[2022] 🛠️ Update 1.5.1: Available now!

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings!

Crusader Kings III, Update 1.5.1: Now available!
🔰 Better Coat of Arms designer
🏰 Tribal Court
🪔 Improved Cultures
🤖 Enhanced AI
📜 New Events
👑 And more Balance, Performance, Art, Content, Database, and Bugfixes brought to #CK3!

► Read our Dev Diary #90: The 1.5.1 Update[pdxint.at]



Here’s the changelog 1.5.1:

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# Balance
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- AI's will now leave factions more quickly when they are pleased with you as their liege
- AI's will no longer press factions for Claimants they like if they also like their current liege a lot, with a decreasing chance at higher opinions (the AI will be less likely to press a claimant they have 80 opinion of if they have 60 opinion of their liege, for example)
- The AI now considers Faith Hostility when selecting claimants
- AI vassals are now more likely to offer a gift when paying homage
- Added a Game Rule (Empire Obscurity) that makes empires that control below 20% of their De Jure counties be destroyed. This should solve empires sticking around forever as micro-realms.
- Boosted the control gain from requesting Bailiffs from your Liege in a Petition
- Corrected the modifiers of the Cup of Jamshid
- Forcing same vote by using a hook on an elector will now last 100 years instead of 5
- It's now much harder to invite Inspired people to your court, and practically impossible to invite anyone who's currently being sponsored
- Landless AI's will now try to equip artifacts you gift them via the interaction (depending on rarity)
- Only House Heads will now demand the return of artifacts if there's only a house claim
- Strategy Lifestyle bonus to Skirmishers has been moved to the Hit and Run Perk
- The AI now has a 5 year cooldown towards asking to educate the players children if the player refuses
- The AI will no longer demand artifacts from players they like a lot, and will no longer keep asking after you've refused once
- The Chaste trait now only reduces Seduction scheme power
- The Development progress from the Industrious Cultural Tradition is now applied at most once a year
- The Holy Site of Qayaliq now gives Archer Cavalry bonuses
- The Jousting Lists and Archery Ranges Duchy Buildings now give bonuses to camel, elephant, and archer cavalry
- The Parthian Tactics perk now boosts Elephant and Camel cavalry
- The Prestige gained from the Architect trait when it's boosted via cultural traditions have been changed from 50% to a flat +0.5/month
- The War Camps and Hunting Grounds buildings now give Horse Archer bonuses
- Tweaked various factors in the war for England, in order to reduce the chances of Harold winning
- AI now moves capital to London on victory in Norman conquest, if possible
- Northern Lords legacies can now be gotten by dynasts of any culture descendent from Norse as well as Norse culture itself.
- Sacred Childbirth now grants piety each time a child is born and considers Pregnant a virtuous trait
- Rebalanced artifact gift opinion gain
- Tribal Kings and Emperors can now access the Royal Court, but it plays differently:
- The 'Expected Grandeur' is always the same as their current Grandeur level. It cannot be above or below.
- All Amenity Levels except the first two are blocked if playing Tribal
- Amenity Costs are greatly increased if tribal (it was trivially cheap)
- They only have access to one Court Type: Tribal. This one can be kept if feudalizing, but it doesn't give many benefits, and the AI will switch out of it fairly quickly.
- All Tutorials and Game Concepts now mention Tribals and the differences they have
- Several events that were ill-fitting for tribals will not appear for them (i.e. founding new City holdings)



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# AI
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- A unit stack wanting to resupply will spread out its subunit stacks into neighboring provinces even though said provinces might not allow resupplying, in order to try and avoid attrition.
- AI should take player units into account for supply situation when selecting target province.
- AI stops to raise levies with very small amount of troops
- Allow units to ignore hostile attrition as a last resort when moving to a target in a neighboring county.
- Added missing check for if a unit is moving or not when calculating troop strength for supply.
- For combat evaluation, only count available subunit stacks if they are close enough.
- If the main subunit stack is already moving, then don't deny being available for order because some units are still technically sieging.
- Desperate AI will be more bold when selecting targets near enemy units, or when engaging enemy units.
- Ignore non-castle provinces when giving extra score to province targets near the war goal area.
- In Great Holy Wars the AI will be more focused on fighting about the war goal and less likely to shy away from confrontation due to numerical weakness.
- Instructed the AI to adjust its court amenity spending in a more responsive manner
- AI will no longer go to war for artifacts that are below masterwork, cursed or that it cannot use (like toys).
- Lowered the AI cooldown on Pay Homage to 2 years from 3
- Blocked the AI from overspending in Hold Court events
- Fixed an issue where AI's could get stuck and never go home after a raid

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# Performance
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- Significantly improved the performance of all portraits in the game
- Improved the performance of the Throne Room scenes

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# Interface
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- Add check boxes for flipping coat of arm emblems in detail edit mode
- Budget tooltip entry on liege taxes are now shown as a breakdown instead of being within the budget tooltip
- Fixed too low left margin for crown authority buttons
- Recruited prisoners can now be forced to Take the Vows when Negotiating Release
- When gifting an Artifact, the entry will now show if it is equipped
- Added a prestige icon to council task descs
- Empty court positions you cannot hire are now correctly sorted to the bottom of the list
- Dead characters now have a skull next to their age
- Renamed the Court tab to Courtiers to differentiate between it and Royal Court
- Made text labels have more correct margins.
- Cleaned up margins and spacings in the Faith View.
- Changed the standard window margins so they no longer overlap the vertical lines at the sides of the window.


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# Art
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- Significantly improved the lighting and shadows in all throne rooms
- Fixed CoA on shield artifacts being mirrored when displayed in the Royal Court
- Added unique icons for all different types of inspirations
- Added a new set of Legwear for Arabic clothes sets
- Added unique art for the Throne of Solomon
- Olifant now has a unique 3D appearance
- African and Norse swords now have unique 3D appearance
- Steppe Axes now have a unique 3D appearance
- African Axes now have a unique 3D appearance
- Steppe Maces now have a unique 3D appearance
- Mediterranean Maces and Axes now have a unique 3D appearance
- Added several new 2D icons to artifacts
- Changed which texture quality settings are used on each preset level in the graphics settings menu so that the highest preset default to using the highest quality textures
- Made it so that orthodox priests should always have a beard
- Adjusted eyelids that were sometimes causing characters to have overly “squinty” eyes
- Added a hybrid culture art pattern for options that can mix from two different cultures
- Added unique CoA for HRE that reformed Roman Empire

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# Localization
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- Fixed error string in spanish inspiration sponsored toast
- Fixed duplicate chinese character issue in court grandeur rank text
- Fixed the alliance popup string in spanish to use correct custom loc
- Fixed Spanish warning message for player marriage and betrothal status
- Fixed broken string in spanish for inspiration
- Fixed spanish localisation for intrigue window
- Fixed 2nd and 3rd tier of beauty traits sharing Hermoso localization in Spanish, 2nd tier is now Atractivo

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# Game Content
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- Added an additional event for losing language when reached cap for max known
- Added notification, personal artifact claim, and prestige loss after losing a war banner in battle
- Added three additional hunt events
- Added three additional Feast events about artifacts
- Added a new yearly event about medieval football
- Added a new martial lifestyle event about improvised weapons
- Added a new Skulduggery lifestyle event about siege tactics
- Added a new Intimidation lifestyle event about a forest of corpses
- Added the establish Yamagate of Samarkand decision
- Added a new set of events surrounding the Athletic trait
- Added a new event for characters with the Lisp trait
- Added an event where you can combine a relic artifact with a weapon artifact
- Added the 'Passion Play' theology lifestyle event
- Added a new murder save event about artifacts
- Added two hostile scheme ongoing events about knowing languages
- Added the Establish Theravada Faith Event Chain to the Burmese region
- Added the Olifant artifact as a new artifact that can be found by adventurers

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# User Modding
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- Added can_pick trigger to Court Amenities
- Added equip_artifact_to_owner effect
- Added equip_artifact_to_owner_replace effect
- Added unequip_artifact_from_owner effect
- Court scene editor will now save only current active scene and not overwrite all the other variants
- Allow setting any angle for pitch in court scene settings
- Add light type controls to court scene editor
- Add indications for lights that are enabled and with shadows
- Add shadow fade per light source
- Add shadow settings as sliders to scene editor
- Allow shadow depth fade factor to be influenced by a define
- Allow lights be affected by all shadows according to a define
- Fix the has_icon trigger not correctly detecting a faith's icon
- Fix the past_holder list builder being incorrectly registered as any_any_
- Added a debug interaction for taking an artifact

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# Databases
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- Added Karelian culture in counties between Finnish and Bjarmian
- Added more straits connecting Zeeland to surrounding counties
- Adding missing accents to French titles
- Fixed death date of Konrad Wettin
- Fixed gaps in history of Sunni caliphs
- Improved historical setup of Sankt Gallen
- Yughur is a now divergence of the Uyghur culture
- Öngüd is a now divergence of the Shatuo culture
- Added Ayneha language for Sorko, Gaw, & Songhai to model one of their major gulfs from the other major cultural blocks of the western Sahel
- Added in Rasad, the mother of the Fatimid Caliph in 1066.
- Cleaned up loose characters in the Chola dynasty tree.
- Reverted Uxkull to being on the Latvian side of the river
- Made Ostmark/Brandenburg, Meissen, and Lausitz default names Polabian, changing to German
- Lubeck and Mecklenburg now use Slavic names as default and change to German
- Remove anachronistic names in Russia/Central Asia
- Kanuri now speak Tubu (Saharan) rather than Chadic language
- Muslim Volga Bolghars are now Clan instead of Feudal in 1066
- Fixed typo in name of Otranto
- Fixed two counties sharing name Naissos, and added Niš as a Slavic name for the real one
- Fixed inconsistent transliteration of Rashka, and name of its capital barony
- Replaced erroneous Wallachian Bolghar rulers in 867 with Vlachs
- Fixed misplaced Irish strait graphics between Carrickfergus and Wigtown
- Fixed historical ruler of Hörðaland, now is correct Eirikr
- Fatimah is now guaranteed pious traits
- Renamed Wilhelmshaven to more historical Jever
- Changed Bulgarian Warrior Culture tradition to Stand and Fight
- Added Croatian to history of Bulgarian and made Vlach formation later
- Capital of Bulgaria is now Preslav in 867
- Extended Avar settlement of Balaton in 867
- Early bookmark Polish duchies now have tribal names
- Nupe culture now speak East Kwa language
- Fixed names of Petropavl and Petropavolsk
- Changed the english name of Kiev to Kyiv
- Renamed Courland to Curonia
- Nizhny Novgorod is now called Obran Osh unless Russian, rather than only if Finnic
- Fixed leftover Russian Slovianskan chief in 1066
- Fixed Finnic Russian overlaps in 1066
- Updated culture around Provence/Savoy borders to reflect Occitan and Frankish dialect spreads
- Fixed Pecheneg feudal rulers at start
- Tied Syriac culture to Nestorian faith in both bookmarks
- Fixes for missing Mayzadids, Syrian borders in 1066, incorrect duke of Cappadocia in 1066, and more
- Fixed titles used by Arpitan hybrid culture from Anjou to Provence
- Fixed some Siguic counties which should have been Bidaic
- Fixed some Mashriqi counties which should have been Bedouin
- Improved historical cultural setup of Estonia/Latvia
- Charleroi renamed to Dinant
- Adjusted Empire borders in the area formerly covered by the South Baltic Empire
- Improved historical setup of Langres, moved county to Duchy of Burgundy
- Added more name equivalencies, mostly Sicilian
- Added missing accents to French titles
- Improved historical/cultural setup of Sicily in 1066
- Sicilian culture now hybridizes in 950, to prevent it stating in 1066 that it hybridized in 700 when it doesn't exist in 867
- Orissa is now a Kingdom at start in 1066
- Added the Baudh Bhanjas in Kinjali Mandali in 1066
- Fixed the Somavamsi family tree, and another branch of the Somavamsi dynasty now holds the western part of the kingdom in 1066.
- Added the Chikitiki Gangas in Swetaka Mandala in 1066.
- Qocho's vassals should now be Feudal instead of Clan
- Updated the Unite the West Slavs decision to give you the West-Slavia title
- Zurvanism is now a doctrine for Zoroastrians rather than a distinct faith
- Added Behafaridism as a Zoroastrian faith
- Changed Polabia to be named Sorbia by default
- Fixed some historical Georgian Bagrationi characters remaining Armenian
- Remodeled Ari faith, added historical figures in Burma, adjusted pre-existing ones
- Switched Ari's color to 'roasted plum'
- Cathars no longer believe in ritual suicide and now believe in reincarnation
- Renamed Consolementum to Endura
- Ivar the Boneless is now the youngest son of Ragnarr rather than the oldest
- Gave Neftegorsk a more appropriate name
- Moved Hereward and Turdifa to Count Baldwin of Flanders' court. Adjusted Hereward's traits and gave him a pressed claim on Cambridgeshire. Added "the Wake" nickname.
- Removed Anglo-Saxon id 90029 = 'Edith' was the name of Hereward's mother, not his wife. Added Dutch id (pending) = 'Turfida' was his actual wife, raised in Saint-Omer.
- Added a dynasty for Hereward the Wake

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# Bugfixes
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- Fixed a lot of various issues with Hold Court events which were caused by subsequent events sometimes 'stealing' characters from those ahead in the queue
- Fixed some cases when a royal court owner dies but events are still in progress, avoiding soft-locks when visiting "dead" royal courts
- Council task events should now fire again as intended
- Fixed Prince Electors needing to hold titles as their primary to vote
- Fixed Gradient Borders not updating when they should
- Fixed cultural divergence bonuses not updating until you reload the game
- Children will no longer vie for their lieges attention in Getting Ahead event
- Defender value in sieges should no longer become insanely high due to changing underlying factors, and sieges should no longer lose progress when the total value falls under current progress.
- Don't open the decision view behind the court scene when you try to hold court, just open the one decision detail view we need and close just that.
- Electors will no longer rate themselves based on rank under Saxon Elective
- Estonians should now have access to Varangian Adventures for owners of Northern Lords
- Fix add_achievement_variable_effect not incrementing variables properly causing the "Seductive" achievement to never fire.
- Fix becoming malnourished sending the toast you became obese instead.
- Fix pending interactions not expiring after the timer runs out.
- Fix the culture head learning sometimes being out of date in the culture window UI.
- Fix the hold court decision window being empty if you use a two step decision, like commission artifact, and then open the royal court view.
- Fix the no cooldown option in hybridizing cultures not correctly applying.
- Fixed Blackmail interaction being unavailable forever if someone you were blackmailing died before they replied
- Fixed Go Outside! event firing for celibate characters
- Fixed Ruler Designed characters receiving banners of historical dynasties they replaced
- Fixed Slovianskan adventurers being more likely to find Roog artifacts
- Fixed Sultanate of Rum decision disappearing if capital was in Syria
- Restore the Papacy in Rome should now be less hidden
- Fixed all Anglo-Saxon counties forcibly converting to Scots if their ruler owned any counties in Scotland
- Fixed being able to choose medical treatment for other character's prisoners
- Fixed being able to use Revoke Title on characters you have a truce with, and thereby avoid truce by forcing war
- Fixed broken name in artifacts made from deceased pets
- Fixed characters living in foreign realms being invited to feasts, and having such a good time they never go back
- Fixed creating a new cadet branch not granting claims on dynasty banner
- Fixed duplicate Gauthier de Brienne and dynasty
- Fixed mismatched triggers in Civic Rivalry event
- Fixed end of partition of Danelaw and England giving Scandinavian Elective and Danelaw CoA to non-Scandinavians
- Fixed house banner appearing twice in new court event if not a dynasty head
- Fixed ill characters wearing helmets and coifs with their nighties
- Fixed issues caused by being able to Petition Liege or Pay Homage while your own court events were awaiting input
- Fixed lieges who refuse petitions losing opinion of themselves
- Fixed misleading dynasty trigger in Archduchy of Austria decision
- Fixed missing loc, empty councils blocking decision, and other minor issues with Petition Liege
- Fixed not being able gift Dynasty Banners to their Dynasty Head
- Fixed rewards and text in The King of Livonia event
- Fixed some Electors being excluded as Candidates due to low rank under Feudal Elective succession
- Fixed some anachronistic title names in Slovenia
- Fixed toast from Urban Development stating a Temple is being built instead of a City
- Fixed issues with scopes in Hero of the Frontier event
- Improved display of Found Witch Coven decision requirements
- Fixed clerical gender in Unconventional Preacher event
- Holy Orders can now raise themselves when at war or pledged to a Great Holy War
- Information Brokering event no longer includes known secrets of your own children's parentage
- Missing text in the automatic law change notification should be corrected
- Unified Songhai color
- The follow up event of the Cadastre is not hiding in the court view anymore
- Angelicas Ring will no longer be stored on the floor if found and brought to court by an adventurer
- Improved tooltip for elective score required to change a character's vote
- Fixed electors voting themselves based on education
- Fixed Estonian characters using non-Estonian names in bookmarks
- Fixed perspective of Introduce New Fashion cooldown trigger
- Achievement Delusions of Grandeur requirements now work properly
- Adjusted the achievement ‘The True Royal Court’ to have more intuitive triggers
- Adjusted effect of performance-enhancing drugs
- Children should now always lose their childhood traits/guardians upon reaching 16 years of age
- Claim wars started via Hold Court events no longer cost prestige to declare
- Corrected incorrectly saved scopes in Cupbearer/Bodyguard/Food Taster murder save events
- Count only available innovations for progress towards the next era
- Executing prisoners should no longer sometimes apply stress twice for the same trait.
- Fix enable/disable light source checkbox in court scene editor
- Fixed an instance of missing loc in a seduction event if the target was a wanderer
- Fixed an issue with Claimant factions constantly forming/disbanding under certain circumstances
- Fixed an issue with the 'The Northerner Menace' event where it could fire for invalid wars
- Fixed button sometimes missing the name of an executioner in Public Accusation event
- Fixed incorrect reference to the Bedchamber event picture
- Fixed issue that would sometimes cause a bad tooltip for executing prisoners when execution happened due to an event choice
- The game now tells you that vassals cannot become executioners
- Fixed several hybrid names incorrectly looking for Saxon culture rather than Anglo-Saxon
- Fixed the Beta Israel achievement being available to ruler designed characters
- Fixed the referenced character sometimes being wrong in the text for the outcome events of the rival duel event chain
- Hide ghost widgets visible for few frames when game map just appears on screen
- If a scheme is exposed, your spymaster won't reveal themselves as the plotter anymore
- Lowborn characters with a lowborn liege will no longer pretend like they're nobles for purposes of 'marrying down'
- Republican Legacy is now properly categorized as a Regional Tradition
- Restore missing shortcuts in the tooltips for side panel buttons in HUD
- Revoking a lease should now only give stress once
- The 'Land of the Bow' Tradition is now properly available to cultures with the East African Heritage
- The Hybrid Culture notification will now only show up if you're in diplomatic range of the founder
- The Inventory button is now hidden for dead characters
- The standard seduction outcome event now uses the bedchamber background
- The traditions Mountaineer Ruralism and Mountain Homes are now properly mutually exclusive
- Vassals will no longer show up in court and complain about having imprisoned their own relatives
- Visigothic Culture now starts with Visgothic Codes
- You can no longer game over if your designated heir becomes a monk, eunuch or otherwise invalid for inheritance
- You can now click the button to adopt a Court Language in the Culture View
- You can now only rename children that are your close family, no more renaming any child in the world!
- FP1 traditions should no longer show up if they're impossible to take
- Celebrating another culture should no longer have missing effects
- Excluded children from trying to murder you in The Timely Artifact
- Fixed issues with A Sweet Farewell event
- Fixed Marble Scepter using bone visuals, now use regalia
- Fixed pagan faiths losing their court chaplain titles when reformed
- A Shadow in the Night should no longer show percent chances of nothing
- Fixed hunt hide/skull event not firing if no skull was available to make it more common, and improved/fixed other issues with hunt events
- Fixed OOS caused by duplicate players
- Fixed another rare OOS

That’s it for this time, we hope you’ll enjoy the changes we’re making in 1.5.1!

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