make the bahaviour more varied and make it spend more on military than economy

Meneldil, tbh, I’ve given up trying to beat those broken campaigns, so I never took a close look at campaign achievements, but I’ll investigate it. Maybe there’s a bug where the achievement isn’t updated until you start a Custom Game or save the profile?

Yeah, I can improve the AI. If you have any practical ideas on how to make it better, feel free to share them

can you improve the ai

Thanks aljesco. I know what I have to do, the achievement just won't trigger. I reinstalled the game, did the mission one more time and it worked. oh well, weird.

Hey Meneldil, many of the campaign achievements are difficult to obtain due to the imbalanced enemy numbers in some missions. However, "Slayer of Infidels" is relatively easy to achieve even without mods:
"Relieving Oryol from the siege is quite easy and yields good benefits, you can do it even using only your starting troops: in fact, as soon as you will attack the enemy, Oryol’s defenders will make a sally and help you defeat the besiegers; just use your Pikemen to protect your Strelets and you should be fine, the defenders will do all the heavy work.", probably this guide may be helpful https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=899956545

Hello aljesco, do you think you could fix more achievements? I'm unable to get Slayer of Infidels, no matter what I do in the first mission of the russian campaign.

Hello Cossacks, we have an update — version 0.20

Drummers now follow the squad instead of standing still.

Hello Сossacks, we have an update version 0.18

Custom Game: Display player's LAN ID and kick button.
Custom Game: Added options to hide players' nicknames, chosen nations, and colors.

@Erenussocrates This mod is not compatible with most others. Make sure you have disabled other mods in the Mod Manager before starting Cossacks

The game doesnt open when I enable this mod

@slavikR1 спасибо за репорт, исправили

Юниты перестали выходить из шахты,если мышкой нажимать.

Hello cossacks, we have an update 2025-08!

This update brings minor improvements to the game interface:
1. Hotkeys related to the mod are stored in a separate file named hotkeys-ren.cfg.
2. Ability to assign a key combination for the action "Move the camera to the latest event".
3. Switch player by clicking their color above the minimap or using the key combinations 'Alt+,', 'Alt+.', 'Shift+Alt+,', 'Shift+Alt+.'.
4. The room now displays its name and the player's peasant spawn position number.
5. The mod version is displayed in the main menu.
6. Load/save a game or replay by double-clicking in the respective menu.

@Slawender This game has already been abandoned for seven years...

Huge mod, maybe if you want youneed to write to gsc about implementing this mod as a patch? There is a faint hope they would do.

😼👍👍

Good job, huge thanx

Odin, feel free to share your ideas on the discord server or here on the comments or create a thread

awesome, where is possible to submit ideas ?

Hello cossacks, we have an update 2025-06!

This patch improves custom game interface:
1. Map preview has been added.
2. You can now select specific maps before starting a game.
3. Added the ability to choose spawn locations for peasants.
4. The total number of games played by each player in the room is now displayed.
5. New game options for configuring mortars and naval units have been introduced.
6. The chat window has been improved: now it scrolls to the last message, holds more messages, and can be cleared.
7. Added chat options: Displaying the time of messages in the chat, sound for message notifications.
8. It is now possible to create a room without a name.
9. New option "When creating a multiplayer room, load AI players' settings".
10. The language selection interface in settings has been improved.

Dieu-Rainbow, Content que ça ait marché

C'est bon j'ai réussi à les faire, j'ai du réinstallé le jeu et ça a fonctionné du 1er coup, merci beaucoup pour le mod :)

Dieu-Rainbow, Quelles réalisations exactement ?

Les succès sont toujours bloqué ... dommage

Блин! Капец ты волшебник))
ТОП-чик!

Awesome update!

Hello Cossacks, we have an update 2025-04.

This patch improves the game interface:
1. Added hotkeys for most buildings.
2. Improved "Hotkeys" window; ability to assign P key.
3. New option "Button press effect".
4. New option "Highlight buttons on hover".
5. New option "Highlight idle mines".
6. New option "Alternative map dragging mode".
7. New option: "Do not enable repeating production on left-click for officers, drummers, and ferries".
8. New options "Highlight ships", "Prioritize ship selection".
9. Hiding the UI during the game with the F6 key.
10. Enabling building transparency with the Shift+Q combination.
11. Moving the camera to the latest event (building completion; attack) with the Space (Ctrl+Space) key.
12. Added the "Unload all units" button in the mine.
13. Fixed selecting walls and gates in the list of buildings by Ctrl+B.
14. Displaying the amount of fish in the boat.
15. Added confirmation when deleting a profile.

MycjOW, який сенс виносити зміни UI в окремий мод?

Братан зщроби УІ мод окремим....

It affects players troops. They get stuck in the water when crossing the bridge or refuse to cross it and go around.

Since the campaign missions are extremely hard, the poor pathfinding could be used to exploit the AI and gain an advantage. Or does it also affect the player's troops?

Yes in several missions in the Austrian campaign at least. I can check the exact missions later.

Regarding the pathfinding bug when crossing bridges, does it only happen in campaign missions? I've never seen bridges in skirmish custom games.

I seem to remember American Conquest having hotkeys for everything. Maybe a source of inspiration......

Nice!
Hmm yes something like a grid system would work or maybe just the first letter in the units name I guess.
I personally prefer the old fashioned system of no grid hotkeys, but that's just me.

Keep up the good work!

ZeroEffort89, yes, in the next release, I'll add hotkeys for upgrades in the town hall, mill, mine, and tower; for leaving the mine or transport; and for opening and closing the gates. I could add hotkeys for production buildings, but each building can produce up to eight units, and the question is which exact keys to bind. I might add hotkeys E-R-T-Y-F-G-H-J or you can suggest the better combination. Anyway, if I do it, I'll make them configurable in the file.

Love seeing community support for the game!

Would it be possible to add more hotkeys? =)
For example upgrades and unit production?
Are you also able to fix the pathfinding bug that sometimes occurs when crossing bridges?

ew, ai "art"

@aljesco you rock. grew up on cossacks and love to see you supporting this game today

AI can build a maximum of 8 art depots, with 8 mortars per depot, but no more than 40 mortars in total per nation. Yes, the AI can capture enemy nations and produce more troops and artillery. However, I'm not sure about nerfing mortars. If the mortar range is decreased to match the tower's range, or if its dispersion is increased even further, what would be the point of that? I'm considering an option that allows players to ban particular units in custom games; maybe that would be a solution.

mortars range is too OP , need to be decreased and also AI to not spawn like hundred of them cuz its like Tanks and also AI have too OP damage with the Mortars . They haveto be nerf. Please add update to the mode (if need as optional option in the options) . Thank you ahead

i just want mortars to have the same range as a tower and also for the AI to actually build a navy

Super! For this wonderful game, there should be more modifications - new and interesting ones. Thank you for your work! "Супер! Для цієї чудової гри, має бути більше модифікацій - нових та цікавих. Дякую за роботу! "

Nice one.

I got to say, this author is just amazing as a person and as a mod creator. Please support this author in his future works, he deserves it.