Cool @meat plague ! Good addition to both RICE and the game in large!

Hi, the recent Manichean flavor to RICE was inspired by/made in minor collaboration with this mod, so I don't intend to update it any more.

rice com patch pls

Will there be an update for the latest nomad update?

Love the mod! some suggestions that I think would elevate the mod;

Add a decision called "The Manichean assembly of Samarkand"

An event chain would begin akin to the adoption-ism chain that was released in the Iberia DLC.

A means of "reforming the faith". which could see "Teaching of Jesus" Special doctrine be added onto the religion. as well as tenet options that would sway between eastern(sinic) and western(Indo-Iranian) Manichean beliefs.


Mani was an accomplished artist & poet, having a way to make poet & perhaps antiquarian be a Virtue of the faith would be great.

Having a decision to make a pilgrimage the the Bezeklik caves would also be great as there are Manichean frescoes within it, perhaps make Bezeklik a holy site as well.

add a decision called: "Search for Manichean relics" where court and non court artifacts could be sought after such as "The Gospel of Mani" , Shaburagan" , Ardahang" etc etc.

suggestions aside; great work mate! Keep it up!!

I have already added holy site activation in on-action as a backup to increase compatibility, but will have to test if it actually works when conflicting with another religion mod.

I'm pretty sure you can't activate/deactivate holy sites if they aren't already listed in the religions. For example, you can deactivate Koln (which is a Catholic holy site) for Catholic but you can't activate Esztergom (Krjstiani holy site) for Catholic.

I think that a lot of your sutff, ESPECIALLY the Holy Sites, could be added by event instead of overwriting any files. You can change the Culture and Religion of entire Provinces by Event, and you can alter Faiths by Event in many ways.

Just posted. One more thing, have you check out the mod 'Dream of Hexi Corridor'? They enrich the history of titles and families, more playable landed and landless characters, more favours and decisions to Tarim Basin, fix some historical inaccuracies. They also added some flavours for Uighur and Manichaeism. You could probably collaborate together

I probably will make minor additions in the future but for now you can definitely post it in a thread here

Are you planning to expand the mod a lot in the future? If not, I can just post the localisation code in a discussion thread so you can copy paste it. It's not too long anyway. Otherwise, I am happy to upload it separately so I can update it myself

Hey thanks for doing that! I think what most people tend to do is upload a separate mod with just the localization file, this allows you to keep it updated on your own if you want. And then I can link it from here.

Hey, I just made a Chinese translation for this mod. How do I upload the file to you?

悟道是为每个人服务的，不要让任何人离开。
Gnosis for everyone and let no one go away offended
Гнозис для всех и пусть никто не уйдет обиженным

love to see the manichaean love

would love to see a Nag Hammadi library site and content about gnostic books

BASED

11/25:
- Some compatibility fixes
- Added "feast of the bema" flavor event

@Iamthemistake: I'm looking into ways to enable use of some holy site special buildings without it actually being a holy site - is that what you're looking for? In any case I couldn't figure out a historical basis for it being a Manichean holy site.
@Vinny Possum: No, I'll look into this
@Emyr: Yep! I should put that in description.

Nice to finally have a Manichean overhaul mod, I understand that for balancing's sake you had to remove Khotan as a holy site, would be nice to still have access to it tho.

Otherwise the only suggestions I have would be adding Chaste as a Virtue & Lust as a Vice.

Ohhhhhh... just realised that you also made Baptism of Rus. :D

Did you get rid of the ability for priests to marry? Sex of any sort was a big no-no among the Manichean elect

thank you so much I've been waiting for someone to give some love to this faith!

very based, I've been wanting a Manichean mod for a while.

@TurtleShroom this is an excellent idea that I did not consider. Thanks!

You don't need to overwrite most religious files. Holy Sites can be added by Events and Doctrines can be changed by Events. Simply create an On-Action that causes those Events to change Manicheanism when the game starts.

thanks valefisk