Persistent Cultural Buildings
With this mod cultural buildings in castles are based on the culture of the province owner, but unlike in older versions of the game they will not be instantly destroyed if the owner doesn’t have the right culture. Instead they continue to exist until the castle’s owner decides to build a different cultural building. Only then will they be destroyed. You can still only have one type of cultural building at a time in any single castle.
For example let’s say you are Greek and you have Cataphract Training Grounds built in your capital, but your heir is German. When he inherits the Cataphract Training Grounds will continue to exist in all your castles until you start building Jousting Lists to replace them.
Warning: I have done basic testing, but have not done extensive testing of all culture and their buildings. I don’t expect there to be any problems, but make back-up copies of any important save files before you run the mod just in case. And do let me know if you run into any bugs.
The mod also doesn’t yet cover tribal cultural buildings, but those are planned for a future update. The mod has been updated for version 3.2 of the game (Iron Century update).
In addition to the mentioned basic functionality the mod also introduces a new heavy infantry building for the Assyrian culture to go along with the unique Assyrian retinue, which I think should’ve been included in the unmodded game.
Perhaps more importantly, it changes the Roman culture building to provide Heavy Infantry instead of Pikemen.
Both the Assyrian and Roman buildings will give a balanced mix of +5% attack, +5% defense, and +5% morale to Heavy Infantry per tier of the building.
The mod changes the checksum of the game and as a result it will prevent you from getting achievements.
It changes only one file:
1) Crusader Kings II/common/buildings/00_CastleCulture.txt
As a result it should be compatible with the vast majority of other mods, with the exception of those that also change that same file.
If you like this mod, you might also be interested in Elegant Warfare, a mod that streamlines the combat tactics system.
I also made several other mods.
Finally, I’d be grateful if you could rate the mod with either thumbs up or thumbs down. The button for it is up just below the mod cover image.
