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Ancient Techs Rebalanced

Adds a new level of depth the to the ancient era with hunting, fishing, mysticism, stone tools and wood working. Monument and shrine require these new techs. New buildings include elder council, furrier, carpenter, fish traps, apiary, various myths and 3 new wonders.


Compatible with any tech mod that does modify ancient era techs. Works with the Enlightenment Era and Future Worlds mods for example (I use them myself in conjunction with this mod). Vox Populi players can find a compatible version of this mod here,


The ideas behind the techs implemented in this mod stem from Civ4 (hunting / fishing / mysticism) and from Civ4 BtS Rise of Mankind - A New Dawn mod[anewdawn.sourceforge.net]. The latter was also the source of ideas behind some of the new buildings in this mod.

This mod was initally created with balancing early access of resources in mind. Though resources are guaranteed around a capital, early access to them is not, particularly regarding sea resources as well as land resources like bison, deer, ivory and furs. This is due to sailing / trapping being expensive to research very early game. This gives capitals that have wheat / cattle / sheep get an unfair advantage early game vs capitals that spawn next to sea resources or land resources like deer / bison.

This mod aims to re-balance the above issue and leans on Civ4's initial tech tree design to achieve this. I feel it also boosts historical accuracy as people were hunter-gatherers long before they developed proper agriculture.


All free AI techs have been removed as 2 wonders are available already at tech tier 1. This gives the player a fighting chance to build those wonders.


This mod would not have been possible without the following contributors:

- Troller0001
- whoward69

Also special thanks to LeeS whose resource-in-vicinity lua code came in great use.