Crusader Kings III

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CK3 - Caius's Mod Collection for Vanilla Extanded + New DLC (04/08/2025)
   
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This collection offers you a better vanilla gaming experience. All mods have been individually tested and are crash-free. Make sure you have the DLCs, otherwise some mods in the list will be disabled.

Items (79)
Unofficial Patch
Created by Kazarion
** This mod MUST be the first in your mods list** If you have other mods, loading this mod MUST BE at the very top => Because of the nature of this mod, I have to edit base game file, this is the source of many conflict with other mods editing the same fil...
Brighter Portraits Final Version
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png Did everyone else got tired of Brighter Portraits 3 constantly becoming available and then disappear again, well me too so I made my own copy of it and uploaded it. This is Brighter Portraits ...
Brighter Text Colors
Created by Zaister
This mod changes many interface text colors to appear brighter with better contrast against the dark background for improved readability. This is a work in progress. Please feel free to make suggestions for improvement. Now updated for CKIII 1.16.x and bet...
Big Battle View
Created by Agami
Adds a more detailed, fullscreen battle view. Switch to the normal view with Page Down, open the big one with Page Up. Switches to compact view if there are more than 5 MAA in the list. Shows big knight portraits if there are fewer than 3 MAA. There's a bu...
Raised Army CoA
Created by MaTraKa
Coat of Arms in your Raised Armies The mod replaces the standard rally point banner as your "CoA" when your armies are raised. This is my first mod, I tested it with the AGOT mod, but it should work normally with other CoA mods. **** I published another mo...
[KET] Medieval Personalities
Created by Ketaros
This mod changes the personality trait icons to a medieval style icon. This is a small flavor mod that can add a lot of style to your game, a long time forgotten here in my files that I decided to share. Hope some people enjoy. All the Trait Icons https://...
Rename Tribal Era to Late Antiquity
Created by cybrxkhan
Compatible with 1.16.x This mini-mod just renames the Tribal Era to Late Antiquity. If you disagree with my choice of terminology, that's fine! Just don't use this mod. I just wanted something more appropriate than "tribal." Discord Server for my mods Offi...
Rename Egalitarian to Cosmopolitan
Created by cybrxkhan
Compatible with 1.16.x This mini-mod renames the Egalitarian Ethos to Cosmopolitan. If you disagree with my choice of terminology, that's fine! Just don't use this mod. I wanted something that better fits the game's description of "egalitarian" and its bon...
Extended Family Actions
Created by PeteCrighton
Adds several entries regarding your extended family to the Current Situation notifications. So far included: - Designate a guardian for every close or extended family member (instead of only your children) - Extended family can get married (instead of only...
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...
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...
Incompetent court positions notifications
Created by Ourg
Is the vanilla game sometime your physician ends up with a terrible aptitude (mainly due to infirm trait) and you don't get the info unless you open manually the court window. This leads to sometimes you play for years with a terrible physician without kno...
Patrum Scuta
Created by Solo
https://i.imgur.com/DWOg6T9.png Patrum Scuta is a complete emblem overhaul mod for Crusader Kings III, intended to be the successor of its namesake for CK2. 1.16.x compatible Features - New shield frames : using different colour scheme, uniform shape betwe...
Patrum Scuta Expanded
Created by SoftMittens
Welcome to Patrum Scuta Expanded! What started as me just trying to add a few more charges to Patrum Scuta has expanded in scope quite a bit, and I felt like I should upload it to the workshop, so I did! Patrum Scuta Expanded is a submod for the newly rele...
Cat's Coat of Arms Emblem 1.11
"Update 2023_11_14" Description This mod adds about 2,000 new emblems for Coat of arms designers. The emblems in this mode are used by Cat's Coat of arms Family & Title for families and titles. This mode is required to run Cat's Coat of arms Family & Title...
Cat's Coat of Arms Family & Title Maintenance
Created by su148
우주고양이괴수 님의 Cat's Coat of Arms Family & Title 을 현 버전에서 정상적으로 사용하기 위한 모드 입니다. 1.13 이후 눈에 띄는 오류를 우선 개선하였습니다. 기존 모드와 마찬가지로 'Cat's Coat of arms Emblem'의 구독이 필요합니다. This is a mod to make "Cat's Coat of Arms Family & Title" by '우주고양이괴수' work properly with current...
Holy Roman Triumph 1.16: Coronation Ceremonies
Created by Kaepbora
https://i.ibb.co/kcgfy3Q/vRqzGXG.png Elevate your gameplay as the successor to the Empire founded by Charlemagne (starting in 867 with Emperor Louis II of Italy) with a new layer of strategic, offering engaging and non-intrusive features. Participate in a ...
Pervasive Crown Authority
Created by pengoyo
Tired of vassals of vassals still waging war despite absolute crown authority? Well this is the mod for you. This makes it so the high and absolute crown authority vassal war restrictions applies to all vassals and all vassals below them. Note: this mod do...
Decline Elections
Created by Ramuné
Achievement compatible. Save game compatible. https://i.imgur.com/q3ro97o.gif (Part of the base game as of version 1.13) Features Opt out of title elections for your current ruler via decision: Your character will no longer appear in the candidate list. Re...
Mass Demand Conversion
Created by Serp
Adds a decision (under topic Administrative) to send religious "demand conversion" interaction to all infidel: - direct vassals - indirect vassals - courtiers - housemembers This reduces the needed clicks alot to demand conversion from all your subjects, s...
Missionaries Updated 1.16
Created by Karstaag
For the 1.16.X.X patch Updated version of Missionaries by cybrxkhan and MASTER SKYWALKER for the 1.16 patch. Will remove the mod if requested or if they update their mod. Allows you to spread your faith all over the world with new events, decisions, and co...
More Lifestyles
Created by Askil
Compatible with CK3 1.16 "Khans of the Steppe" Update https://i.postimg.cc/mDNDMZJc/fgvf.gif Feel like having more choice when it comes to lifestyles? More Lifestyles add two new branches with unique perks, focuses and events. https://i.imgur.com/1MVQSPr.g...
Immersive Realm Laws
Created by One Proud Brazilian
https://i.ibb.co/PFstXNz/a1.jpg Introduction This mod adds 14 new Realm Laws for feudal/clan/admin governments. The new laws bring not only more flavor, but also unique new gameplay mechanics, aimed at increasing immersion, roleplaying and vassal agency. -...
Hiraeth - Dynasty Legacies Overhaul
Created by idm
Compatible with 1.16. https://i.ibb.co/zJ0VV4b/main.png Hiraeth - Dynasty Legacies Overhaul is a complete overhaul of the dynasty legacies found in Crusader Kings 3 designed to add new gameplay options and reinforce existing playstyles with more desirable ...
Quando Sumus - Decisions of CK3
Created by idm
Compatible with 1.16. https://i.ibb.co/XjVK4rk/Main.png Quando Sumus - Decisions of CK3 adds a collection of new decisions to the game designed around reinforcing existing gameplay options and introducing new quality-of-life additions. https://i.ibb.co/4JL...
Veritas - Lifestyle Perks Overhaul
Created by idm
Compatible with 1.16 Mod version: 1.1.1 File abbreviation: vts https://i.ibb.co/hfbPkbX/Veritas.png Veritas - Lifestyle Perks Overhaul is a complete overhaul of the Lifestyle perk system found in Crusader Kings 3 designed to encourage build diversity and t...
Multilingual Education
Created by KeizerHarm
The Multilingual Education mod makes it much easier to ensure all your children end up speaking all the languages required of the nobility of your realm. You can designate up to three education languages for your court, and the youngest courtiers may speak...
Battle Events
Created by Yefreitor
https://i.imgur.com/QPQXiJy.gif Features "Battle Events" is a mod that introduces a handful of flavor events that won't spam you every time you're in battle. Events are displayed as messages and will trigger as soon as your battle ends. You can obtain one ...
Kingdoms of the HRE
Created by Bellyfish
Kingdoms of the HRE Mod that changes how Kingdoms are formed in the HRE for both the player and AI. These changes apply to both existing HRE Kingdoms and creatable ones. Update: This mod now has a compatibility mod with Culture Expanded, see the Compatibil...
Oathbound
Created by Nye
Overview Oathbound is a roleplay-focused mod that is centred around a brand new type of relationship. It introduces a new character interaction under Diplomacy, allowing landless adventurers to swear an Oath of Loyalty to a ruler of their choosing. This cr...
Adventurer's Beneficiary
Created by Nye
Overview Adventurer's Beneficiary is a mod that adds a new character interaction (under Diplomacy) which allows a landless adventurer to select anyone to be their beneficiary. This will then allow you to declare a custom casus belli and upon victory will l...
Adventurers Don't BANKRUPT The Realm
Created by Nye
No More Bankrupting The ENTIRE Realm The current implementation of contracts and resources in landless adventurer gameplay has significant flaws. If you stay for too long in one area, the entire realm ends up bankrupt, leaving nobody with any money for oth...
Historic Invasions
Created by Ramuné
Achievement compatible. NOT save game compatible. https://i.imgur.com/q3ro97o.gif If you have any suggestions or encounter bugs, please let me know. With special thanks to the CK3 Mod Co-op Discord and Darknight36! Additional Asian invasions: https://i.img...
Historic Invasions Greater Events
Created by guillermuin
The beggining of an historic invasion should be greater than your average court event so I made this submod to fix that. Using the fullscreen event window format I gave every event an image depicting the character or the event. I have tried to use historic...
Counterfactuals
Created by CaelReader
Counterfactuals for Crusader Kings 3 1.16.* Counterfactuals is a small content mod containing events that react and respond to various ahistorical things that might happen in your game (as well as some historical ones). Currently adds events for the follow...
Artifact Claims Nerf - No House Claims Against Dynasty
Created by Morven
Artifact Claims Nerf - No House Claims Against Dynasty House members will no longer be able to press House artifact claims against members of the same Dynasty in the artifact demand interaction unless they possess a personal claim to the artifact. No longe...
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...
Hostile Struggles Re-Enable Holy Wars
Created by Morven
Hostile Struggles Re-Enable Holy Wars Re-enables holy wars within a struggle region when the struggle enters the hostility phase. Vanilla disables the holy war casus belli within a struggle region when in the conciliation, opportunity, and the hostility ph...
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...
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 Old Wives - AI Men Marry Younger Fertile Women
Created by Morven
Less Old Wives - AI Men Marry Younger Fertile Women Imposes marriage opinion penalties and hard nerfs on older and infertile women. The AI will no longer marry their teenage heirs to 60 year old grannies. Fertility and age become top matchmaking criteria a...
Morvens Mods 1.16 Compatch
Created by Kaepbora
https://i.imgur.com/vRqzGXG.png Update for señor Morven's mods to be compatible with patch 1.16 designed for CMH collection Important With patch 1.13, Hagia Sophia & All Cathedrals Enabled For All Christians and Doctor Tweak - AI Will More Often Hire Court...
[LOT] Legitimacy Over Time
Created by jawwadbr
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/819002974403344349/DD18664314A26EA83C62E9B0127FFCB35092B53A/ Legitimacy Over Time This is a mod designed to enhance the gaming experience without becoming completely unbalanced. If you’re not satisfied with how Pa...
A Landed Knights Mod
Created by Some Nerd
What if you were actually incentivized to, you know, land your knights and followers? Inspiration This mod is inspired by this reddit post: Though the mod does not use the system suggested in the post, it gives an interesting reward to landing the people w...
Medieval Arts
Created by PiGu
https://i.imgur.com/RtJuraM.png A mod focusing on the arts and cultures of the world during the Middle Ages, adding numerous new monuments and 3D art to the game. You'd like to see a particular monument represented 3D in the game? Want to commission for a ...
Faster Transitions
Created by Agami
Cuts down transitions for tournaments and chariot races from 7.3 seconds to 1.2 See the video for the comparison. It's very simple, but I'd rather it was fast than fancy. For modders: Only overwrites three widgets and a template widget_pivotal_moment_event...
Succession Expanded
Created by Celticus
https://i.imgur.com/uHWVuY1.png THIS MOD IS 1.16.2.3 Compatible! Succession Expanded is the second project from the Expanded Mod series which aims to create a more historically authentic experience through the addition of multiple new succession types. Fro...
More Interactive Vassals
Created by perl
A comprehensive overhaul to CK3's vassal mechanics, in development for over 4 years, that focuses on adding character interactivity and new gameplay mechanics. https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif Update 4.0 is out now! (Full Changelog) A Modular Experience Mor...
Alleged Infertility
Created by KeizerHarm
What is this? This is a mod that makes a specific fraction of the world's population infertile; those people cannot bear children if female, or sire if male. But this deficiency is not advertised as a trait, it comes as a surprise. This part of the game me...
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...
VIET Events - A Flavor and Immersion Event Mod
Created by cybrxkhan
https://i.imgur.com/pNp0DR5.jpg Current Version: 1.16.0 "Imperial" (Released 5/3/25, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.16.X) Discord Server for my mods Official Website for my mods Paradox Forum Thread Manual Download/Installation available on Github Paradox...
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...
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...
CFP + EPE Compatibility Patch
Created by Kaepbora
https://i.imgur.com/vRqzGXG.png Load Order https://i.imgur.com/4OZcVdG.png Expanded Series Discord Link https://discord.gg/xdSAeDPT8y Community Mods for Historicity Discord Link https://discord.gg/zg2qNAcTwb CK3 Mod Coop Discord Link https://discord.gg/8wm...
More Background Illustrations
Created by Askil
Compatible with CK3 1.16 "Khans of the Steppe" Update Ever felt weird that wherever you played, the illustrations for events were always the same? More Background Illustrations addresses this issue by providing an abundance of illustrations to enhance the ...
Battleground Commanders
Created by GG Terran
Armies will display their commanders, making them more involved visually during wars. With this mod, you would know immediately if a scary viking such as Ivar (or any of his brothers) is approaching your army. Runs great with AGOT mod too. Compatibility Pu...
More Character Names
Created by The_Ramdom_Cheese
Is this a dream you ask yourself? No my good friend this is non other than... More Character Names Remade from scratch and like it's previous incarnation will attempt to slowly expand upon all cultures of CK3 by adding the flavour they all deserve with mor...
Community Title Project
Created by TheGib770
The mod is currently in a rewrite that allows much more compatibility and flexibility of titles and names. You can see the progress on the discord. Community Title Project is a historical overhaul mod that aims to enhance your CK3 immersive experience by d...
Visible Disfigurement - No More Masks
Created by plingo_365
Updated for 1.16 Visible Disfigurement This is a simple mod that removes masks from disfigured characters and replaces them with a new gnarly facial texture. This texture is created using only vanilla files, combining the visual effects of two traits: The ...
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 ...
Knight Manager Continued
Created by Lord DGP
If you want to support me: You could buy me a coffee <3 https://i.imgur.com/q3ro97o.gif/ Knight Manager Continued is a continuation of the already brilliant but sadly outdated Knight Manager mod and adds more options. The mod also incorporates the changes ...
Clear Notifications
Created by Agami
Adds a button with F hotkey to clear all notifications. The clear button can be moved to the right and notifications can be disabled completely, if you wish. Reenable them by pressing an arrow above the mapmodes or through a decision. Should be compatible ...
A Spouse Designer for 1.13.2.*+
Created by kalanyr
This is a version of Lrds' A Spouse Designer updated for 1.13.2.* and later. Presently this is a work in progress, so some crashes may happen and their may be errors reported in the error.log. Please let me know about such. There's a decent chance it won't...
War Lords
Created by shit head
https://i.imgur.com/QPQXiJy.gif In vanilla Crusader Kings III, neither the player nor the AI have much reason to lead their own armies or to put important characters in command. After all, what's the point when some lowborn nobody with 30 martial can do th...
No Duchy Limit
Created by Neutrino
A standalone mod that removes the opinion penalties from holding too many duchies as a king or emperor. Should be compatible with most mods....
No Tournament Animated Screens
Created by klimsat
This simple mod completely disables the non-skipable animated screens that appear before the results of contests in tournaments. This mod is incompatible with any mods that include new types of contests. Compatible with AGOT mod. Compatible version of this...
Cultural Armies II
Created by Jimmywhite
This is a NEW version of Cultural Armires for Crusader Kings III. While being absolutely identical to Cultural Armires Remastered (these mods have the same code), this mod is now prior and will recieve new art updates in future. Both Cultural Armies II and...
Better Marriage (AI)
Created by Torngasuk
Have you ever found yourself frustrated with the AI's matchmaking abilities? Seen too many princes and princesses married off to random nobodies? Lowborns climbing the social ladder far too easily? Frequent cousin and avunculate marriages centuries before ...
Dynasty Bloodline Tracker
Created by ArmaLite
#Description# The Dynasty Bloodline Tracker allows you to set an inheritable blood trait where you can visually track the bloodline trait on characters and descendants in any dynasty. Characters can also inherit multiple bloodline traits. The bloodline tra...
Show More Traits
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png Adds A button to Show All Traits and Modifiers. For even more options on the Character Screen, check out my Character UI Overhaul Mod https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=251...
Color Picker for Clothes
Created by Agami
Lets you change the color of clothes. Requires Better Barbershop! Load the barbershop after CFP if you use it! For the color picker itself load order doesn't matter, can put it anywhere. For AGOT, EK2 or LOTR, use Csirke's compatches: https://steamcommunit...
CK2 Selection Music
Created by Agami
Plays the main theme jingle from CK2 when selecting a character to play (from Any Ruler view) Place the mod at the top of your playset, in case you have other mods that need to overwrite the character selection view. You'll still have the music, just with ...
CK2 Style Brighter Attributes
Created by Aj
Replaces the attribute icons with brighter ones that are more similar to those in CK2, and makes the color backdrops behind the attribute values brighter so that they are more easy to distinguish at a glance. The vanilla icons were a little hard to disting...
CK2 Style Colorful Education Traits
Created by Aj
If you like my work, consider donating to help me make more: https://ko-fi.com/ajbaj ***The vanilla game now has colored education traits, however the ones provided by this mod are still slightly more vibrant and more readable, so I still recommend using t...
CK2 Style Colorful Lifestyle Traits
Created by Aj
If you like my work, consider donating to help me make more: https://ko-fi.com/ajbaj IRONMAN AND ACHIEVEMENTS COMPATIBLE Replaces the lifestyle trait icons with ones that are colored based on the attributes they correspond to, like in Crusader Kings II. ht...
No Tribal Courts
Created by Aj
A very simple mod for those of us who prefer no tribal courts over poorly realised and historically inaccurate tribal courts - this mod makes it so tribal rulers no longer have access to royal courts, as was the case when 1.5 originally released. This mod ...