Crusader Kings 3: Gameplay settings Crusader Kings 3 guide, tips
On this page of the Crusader Kings 3 tutorial you will find a description of the gameplay settings that the player can define before starting a new game.
Last update: 18 May 2022
On this page, you will find a complete list of gameplay settings that you can change before starting the game.
- Exclave Endependence
- Multiplayer: Murder Schemes
- Minor Diseases
- Gender Equality
- Local Heresies
- Mongol Invasion
- Casus Belli cost
- Culture Conversion Speed
- Faith Conversion Speed
- Diplomatic Range
- End Date
- De Jure Requirement
- Custom Kingdoms
- Generate Families
- Same-Sex Relations
- Sexuality Distribution
- Faith Acceptance
- Randomized Faiths
- Random Ruler Placement
- Character Nudity
- Hungarian Migration
Exclave Endependence
Settings | Effects | Achievements |
Off | A ruler can own land not connected to his main domain anywhere on the map. |  |
Limited (AI Only) | The lands not connected to the main domain of the AI ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are part of De Jure territory or are connected to its capital by a single county or sea route. |  |
Significant (AI Only) | The lands not connected to the main domain of the AI ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are part of De Jure territory or are connected to its capital by sea route. |  |
Total (AI Only) | The lands not connected to the main domain of the AI ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are connected to its capital by sea route. |  |
Limited | The lands not connected to the main domain of the ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are part of De Jure territory or are connected to its capital by a single county or sea route. |  |
Significant | The lands not connected to the main domain of the ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are part of De Jure territory or are connected to its capital by sea route. |  |
Total | The lands not connected to the main domain of the ruler, in truce conditions, are lost as a result of succession - unless they are connected to its capital by sea route. |  |
Multiplayer: Murder Schemes
Default | Players can use murder schemes against their characters. |  |
No Players | Players cannot use murder schemes against their characters. |  |
No Player Families | Players cannot use murder schemes against their characters and their families. |  |
Minor Diseases
Default | Minor diseases occur as usual. |  |
Fewer | Minor diseases are 30% less common. |  |
Gender Equality
Default | At the beginning of the game, the tenets of the major religions have a historically accurate approach to gender equality, including the clergy and the doctrine of female and male adultery. All lands have historically accurate rules of inheritance for men and women. |  |
Equal | At the beginning of the game, the tenets of the major religions have a gender equality approach, and this also applies to the clergy. The adultery doctrine for man and woman is the same. All lands have equal rules of inheritance for men and women. |  |
Inverted | At the beginning of the game, the tenets of the major religions have an inverted (than historically) approach to gender equality, including the clergy and the doctrine of female and male adultery. All lands have inverted rules of inheritance for men and women. |  |
Local Heresies
Strict | 200x chance that heresies in specific regions will be historical. |  |
Default | 5x chance that heresies in specific regions will be historical. |  |
Relaxed | All heresies are random, regardless of the region. |  |
Mongol Invasion
Default | One of the AI-controlled characters will become the Greatest of Khans between 1180 and 1250 if the player has not previously won the title. |  |
Never | Only a player character can become the Greatest of Khans. |  |
Random | One of the AI-controlled characters will become the Greatest of Khans at a random time if the player has not previously won the title. |  |
Casus Belli cost
Default | Casus Belli costs resources. |  |
No costs | Casus Belli is free. |  |
Culture Conversion Speed
Significantly Slower | Culture Conversion Speed is 4 times slower. |  |
Slower | Culture Conversion Speed is 2 times slower. |  |
Default | Culture Conversion takes the default amount of time. |  |
Faster | Culture Conversion Speed is 2 times faster. |  |
Significantly Faster | Culture Conversion Speed is 4 times faster. |  |
Faith Conversion Speed
Significantly Slower | Faith Conversion Speed is 4 times slower. |  |
Slower | Faith Conversion Speed is 2 times slower. |  |
Default | Faith Conversion takes the default amount of time. |  |
Faster | Faith Conversion Speed is 2 times faster. |  |
Significantly Faster | Faith Conversion Speed is 4 times faster. |  |
Diplomatic Range
Restricted | Diplomatic Range is reduced by 25%. |  |
Default | Default Diplomatic Range. |  |
Unrestricted | Establishing diplomatic relations is independent of distance. |  |
End Date
1453 | The game ends in 1453. |  |
No End Date | Endless gameplay. |  |
De Jure Requirement
On | If the titleholder does not own any De Jure lands, the title will be destroyed within 5 years. |  |
Limited | If the titleholder does not own any De Jure lands, the title will be destroyed within 5 years - unless it is the player's primary title. |  |
Off | Titles related to De Jure lands can only be destroyed manually. |  |
Custom Kingdoms
On | The Found a New Kingdom and Found a New Empire decisions are available. |  |
Off | The Found a New Kingdom and Found a New Empire decisions are unavailable. |  |
Generate Families
On | Characters with lands but no family start the game with their spouse, lawful heir, the second child if the mother is over 25, and the third if she is over 33. |  |
AI only | Characters with lands but no family start the game with their spouse, lawful heir, the second child if the mother is over 25, and the third if she is over 33. This only applies to AI-characters. |  |
Off | Family is not generated for any of the characters. |  |
Same-Sex Relations
Default | The attitude towards homosexual relations depends on the historical doctrine of a given religion. |  |
Accepted | Homosexual relations are accepted by all religions. |  |
Sexuality Distribution
Default | 89% chance that the character will be heterosexual 5% chance that the character will be homosexual 5% chance that the character will be bisexual 1% chance that the character will be asexual |  |
Bisexuality | 89% chance that the character will be bisexual 5% chance that the character will be homosexual 5% chance that the character will be heterosexual 1% chance that the character will be asexual |  |
Homosexuality | 89% chance that the character will be homosexual 5% chance that the character will be heterosexual 5% chance that the character will be bisexual 1% chance that the character will be asexual |  |
Asexuality | 89% chance that the character will be asexual 3.6% chance that the character will be heterosexual 3.6% chance that the character will be bisexual 3.6% chance that the character will be homosexual |  |
Equal | All sexual orientations have equal probability. |  |
Faith Acceptance
Default | The attitude towards other faiths is historically accurate. |  |
Full | All religions fully accept other faiths. |  |
Randomized Faiths
Off | All characters and counties start with historically accurate religion. |  |
ON | All characters and counties start with a random religion. |  |
Random Ruler Placement
Off | All characters and counties start with historically accurate titles. |  |
ON | All characters and counties start with random titles. |  |
Coversion | All characters start the game with random titles and convert to the faith of the capital of their main title. |  |
Character Nudity
Default | Characters will appear naked in certain events or if they adopt the doctrine of Natural Primitivism. |  |
Never | Characters will never appear naked. |  |
Hungarian Migration
Historical | Hungarian Migration (Prepare to Cross the Carpathians decision) will occur between 890 and 910 - unless the player causes this event earlier. |  |
Random | Hungarian Migration (Prepare to Cross the Carpathians decision) will occur at a random time - unless the player causes this event earlier. |  |
Immediate | Hungarian Migration (Prepare to Cross the Carpathians decision) will occur immediately. |  |
Player-Only | Only the player's character can start the Hungarian Migration (Prepare to Cross the Carpathians decision). |  |