@seba111 you might have a higher level trait. Try removing all five: vampire, vampire2, vampire3, vampire4 and vampire5. After that make sure you can no longer see any vampirism traits on your chatacter.

Hey! I have a question, is there a console command mod to remove the vampirism from a character? After using remove_trait vampire there is still option to suck blood etc...

@bsplunge539 no, creating random npc vampire rulers are only supported from the game start. Other than this you can embrace some new npcs and let them loose on the world yourself.

is there a way to turn on ai vampires after a start game already?

@palpatine1214 there are multiple ways of becoming vampire for a game already in progress:
- For games already in progress similar event will be repeated on an adult character inheriting your titles or child ruler coming of age.
- Alternatively you can either use character editor to grant yourself Vampire trait or use an in-game console command `add_trait vampire`.

Here some information about console commands and how to run them in case you are unfamiliar: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Console_commands

Is there a way to become a vampire after the start of the game?

I'm not seeing the event, how does it start?

Cool mod, would it be possible to add dhampirs? Perhaps fledgling vampires can retain the ability to have children until becoming full fledged vampires.

I kept getting ill and getting killed after feeding a few times

I tend to play as female rulers so this explains some things. Thank you! Thankfully I had a daughter before converting

@taesunwoo while using this mod and playing a vampire character you should not be able to have regular human children. Infidelity still happens though, so don't get surprised if vampire's wife still ends up pregnant.

This mod also gives an option to embrace a new vampire into your family and accept them as your heir.

dumb question but can you have kids? I know you can with the vampire/lycan mod in CK3

This is an amazing mod!!

I don't think the AI knows how to Vampire. If left to there own devices (observe mode) they live for a little time they feed like, once, and then they ALWAYS get burnt at the steak some time later, by who? who the hell knows the game doesn't say who. >:/ and the mod gives the option for the AI to become vampires at the start and yet they just die after a few years, a dozen if they're lucky. they don't seems to know to how expand there "Family" they feed, sometimes i notice it says they've fed recently but they never take a childe (or however that's spelt) and then inevitably they die. theirs no future for vampires in this mod, they just die regardless of there stats or traits.

@John Weak I have just given it a try on my end and the mod got re-downloaded properly. I would have gotten very surprised if it didn't since it wasn't updated in while now.

After googling for a bit I came at this rather extensive list of other mod related things to check: https://appuals.com/fix-steam-workshop-not-downloading-mods/
Hopefully something from that list could help you out.

The ritual was a failure, every mod was re-downloaded after the purge, except yours sadly. It's as if there were no file attached to this page.

Thank you for responding, I will try to purge the mod folder again, though I might be forced to rely on pagan rituals and sacrifices to make it work.

@John Weak I am sorry to hear that you are struggling to set it up. I am not sure what the problem on your end could as this this is really a straight forward mod with nothing fancier than normal in it.
I can only suggest to clean up the mod folder, subscribe/unsubscribe and reboot the game a few times - maybe something crashed and got stuck in a weird state and need some help cleaning up. I don't think there is anything I can do on my end, since I have no way to control how the mod gets downloaded.

After verification it seems that subscribing to the mod doesn't download anything. I tried disconnecting, checking files, anything, but it just won't download your mod. I have no problems with other mods though.

@John Weak It should start pretty much right away. I am hooking on the "on_chronicle_start" action trigger.

Double check if if the mod is download properly and whether it is enabled in the launcher. An easy way to check if the mod is set up properly is to look for an extra trait in the ruler designer.

Hi, is the event supposed to pop up instantly when i create a new game ? I passed a few months and i still got nothing...

@BanDHMO yes, it is as simple as that! I don't think you even need to zip it again as the game should perfectly handle folders instead of zip files too.
Once you get a taste for it, there is plenty of info about how scripts work on ck2 wiki.

Thanks, @mirksmail, that makes sense. I've never made a CK mod before, so I'm a bit away from that, but maybe small adjustments to this one will be easy. I see that it's in a vampires.zip file in Documents folder, and inside that is just text. If I was to simply unzip it and edit the traits file in notepad, then zip it back up, would that be enough to change how it works for me locally, or are there any tricks beyond that needed?

@BanDHMO Thanks for the feedback. My ideas was to keep this mod rather generic vampire mod so it could potentially be extended by separate mods for different kinds of vampires. So all the specific vampire powers ideally would go into separate mod as an add on top of this - feel free to make one!

First of all, awesome mod! CK and vampires belong together.

Suggestion, a setting to increase the power of vampiric traits (except combat which is already big). By WoD lore I'd like to approximate, a 200-year old vampire should be very powerful, able to read and manipulate kine minds, infiltrate and eavesdrop unnoticed, easily assassinate mere mortals, etc. Getting only +5 intrigue, for example, at the top tier is underwhelming.

I know it's unbalanced and not for everyone, but as an option, it'd be great to have.

@The Unseen it goes down over time if you don't do anything that would make it rise instead. Also if you have other vampires in your court, suspicion event offers to sacrifice them as a scapegoat.

Also wanted to say that this mod is awesome!!

How do I remove suspension?

can you make it so we can feed on cattle a way to feed and not raise suspicion

@ryanscottxeper yes, there is a decision you can manually trigger.

Is there a way to feed any time? I got the prompts but chose not to feed on the person and now I cannot figure out how to fix my hunger lol.

@Sigismund, No, it does not require any dlcs.

Hey does this require any specific dlcs to work?

Make a CK3 version

I found that if you create a new ruler using the ruler designer, you'll get the two startup events (ai vampires and become a vampire) twice, and the ruler you replaced (who is in your court) is also a vampire.

Thanks, that's good to know!

You can reduce the hunger to a minimum without killing, but removing the last step requires fully draining someone. Always feeling the need for the blood is intentional.

As far as I could tell vampires have to kill people while feeding in order to reduce hunger. Using MTTH for suspicion increase makes a vampire's survival dependent on luck--especially as it appears that hunger increase is also a MTTH event. If it is possible to reduce hunger without killing people, how about including a hint via event or something?

@khagler if people keep dying while you are feeding, that is what is leading to the suspicion going up. Currently the suspicion rising event is on 1 year mean to happen after misbehaving - might be difficult to map with you doing something wrong in particular.

One thing you can do to lower it is push the blame to another vampire in your court, but where must be another vampire in your court for this option to show up in the event.

I gave this a try, but didn't last very long. I found that suspicion went up even when I did nothing until it hit exposed, and then a little while latter I got a "you're dead" event. As far as I can tell there's nothing you can do to actively lower suspicion, and it goes up even if you're not feeding or making any new vampires.

Suspicion does seem to go down by itself very slowly. My vampire fed on someone and hid the body, after which suspicion went to the first level, and a while latter dropped again. He later fed one someone else and again hid the body, and it went to the first level and then just kept going up.

@doge airship commander I was working under the interpretation that vampires are basically undead and sterile although my intention was a generic vampire mod that could be extended with details of a specific vampire theme. I will take this into consideration for future projects, but it's probably too late to make such a significant change to this mod by now.

how can they have vampire baby's in dracula and skyrim but not here

@necromancer_33 no, vampires should not be able to get regular children.

Can you have children as a vampire? Or can you only have childer

mirksmail, yes, SIr, I meant CK3, Thanks for Your answer.

@Dizylene I suppose you meant CK3? If so, I do not have any such plans at the moment.

Good day, Sir. Are You going to port this mod to Crusader King II?

PPD: It was actually neither. Just make sure you unpause the game before embracing an heir

PD: It wasnt this mod. It was the "change characters like CK3" mod which apparently has an incompatibility

I think the suspicion rate is working really well right now. If you are careful and keep to safefeeding (eg prisoners) you can survive without trouble.

One problem I´m finding: For some reason my current game doesnt recognize embraced "sons" as heirs.