Sid Meier's Civilization V

Sid Meier's Civilization V

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Barbarian Spawn Increase
   
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26 Apr, 2014 @ 5:42am
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Barbarian Spawn Increase

Description
Increases the rate at which Barbarians will spawn. Balances this somewhat by making encampments spawn a little farther from your capital, and also forces barbarian encampments to spawn farther apart. But the number of barbarian units that can be spawned by a single encampment is increased.

This is based to a some degree on ptr1ck's Barbarian Spawn Reduction mod, and is posted at the request of a few people who asked him to do a mod like this one in addition to his Reduction mod. I had already been playing with this set of rules (for the most part), so I volunteered to post this mod, since ptr1ck had no interest to do so himself. I have added a few commands ptr1ck was using that I was not.

I have also included a file that will allow you to gain unlimited combat experience from fighting barbarians. If you look in your My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 5/MODS/Barbarian Spawn Increase folder after you download the mod, you can simply change the name of the file called "UnlimitedXP.XML" to "_UnlimitedXP.XML" and that should disable the unrestricted combat experience from fighting barbarians.

The screen captures are from a sandbox custom map I often use when I want to actually play-through a game to confirm an effect I am adding or removing from the game. I didn't think to take the screen captures a couple turns earlier when things were much worse in those three areas. But what you are seeing in the screen captures is pretty common in the game I was playing to make a final test of this mod. I had set my game options for raging barbarians.

I have checked this mod as being compatible with Vanilla, GandK, and BNW. So far as I can tell, there shouldn't be anything in the mod that is not compatible with all three expansion levels of the game.

Anyway, I hope you can survive the barbarian onslaught.

And special thanks to ptr1ck for some of his code.

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1. Copy or drag the xxxx.civ5mod file from your downbloads folder to your Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 5/MODS/ folder.
2. The start the game and go into the MODS menu.
3. Wait about 30 seconds and the mod should unpack itself from the zipped form and be ready to use.

Mod Compatibility
From comments left by user NunquamReverto the mod has been verified to be compatible to both the Barbarians Evolved and Leugi's Barbarians Enhanced mods. Though having more than one of Barbarian Spawn Increase and Barbarians Evolved enabled at the same time might be a barb-spam-nightmare.
130 Comments
Hyakinthos 10 Aug, 2024 @ 8:03pm 
entire continents were razed by barbarian hordes - within 20 turns, my starting warrior was surrounded on every side and pounded by the barbarians. i captured five workers / settlers from the mongolians alone - im not sure I even made a worker the entire game. landed a cavalryman on a frozen island at the bottom of the map and spent the next 20 turns killing barbarians 1 by 1 before being forced to retreat. 10/10
grinder007 28 Jul, 2024 @ 8:05pm 
Noob Question , How exactly would we know ( alert / notification ? ) if a Mod has an update for download ? This Mod says last updated in 2015 ...
Croaker 1 Mar, 2023 @ 7:55am 
Anybody having issues with the XP edit? Doesn't seem to be working.
krw1455 20 Feb, 2023 @ 7:02pm 
This mod isn't loading in my game. I'm subscribed, and other mods I subscribed to at the same time show up in my mod list in-game, but not 'Barbarian Spawn Increase'. There is also no folder for it in Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS. I don't suppose there is some way I can manually download the mod?
~BirbMen~ 23 Nov, 2021 @ 10:35am 
how can i make it so that more barbarians spawn per camp and more rapidly?
im playing with barbarians evolved, luigis and vox populi, and it seems that is not enough barbarians :(
please help
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Roudydogg1 4 May, 2021 @ 4:29am 
DOA?
static void 29 Oct, 2020 @ 10:52am 
Great mod. I always wanted more challenge than vanilla raged barbarians offered. Tried Barbarians Evolved but that was unplayable and the barbarians would decimate half of the opponents till renaissance era. This mod strikes just the right balance IMO. Raging barbarians are now more challenging, but not OP.
Pondera the Radio Angel 15 Jan, 2020 @ 5:28pm 
Take a shot everytime OP types the word "Barbarians"
AAAAAAAAAAND dead.
nothing 1 Sep, 2019 @ 12:40pm 
Your script is very friendly.
The Grimwar 28 Jul, 2019 @ 2:09pm 
Ah, I see.