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.a Hotfix for "Scholar-Gentry" (Released 12/9/25, Compatible with vanilla patch 1.17.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.a 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] 32 minutes ago 
@Red_Machine Does it work when you're running *only* RICE and no other mods? I've been able to load into new games RICE fine by itself so I can't reproduce it myself. It's also quite possible there could be a vanilla bug or a hardware issue to only happen on modded games, for instance when I was updating to AUH there was a bug with game concepts that caused CTDs for a lot of big mods, but it was actually a vanilla bug which was patched in 1.18.1. So you might still want to try the troubleshooting steps recommended in the threads I linked below to be safe.
Red_Machine 45 minutes ago 
Game works fine with RICE disabled, so I don't think it's a vanilla issue.
cybrxkhan  [author] 46 minutes ago 
For those experiencing CTD issues - theis might be a vanilla issue as apparently people have reported CTDs even without mods. You might want to test to see if the game runs fine without mods. Also verify game files, restart PC, etc. to be safe.

I've listed a few relevant forum threads about the possible issue I found below, the last two contain instructions on how to do a clean re-install that seemed to help at least one person, so you might want to try that. Also, I encountered CTD issues a week or two ago, even without mods, but switching from Vulkan to DX11 or DX11 to Vulkan fixed it for me, so you can try that as well.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/game-crashes-at-loading.1887401
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/game-keeps-crashing.1887820/#post-30984530
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/ck3-constant-crashing.1887468/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/repeatable-ctd-when-game-attempts-to-autosave.1887103/
von_das 1 hour ago 
I don't have that issue, but weirdly I did have what Red_Machine described when I started playing again after the RICE update. Restarting my computer fixed it, for some reason.
Petrus Fons 7 hours ago 
Also my game crash now after the update
Red_Machine 12 hours ago 
This update makes my game crash when I try to start a new game. I'm not using any mods that I wasn't using before, and all the ones I have active right now have been updated for AUH. Anyone else having this issue? The crash was present with the previous version of the mod after AUH was released, but I assumed it was because it was out of date.
gof 15 hours ago 
is anyone else randomly crashing after the new update?
神说万岁 16 hours ago 
The new update seems to have fixed the original bug of not displaying textures and modeling
三千123456 17 hours ago 
friend The Zhang family of Guiyi Army urgently needs your adaptation update... The subordinates of the Kingdom of Guiyi inexplicably own a piece of land in the Eastern Central Plains (I suspect it was caused by a character of the same name), and the legal system of the Kingdom of Guiyi has become very strange. And most importantly, the original version now has a system of governing by virtue. But under your default settings, Guiyi Kingdom still operates under an administrative system. We urgently need you to solve these bugs when you have free time.
神说万岁 18 hours ago 
@Pyrrr94 I also encountered this issue, it's not Rice's problem, it's a serious bug that P company created during the new DLC update. It seems that if too many mods with textures and modeling are added, it will cause many mod contents to be missing and treasure texture modeling to be missing. This is caused by P company's update, and they still haven't fixed this error! After canceling many interesting mods, I finally found that the treasures I could see at the beginning of the game were all normal. However, now I have discovered that some newly created treasures are still missing, which is caused by P company!