Realistic Village: Mixed forest (Beta)

Made by History of Empires and inspired by our Prehistory series. For people who love realism – accurate simulation (not replicate) of reality. If you rate and favorite this mod, we will make it even better 🙂

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2 starting conditions:

• Horde chieftain (Settled): lead a large tribe.
• Head of the family (Nomad, easy): lead a very small tribe.

2 periods (game modes):

• Peaceful times (Normal, easy): enemies are very weak.
• Harsh reality (Hardcore): enemies are strong.

Changes to original game:

• Play in 500BC, when Iron Age spread throughout all the Old World.
• More realistic landscape, with:
  • more realistic grass, forests and dimensions of the land forms.
  • more accurate climate, with adjustments to rain, blizzards, storms, temperatures and seasons length.
  • more accurate animals, that only attack people away from village.

• More realistic village, with:
  • tens of tribesmen, that, like in historic Iron Age, can easily reach hundred(s) of people.
  • migrants are very rare, so your tribe grows through births.
  • inventing new technology is rare, so most new ideas are learned from neighbors (through trade). By the time you advance, your settlement has grown.
  • trade is dynamic. Frequency of traders will double when population will (usually) double, because when your population increases, so does demand for goods. And where there is demand, there is supply.
  • all researchable techs require only related tech.
  • your advancements will not cause fauna, migration, birth rate, prices or enemies to change. Therefore there are no population limitations.

• More realistic neighbors:
  • neighboring warrior tribes will attack in large numbers, as they will not risk a suicidal attack. In the easy Normal mode "Peaceful times", they are very weak and will take 4 times longer to advance and attack.
  • isolated starving neighbors might still attempt desperate raids for food.

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GAMEPLAY:

• You can not place sticks work areas on less than 5 sticks; if you find less sticks, press C three times to maximize work area size, and rotate the orange circle around them, until it encircles nearby sticks and becomes yellow.
• To check how many pregnancies you have, press F2 to open demographic stats, and hover over Adult Women.

Note: In all comments reporting issues, please also specify the mode and starting condition (like "Normal, Settled"), and as much details about the issue as you can, otherwise I might not be able to fix the issue properly.
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SETUP (optional):

To play this mod, just press Subscribe, start DoM game, and go to New Game > Community > Realistic Village > choose a map > Start.

Graphics: if you want the graphics from the screenshots:
-download ReShade[reshade.me], open and select (or browse to) Dawn of Man, select Direct3D 10/11/12, leave the default selected effects (or select only FilmGrain,Technicolor,Vignette from the SweetFX package), and press Ok;
-copy ReShade_RealisticVillage.ini file from C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappsworkshopcontent8588102472349260realistic_village to C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonDawnOfMan;
-open game, press Home and select the ReShade_RealisticVillage preset from the top drop-down list; press Home to close ReShade panel and play.

Sound: if, like me, you do not hear all animal sounds, people talking, birds singing, river flowing noise, or mammoth foot steps, just go to Settings and change Audio music/sfx/ui volumes from 10/10/10 to 0/10/1, and increase a lot your speakers volume (test near a river).

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Comments and Discussions rules and guidelines:

– Only respectful mod-related comments are allowed (what I personally consider to be "respectful" or "mod-related" is subjective, not objective, so it is not up for debate);
– You can post respectful mod-unrelated comments (like you disagreeing with me deleting a comment) on my profile page;
– On 3 deleted comments, you are banned from posting (everywhere I manage).
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License: To use any part of this mod in another work, you must give the following credits: the description must start with the text "Based on the Realistic Village mod by Primeval Angel" (with link to this mod), and the work’s thumbnail (if not applicable, then first image) must contain the text "Based on Realistic Village" and be easily readable. This licence must be preserved in the new work.