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My name is Matt and I run the roleplaying channel, SurrealBeliefs. Many people have requested to see the mods I use and this is where they're going to go. If you'd like to make a recommendation, please let me know in the comments down below.
This is a modification collection of non-overhaul mods that are here to either visually or mechanically enhance your gameplay.

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[KINGDOM OF HEAVEN] The mods listed here are compatibility patches meant to be used with the major mod, Community Flavor Pack and some others. You will need different compatibility patches depending on the core mod you're trying to use. This one is built around Kingdom of Heaven. https://i.imgur.com/Hb6CUfG.png

Items (84)
A Spouse Designer
Created by Lrds
We now have a ruler designer - but you cannot create a fitting spouse or children for your characters... This mod fixes this obvious oversight by PDX. It adds a spouse designer that can be accessed from the main menu. After creating your custom ruler, simp...
Auto-Pause on council task complete
Created by fodazd
This mod fires a dummy event when certain council tasks complete or are aborted, thereby pausing the game. Note on compatibility: This mod overwrites task_promote_culture, task_conversion, task_integrate_title and task_increase_control....
Battlefield Duel
Created by DigOsho
Slay your Enemy through Battlefield Duel Do you feel like wipping off your enemy yourself? Or maybe would you rather be the one sparing life for the sake of your own god ? Then choose your Weapon and Lead your army into battle for your fate to be written w...
Beautiful Females
Created by PaleSoul
Is your wife so unattractive that you'd rather bang the pope? Is a tuberculosis victim looking more appealing than ever? Then this mod might be just what you need! ‎ This works with Ironman / achievements! https://i.imgur.com/shBO7Ua.png Q.) What does this...
Beauty Traits Lipstick Reducer
Created by ReMeDy
ReMeDy's Beauty Traits Lipstick Reducer ver 1.3 https://i.imgur.com/TyhxAw0.jpg Either click Subscribe, *or* directly download the mod from my link below! DIRECT DL. In case you prefer an offline version of the same mod: VER 1.3 (For CK3 1.3.1+) Reduces li...
Better AI Education + Infinite Wards
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png This is a combination of 2 of my favorite mods, it includes the following 2 mods merged into 1 and I made some small changes and edits!! It merges: Infinite Wards (AI applicabled) was first ma...
Better Battles (Outdated - For Game v1.4)
Created by 3AGTTV
BETTER BATTLES FOR GAME VERSION 1.5 IS HERE! Thanks to all of your continued support, I've managed to re-release the mod to be compatible with game version 1.5 here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2749062980 Once again, thank you fo...
Better Chancellor
Created by skela
The Chancellor is rather disappointing. To make him better, the task "Home Affairs" will help other council members. They complete tasks faster as a result: fictitious claim Promote culture Reveal mysteries ...
Better Executions Updated
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png The original mod has a very old outdated character_interaction_events file which causes missing dialogs in game and missing features and events. Also some events got changed during game update...
Better Face Textures
Created by Glup Shitto
This mod has been discontinued due to there being many superior portrait mods on the workshop, so use those instead! Although if you still use this, I appreciate that :) thanks -- This mod does not disable achievements and is ironman compatible! This mod p...
BetterRenown
Created by asdfmovie99e
Summary: -There is no more limit for the renown gain by the number of living dynasty members (was capped to 100 members in vanilla) -Rulers now also generate renown by their title even if their liege if part of the same dynasty (didnt exist in vanilla) - R...
Blade Mastery
Created by Murden
Blade Mastery This mod allows you to develop your courtiers' blademaster skills. First, you need to appoint someone to the Blademaster position who's got any level of the blademaster trait. Then, you right-click one of your courtiers or family members, who...
Brighter Portraits
Created by Larry
Subtly increases the brightness of character portraits to give them more life...
Cadet Branch Limiter
Created by Seses
Idea behind is heavily inspired by this topic on Paradox forum: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/change-requirements-to-create-a-cadet-branch-based-on-level-of-splendor.1484453/#post-27714908 What it does is pretty simple, it increases requirem...
Can Assign Guardian Alert for all children in court
Created by fodazd
This mod expands the can assign guardian alert to all children in your court. Note on compatibility: Overwrites action_can_assign_guardian....
Casus Belli - Demand Religious Conversion
Created by Zyme
Have you ever wanted to spread your religion without blobbing? Playing tall as a King but still want to spread your religion? This new casus belli uses the same rules as a minor Holy War where you can attack a county and if you win, the ruler of the county...
Clear Notifications
Created by Agami
Adds a button with F hotkey to clear all notifications. The clear button can be moved to the right and notifications can be disabled completely, if you wish. Reenable them by pressing an arrow above the mapmodes or through a decision. Should be compatible ...
Community Flavor Pack
Created by El Tyranos
Community Flavor Pack aims to add a lot of historical portrait accessories for your characters, filling the many cultural lacks of vanilla CKIII. Dress up for war or court as you would be between 867 and 1453, impress your friends and subjects. https://i.i...
Count to II (Discontinued)
Created by Sir Lemonvoid
A simple mod that grants count's regnal numerals too. E.g: Instead of being called Count Eustace of Boulogne (The same as your father), you will be called Count Eustace II of Boulogne Not Ironman compatible Alt-Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...
Darren Tan - Loading Screens
Created by Rhazak
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/wraithdt 12 artworks by Darren Tan. Works on its own and is also compatible with any other loading screen mods, such as these. https://i.imgur.com/ILnQ3C8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Iub9twr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PSAg3P...
Debug Toggle (Less Invasive)
Created by Hans Gruber
Adds a "Toggle Debug" button in the Encyclopedia. Super light-weight and probably won't conflict with other mods, unlike some alternatives on the workshop. Pro-tip hotkey combo for toggling: F10 -> F11 -> F10 (Paradox changed this from F9 to F10 in v1.9) Y...
Displayed Birth and Death Dates
Created by MacAwesome
This mod adds birth and death dates (and death reason) to the character window. In vanilla, birthdates are viewable when hovering the age for living characters, the death date is viewable by hovering the age for dead characters, and likewise the death reas...
Doctor Tweak - AI Will More Often Hire Court Physicians
Created by Morven
Doctor Tweak - AI Will More Often Hire Court Physicians The AI will more often take the Hire Court Physician decision and hire court physicians. Doctorless no more every AI court will survive, thrive, and be maimed in surgery, by court physicians in a worl...
(Obsolete due to Paradox implementation) Dynamic Character Backgrounds
Created by Torngasuk
Tired of your ruler hanging out in his dusty old castle when he’s supposed to be waging war in the jungles of India or marching through the deserts of Arabia? Worry no more – this is a very simple mod that makes all commanders and knights use the backgroun...
Dynamic Lifestyle XP
Created by Adrei
Dynamic Lifestyle XP makes sensible changes to how XP is earned through focuses to reflect difference in skill between characters. ==== Features ==== - Focuses can now be swapped without having to wait several years. - Characters now earn Lifestyle XP at h...
Dynastic Alliances
Created by somogley
This mod allows alliances on the basis of a shared dynasty. Do you hate getting a neighboring kingdom into your dynasty, only to not be able to ally them? Now you have a chance to ally anyone of your dynasty. This alliance is harder to make than a regular ...
[DEFUNCT] Dynasty Name ≠ Realm Name
Created by Y'all'd've
~{1/1/25: New game option added by Paradox makes this mod obsolete.}~ _._._ I've always found it rather irritating that many cultures in the game force your dynasty name as the realm title, overriding even changes that you, as the player, make to the title...
Ecumenical Elopement
Created by Hierophant
Updated for 1.15.* (Crown) Overview This is a simple mod that removes an illogical obstacle to storytelling and gameplay. Normally it is impossible to elope with characters of a different religion. That makes very little sense since the whole idea of the s...
Enhanced Dynasty Tree Viewer
Created by Conan1001
A few enhancements to the standard Dynasty Tree Viewer to make finding houses in the tree easier. This mod is basically just 2 enhancements to the Dynasty Tree Viewer 1. The founders of Historical houses now show up like in-game creators of Cadet branches....
Epidemics
Created by Cheesus
About Unleash Plagues and Death upon your World. Now Epidemic Outbreaks will occur and spread Diseases to adjacent counties. Features 5 Different Types of Plagues can randomly spawn in Counties all over the World Track the spread of Disease through a new c...
Epithet
Created by Croustibat
Overview : If you think there are not enough nicknames in the game, Epithet is made for you ! It adds more than 900 new nicknames, given depending on your traits, culture, religion, prestige, piety and a lot of other surprise. Each characters can gain a ra...
Ethnicities & Portraits Expanded
Created by Celticus
https://imgur.com/bDhb5Ty.png THE MOD IS 1.15.0.2 COMPATIBLE! Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded is an expansive project aiming to bring the world of Crusader Kings 3 to life with a wide selection of custom ethnicities and custom 3D assets. From the Zoroas...
Extended Family Actions
Created by PeteCrighton
Adds several entries regarding your extended family to the Current Situation notifications. So far included: - Designate a guardian for every close or extended family member (instead of only your children) - Extended family can get married (instead of only...
Extended Outliner
Created by FUN
The Extended Outliner mod helps you keep tracking pinned characters. Outliner shows their coats of arms, military strength, hooks, and more. For advanced users: 1. You can switch between two modes. To do so, right-click the top bar that says Pinned Charact...
Fair Ladies
Created by lindest
"Faint heart ne’er won fair lady." ~English traditional This mod once used a conversion of "Fair Skin Complexion" by HHaleyy as a base. Thank you for permitting conversion! REMASTERED OCTOBER 2024 for 1.13 This mod changes the appearance of the skin of fem...
Fair Lords
Created by lindest
"But swich a knyghtly sighte trewely. As was on hym was nought withouten faille. To loke on Mars that god is of bataille." ~Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" This mod once used a conversion of "Fair Skin Complexion" by HHaleyy as a starting point. Thank you...
Family Matters
Created by Kapl0k
Family Matters lets you assign inheritable traits (Family Lineage, Patrilineage, and Matrilineage) to yourself or your parents, to follow relatives and descendants through the ages. It also lets you mark closely related blood or in-law relatives with a tra...
Farewell, Chaplain!
Created by Feivel
This mod provides you with a non violent alternative to get rid of your ungifted Realm Priest by asking your Head of Faith for an audience in which you request transfer and replacement of the cleric in question. To get audienced you will have to pay an amo...
Female Councillor
Created by Lascalo
(v1.14.*) - Regardless of gender doctrines, you can appoint a councillor to the council. - Excluded "Court Chaplain" because the doctrine exists separately, I thought it would be better to follow the doctrine. - AI won't be able to do that. - I recommend i...
Female Knight
Created by Lascalo
(v1.14.*) - Regardless of gender doctrines, you can appoint a knight. - AI won't be able to do that. - I recommend it to those who value role-playing. - Incompatible with the same type mod because I have direct modified "can_be_combatant_based_on_gender_tr...
Fervour Inversion - Winning Holy Wars Increases Fervor
Created by Morven
Fervour Inversion - Winning Holy Wars Increases Fervour Winning Holy Wars increases your faiths fervour, and losing them decreases the defeated faiths fervour. Inverts how the game distributes fervour by rewarding victory and punishing defeat. Successful r...
Fervour Midpoint Rebalance - Fervor Tends Towards 50%
Created by Morven
Fervour Midpoint Rebalance - Fervor Tends Towards 50% Fervour will now tend towards a midpoint of 50% for all faiths large and small. Fervour will decay when above 50%, and will gain when below 50%. Replaces vanilla fervour gain and the vanilla size-depend...
Better Barbershop
Created by Agami
Green screens, hotkeys, color picker support, body modification, fixes for UI scaling and more RESUBSCRIBE if you're crashing when clicking more interactions. You can also delete the old mod files manually, click the three dots in the launcher to open the ...
Giant Trait Is Good
Created by Azeroo
Marks the giant trait as good and removes inbred chance. Edits trait effects and removes face edits too. Not ironman compatible....
Graduate Lifestyle
Created by kReoSo
Contents When a character(including AI) has all the perks in a lifestyle, they graduate the lifestyle. It removes all the excessive perk points and xp and the character receives a permanent (relevant)stat buff(game rule 2) and -100000% xp gain debuff for t...
Granting Titles to Opposite Gender
Created by Lascalo
(v1.14.*) - Regardless of gender doctrines, you can grant a title on the opposite gender. - Of course, a governor can also be appointed without regard to gender doctrines. - AI won't be able to do that. - I recommend it to those who value role-playing. - I...
Hagia Sophia & All Cathedrals Enabled For All Christians
Created by Morven
Hagia Sophia, Cologne & Canterbury Cathedrals Enabled for all Christians Hagia Sophia, Cologne, and Canterbury Cathedrals are now enabled and can be built by all Christians. In vanilla the Cathedrals have a requirement that they must be a Holy Site of the ...
HoC: Cultural and Regional Men at Arms and Innovation Additional Mod
Created by Salicy
Home of Chivalry Cultural and Regional Men at Arms and Innovation Additional Mod Features Did you feel that there was a lack of innovation and Men at Arms in each region and culture? For you who think so, this mode adds more armaments and innovations. What...
Houses Traditions
Created by Beyond Disbelief
The House Tradition mods creates traditions and values for each house to follow. Ever wanted to see your children behaving more like you? Wanted to roleplay as the Starks of Winterfell but the game's RNG keeps screwing up your family? This mod is for you. ...
Improved Dynasty Legacies
Created by soggy cheerios
I've seen a couple of Legacy mods in the workshop but they all tend to make them too OP in one way or another so this is my attempt at balancing out the Legacies so each legacy can stand its own weight in their respective levels. If there are any issues or...
Improved Personality Formation System
Created by rejected80
In the vanilla game, the system that gives children their personalities takes really only two things into account, and that's the personality traits of their guardian and (nowadays, for some cultures) their culture. This mod makes the system that gives chi...
Inbreds have Facial Deformities
Created by Headtaker
Makes Inbreds have deformed faces (Cosmetic Only). Positive beauty traits will only appear before the inbred trait. Negative beauty traits can appear with the inbred trait, cause more uglines....
Interaction Icon Project Lite
Created by Lucas182
Adding icons to CK3 one interaction at a time. It always bothered me how just a few interactions got icons while the vast majority were left blank. Thankfully Paradox made it very easy to mod new icons in. I also love that they've started populating those....
Invite To Court - More Modifiers
Created by Zoen
Action "Invite to court" has a base penalty and that is fine. After all, it shouldn't be expected of folks to just drop everything and to travel through half the continent to join some random court of some random ruler. What is not fine is that this base p...
Jeanne d'Arc/Joan of Arc
Created by Castor
Miss the old Jeanne d'Arc event chain from Sons of Abraham? Well I did so I adapted it from CK2 and recreated it for CK3. This is supposed to be a small, light mod that adds a little flavour. However to make Jeanne able to become marshal I had to override ...
KOH-CFP-Expanded Series Patch
Created by Uber
https://imgur.com/kZFu2uh.png The Kingdom of Heaven This is a patch between Kingdom of Heaven, CFP and the Expanded Mod Series. Use the following load order. https://imgur.com/Z2JtADg.png...
Knight Manager
Created by Lrds
"Your heir died in battle!" How often have your loved ones died a brutal death in battle, because you forgot to tell them that they did not have to fight? This mod prevents their death and saves you a lot of time. The Knight Manager adds a settings menu to...
Less Old Wives - AI Men Marry Younger Fertile Women
Created by Morven
Less Old Wives - AI Men Marry Younger Fertile Women Imposes marriage opinion penalties and hard nerfs on older and infertile women. The AI will no longer marry their teenage heirs to 60 year old grannies. Fertility and age become top matchmaking criteria a...
Less Sinful Priest Scandals - No More Fervour Collapse
Created by Morven
Less Sinful Priest Scandals - No More Fervor Collapse Large numbers of local priests no longer cause the global collapse of large religions The Sinful Priest Scandal event in vanilla only needs one priest to have one sinful trait to cause an entire faith t...
Less Weight Issues - Obese and Malnourished Tuned
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png Less Weight Issues - Obese and Malnourished Tuned Overweight has gone up from 50 to 90 so if you reach a weight of 90 then Obese kicks in. Malnourished has gone down from -50 to -90 so if you ...
Locate In Dynasty Tree
Created by slepher
Locate Character In Dynasty Tree for users who cannot use this mod after upgrade: 1. delete My Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader KIngs III/mod/ugc_2217916783.mod 2. resubscribe this mod Barbershop for everyone integrated upgraded for 1.15 ironman will...
Lowborn Shields — BROKEN
Created by Wroke
Commoners! Regretting the purchase of that knock-off coat-of-arms from Plaguey Dave's Discount Escutcheons? Just itching for something a little more dignified whilst awaiting your long-deserved hoist into the aristocracy? Robust and lovingly crafted by our...
MHG + EPE Compatch
Created by Scratchmen
This is the official compatibility patch between More Holding Graphics and Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded. Loading Order: More Holding Graphics Ethnicities and Portraits Expanded MHG + EPE Compatch If you want to enjoy the Community Flavor Pack too, yo...
Marry Off Close Family
Created by grandembassy
Will no longer be maintaining my CK3 mods. The game came out 3 years ago and I'm just not interested in it anymore. Any modders are free to reuse all of the mod's source in their own mods. A simple mod that lets you marry off close family. For example, if ...
More Babies For Counts & Dukes
Created by Morven
More Babies For Counts & Dukes Counts and Dukes, and their unlanded children, will now have more babies. In a time of death by combat, disease, and maternal mortality, lineages at the feudal foundations will no longer be hamstrung by fertility nerfs. Count...
More Holding Graphics
Created by Scratchmen
More Holding Graphics is a mod for Crusader Kings 3 that revamps holding visuals, making your game world more immersive and culturally rich. This mod expands beyond the vanilla assets by introducing new holding images and 3D models, including culture-speci...
More Regional Innovations
Created by Izumi of the Thorns
Overview The More Regional Innovations Mod does exactly what the title says; it adds 6 region specific innovations to each era. The purpose of this Mod is to create a sense of diversity amongst the regions and give the cultures a little bit more character....
NO MORE DEAD MOTHERS DURING CHILD BIRTH
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png This mod stops mothers dying from child birth, it was requested by @SpicyMeat so whoever will be using it enjoy....
Nameplates
Created by FUN
The Nameplates mod helps you distinguish who's who in the event. Characters show their names, opinions, relations, and titles below. In addition, it disables tooltips in events. You can show them by pointing to the names. https://i.imgur.com/zLF7fUp.png Th...
Pacification Speeds Conversion
Created by Morven
Pacification Speeds Conversion A defeated people look to new gods and masters. Counties with the "Locals Pacified" modifier gained after defeating a peasant or populist war are converted to your culture and religion at double your chancellor's and court ch...
Petty Inheritable Traits
Created by buddykenner
This mod adds 18 new inheritable traits, 11 good, 5 bad, 2 neutral. The traits are meant to give a small to moderate bonus without being as strong as the vanilla traits. Trait Name Effect Opposite Trait/s Silver Tongued +2 Diplomacy +5 Attraction Opinion S...
Prisoners of War
Created by Stik' | Mostly Mechanical Mods
Updated for v1.15.* Long gone are the days when prisoners teleported from a siege location deep in enemy territory to your own dungeons ! Prisoners of War is a Mostly Mechanical Mod Prisoners of War adds a new layer of tactical choices : should you siege b...
Rename Tribal Era to Late Antiquity
Created by cybrxkhan
Compatible with 1.15.x This mini-mod just renames the Tribal Era to Late Antiquity. If you disagree with my choice of terminology, that's fine! Just don't use this mod. I just wanted something more appropriate than "tribal." Discord Server for my mods Offi...
Silk Road
Created by dejar
Silk Road, Trans-Saharan trade routes It is similar to the trade route of CK2. trade route give bonus to tax. trade route has trade value. and trade post affect trade value. occupation and raid will decrease trade value for a while... that sort of things. ...
Sword Training
Created by Dolorous John
Updated for 1.8! Adds the ability for high prowess characters to train their wards After reading through the comments I plan on adding an age debuff to the training so that you wont have an 8 year old with 25 prowess. I'll flesh it out with localization to...
1184: The Kingdom of Heaven - 1.10.2 "Quill"
Created by Uber
https://imgur.com/kZFu2uh.png The Kingdom of Heaven Brings the large, interesting, engaging, world of the third crusade to your games! Play as figures such as Richard the Lionheart, Henry II, Baldwin IV, Saladin, Philip Augustus, Frederick Barbarossa and m...
Total War Soundtrack Overhaul
Created by ♂PunishedAniki♂
This mod adds many tracks (Mainly Medieval II) from the Total War games that would fit in an immersive fashion. It also aims to make the music relative to the character you are playing. For example, I've made it so if you're playing a western character, yo...
Useful Court Physicians
Created by Murden
This mod adds two features: You can send a courtier to train to become a physician: Ranks Cost Time Actual Trait Novice Physician 100 gold 12 months Novice Physician Experienced Physician 150 gold 18 months Physician Master Physician 200 gold 24 months Ren...
VIET Events - A Flavor and Immersion Event Mod
Created by cybrxkhan
https://i.imgur.com/5agqkxn.jpg Current Version: 1.15.0 "Palm Tree" (Released 3/27/25, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.15.X) Discord Server for my mods Official Website for my mods Paradox Forum Thread Manual Download/Installation available on Github Parad...
Viable Heavy Cav and Better Regimental Grounds
Created by cnoonr
Makes Heavy Cavalry viable in the army composition meta and makes some additional changes to the Regimental Grounds building chain. Changes to Heavy Cavalry: - Flat 20% damage and 15% toughness increase for all cultures - All Heavy Cavalry now counters ski...
Visual Trait Overhaul
Created by AntTac
Ironman Compatible This is an overhaul of the visuals of most traits, pretty much every trait has been touched at least by adjusting brightness, saturation and vibrance values. Traits like contrite, drunkard etc. now have a purple background to better dist...
coat of arms fix
Created by BigBen
Support 1.5 5.5 add dynamic coat of arms of some German family. 5.4 Now compatible with the difficulty to create cadet branch mod. please give feedback if something wrong. 4.8 fixed some bug If you enable main mod , do not enable part packages Mod Content ...
Succession Expanded
Created by Celticus
https://i.imgur.com/uHWVuY1.png THIS MOD IS 1.15.0.2 Compatible! Succession Expanded is the second project from the Expanded Mod series which aims to create a more historically authentic experience through the addition of multiple new succession types. Fro...
Custom Title Form of Address
Created by TerraPass
This mod allows you to enter and use your own form of address for your character based on their primary title. Updated for CK3 version 1.15 (Crown). Sick of the standard "Duke", "Queen" or "Sultan"? Want a culturally specific term but there's no mod that a...
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Modlist order?
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