Fractured Earth

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Patch version: 1.34

“For 20 years droughts and famines plagued the world, leading to countless wars, rebellions and migrations. In every corner of the planet ambitious nobles and ruthless warlords arose, legitimizing themselves by claiming crowns and titles long forgotten. Although the droughts are gone, the struggle for power and domination continues.”

Fractured Earth creates an alternate history that offers a much more balanced gameplay in comparison to the Vanilla version. While it uses the same map, it redistributes the controlled area of each nation, giving every country exactly two provinces. This way the player gets a fairer and more diverse setup, allowing to thrive and dominate even when choosing a normally insignificant nation.

Furthermore the downsizing of many big countries creates a lot of space for a lot of additional nations that are also included in the mod.The focus during the creation was on the historical plausibility of every changed factor as well as the enabling of interesting scenarios and struggles. You can unite Britain as a member of the English Heptarchy, win the colonial race against numerous competitors or gain control of a China broken by insurrections.

The following countries already have unique National Ideas: Aquitaine, Azores, Burgos, Carinthia, Dobrin Order, Dragon Order, East Anglia, Essex, Extremadura, Faroe, Foix, Jutland, Karak, Kent, Lazarus Order, Macedonia, Mecca, Medina, Mercia, Midnapore, Nanjing, Orkney, Ostrogothia, Palermo, Seville, Sheba, Sussex, Swan Order, Troy and Wessex.

The following countries already have unique missions: Aquitaine, Azores, Dobrin Order, Dragon Order, Extremadura, Faroe, Karak, Lazarus Order, Livonian Order, Macedonia, Mercia, Palermo, Seville, Swan Order and Teutonic Order.

Update 14.09.2022
– Updated to Patch 1.34.

Update 01.04.2022
– Gave the Knights Greek culture so they can use the Nationalism casus belli against targets close to them.
– Corrected the names and building pictures of nations with Danish culture.
– Set AI aggressivness even higher and made it more unlikely that they build forts to make AI blobbing more common.

Update 28.03.2022
– Updated to Patch 1.33.

Update 27.02.2021
– Made it more likely that the Azores pick Exploration Ideas.
– Cleaned up the border of the HRE.
– Lowered the Infantry Shock bonus of Macedonia to 0.5.
– Lowered the number of vassals a Nahuatl nation needs to reform to two since the number of diplomatic relations was lowerd to two as well in the last update.
– Gave Mexica the Aztec national ideas.
– Introduced an option to either use or not use the Regional Powers mechanic.

Update 20.01.2021
– Updated to Patch 1.30.
– Increased the aggressiveness of the AI, decreased the number of diplomatic relations to two, gave everyone the Nationalism Casus Belli from the beginning and created an event that gives one random AI country per region quite a few extra bonuses at the beginning of the game. These changes allow a more rapid AI expansion so you are not the only big country anymore in singleplayer campaigns. Thanks to Praiokles for creating the event.
– Gave all the Italian republics that used to be oligarchic the Signoria reform.
– Incorporated the Improved Advisors mod since some of the file were overlapping which made it impossible to use both mods at the same time.
– Removed Portugal and made it a formable nation instead.

Update 24.09.2019
– Updated to patch 1.29.
– Added National Ideas for Aquitaine, Foix, the Swan Order, the Dobrin Order, the Dragon Order and the Lazarus Order thanks to the suggestions of Granduroi.
– Added missions trees for Aquitaine, the Teutonic Order, the Livonian Order, the Swan Order, the Dobrin Order, the Dragon Order and the Lazarus Order.
– Replaced the traditions of Faroe and Midnapore since Pirate Republics can automatically raid coasts now.
– Changed the fourth Faroe mission so that it requires shipyards instead of docks.
– Fixed the last mission reward of Extremadura. Now the Liberty Desire of all subjects is reduced.
– Fixed a broken mission of Seville that didn’t include the area that is supposed to be conquered.

Update 16.12.2018
– Updated to Patch 1.28.
– Updated the missions to conform to the new provinces.
– Transformed Faroe and Midnapore into pirate republics.

Update 03.10.2018
– Updated to Patch 1.27.

Update 30.09.2018
– Updated to Patch 1.26.
– Updated all government forms and centers of trade to the new system.
– Removed the countries that were made formable or reformable.

Update 28.06.2018
– Added unique Missions for Azores, Faroe, Karak and Seville.
– Added Alemannia, the Angevin Empire and the North Sea Empire as formable countries. Also removed Illyria and made it a formable country for the south slavs instead.

Update 16.05.2018
– Rearranged the countries in the Americas again in order to limit the colonized blocks to three.
– Expanded the missions for Extremadura and Sicily and added new ones for Mercia.
– Removed Mamluks and Timurids since they are a formable country now.
– Removed the Aztecs and made them a formable country instead.

Update 16.04.2018
– Reinstatet a couple of Centers of Trade that were deleted by accident.
– Changed the first National Idea of Seville since the previous one didn’t work.
– The unique age abilities can now be chosen by all countries of the respective culture or culture group.
– Removed Korea and made it a formable nation instead.
– Added unique missions for Sicily and Extremadura.

Update 08.04.2018
– Corrected some errors in the files so there shouldn’t be crashes anymore when you start the game.
– Removed all the advanced generic ideas and enhanced the existing generic ideas instead. Therefore many of the added countries now get their usual regional ideas instead.
– Slightly rearranged religions and cultures on the map to create a more consistent picture.
– Moved and added a couple of countries to create more consistent areas that can or can not be colonized.
– Replaced Berber tradition of Hostile Core Creation Cost with Capture Ship Chance.

Update 23.03.2018
– Updated to Patch 1.25.
– Thanks to the new provinces in England, Sussex is finally allowed to own the province of Sussex.
– Gave Ponmmerania it’s missing core in Neumark.
– Gave Kong the correct religion.
– Added a couple of new countries and removed Guines.
– Removed Scotland since it’s now a formable nation.

Update 12.02.2018
– Updated to Patch 1.24.

Update 15.10.2017:
– Added National Ideas for Carinthia, Jutland, Ostrogothia, Sicily and Troy.
– Adjusted a couple of country colors.

Update 21.08.17:
– Added National Ideas for Karak, Midnapore and Orkney.

Thanks to Granduroi and Prince of Antioch for several National Ideas and to Praiokles for the National Powers addition!