Help needed! how do I mod society bonus?

[ModsNewbie]

I noticed how Benedictine and Hermetic societies give you great bonus; like diligent trait and mAgnum opus at rank 4 but Dominican order did not give you anything except the power to convert county; which is useless if you were playing in Catholic region. I want to change it so Dominican order also gets special power to give good traits like shrewd or patient.

Can someone tell me how and what file to mod for my aim? Thanks for your help!

 

[Starcomet]

You need to go to the /common/societies/ 00_societies folder in the Crusader Kings II folder. Though it is recommended you make a mod of that file.

 

[ModsNewbie]

So I found the Common/societies/00_societies.txt in the folder you described.

As I said before, I wanted to give Dominican Order special power to grant good traits like shrewd, just like Benedictine Order; which give you diligent trait.

So I copied and pasted the rank 4 bonus of Benedictine to Dominican But now the game won’t start due to mod failure.

What do I have to do?

 

[Starcomet]

Copy and paste the string here, you might have overlapped something.

 

[ModsNewbie]

society_rank = {
level = 4
limit = 5
startup_limit = 1
modifier = {
monthly_character_piety = 0.5
learning = 3
build_cost_temple_modifier = -0.5
fertility = -0.15
}
decisions = {
monastic_order_convert_county
}
custom_tooltip = dominican_power_shrewd_tt
}

 

[Starcomet]

Hmm, it should work. Maybe it is the brackets or the localization. Maybe even the event!

 

[Starcomet]

Yeah you need to go into the events folder and to monastic order events and change the Benedictine power to allow members of the Dominicans as well.

 

[ModsNewbie]

and no, I just copied and pasted this part: custom_tooltip = dominican_power_shrewd_tt

into dominican order after the decision.

So how do I mod the event part?

 

[Starcomet]

Here is the wiki guide: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Event_modding

You essentially needed go to the requirements and add the Dominican monastic order.

 

[ModsNewbie]

so I basically copied entire benedictine power part from mnm_monastic_orders_event.txt and pasted it into new txt file 'New Domincan Power"

and changed the wording from benedictine to dominican, diligent to shrewd. These two are the only changes I made, because I did not want to make too much change and break the game.

And Yet, the game still will not launch.

Can you tell me what went wrong with my mod?

 

[Starcomet]

I think the best thing to do would be to simply add the Dominican monastic order to society member. That way it will check for both Dominican and Benedictine.

 

[ModsNewbie]

I can't because I am trying to give different trait, shrewd to be exact, for Dominican Order, that is why I could not just add dominican order into the benedictine power event.

However, if all fails, I guess I have no choice. Can you tell me how to add the domincan order into benedictine power event so its members also receive diligent trait?

 

[Starcomet]

That I am afraid is something I am uncertain off. You should just be able to add monastic_order_dominican to the Benedictine power and it should allow it. I hope others come to assist though as I am still intermediate when it comes to modding.

 

[ModsNewbie]

Thank you for your reply. Even though I don't know exactly how to achieve my goal, you helped me on the right track.