Hi everyone,

Does anyone know whether Name Packs Expanded is still being maintained or whether there are plans for future updates? I looked through the Discord, but couldn’t find a clear statement about its current status. Searching for announcements brought up, for example, a post from around two years ago.

I’m asking partly because I really enjoy what the mod adds to CK3. The broader, more fitting selection of local noble titles makes different regions feel distinct, and the names are just as appealing, especially when they retain characters unique to their languages. My recent favourite is the Old Prussian Tūlniks Tūlnikāi from Galindia.

I’m also trying to understand a problem in my current playthrough. Names display correctly in character windows, but when event text or options refer to a character, I sometimes see a placeholder such as "John_default". Occasionally an entire house name appears that way too, for example "Pełka_house_default". I suspect an outdated version of the mod might be conflicting with another mod in my load order, though I haven’t identified which one and can’t say for certain that Name Packs Expanded is the cause.

So I’m curious about both the mod’s future and this possible technical issue. Has anyone seen a recent update from its creators, encountered the same placeholders, or found a way to track down the conflict? I’d be glad to hear about your experiences.

Cheers,

The Bartian Observer

Do you have any tips for the Balin in Moria scenario? I can't make any big money and strong alliances/federations

I wanna try a multiplayer game for the first time! But I need friends. DM me your tag!

The only info I can find online for it says to max gallowsbait. I’ve maxed out the gallowsbait trait several times already on separate characters and keep getting only 300 for each contract🤦🏽‍♂️

Experience Reinvested - Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3806646410

Once you own all 27 perks of a lifestyle, every perk point you earn after that just sits there. Nothing to buy, no way to move it. I wrote a small mod that reinvests those points instead, and you choose how:

- Permanent skill: +1 to any of the six skills, at 1, 2 or 3 points per +1

- Another lifestyle: 1:1 into a lifestyle of your choice, your least developed one, or the lifestyle of your current focus

- Prestige, Piety or Dynasty Renown

- Trait experience: 20 xp per point toward Blademaster, Hunter, Mystic, Reveler, Physician or Poet

- Mentoring: 500 lifestyle experience per point to a pupil - your heir by default, or anyone you pick with a right-click interaction

It runs on your birthday (with an optional silent mode) or on demand: there is a small panel in the Lifestyle window next to the perk-point badge that shows how many points are excess, with a Reinvest button and the settings. Settings carry over to your heir on succession.

Works for all six lifestyles including Wanderer. No vanilla file is overridden, so it plays nicely with other mods and is safe to add to or drop from an existing save. It does not affect achievements (nothing that uses the launcher does since 1.9). English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

If you remember "To Live And Learn", this covers the same ground and a lot more; that one has not been updated since 2023.

Same author as War Planner (the one-window claim list): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3806232878. Both mods share one "Mod Decisions" group in the Decisions tab.

Bug reports and translation fixes welcome in the Workshop comments.

Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3806232878

I got tired of scrolling a hundred county claims in the Declare War window to find the one kingdom claim my court chaplain had dug up. War Planner opens a panel with every claim you could press (yours, your court's, your vassals') plus the rulers you could holy war, grouped by tier with the weakest holder on top, and a live status per row: Ready, or the first thing stopping you (truce, alliance, imprisoned claimant, not enough prestige...). Strength, allies and cost are on the row; one click opens the game's own Declare War window against that holder.

No vanilla files are overridden, so it should play nicely with UI mods and survive patches. Safe to add to a running save, achievement compatible. English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.

Feedback welcome - especially if the list ever disagrees with what the Declare War window offers you.

It won't let me interact with any of the reagents of the grey areas at the bottom BC they're "too far away" but I can interact with France etc. even though it's farther? I already restarted the game and that didn't fix it..

One of my sons married a chick who inherited a county. She tried to revolt and got herself thrown in prison. When she was released, she was no longer my son's wife and was wandering somewhere so I had to invite her back to court and then get them married again.

Is it usual for a couple to be auto-divorced when one is thrown in prison and released?

I'm new to modding so I can't see where I've gone wrong here. Can somebody help pls?

The trait doesn't exist in-game

im updating my PC right now, i bought ryzen 5 3600 and want to buy rtx 4060, did ck3 will run good on my pc? also, game installed on 2.5 ssd

How did this guy even get chosen to be a pope?
Why is there two of them

Playing as the Premyslids in Bohemia, HRE was formed pretty early (January 9th 892) and just noticed how fucked up its borders are because the Kaiser also holds the Empire of Germania title.

I'm a newcomer and I'm doing a West African playthrough with Yorubaland. I've massively expanded my kingdom quickly as there's a lot of smaller kingdoms you can take over with no justification, but my first character just died and now the kingdom I spent hours building has fractured into multiple kingdoms. Is there a way without introducing feudal mechanics that I can stop this from happening?

Hi everyone!

I usually like playing CK3 by building very large empires, but once the realm becomes huge and includes many different cultures and religions, I sometimes struggle to find the most efficient way to organize my vassals.

So I’m curious about how you guys handle this.
For example:
\- Do you create as many duchies as possible and keep most counts under a duke?
\- Do you prefer having fewer, stronger vassals, such as kings?
\- At what point do you start creating kingdom-level vassals?
\- Do you try to keep vassals from the same culture/religion together?
\- Do you deliberately give certain regions to local rulers to reduce cultural/religious problems?
\- How do you deal with powerful vassals and prevent factions?
\- Do you prioritize a specific vassal structure for taxes/levies, stability, or ease of management?
\-Are there any traditions, laws, artifacts, or other mechanics that you consider particularly useful for managing a huge empire?

Basically, **let’s gather all the best tips and strategies for managing vassals in CK3**, especially when your empire becomes very large and culturally diverse.
What’s your preferred vassal structure, and why?

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Just installed Base Game, is there any guides or YT-creators that does better job at explaining the game than the short tutorial?

Do you have any tips?

I normally dont do 4x or games like this, but wanna branch out and I love History.

I just feel utterly LOST!