- Reworked Province borders
- New Terrain Type: Salt Flats, Forest-Steppe and Floodplains
- Lack of Control Disaster balanced
- New Wasteland provinces in Iran, Central Asia and India
- New Provinces in Arabia, Tibet and East Asia
- New national ideas for Massageatae, Saba and Qedar, Tibetans, Wu and Qi
- New Nations (in Arabia, Iran, Tibet and central-east Asia)
- New startdate with less nations
- New government for early chinese states
- New events and decisions for chinese states
- Celestial Empire was renamed into Han Chao and is no longer formable
- New estate for the chinese: State-Officials
- New trade goods: Tar, Tea, Gemstones and Cotton
- New elephant mechanics: elephant provinces have a special population of elephants, every 10-12 years you can choose what to do with the elephants
- Reworked food mechanics
- Horses trade good now gives 5% Cav-To-Inf ratio, every province reduces Cav-To-Inf ratio by 0.1%
- Media and Persia were split up into smaller kingdoms and tribes, the missions for Kyros the Great (who starts now in Anshan) were reworked
- Sasanian Empire was renamed into Ērānshahr and is now also a formable nation
- New religions: Bon, Baltic, Slavic, Uralic, Wuism, Bai Hu, Luwian, Elamite and Sramana
- Slightly reworked trade routes
- Reworked tribal bonueses and disadvantages
- Nomad raiders can now appear in border provinces to neutral/hostile hordes and try to raid your provinces. Castles, Garrisons and Units decrease the chance of such a raid.

- Much bugfixing

- fixed bug that said 'Is not AI' when forming a inland colony
- fixed size of unit models
- added colosseum model and event when a colosseum building is in rome
- balanced 'Lack of Control' disaster