Rivers and Peaks
The mountains were a world, vast and silent.
– Eça de Queirós
Rivers and Peaks is a map and geography submod for Europa Universalis V, focused on topography, Portuguese map detail, exploration templates, roads, resources, and more grounded regional geography.
The map becomes more detailed. Cape geography matters. Portugal gains a denser location layout. Exploration knowledge is adjusted to better match regional geography and long-distance routes.
Requires Beyond the Cape
Compatible with v.1.2
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- Cape and Great Cape topography for important maritime chokepoints and headlands
- Portugal map expansion with new locations, revised provinces, and adjusted regional setup
- Updated exploration templates for Iberian, Horn of Africa, inland African, and Mongol discovery patterns
- Revised map data rebased for Europa Universalis V 1.2
- Road, port, and locator support for the revised Portuguese map
- Regional resource and setup adjustments, including Pinhal de Leiria lumber output
- Targeted localization updates for renamed and repositioned Portuguese locations
Rivers and Peaks adds new topography types for Cape and Great Cape locations.
These represent difficult coastal headlands and major maritime landmarks. They increase movement difficulty, reduce combat frontage, and block sea vision, making places such as important capes feel more distinct on the map.
Portugal receives a more detailed location layout.
New locations include Sintra, Alhandra, Arraiolos, and Coruche. These are integrated into Portuguese ownership, control, cores, development, pops, institutions, province setup, localization, roads, ports, and map-object locators.
Several existing Portuguese location keys are also repositioned or relocalized to better match the revised map layout, including Amarante, Arganil, and Arouca.
Portuguese regional naming is adjusted with areas such as Beiras, Vale do Tejo, Além Tejo, and Norte.
The Portuguese road network is revised to support the new location layout.
Routes now better connect Lisbon, Sintra, Torres Vedras, Coimbra, Porto, Braga, Valença, Viseu, Setúbal, Beja, Alcácer do Sal, Évora, Arraiolos, Coruche, Santarém, Estremoz, and Elvas.
Port and dock data is also updated for new and adjusted coastal locations, with generated city, combat, unit stack, vfx, and dock locators included for the revised map.
Rivers and Peaks includes targeted resource and setup changes to support the revised geography.
Leiria receives a local lumber output bonus representing the Pinhal de Leiria. New Portuguese locations receive appropriate terrain, climate, raw materials, development, institutions, and population setup.
Exploration templates are adjusted to better fit the map and regional discovery logic.
The inland Horn of Africa variant now has wider Sahel and Central African coverage, including Bornu, Kanem, Adamawa, Logone, Wadai, and nearby connecting provinces.
The Mongol exploration template also receives additional Baltic Sea discovery.
Core map files have been rebased for Europa Universalis V 1.2, including location templates, definitions, default map data, named locations, roads, ports, splines, and related support files.
Rivers and Peaks requires Beyond the Cape.
This mod changes map data, road and river support, location templates, named colors, definitions, ports, setup files, exploration templates, map-object locators, and related localization.
Mods that affect the same map files may require compatibility patches.
This version is intended for Europa Universalis V 1.2.
A new campaign is strongly recommended if you want the updated map, setup, exploration, road, port, and locator changes to apply cleanly.
