New Terrain Mod

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: This mod aims to bring more variety in random map generation by adding new options and objects.

CREDIT: Ebel

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

ADDITIONS

1. [Added to the base Game] New landscape options : Lakes, Rivers and coastal. (360+ map masks.)
2. New seasons options: Spring and Autumn.
3. New foreststype option: Countryside (rural with farms), Taiga (default), Black forest (Dense forest), temperate forest (new trees mix).
4. New harvestable treetypes : Willow, Oak, Beech, Birch, Cypress, Olive, Poplar, Maple, Oak bushes,…
5. New flowers and decoration types: cabbage, cornflower, thistle, caluna, editor buildings (rubbled houses, farmsteads, graves).
6. New map textures (summer, winter, autumn, spring)
7. New peace time options: 5 & [Added to the base Game] 15 minutes.
8. New mapsize options (Medium & Very large): current options now are : tiny (256), normal(320), medium (400), large (480), very large (560), huge (640)
9. New warship options: with or without warships or transports only
10. [Added to the base Game] New additional start options: 17th century barracks, log Cabins, a village and union of nations.
11. New resource start options: 10000, 50000, 100000 and 500000.
12. [Added to the base Game] New diplomatic option: Expensive mercenaries, costing 3 times as much as normal.
13. New patterns for more landscape variety (200+)
14. Animated trees. They appear to be moving with the wind.
15. Animals: wild animals, farm animals and flying birds making the maps more lively.
16. All new options are localized in the various available languages.

TWEAKS

17. Added a small amount of gold to following additional start option : cannons, towers and cannons & howitzers to cover for the initial maintenance cost.
18. On 18th century barracks start option: one fewer Log Cabin (4 -> 3) for Ukraine, one fewer 17th barracks for Ukraine (5 -> 4), Algeria and Turkey (4 -> 3) to not cause issues on small islands maps, where some of these buildings might spawn in water.)
19. 2 extra towers for the ‘towers’ start option, Ukraine gets 2 Log Cabins (previously they would get nothing).
20. Lowered the number of peasants Turkey/Algeria get on start option ‘Army of Peasants’, they previously would get many more than any other nation.
21. Changed the winter textures to be darker, as opposed to being blinded by the current snow textures.
22. Moved the desert landscape option from seasons to landscape.
23. Various changes to terrain generation, eg: landscape type ‘plain’ now is plain and no longer has hills generating on them. Hills generate hills and not plateaus/mountains, etc…

FIXES

24. Fixed misdecor7 & 8 having a bad texture (tent texture pointing to wrong file.)
25. Fixed desert_plain_medium pattern group error (Generator.cfg & dogenerate.inc)

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New Terrain Mod - v1.6.0.3 version

1 file(s) 129 Mb

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SETUP

[1] Unpack using 7-Zip.

[2.1] Recommended way: The contents of the unpacked folder should be copied to the Installed folder/Cossacks3/mods/. 

[2.2] Not recommended way: The contents of the unpacked folder should be copied to the folder Installed folder/Cossacks3. In this step, you must back up the original files.

[3] Use the Mod Manager to enable the game mode.

[!] If something does not work, please check the downloaded file: the update will not work without a version. So you have to download the latest version first and then download the update. For example, to use the v1.23 update, you need to download v1.22. During the update process, files need to be overwritten.