Crusader Kings III

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Vanilla-Like Essentials Modpack (May2025)
   
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List of essential vanilla CK3 mods put together in May 2025.
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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...
Ethnicities & Portraits Expanded
Created by Celticus
https://imgur.com/bDhb5Ty.png THE MOD IS 1.16.2 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 Zoroastr...
CFP + EPE Compatibility Patch
Created by Kaepbora
https://i.imgur.com/vRqzGXG.png Load Order https://i.imgur.com/4OZcVdG.png Expanded Series Discord Link https://discord.gg/xdSAeDPT8y Community Mods for Historicity Discord Link https://discord.gg/zg2qNAcTwb CK3 Mod Coop Discord Link https://discord.gg/8wm...
Real Eyes 3.0
Created by HeirandtheSpare
The next generation of eye colors is here and has been completely reworked, including entirely new palettes of eye color shades made by me. Real Eyes is a simple file that changes eye color to allow for more variation of brown, hazel, green, turquoise, blu...
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 ...
Auto conversion
Created by slaneche
Auto promote religion Dans le cadre de la lutte contre la folie, un mode pour promouvoir automatiquement la religion. As part of the fight against madness, a mod to automatically conversion. Permettez à votre chapelain de promouvoir automatiquement la reli...
Auto increase control
Created by slaneche
Auto increase control Dans le cadre de la lutte contre la folie, un mode pour augmenter automatiquement le contrôle comtal. As part of the fight against madness, a mod to automatically increase county control. Permettez à votre maréchal d'augmenter le cont...
Auto promote culture
Created by slaneche
Auto promote culture Dans le cadre de la lutte contre la folie, un mode pour promouvoir automatiquement la culture. As part of the fight against madness, a mod to automatically promote culture. Permettez à votre intendant de promouvoir automatiquement la c...
Auto accept indulgences
Created by slaneche
Auto accept indulgences Dans le cadre de la lutte contre la folie, un mode pour accepter automatiquement les demandes d'indulgence. As part of the fight against madness, a mod to automatically accept requests for indulgence. À utiliser si l'on joue en tant...
Better AI Education
Created by FunGaming44
https://i.imgur.com/fVVaDCS.gif https://i.imgur.com/P8I1lQM.png This is an updated version of the original Better AI Education and I made some small changes and edits to improve upon the mod!! The Original Better AI Education mod was made by pthfndr1 Credi...
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 ...
Better camera zoom
Created by 豆豆
Enables closer camera zoom and automatically hides certain UI elements when fully zoomed in. Updated to 1.16.0 ———————————————————————————————————————————— If you encounter compatibility issues with other mods, try using the Lite version. Better camera zoo...
Better CoA Designer
Created by Agami
Gives you a big preview, allows to adjust values more precisely and makes UI easier to use. And you can copy colors now! Also: - you can click on the CoA to move emblems! - scroll sliders with a mousewheel to adjust with 0.1 precision - big sliders - guide...
Better Mass Vassal Directive
Created by Dr. Glitchgo
Quickly give directives to all your vassals with a single decision! Original code by Nightwolf. Created because the original creator restricted it to administrative only and went completely radio silent on everyone who asked for an unrestricted version, so...
Better Ruler Designer
Created by Agami
Lets you zoom in very close and freely rotate the character model. Note: don't zoom in too fast, that might freeze the game. Features You can: - change lighting - switch to full-body view to measure height - remove clothes - use mousewheel to adjust slider...
Better Struggle UI
Created by Agami
Struggle window opens instantly. Removes the gap at the bottom of the window. Lets you open catalysts in full height and makes them more compact. Fixes a bug with filters in Struggle Involvement and makes the window full-height. Adds custom mapmodes to sho...
Balance of Power UI
Created by Agami
See how your strength compares to your vassals at a glance. Adds an overview to the Factions window, showing how many troops are controlled by vassals who can't rebel, who are intimidated, who like you or those who don't. You can pin other rulers to add th...
Big Battle View
Created by Agami
Adds a more detailed, fullscreen battle view. Switch to the normal view with Page Down, open the big one with Page Up. Switches to compact view if there are more than 5 MAA in the list. Shows big knight portraits if there are fewer than 3 MAA. There's a bu...
Ambitious Conquest War
Created by Splendid
Adds a new Casus Belli type to the game that allows characters with the ambitious trait to declare county conquest wars against their neighbours. I added this to the game because I felt like rulers, especially smaller rulers were not declaring war often en...
EPE Color Picker for Clothes
Created by Csirke
Basic compatibility patch between EPE and Color Picker for Clothes. Merged the shaders for Color Picker and EPE Credit to those who made the original shaders: Buck, terrapass and Dee Load the mod after Color Picker for Clothes and EPE, so it can overwrite ...
Brighter Text Colors
Created by Zaister
This mod changes many interface text colors to appear brighter with better contrast against the dark background for improved readability. This is a work in progress. Please feel free to make suggestions for improvement. Now updated for CKIII 1.16.x and bet...
CK2 Style Colorful Lifestyle Traits
Created by Aj
If you like my work, consider donating to help me make more: https://ko-fi.com/ajbaj IRONMAN AND ACHIEVEMENTS COMPATIBLE Replaces the lifestyle trait icons with ones that are colored based on the attributes they correspond to, like in Crusader Kings II. ht...
Color Picker for Clothes
Created by Agami
Lets you change the color of clothes. Requires Better Barbershop! Load the barbershop after CFP if you use it! For the color picker itself load order doesn't matter, can put it anywhere. For AGOT, EK2 or LOTR, use Csirke's compatches: https://steamcommunit...
Duel Overlay
Created by Agami
Adds an overlay for duels, with success and injury chances, and effects of the available moves. Settings are in the top right corner of the event window. You can disable attack/injury icons there. Doesn't need an update, works on 1.15...
Historicity
Created by Rylock
https://i.imgur.com/l4zGnRm.jpeg For CK3 version: 1.16.2 Are you like me and you like playing the 867 start date, but don't like how certain Big Historical Things just never seem to happen? This is a mod I made for myself to encourage a few of those things...
Hometowns
Created by Mekbots
Updated for 1.16 Information A small mod that takes note of where exactly every character is born (specifically via event), and displays this location in the birth date tooltip. This applies to every character born after game start for as long as they are ...
Medieval Arts
Created by PiGu
https://i.imgur.com/RtJuraM.png A mod focusing on the arts and cultures of the world during the Middle Ages, adding numerous new monuments and 3D art to the game. You'd like to see a particular monument represented 3D in the game? Want to commission for a ...
Mass Demand Conversion
Created by Serp
Adds a decision (under topic Administrative) to send religious "demand conversion" interaction to all infidel: - direct vassals - indirect vassals - courtiers - housemembers This reduces the needed clicks alot to demand conversion from all your subjects, s...
More Character Names
Created by The_Ramdom_Cheese
Is this a dream you ask yourself? No my good friend this is non other than... More Character Names Remade from scratch and like it's previous incarnation will attempt to slowly expand upon all cultures of CK3 by adding the flavour they all deserve with mor...
Multilingual Education
Created by KeizerHarm
The Multilingual Education mod makes it much easier to ensure all your children end up speaking all the languages required of the nobility of your realm. You can designate up to three education languages for your court, and the youngest courtiers may speak...
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...
Pervasive Crown Authority
Created by pengoyo
Tired of vassals of vassals still waging war despite absolute crown authority? Well this is the mod for you. This makes it so the high and absolute crown authority vassal war restrictions applies to all vassals and all vassals below them. Note: this mod do...
Travelers
Created by pharaox
Overview Ever wondered why hostages or wards must travel to your court, but spouses, invited courtiers, or prisoners can instantly teleport to it from hundreds of miles away? Or why you can magically teleport to your new realm capital together with all of ...
Wandering XP from Wandering
Created by Yefreitor
https://i.imgur.com/QPQXiJy.gif Features With this mod, your character gains 10 wandering lifestyle experience for each province they pass through while traveling. This also applies to AI characters. Compatibility Compatible with all mods. Save game compat...
A Road Network In Vanilla
Created by OPB
Current Version: 1.2.1 "Roads of the World!" (Released 30.04.2025, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.16.*) This mod aims to enhance the overall gameplay experience by adding a road network to the game. This road network was graciously stolen from the A Game ...
Adventurers Don't BANKRUPT The Realm
Created by Nye
No More Bankrupting The ENTIRE Realm The current implementation of contracts and resources in landless adventurer gameplay has significant flaws. If you stay for too long in one area, the entire realm ends up bankrupt, leaving nobody with any money for oth...
Found University
Created by Generalissimo
A small mod that allows you to build a university in any barony you hold, as long as you have the Scholar trait, are Exalted Among Men and the province has more than 30 development....
Proper war headgear display
Created by Ourg
This mod reworks how the war headgears are handle in the game. there is a lot of issues with the base game that make some headgear never display (like the one thumbnail ) Here the list of the fixes i've made : - Make leader of army wear a helmet event if d...
CK2 Style Brighter Attributes
Created by Aj
Replaces the attribute icons with brighter ones that are more similar to those in CK2, and makes the color backdrops behind the attribute values brighter so that they are more easy to distinguish at a glance. The vanilla icons were a little hard to disting...
Knight Manager Continued
Created by Lord DGP
If you want to support me: You could buy me a coffee <3 https://i.imgur.com/q3ro97o.gif/ Knight Manager Continued is a continuation of the already brilliant but sadly outdated Knight Manager mod and adds more options. The mod also incorporates the changes ...
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...
Simple border
Created by 豆豆
Redraw the border to make it look more concise. Only the texture file has been modified, and it should be compatible with the new version in the long term. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— My other mod better camera zoom ...
Unit Packs Expanded
Created by Xangelo7
THE MOD REQUIRES ETHNICITIES AND PORTRAITS EXPANDED TO WORK! Unit Packs Expanded is a large scale effort looking to bring the game-play and war of Crusader Kings 3 to higher immersion with an growing array of in game Units for different cultures map-wide! ...
Decorous Loading Screen Pack
Created by QUENTOPOLIS
Updated and working with Crusader Kings III version 1.13 ("Basileus"). Features Nearly 270 new, elegant loading screen backgrounds tailored for maximum immersion. All images are in a consistent style, grounded in period-appropriate realism in a similar sty...
Battleground Commanders
Created by GG Terran
Armies will display their commanders, making them more involved visually during wars. With this mod, you would know immediately if a scary viking such as Ivar (or any of his brothers) is approaching your army. Runs great with AGOT mod too. Compatibility Pu...
Faster Transitions
Created by Agami
Cuts down transitions for tournaments and chariot races from 7.3 seconds to 1.2 See the video for the comparison. It's very simple, but I'd rather it was fast than fancy. For modders: Only overwrites three widgets and a template widget_pivotal_moment_event...
Advanced Cheat Menu
Created by mrtats
You can add/remove traits to/from your or other characters Add/remove resources like piety/prestige/renown to/from your character or other characters. Enable/Disable Debug Mode without -debug_mode launch option. Change your or other character's culture Cha...
Observer tools
Created by Agami
Lets you see all the armies at once in observer mode. You can still control-click a character to see things from their perspective. Also adds lists of all ongoing wars and "leaderboards": biggest realms, strongest rulers, most prestigious or pious (they up...
More Game Rules
Created by Neutrino
Customize your experience with more game rules! This mod currently adds the following game rules, with more to come: Playable Governments Shattered Realms AI Seduction, Intrigue, and Aggressiveness Matrilineal Marriage De Jure Empires Cadet Branches Fervor...
fix decisions tab performance
Created by Ourg
What this mod do ? : There is a bug with the decision tab ui which can generate a big fps drop when opening it while there is a lot of decisions in the list (like for nomads). Seems to be more impactfull when using vulkan. This mod simply fixes this issue....