Newest Flavor Packs - Sus: Door of the Sahara & Guanche: The Fortunate Isles
Though ‘Berber’ is commonly used to describe the indigenous inhabitants of the Maghreb, even in scholarly literature, the term ‘Amazigh’ is the appellation they often used to describe themselves. They speak a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages and historically have spread across all of North Africa, from the Guanches of the Canary Islands to the native inhabitants of Siwa Oasis in Egypt.
RICE, or Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment, is a mod that 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. The guiding philosophy of RICE is to keep a tight, focused scope that doesn’t change gameplay significantly, but adds more flavor across the world, especially for lesser-known places, peoples, and histories.
RICE is designed with compatibility win mind, and 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.
At the moment, the following RICE flavor packs are included in the mod (click to view the guides which cover the features included in each pack in more detail).
- Aachen: Charlemagne's Capital
- Brittany: The Western Duchy
- Chios: Isle of Mastic
- Guanche: The Fortunate Isles
- Harran: The Last Hellenic Pagans
- Pamir and Zunist: Roof of the World
- Red Sea: Treasures of the Eastern Desert
- Siberia: People of the Reindeer
- Siwa: Oases of the Western Desert
- Socotra: Isle of Dragon's Blood
- Sus: Door of the Sahara
- Tuyuhun: Horsemen of Qinghai
- Yorkshire: To Scarborough Fair
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 .zip file to Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod
- Launch CKIII and select RICE in the launcher.
- Enjoy and play!
NOTE: If you are re-installing a mod manually, 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.
- Several counties now start off with Amazigh and Illuism (Tuareg) paganism present in the 867 bookmark to be consistent with BAP
- Added more French translations, in particular for Yorkshire and other misc stuff (thanks to French translators!)
- Fixed Butr having no innovations at game start (only affects new games)
- Fixed pronoun localization issue with Guanche witch deity
- Added Sus Flavor Pack: Door of the Sahara
- Added Guanche Flavor Pack: Edge of the World
- Added 5 new Middle Eastern themed music tracks
- Added a very minor county modifier to Myra, “Land of St. Nicholas” as a Christmas easter egg
- Added French translation to some of the Chios and Yorkshire Flavor Packs
- Tweaked Zunbil situation in 867 to be somewhat more historically accurate - there are now two playable Zunbil cousins, one Muslim and one Zunist, with a startup event explaining their situation (thanks to Tundragrass on Discord for pointing this out)
- Sufri is now male-dominated instead of gender equal
- Added global variable to detect RICE (for Stik)
- Split RICE landed titles into separate files per flavor pack
- Fixed missing icons for Stamford Bull Run and Pilgrimage to Beverley activities/decisions
- Fixed it being impossible to upgrade the Dragon Blood Forest duchy building in Socotra
- Fixed the Kingdoms of Socotra and Tuyuhun not having the “Kingdom of” prefix
- Fixed Zunbils and Azur Jamshid having clan government (hopefully for real this time)
- Miscellaneous bugfixes