Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
South Ethiopia: The Highland Kingdoms
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RICE, or Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment, adds immersion to different regions, cultures, and religions in CK3. As a spiritual successor to my Immersion Packs for CK2, it is a collection of "flavor packs" similar to PI’s official flavor pack DLCs. RICE’s guiding philosophy is to keep a focused scope that won’t change gameplay significantly, but instead adds flavor across the world that is grounded in historical authenticity, especially for lesser-known places, peoples, and histories.
RICE might work on existing saves (with some missing features), but a new game is advised to be safe.
Feel free to use my work in your mods – all I ask is that I am credited and (if possible) to give me a heads up. If you liked the mod, feel free to favorite and rate it up!
RICE is designed with compatibility in mind, and runs fine with most mods – for more info, please see this webpage[cybrxkhansmods.godaddysites.com]. I avoid editing vanilla files to prevent conflicts with other mods. For example, new cultures are added via hidden events at game start instead of directly through history code. Compatches are available for:
- Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded (not required but ensures RICE uses new ethnicities)
- Unique Building Plus
Special content provided if you also play with The Fallen Eagle or Rajas of Asia[google.com].
I WILL NOT maintain compatches for most mods that may need one. Feel free to make your own (let me know so I can link it here). If you’re a modder, don’t hesitate to contact me on the forums or Discord about compatibility!
Each RICE flavor pack adds features to a region, culture, or religion, that include new activities, decisions, events, music, and more. Read the Flavor Pack Guides[cybrxkhansmods.godaddysites.com] for more info on new features, tips and tricks, and selected lists of academic sources I used for further reading.
There are currently 34 new flavor packs, shown on this map:
By default, RICE uses the original English text as a placeholder so you won’t see gibberish for other languages.
- Chinese – submod by 牛奶大魔王 (thanks to Jujiote for the previous translations!)
- French – several translators including Mouchi have translated parts of the mod
- German – Dillo has translated much of the mod; Dani has a machine translation sub-mod place it above in load order so it doesn’t override Dillo’s translations
- Italian – submod by The_Invisible1
- Korean – submod by 티에
- Russian – submod by Herp B naHaMke and Maraniro
- Spanish – submod by Soulden
“Dioscorida [Socotra] is very large but desert and marshy […] The inhabitants are few and they live on the coast toward the north, which from this side faces the continent. They are foreigners, a mixture of Arabs and Indians and Greeks, who have emigrated to carry on trade there.”
– Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Greek navigational aid from the 1st century CE
Please note some changes only take effect with new games. As changelog is too big to list here, see the full changelog here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/2273832430
- Very Immersive Events and Tales (VIET) – hundreds of new flavor events to spice up the game
- In Taberna (CK2 Edition) – the classic song from CK2 returns to CK3
- Recruit Courtiers – simple decision to spawn male or female courtiers in your court for a small price, similar to CK2
- Rename Egaliatarian Ethos to Cosmopolitan
- Rename Tribal Era to Late Antiquity
Thanks to all I worked with, took stuff from, and provided me encouragement and feedback over the years. Huge thanks also to the translators who put up with my erratic update schedule.
Special thanks in particular to:
- Atreides for bookmark icons
- B7E7 for collab and content from BlackEmperor’s Africa Plus mod
- Bonseny for the amazing VIET and RICE logos and the beautiful 3D art assets
- Celticus for a lot of useful help and suggestions
- DrStein(Dupont) for revamped artwork
- Fische for the Dragon Blood art icon and Vertimnus for donating it to me (originally made for Sinews of War)
- George Hammond for some music (see here[fanlink.to] for more of his work)
- Henry for the Better Bedouin Culture mod
- KeizerHarm for UI work
- Lahom for most Native American names
- Макс for Erzya and Moksha names and info
- Msl229 for Eastern Europe research and code
- Naatturi for content from the Ukonusko Overhaul mod
- Nezaros for religion and bookmark art
- Nix for Evenki names
- PinkPanzer for some decision art
- Rajas of Asia for Asian stuff and collab
- Shatzi for more Breton content
- Soraya for a lot of research and code
- The Fallen Eagle for some icons and collab
- The Not So Lonely Arrikirri and Tundragrass for help on the Zunbils
- YTnuBF for Native American ethnicities from the Amerindian Steppe Tribe mod
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
