Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III

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Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)

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Description


Current Version: 1.18.0.c Hotfix for "Scholar-Gentry" (Released 12/17/25, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.18.X)

Newest Flavor Packs:
Hangzhou: Splendor of the Song Dynasty & Aslians: The Jungle Pacifists

Next Flavor Pack:
Mayo: Heather and Yew (Maybe)

2025 VIET/RICE Survey[forms.gle] & Asian Flavor Pack Poll[forms.gle]
Discord Server for my mods[discord.gg]
Official Website for my mods[cybrxkhansmods.godaddysites.com]
Paradox Forum Thread[forum.paradoxplaza.com]
Manual Download/Older Versions available on Github[github.com]
Paradox Plaza Download[mods.paradoxplaza.com]

RICE, or Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment, adds immersion to different regions, cultures, and religions in CK3. As a spiritual successor to my Immersion Packs for CK2, it is a collection of "flavor packs" similar to PI's official flavor pack DLCs. RICE's guiding philosophy is to keep a focused scope that won't change gameplay significantly, but instead adds flavor across the world that is grounded in historical authenticity, especially for lesser-known places, peoples, and histories.

You should NOT add RICE to existing saves. A new game is REQUIRED to be safe.

Feel free to use my work in your mods - all I ask is that I am credited and (if possible) to give me a heads up. If you liked the mod, feel free to favorite and rate it up!





RICE is designed with compatibility in mind, and runs fine with most mods - for more info, please see this webpage[cybrxkhansmods.godaddysites.com]. I avoid editing vanilla files to prevent conflicts with other mods. For example, new cultures are added via hidden events at game start instead of directly through history code. Compatches are available for:


Special content provided if you also play with The Fallen Eagle or Rajas of Asia[google.com], which do not require compatches.

I WILL NOT maintain compatches for most mods that may need one. Feel free to make your own (let me know so I can link it here). If you're a modder, don't hesitate to contact me on the forums or Discord about compatibility!




Each RICE flavor pack adds features to a region, culture, or religion, that include new activities, decisions, events, music, and more. Read the RICE wiki[ck3.paradoxwikis.com] and Flavor Pack Guides[cybrxkhansmods.godaddysites.com] for more info on new features, tips and tricks, and selected lists of academic sources I used for further reading.

There are currently 42 new flavor packs, shown on this map:





By default, RICE uses the original English text as a placeholder so you won't see gibberish for other languages.





Version 1.18.0.c Hotfix for "Scholar-Gentry"

“I fear not drifting clouds that blur my sight, for I stand at the highest height.”
– Wang Anshi (1021 - 1086), Song Dynasty statesman, philosopher, and poet


Please note some changes only take effect with new games. As changelog is too big to list here, see the full changelog here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/2273832430







Thanks to all I worked with, took stuff from, and provided me encouragement and feedback over the years. Huge thanks also to the translators who put up with my erratic update schedule.

The credits list has gotten so long that it won't fit Steam's small word count restrictions for the description. Please see the following link for a full list of credits.
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cybrxkhan  [author] 22 hours ago 
@Emiya322 Unless they remove stuff or directly modify RICE files in a way that might cause conflicts (and I doubt they do either) I think it should be fine.

@Lanzmonkey No prob!

@Obsidious The vanilla regions are a bit haphazard (for instance it has Vietnam in Mainland SE Asia region, which is fine geographically but caused Vietnam to not use East Asian gfx in some cases when AUH first came out before the devs fixed it). But I guess gotta put them somewhere.
Obsidious Jan 22 @ 8:41pm 
@cybrxkhan Thank you! I guess the background is just Vanilla then. Weird to see a breezy Mediterranean throne room in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, but I guess the line has to be somewhere and isolating just the coastline would create a lot of regions.

@skarnnils From what I've been able to piece together, this is pretty specifically a Community Flavor Pack issue. I've fixed at least part of it with a load-order reshuffle in the past, and some consider it as an incompatibility, but others have reported seeing it with CFP alone. I wouldn't be surprised if it's something to do with the sheer size of the mod.
Lanzmonkey Jan 22 @ 3:51am 
Thanks for the help!!
Lanzmonkey Jan 22 @ 3:50am 
Found the mod and removed it from my playset it was the More Interactive Vassals mod that was throwing a tantrum lol, took me 3 hours (with having to wait for the game to load, then steam registering im no longer playing it and enabling mods)
Emiya322 Jan 21 @ 10:59pm 
works with old gods expanded?
cybrxkhan  [author] Jan 21 @ 9:05pm 
@Lanzmonkey If RICE appears to work fine by itself, then yeah I recommend adding mods one by ones to see where the conflict might be. Sadly that's the only way to know for sure.

@skarnnils As finarfin mentioned, probably a mod conflict, or one of the mods isn't up to date or the installation of it got messed up. Try testing with, for instance, only RICE+EPE, then only RICE+CFP, only EPE+CFP, etc., on a completely fresh new game, to see if you can narrow down the cause.

@Copy I wouldn't recommend adding it in the middle of a new playthrough, it might lead to some bugginess or break the save.
Copy Jan 21 @ 12:59pm 
Can We Add This mod in middle of Playthrough?
Lanzmonkey Jan 21 @ 12:42pm 
im now going through my mod list slowly activating a few to see which one is the cause lol
Lanzmonkey Jan 21 @ 4:43am 
Update: Just restaarted Steam, and now it appears if its the only one that is enabled mod wise an i can get on, now the queation is which mod is the one thats causing the conflict? (sry for the bad spelling)
skarnnils Jan 21 @ 4:43am 
finarfin,even with just rice EPE and CFP and their compatches most mongol women are still naked