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“You have been crowned a king, and yet you make good-luck charms; would you be crowned God?”
- Yoruba proverb

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Nıger Delta Flavor Pack: Heirs of Oduduwa
  
• Added 7 African themed soundtracks
  
• Added Easter egg characters from the VIET Events contest winners
  
• Integrated some of BAO by Shatzi for Breton Flavor Pack:
  
  • Traditions: Matter of Britain, Kevaez, and Peurajoù Libr
    
  • Duchy Building: Free Range
    
  • Ability to gift Breton horses
    
  • 5 new flavor events
• Trans-Saharan merchant spawn can now available anywhere in Africa (however, dynasty legacies are still limited to original regions)
  
• More variety for culture and faith of Trans-Saharan merchant spawn
  
• Upon Zhang Yichao’s death, dukes in the Guiyi Circuit will also get claims on the Kingdom of Xia if it exists
  
• Ari Buddhism now starts with the Pali Canon doctrine instead of the Esoteric Canon
  
• Several special buildings’ affects now apply to the owner of the county they’re in, rather than the barony (so that baron-tier vassals won’t get bonuses meant for their liege)
  
• Cantiga and Cantiga de Santa Maria decisions are now available to anyone of Iberian heritage who knows an Iberian romance language
  
• Reduced the costs of the decision to Compose a Cantiga
  
• Disabled a few more decisions for barony tier rulers
  
• Fixed RICE court events potentially bugging from lacking court-related flags in the code
  
• Fixed Chan Buddhism from TIP mod not getting the East Asian canon doctrine
  
• Fixed Dezawist paganism missing a tenet if running with BAP
  
• Fixed Pithipati notification event triggering in regions that don’t make sense
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Vassa decision now costs some prestige
  
• Fixed Vassa decision preventing you from doing other activities if you took it earlier in the year
  
• Added debug event as a way to manually resolve issues with endless activities as a last resort failsafe - console command is “event RICEdebug.0002”
  
• Fixed Galician-Portuguese Lyric tradition being shown (but not pickable) anywhere on the map, instead of only in Iberia or for Iberian cultures
  
• Fixed Coptic culture not getting the Children of the Nile tradition if running RICE with CE
  
• Fixed Harran faith not being in Harran if running RICE with CE
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and tweaks

“Como poden per sas culpas os omes seer contreitos,
assi poden pela Virgen depois seer sãos feitos.”
[“As people may be crippled through their sins, so may they
also be made healthy by the Virgin.”]

Refrain from Cantiga 166 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Galicia Flavor Pack: The Way of Saint James
  
• Added 7 Iberian themed soundtracks
  
• Added message about load order if you’re running with TFE (TFE needs to be below RICE in load order now)
  
• Reduced chances AI will take the decision to Compile the First Turkic Dictionary
  
• Changed decision art for a couple East Asian related decisions
  
• Siberian Survivalists and Swahili Contacts traditions are now added via scripted effect at game start to ensure better compatibility
  
• White Hun tradition no longer is available when playing TFE start dates
  
• Removed RICE’s version of Joseph ibn Naghrela and his family from the history files, since he has a vanilla version now (the Granada pogrom event chain remains and is functionally the same, however)
  
• Tweaked starting traits of Joseph ibn Naghrela at game start
  
• Fixed Pamiri culture overriding Hephthalite on the map in TFE and early start dates
  
• Fixed decision to renovate Kassia’s tomb adding its related county modifier to Kharga instead of Rhodes
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

The Wakhan Corridor is a mountain valley that lies between the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. Since ancient times, this remote mountain pass has facilitated the movement of peoples, armies, ideas, and faiths across Eurasia.

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Turco-Hephthalite culture as a hybrid of Hephthalite and Turkish, that appears on the map in 867 instead of the old Hephthalite culture, to clarify confusion arising from my previous usage of Hephthalite
  
• Added Pamiri culture to the Iranian culture group
  
• Added a new tradition, Beyond the Reach of Eagles, for the Pamiri, Burusho, and Peristani cultures
  
• Modified Guanche content to fit vanilla’s implementation of the Guanche
  
• Guanche paganism is now in a separate religion, Guanche, than the other Amazigh faiths (mainly to maintain compatibility)
  
• Renamed vanilla’s North African religion to Guanche (to distinguish them from the Amazigh)
  
• Pray for Blessings of Rain Rain and Benesmen Festival decisions now require the Guanche religion
  
• Removed decision to Unite the Canary Islands, since vanilla has something similar; however, you will still get the relevant county modifiers via event
  
• Rebalanced costs for most feast/festival type decisions
  
• White Hun tradition is now added to the Hephthalites via scripted effect at game start to ensure better compatibility
  
• White Hun tradition will no longer be added to the Hephthalites if playing with TFE or early start dates
  
• Revamped a few decision art (thanks to PinkPanzer)
  
• Activities are separated by flavor pack in different text files in the code
  
• Fixed Ali ibn Asad starting off as a Seljuk vassal instead of being independent
  
• Fixed Cichiciquitzo tradition requiring the unused Guanche heritage - it now requires being Guanche or descended from Guanche culture
  
• Fixed White Huns and Xianbei Scions traditions being unavailable to Hephthalite and Tuyuhun/Qiang cultures respectively
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

• Removed Chinese localization files from mod at the request of Chinese translators - if you want to play in Chinese, please use this sub-mod: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2823178539
  
• Reinforcing Relations with Silk Road communities now also requires some prestige
  
• Amount of gold gifted by Silk Road communities via random events is now much more randomized
  
• Reduced maximum amount of gold you can get from Silk Road communities via random events
  
• If the Granada pogrom event chain happens as it did historically, the death reason for Jewish victims will now mention the mob
  
• Removed the useless Galicia loc file that was there for some reason
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

The Darro, a tributary of the Genil river, is one of the main rivers flowing through Granada. In the medieval period, it was noted for its gold deposits. It also supplied the famed Alhambra with water through a canal system known as the Acequia Real, or the Sultan’s Canal.

• Added 2 generic flavor events for Granada
  
• Added the Idol of Cadiz as a county modifier to Cadiz at the start of the game
  
• Added decision to Demolish the Idol of Cadiz
  
• Added some more German translations (credits to Dillo)
  
• Added decision to Revive Gomati Monastery for Buddhists in Khotan, which will restore the 8 Protectors Modifier if Khotan had been previously taken over by a non-Buddhist
  
• Added decision to Construct the Ordam Mazar for Muslims in the Tarim Basin, which will enable the Ordam Mazar decision from start dates before 1066
  
• New minor flavor and narrative events for the first Muslim ruler of Khotan related to the above
  
• Qanat innovation is now available and given to various Middle Eastern cultures in TFE as appropriate
  
• Decision to Relocate from Ilbira to Granada now only requires Illustrious rather than Exalted Among Men level of prestige
  
• Changed event noise for some beach backgrounds
  
• Fixed Stage Animal Fight decision not being available to cultures that are of Tocharian heritage but not Tocharian culture
  
• Fixed some missing Evenk name localization, especially in non-English language versions of the game
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

• RICE+EPE compatch updated to the new patch
  
• Added decision to rededicate the temple of Luxor to be a pagan temple or Christian Church
  
• Group vacations at a Munya now give slight stress relief
  
• Teimani and Parsim cultures start with Qanat innovation
  
• New Jewish cultures added in 1.6.0 can now appear in events from previous RICE updates as appropriate
  
• Amazigh faith now has Chthonic Redoubts and female clerical gender to be in line with BAP mod
  
• Fixed missing custom faith icons for new religions in RICE
  
• Fixed AI not taking Reopen/Close Aswan Temple decisions due to low gold
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

• Achamanism (Guanche Paganism) and Dezawism now have the Cthonic Redoubts tenet instead of Sanctity of Nature
  
• Benesmen Festival and Pray for Blessings of Rain decisions now require following a faith of the Amazigh religion that has the Cthonic Redoubts tenet (this is a workaround for the bug where these decisions are unavailable to reformed Guanche paganism, due to not being able to scope to reformed faiths including Guanche paganism)
  
• Samanid vassals in Badakhshan start with the religious rights protected contract
  
• If playing as Thabit ibn Qura, the Harranian pagan in 867 CE, you now start with the jizya contract with your liege
  
• Renamed Persian Jewish culture to Parsim
  
• Fixed Munya decision not being cheaper after building the Generalife structure in the Alhambra
  
• Fixed the peaceful resolution to the Granada pogrom event chain not granting Granada the proper county modifier as a reward
  
• Fixed Granada pogrom event chain not prioritizing Joseph ibn Naghrela as the potential first victim
  
• Fixed no vocal music game rule not working
  
• Fixed missing icons for Nile flood activities
  
• Fixed missing localization for the end of the Munya solo vacation
  
• Fixed some decisions being unavailable in potential edge cases where a Munya group vacation doesn’t expire properly for guests for some reason
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

"Since I cannot offer you a present of any worth on your birthday, accept this humble poetic impression, made on my soul by the grandiose marvel of the Alhambra of Granada we both admire."
- Francisco Tarrega, on his original manuscript of his famous guitar piece Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Please note some changes will only take effect with new games.

• Added Granada Flavor Pack: Memories of the Alhambra
  
• Added 3 Spanish guitar and 5 medieval Iberian themed soundtracks
  
• Added new “No Vocal” option in the music game rule to disable vocal music (but keep ambient or instrumental music)
  
• Removed Mizrahi culture and replaced it with new Jewish cultures based on feedback: Mustarabi, Teimani, Persian Jews (please note this is WILL be subject to change in the future, this is just a baseline to work on)
  
• Starting gold, prestige, and piety of many new rulers added in RICE are now slightly more randomized at game start for some variety
  
• Cooldown for various feast decisions in RICE will now be shorter if your culture has the Frequent Festivities tradition (this was previously not accounted for)
  
• Fixed Spectate the Stamford Bull Run decision not having a cooldown
  
• Miscellaneous bugfixes