Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III

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An attempt to flesh out the gameplay through tweaked AI and an expansion of interaction options through a variety of creators' mods. A big thanks to all of them for making a collection like this possible!

Combat casualties and retreat-distance changes warfare for a more decisive experience with every battle while prisoners taken will be held by the capturing army until returning to own territories. If your Personal Champion has a Blademaster trait he can pass this on to other knights for Gold. Religious reforms can be made without holding 3 holy sites - just be on good terms with other same faith holders of holy sites (they will convert with you). Visual overhaul of map as well as more navigable rivers and historical metropolis holdings (tweak Game Rules for balance, i'd suggest Restricted conversion so only historical metropolis are in play). Request a new Realm Priest from the Pope every 10 years and enjoy multiple Personal Schemes from the Diplomacy skill tree.
More Single Combat allows you be employed as a Knight of your Liege as well as experience duels during any army battle that you're a part of (this does not function in multiplayer due to the lack of auto-pause at event popups).

Download json[drive.google.com] to easily import the playset into your launcher with correct load order. Alternatively, set the load order manually as listed in the collection below.

This collection is for Singleplayer Campaigns and will cause desync in multiplayer!
Alternatively, Simply Expanded Multiplayer [1.5.0.2] can be used for multiplayer campaigns. The two collections should be fully save compatible.
Items (52)
Community Flavor Pack
Created by El Tyranos
Community Flavor Pack aims to add a lot of historical portrait accessories for your characters, filling the many cultural lacks of vanilla CKIII. Dress up for war or court as you would be between 867 and 1453, impress your friends and subjects. https://i.i...
Ethnicities & Portraits Expanded
Created by Celticus
https://imgur.com/bDhb5Ty.png THE MOD IS 1.16.2.3 COMPATIBLE! Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded is an expansive project aiming to bring the world of Crusader Kings 3 to life with a wide selection of custom ethnicities and custom 3D assets. From the Zoroas...
Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
Created by cybrxkhan
https://i.imgur.com/elpCcvr.jpg Current Version: 1.16.1.b Hotfix for "Cao'an" (Released 6/28/25, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.16.X) Newest Flavor Pack: Manicheism: The Religion of Light Next Flavor Pack: Nubia: Heirs of Kush Discord Server for my mods O...
RICE + EPE Compatibility Patch
Created by cybrxkhan
https://i.imgur.com/elpCcvr.jpg Latest Version Released 6/17/25, compatible with vanilla patch 1.16.X Manual Download/Older Versions available on Github This is an optional compatibility patch for Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE) and Ethni...
Houses Traditions
Created by Beyond Disbelief
The House Tradition mods creates traditions and values for each house to follow. Ever wanted to see your children behaving more like you? Wanted to roleplay as the Starks of Winterfell but the game's RNG keeps screwing up your family? This mod is for you. ...
All That Glitters Is Not Glitterhoof
Updated for v1.6.* Sometimes it's Errorhoof. This mod includes various fixes for bugs encountered in script. Does not, alas, include Glitterhoof. Those bugs have been reported on the proper channels, these fixes will be removed from the mod if and when the...
Pacification Speeds Conversion
Created by Morven
Pacification Speeds Conversion A defeated people look to new gods and masters. Counties with the "Locals Pacified" modifier gained after defeating a peasant or populist war are converted to your culture and religion at double your chancellor's and court ch...
Fervour Midpoint Rebalance - Fervor Tends Towards 50%
Created by Morven
Fervour Midpoint Rebalance - Fervor Tends Towards 50% Fervour will now tend towards a midpoint of 50% for all faiths large and small. Fervour will decay when above 50%, and will gain when below 50%. Replaces vanilla fervour gain and the vanilla size-depend...
Fervour Inversion - Winning Holy Wars Increases Fervor
Created by Morven
Fervour Inversion - Winning Holy Wars Increases Fervour Winning Holy Wars increases your faiths fervour, and losing them decreases the defeated faiths fervour. Inverts how the game distributes fervour by rewarding victory and punishing defeat. Successful r...
Less Sinful Priest Scandals - No More Fervour Collapse
Created by Morven
Less Sinful Priest Scandals - No More Fervor Collapse Large numbers of local priests no longer cause the global collapse of large religions The Sinful Priest Scandal event in vanilla only needs one priest to have one sinful trait to cause an entire faith t...
Less Old Wives Rebalanced
Created by Lindberg
Same as Less Old Wives, but without some of the hard cutoff values. Values have been tweaked closer to vanilla. Still have a lot more modifiers than vanilla, making it gradually harder and harder to find a partner for a person as they get older. Less Old W...
Better AI Education
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png This is an updated version of the original Better AI Education and I made some small changes and edits to improve upon the mod!! The Original Better AI Education mod was made by pthfndr1 Credi...
Improved Personality Formation System
Created by rejected80
In the vanilla game, the system that gives children their personalities takes really only two things into account, and that's the personality traits of their guardian and (nowadays, for some cultures) their culture. This mod makes the system that gives chi...
Prisoners of War
Updated for v1.15.* Long gone are the days when prisoners teleported from a siege location deep in enemy territory to your own dungeons ! Prisoners of War is a Mostly Mechanical Mod Prisoners of War adds a new layer of tactical choices : should you siege b...
Vassals To Arms
Created by Degreeno
Compatible with version 1.12.* This mod sends an event to the vassals of a defender in a war, if these vassals are somehow affected by this war. They can then decide to join the defender or to not join. A vassal is affected by a war, if he/she would lose l...
Vassals To Arms - AI Submod
Created by Degreeno
Now compatible with version 1.12.* This mod is a sub mod for the "Vassals to Arms" mod and the base mod is required. The Vassals to Arms - AI Submod enhances the war decision making of the AI by taking the additional joining characters and their military s...
Warden Vassal Contract
Created by perl
Protect the realm with Wardens, vassals with unique obligations! https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif A vassal subject to a Warden Contract is afforded many privileges in times of peace, but when the realm is under threat by heathens waging holy wars, foreign c...
Rebalanced COW2+Tribal Courts
Created by Lindberg
Fixes Errors...
Higher Duchy Limit
Created by Sumbriva
WHAT DOES IT DO? Increases the "Too many Duchies"-Limit when you are on Kingdom or Empire Tier from 2 (Vanilla) to 3 duchies (Modded). Everything else stays the same. CHANGES CHECKSUM, SO NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ACHIEVEMENTS!...
Decisive Battles - Less Army Chasing 1.14.x
Created by Pingvin
A few simple tweaks to the combat system that make battles more decisive and reduce the slapstick-esque army chasing. Prevents armies from retreating again and again, taking almost no casualties each time. - Routed armies will traverse a maximum of 3 baron...
Doge Palace Unlocked
Created by skafsgaard
Unlocked Venetia's Doge Palace for Feudal government. It's working. If not, you're doing it wrong. <3 As pointed out by commenting user of the mod; if loading the save unto existing save already holding Venetia (thus having Doge Palace in 'Disabled'-state)...
[OLD - 1.5]Dynamic Ward Limit
Created by Henriette
The ward limit shouldn't be hard capped at 2. 1.5+ Compatible! You'd think your genius ruler with 25 learning shouldn't be overwhelmed at the concept of teaching more than two children -- this mod changes that! With this mod, a character's ward limit is no...
Marry Off Close Family
Created by grandembassy
Will no longer be maintaining my CK3 mods. The game came out 3 years ago and I'm just not interested in it anymore. Any modders are free to reuse all of the mod's source in their own mods. A simple mod that lets you marry off close family. For example, if ...
Collaborative Religious and Cultural Reforms
Created by Dallan
CK3 offers a number of gameplay goals besides map painting, which is great! But some of them require more map painting than makes complete sense for what they are trying to represent (to me, anyway), and that's where this mod comes in. Basically, it change...
In My Humble Opinion
Updated for v1.15.* In My Humble Opinion shows the player character's opinion of others, for RP-inclined players who like to factor this in their decision-making. In My Humble Opinion is a Mostly Mechanical Mod. Join us on our discord ! to keep up with new...
Title-Ranked Portrait Borders (Ironman)
Created by MacAwesome
This mod replaces the ranked corner triangles of portraits with full borders, more like CK2, and which are easier to see. This mod only edits a gfx file, making it IRONMAN COMPATIBLE. The top border will clip over top large headpieces (see the Emperor in t...
Extended Outliner
Created by FUN
The Extended Outliner mod helps you keep tracking pinned characters. Outliner shows their coats of arms, military strength, hooks, and more. For advanced users: 1. You can switch between two modes. To do so, right-click the top bar that says Pinned Charact...
Better Barbershop
Created by Agami
Green screens, hotkeys, color picker support, body modification, fixes for UI scaling and more RESUBSCRIBE if you're crashing when clicking more interactions. You can also delete the old mod files manually, click the three dots in the launcher to open the ...
More Navigable Rivers 2
Created by Licarious Fenrir
Now updated for 1.16.x This map overhaul changes rivers and waterways across the map. Adding over 450 river tiles across 74 river systems and the ability to traverse several major lakes. Features: Added and extended Several River Systems to make them navig...
Count to II (Discontinued)
Created by Sir Lemonvoid
A simple mod that grants count's regnal numerals too. E.g: Instead of being called Count Eustace of Boulogne (The same as your father), you will be called Count Eustace II of Boulogne Not Ironman compatible Alt-Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...
IR Terrain
Created by Yuk1nar1
Change the texture of the terrain and some map objects using the texture from the Imperator: Rome....
Darker Water
Created by Impulse
It makes the water darker... Achievement Compatible Get The Brighter Water Borders Here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789731233 "전략게임충 Feb 18 @ 3:16am There are many mods related to water, but this one looks the best"...
Wasteland Border Colour Remover
Created by Uber
Ever pan around the map of Crusader Kings III and occasionally wonder, who the hell is this red faction owning this swath of forest? or pan around and think - why is every single mountain and impassible region highlighted in this red colour? I made this fo...
Darker Paper Sea
Created by Agami
Makes the sea on the paper map darker. Works with achievements. Doesn't need an update, works on 1.15...
[Abandoned] Colored Tiers (Titles)
Created by Karax
Colored tiers/titles for emperor/king/duke/count/baron. Emperor - purple King - gold Duke - blue Count - green Baron - red Color are defined in file 2245860963\gui\titleformatting.gui (thank you @Ac566 :) ) Color are tier based, but some local-specific nam...
DD - Vassal Buildings replaceable
Created by Drago Duval
#### Description Allow to replace all building in your realms, even if owned by a vassal. Now updated for 1.9.* #### How does it work All it does is change the visibility of the button. Normally it check if you can see the replace button, by checking if yo...
Paper Map Brightness Fix
Created by Celticus
Achievement Compatible, Ironman Compatible Fixes the Exposure of the Paper map in Update 1.5.1 The paper map brightness is now similar to the 1.4 brightness. Expanded Series Discord Link https://discord.gg/xdSAeDPT8y CK3 Mod Coop Discord Link https://disco...
The Iron Crown of Lombardy *(Now Exists in 867)*
Created by Uber
The Iron Crown of Lombardy and it's fantastic in game history...that skips over the 867 date yet has history before and after? The Iron Crown of Lombardy which only exists in game as a Royal Court Artefact for the HRE Emperor? That's weird, lets give it to...
Auction Off Artifact [CK3 1.8 version; OBSOLETE for 1.9 and up]
Created by KeizerHarm
This mod has been rendered obsolete with the Tours & Tournaments patch, which introduced a very similar button to sell artifacts in vanilla! The mod will remain on the Steam Workshop to be used for playing CK3 version 1.8.x. Disable it if you are playing l...
Blade Mastery
Created by Murden
Blade Mastery This mod allows you to develop your courtiers' blademaster skills. First, you need to appoint someone to the Blademaster position who's got any level of the blademaster trait. Then, you right-click one of your courtiers or family members, who...
Useful Watchtowers
Created by Murden
Watchtowers, Outposts, Hill Forts, Forest Forts and "Walls & Towers" all help increase control in the province. Level of control increase goes up linearly along with building level. For example: At level 1, a Watchtower increases control by 0.1 At level 2,...
Nameplates
Created by FUN
The Nameplates mod helps you distinguish who's who in the event. Characters show their names, opinions, relations, and titles below. In addition, it disables tooltips in events. You can show them by pointing to the names. https://i.imgur.com/zLF7fUp.png Th...
Duel Overlay
Created by Agami
Adds an overlay for duels, with success and injury chances, and effects of the available moves. Settings are in the top right corner of the event window. You can disable attack/injury icons there. Doesn't need an update, works on 1.15...
Transparent Borders
Created by Agami
Changes Realms mapmode to show terrain and to gradually fill the color as you zoom out, similar to Imperator. Works with achievements....
Multiple Personal Schemes - Updated
Created by RadiantJordan
COMPATIBLE WITH 1.4 This mod adds a function similar to "twice schemed" to several diplomacy perks, they allow multiple personal schemes such as befriend or sway. The perks affected are From Diplomat Thoughtful allows 1 additional scheme. Diplomat allows 2...
Warmer Mediterranean Courts
Created by Bobby
A lightweight personal mod that makes Mediterranean Courtrooms a little bit warmer, as I didn't like the very white and blue, artificial seeming light from vanilla. Ironman Compatible. Simple Weddings-compatible version...
Farewell, Chaplain!
Created by Feivel
This mod provides you with a non violent alternative to get rid of your ungifted Realm Priest by asking your Head of Faith for an audience in which you request transfer and replacement of the cleric in question. To get audienced you will have to pay an amo...
Knight Manager
Created by Lrds
"Your heir died in battle!" How often have your loved ones died a brutal death in battle, because you forgot to tell them that they did not have to fight? This mod prevents their death and saves you a lot of time. The Knight Manager adds a settings menu to...
More Single Combats
Created by Dallan
The goal of this mod is to bring the SC system to places it felt noticeably lacking in vanilla. There are some other vanilla event chains I'm thinking of expanding it to, but currently it adds to battlefield duels, tribal claimant challenges, and Romance s...
Travel the Distance
Created by pengoyo
This mod adds distance modifier to schemes, making it hard to pull off far away schemes. Finally makes it makes the AI less likely to accept distant marriages or partake in far away schemes. Distance Modifier: Schemes, Alliances/Call to Arms, and marriage ...
Courtiers' Child Care
Created by Feivel
This small mod just sends some notifications for when your courtiers give birth or their children are old enough to get educated. With mod version 1.1 you are also able to get notified when children who are not betrothed already enter adulthood. There is n...
No Acceptance Confirmation
Created by Lindberg
The game has many events which doesn't require player action, and is basically just a confirmation of an action you took. F.ex. Marriage. There is no reason for the game to send a letter to the player with an acceptance of a marriage, when the player could...
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