR 2024 a las 10:21 p. m.



Version 1.12.1 "Dioscorida"

“Dioscorida [Socotra] is very large but desert and marshy [...] The inhabitants are few and they live on the coast toward the north, which from this side faces the continent. They are foreigners, a mixture of Arabs and Indians and Greeks, who have emigrated to carry on trade there.”
- Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Greek navigational aid from the 1st century CE


Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Added new bookmark character in 1066: Bekele of Damot
  • Added improved bookmark map art (courtesy again of Nezaros, lead dev of the Rajas of Asia mod that expands the map into Asia)
    • Added 12 legends:
    • The Greenland Colony Succeeds
    • Sunset Invasion
    • Settlement of Vinland
    • Reformation of Tambapanni’s Sangha
    • A New Socotra
    • Return of the Hephthalites
    • The Khuzi Renaissance
    • The Great Saharan Empire
    • Revival of the Tuyuhun
    • Songs of Holy Mary
    • Guardians of the Diamond Throne
    • Gateway to the Sahara
  • Added additional ethnicities for some of the new East African cultures for RICE+EPE
  • Expanded extent of Darada culture (per suggestions by Soraya, Rajas of Asia modder and researcher)
  • Tweaked religious setup in south Armenia and north Mesopotamia (also per Soraya’s suggestions)
  • Tweaked Kasdanianism spread in 867 (Soraya strikes again)
  • Kasdanianism, Gayomarthianism, and Behafaridism are now also involved in the Persian struggle by default
  • Moved Finnic/Uralic religion localization file to the replace folder to repress a lot of false alarm errors
  • Reduced prestige requirement for completing the Greenland struggle with the Regional Integration ending
  • Cao Yijin’s aspiration now requires him to hold the kingdom of either Guiyi or Xi Xia (as a workaround for vanilla weirdness with succession and titles)
  • Replaced Sami holy site of Hiiumaa with Akkel
  • Removed Concubine tradition from Kinh (Vietnamese)
  • Fixed the Polabian princes’ Budivoj and Henry’s alliances with King Magnus and Duke Ordulf autocancelling after a day in the 1066 start
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes

Actualización: 10 MAR 2024 a las 12:32 p. m.

Version 1.12.0.a Hotfix for "Omotic"

  • Updated RICE+EPE Compatch
  • Changed African Latin language name to African Vulgar to be consistent with vanilla
  • Ukonusko (Finnic pagan) is now called Väenusko
  • Fixed missing ruler designer cost for Cattle Owner traits
  • Fixed all of RICE’s heritages being selectable when diverging cultures
  • Fixed missing audio parameters for RICE’s heritages
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes

Actualización: 7 MAR 2024 a las 12:58 a. m.



Version 1.12.0 "Omotic"

Omotic is a language family in southern Ethiopia that is controversially considered by some scholars to be a highly divergent branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages, which include many languages across the Middle East and Africa.

Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Added South Ethiopia Flavor Pack: The Highland Kingdoms
  • Added 3 African themed soundtracks
  • Added Magadhi culture
  • Ancient Egyptian culture now gets the Children of the Nile tradition
  • Oromo culture now has the Noble Adoption instead of Quarrelsome tradition
  • Changed tradition setup for Oriya and Kamarupi cultures
  • A few traits now boost legitimacy
  • Renamed Bengali culture to Gaudi
  • Renamed Bengal and Bihar to Gauda and Magadha
  • The timer to prevent Yazidi and Yarsani emergence from happening too early, under default rules, is now somewhat randomized between 50, 100, and 150 years for more variety
  • Shughnan and Karran are now Khurmazta in 867
  • Wakhan is now Vajrayana
  • Disabled Svetovit content if running with TFE or earlier start dates
  • Removed duplicate CBs for struggle, as the workaround is no longer needed due to changes to vanilla’s struggle/CB code
  • Fixed custom characters in Trondheim resulting in instant game over in 867 due to Rollo shenanigans
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes

Actualización: 24 FEB 2024 a las 2:17 a. m.



Version 1.11.3 "Nuraghe"

Nuraghes are megalithic monuments scattered across Sardinia, built and constructed during Sardinia's Bronze Age. They were occasionally inhabited during later periods, and are a modern symbol of the island’s past.

Please note some changes only take effect with new games.

  • Added an alternate requirement for the Regional Integration ending for the Greenland struggle, to have high development in every county of your capital’s de jure duchy
  • Added a hidden background effect where each county-less culture has a chance of getting a random innovation every year, so they can keep up with on-map cultures
  • Added Khalluk, Khalaj, and Kanjina as divergent culture names from Turco-Hephthalite in Balkh, parts of the eastern Iranian world, and Khuttal respectively
  • Added Kasdanian presence to more counties in southern Iraq in 867
  • Nerfed development bonus for Norse and Norman settlers
  • Revitalizing the Neoplatonic Academy can now also be done by non-pagans who have the Folk Syncretism tenet
  • Replaced Roman surnames in the Afro-Roman namelist with some Sardinian ones since it’s probably closer to historical Afro-Roman names
  • Removed some requirements for viewing the Diwan al-Lughat decision
  • Changed Diwan al-Lughat decision for RICE when running with Cultures Expanded as a temporary solution to account for additional Turkic languages (requirement is simplified to only requiring Turkic heritage)
  • Fixed duplicate Irrigation Tank decision when running RICE with TFE
  • Fixed bug with the decision to Reclaim Hephthalite Homeland where the capital will move to the County of Balkh even if you don’t own it
  • Fixed traditions text referring to the old Ancestor Veneration decision instead of the activity
  • Fixed wording for activity log when mentioning rulers doing basic preparations for the Palio activity
  • Fixed original Judicati tradition being available after you take the decision to Determine Sardinia’s Orientation
  • Fixed Alp Arslan having two sisters named Safiya in the 1066 start date
  • Fixed Sri Lankan monastery support decision giving errors related to capital_province
  • Fixed missing localization for the Palio game concept
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes