Newest Flavor Pack: Lesbos: Island of Poets
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Hyecho was an 8th century Korean Buddhist monk who traveled through much of Asia to go on pilgrimage to India, similar to the more famous Xuanzang a century before him. His travelogue, Memoir of a Pilgrimage to the Five Kingdoms of India, is a valuable source of information on various Asian and Middle Eastern cultures and polities during the early medieval period.
RICE, or Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment, adds immersion to different regions, cultures, and religions in CK3. As a spiritual successor to my Immersion Packs for CK2, it is a collection of "flavor packs" similar to PI's official flavor pack DLCs. RICE's guiding philosophy is to keep a focused scope that won't change gameplay significantly, but instead adds flavor across the world that is grounded in historical authenticity, especially for lesser-known places, peoples, and histories.
RICE is designed with compatibility in mind, and is technically compatible with most mods; I avoid editing vanilla files to prevent conflicts with other mods. For example, new cultures are added via hidden events at game start instead of directly through province history. If you are a mod author or user and concerned about compatibiliy with RICE, don't hesitate to contact me on the forums or Discord! Also feel free to use my work in your mods - all I ask is that I am credited and (if possible) to give me a heads up.
DO NOT manually download the master branch unless you know what you're doing as it is a WIP version and not necessarily stable!
- Go to https://github.com/cybrxkhan/RICE-for-CK3/releases and find the latest version you wish to download.
- Extract the "RICE" folder and "RICE.mod" file from the .zip file to Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod
- Launch CKIII and select RICE in the launcher.
- Enjoy and play!
The mod folder should look something like this:
NOTE: When re-installing a mod, delete the old version of the mod first before copy and pasting the new one! While it's not always necessary, it's a good habit to do to prevent any potential issues. Additionally, make sure you are not subscribed to the Steam version of the mod, to prevent the launcher from getting confused as to which version to use.
At the moment, the below RICE flavor packs are included in the mod. There is a RICE Wiki that goes over the mod's features, thanks to feringghithebroken for working on it!
Click to view guides which cover the features in each specific pack in more detail (please note some guides are unfinished and/or out of date).
- Aachen: Charlemagne's Capital
- Bamian: Valley of Light
- Bozo: Masters of the River
- Brittany: The Western Duchy
- Chios: Isle of Mastic
- Galicia: The Way of Saint James
- Granada: Memories of the Alhambra
- Guanche: The Fortunate Isles
- Harran: The Last Hellenic Pagans
- Khuzestan: Land of the Sugar Cane
- Khwarezm: The Oxus Borderlands
- Khwarezm: The Oxus Borderlands
- Lesbos: Island of Poets
- Mordvin: Along the Volga
- Niger Delta: Heirs of Oduduwa
- Normandy: Adventurers and Aristocrats
- North Atlantic: From Iceland to Vinland
- Pamir and Zunist: Roof of the World
- Polabians: Defenders of Svetovit
- Red Sea: Treasures of the Eastern Desert
- Rhodes: Shadow of the Colossus
- Sardinia: Reign of the Judges
- Siberia: People of the Reindeer
- Sicily: Where Three Worlds Met
- Siwa: Oases of the Western Desert
- Socotra: Isle of Dragon's Blood
- South Ethiopia: The Highland Kingdoms
- Sri Lanka: Abode of Lions
- Sus: Door of the Sahara
- Tarim Basin: Peoples of the Silk Road
- Tuareg: People of the Veil
- Tuyuhun: Horsemen of Qinghai
- Upper Egypt: Children of the Nile
- Yazd: Abode of Worship
- Yazidis: People of the Peacock Angel
- Yorkshire: To Scarborough Fair
- Added English placeholder for the Polish language version of CK3 (i.e. if you play in Polish, RICE content will display in English instead of gibberish)
- Applied West Slavic DLC clothes to Sorbian culture if the DLC is active
- Updated RICE+EPE compatch to new EPE version
- Updated bookmark art, especially for landless bookmarks (courtesy of Nezaros, creator of Rajas of Asia)
- Fixed Rollo being unplayable if you don’t own or enable the Roads to Power DLC
- Fixed a few minor non-critical discrepancies between the RICE and RICE+EPE compatch culture code
- Fixed Asian-American easter egg culture not making use of EPE’s ethnicities and clothing if playing with EPE
- Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks
- Updated to 1.14/Wandering Nobles
- Added new playable landless adventurers: Ishaq bin Yahuda (867), Yusuf Balasanguni (1066), Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Kanemi (1178)
- Added new buildings: Dafo Temple (Ganzhou), Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (Ajase Ipo), Mount Hekla (Skálaholt), Orkhon Inscriptions (Karabalgasun), Tiya Megaliths (Gurage)
- Added new decision to Purchase Ice from Yakhchals
- Added new innovations: Skiing, Nsibidi Pictograms, Yakhchals
- Added new travel options: Quality Skis
- Added game rule to disable RICE’s historical landless adventurers at game start (in case it helps with performance and/or if you don’t like them), with three options: Default, Disable Fictitious (Except Player), Disable All (Except Player)
- Gave brewing culture tradition to the Czech, Polish, Slovak, Bavarian, and Ancient Egyptian cultures
- Changed most book artifacts like the Lusty [Culture] Maid from the miscellaneous to the journal category newly added in vanilla
- Removed different culture and faith bonus from the Ubiquity of Poetry tradition
- Top bar alert suggesting you establish a Greenland estate will no longer show up if you’re an adventurer, since the relevant decision can’t be taken as an adventurer
- Amazigh paganism renamed to Yakushism, to be consistent with Fallen Eagle
- Slightly nerfed the chances of getting gold events when doing the Trans-Saharan and Silk Road merchant options
- Activities now have appropriate “a/an” preceding them like in vanilla
- Fixed a LOT of typos, credits to klorpa for searching for and fixing them
- Fixed Hafsa not taking grief decisions frequently enough
- Fixed RICE’s MAA’s being unrecruitable as an adventurer if you have the Take the Custom Where it Comes perk
- Fixed RICE’s Heavy Infantry and Heavy Cavalry MAA being recruitable if you have the Strength in Numbers tradition
- Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks
Thanks to all I worked with, took stuff from, and provided me encouragement and feedback over the years. Huge thanks to the kind souls who take the time to translate the mod and put up with my erratic update schedule.
Special thanks in particular to:
- Atreides for bookmark icons
- B7E7 for collab and content from BlackEmperor's Africa Plus mod
- Bonseny for the amazing VIET and RICE logos and the beautiful 3D art assets
- Celticus for a lot of useful help and suggestions
- Cruci for grammar fixes and miscellaneous help
- Diadochi Kings mod (from CK2) for Elamite names
- DrStein(Dupont) for revamped artwork
- Eastern Etiquette mod and 🍓白茶 for Chinese history improvements
- Fische for various building art icons and Vertimnus for donating it to me (originally made for Sinews of War)
- George Hammond for some music (see here for more of his work)
- Henry for the Better Bedouin Culture mod
- KeizerHarm for UI work
- Klorpa for fixing a lot of typos
- Lahom for most Native American names
- Макс for Erzya and Moksha names and info
- Msl229 for Eastern Europe research and code
- Naatturi for content from the Ukonusko Overhaul mod
- Nezaros for religion and bookmark art
- Nix for Evenki names
- PinkPanzer for some decision art
- Rajas of Asia for Asian stuff and collab
- Shatzi for more Breton content
- Soraya for a lot of research and code
- The Fallen Eagle for some icons and collab
- The Not So Lonely Arrikirri and Tundragrass for help on the Zunbils
- YTnuBF for Native American ethnicities from the Amerindian Steppe Tribe mod
Special thanks also to the translators who work hard to ensure the mod can be played in other languages, and various playtesters for helping me prepare the updates, including but not limited to Shatzi, O-Saft-Killer, msl229, Nezaros, Dystopianist, Patlichan, and others.
