DESCRIPTION
VFM is a comprehensive overhaul mod for Victoria 3 that aims to be a successor to the many mods that expanded on and improved Victoria 2, with a major focus on creating a more realistic simulation with minimal railroading. The development team consists of multiple founding members of the Victoria 2 Modding Server and the Victoria 3 Mod Co-op, as well as current and former developers on GFM and TGC for Victoria 2.

This is still an early build to set the foundation for future content, but we are aiming for weekly updates going forward.

Join our Discord to follow updates, as well as to receive faster responses and better support for issues encountered.

Download previous builds or follow our progress

Languages:

The mod currently defaults all non-english languages to english. We are in the process of recruiting translators for all base game languages.

FAQ
Q: Is this mod compatible with [x]? 

A: Most UI, QoL, and graphics mods should be compatible with this mod. AI mods should as well, but they must be loaded AFTER in load order and any of our own historical AI behavior will be lost.

Q: Can I help with the mod?

A: Join our Discord server linked in this description and fill out the developer application.

Q: Can I base my mod on this or use [x] feature?

A: Alternate history/timeline mods, smaller multiplayer community mods, and sub-mods are entirely free to use VFM as a basis without asking, assuming proper credit is given on the mod's page. Other overhaul or expansion mods are not permitted to use VFM's flavor or map work as a basis without explicit permission being granted first.

Current Features
Overhaul to borders of many countries and states around the world
Dozens of new tags throughout the world
Additional flavor in the form of new characters, journals, and events
Gamerules that allow you to customize map detail to your personal preference
Fixes and tweaks to existing events to make them more historical
Gameplay tweaks to make the AI more aggressive with additional claims

Planned Features
Additional flavor for most playable countries
Overhauled map with accurate borders, additional countries, and more states
Rebalances of the economy and AI
Reworks to certain aspects of the tech and goods trees
More historical characters that can appear as leaders

Victoria 3 Modding Co-op

Credits
Early Modding Period - Radsterman, Cynic, Tawani, Steelwind

Development - Cruci, Cynic, Davi Cerqueira, Doble, Engram, Nightingale, Obstination, OmegaCorps, Orine, Paul, Question-Asker, Radserman, Steelwind, stjern, Tawani, Timur the Lame, Typhion, UlfDerDritte, vjw, woojin, Wrench, YashaCarry

Simplified Chinese Translation - VXCN1812, leaves13

Portuguese BR Translation - Davi Cerqueira, Orine, Chrysocyon

Spanish Translation - Sith Kermit

CHANGELOG
v0.7.3 - Released 2023-07-13
Victorian Flavor Mod v0.7.3 Changelog: This update is save compatible -Added a gamerule removing almost all countries added to the map by the mod -Added a gamerule removing minor subjects in the Middle East -Added character interactions for appointing prime ministers and dissolving the government in constitutional monarchies -Added 2 new journals and 9 new events for Greece -Added 2 new journals and 2 new events for Sweden -Added DNA for a number of historical characters in South America -Added new uniforms for South American countries and historical characters -Added the new countries of North Australia, Queensland, and Victoria - to be made releasable in a future patch -Added a few additional major Protestant denominations and adjusted the colors of the existing ones -Added Anabaptist pops to the US (Amish) -Added a decision to expand the Caucasus Viceroyalty as its overlord -Added a decision to expand the Philippines for its overlord -Added a throughput penalty that scales with devastation and also replaced the construction penalty for turmoil with throughput -Restored Neuchatel to the map in Switzerland, even when Confederations are disabled -Restored some missing South Africa content -Expanded and reorganized the topbar to include important information -Adjusted the dynamic names of the United States -Adjusted the requirements of the Responsible Government journal to now require reaching a certain GDP per Capita instead of a set GDP -Adjusted and corrected uniforms for Prussia, the North German Confederation, and Germany -Adjusted the states of the Poland releasable, Germany formable, and Polynesia formable -Adjusted and removed a large number of roads/rails in new states, in preparation for adding historical roads/rails -Adjusted the AI's preferred ratio of construction sectors and tendency to build up an industry -Lowered the base construction rate and added construction sectors to the map at game start -Fixed Selimbau being entirely impassible -Fixed a bug causing certain Western pops to be shirtless -Fixed a bug causing crown colonies to not be labelled as such -Fixed a bug allowing the DEI to reform BIC -Fixed a bug where Cape Colony didn't outright become a dominion upon forming South Africa -Fixed a number of bugs resulting in crashes or broken gameplay, as usual
v0.7.2 - Released 2023-06-01
v0.7.2, All missing content from previous updates that were not uploaded here. Full changelogs can be found on our GitHub page.
v0.5.1 - Released 2023-01-25
Victorian Flavor Mod v0.5.1 Changelog: Bugfixes: -The San Marco and Albertine Statute events should only ever trigger once now -The First Italian war of Independence should only trigger once and its modifiers now clear after the war ends -The Second Italian War of Independence can no longer be declared against any country in the game -Fixed typo in a new Ottoman journal entry
v0.5.0 - Released 2023-01-23
Victorian Flavor Mod v0.5.0 Changelog: This update is fairly extensive, nearly doubling our GitHub commits from ~540 to 988. The total number of errors in the mod has also been reduced to under 400, and a number of the remaining ones are unavoidable. It'd be a bit difficult covering all of the changes here, so these are the most notable. Content: -Indonesia has been reworked, adding 25 new centralized tags across the archipeligo -Algeria has been reworked, adding 6 new decentralized tags and 9 centralized ones -Added 17 new tags to the Middle East, primarily Kurdish principalities -Added Plombieres Agreement and over 30 events related to 1848 and Italian unification for Italy, Austria, and France -Added decisions pertaining to France invading Algeria -Added formables for Tanzania, Sweden-Norway -Added Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria as releasables with appropriate flags and dynamic names -Added decisions to form and expand the Chartered Companies of German East Africa, Imperial British East Africa, the Niger Company, and the South Africa Company with dynamic names and flags based on the colonial overlord -Added Royal Greenland Trading Company -Added proper collapse journals for Chartered Companies -Added Uruguayan Civil War journals -Added separate Luxembourg state -Added Anglo-Indian culture and pops -Added cultural Indian Unification if the British East India Company no longer exists -Added Kurdistan journal for the Sick Man journal series for the Ottomans -Added "Denominational Exclusion" religious law -Added dynamic flags, names, and colors for Korea -Added a few journals for Korea -Added Ibadi, Druze, and Yazidi pops where appropriate -Added a number of new ethnicities for character portraits to split up the generic Caucasian one in Europe -Redrew some borders throughout Central Asia, the Middle East, Indonesia, and West Europe Gameplay: -Relationship requirements adjusted for Romania and South Africa journals -Set truces between the Netherlands and Belgium, Egypt and the Ottomans, the UK annd Ashanti, Greece annd the Ottomans, Siam and Dai Nam, and France and Algerian tags -Frisian culture now has a homeland in Friesland -Tensions are now reset after native rebellions -Adjusted Carlist control and pops at game start -Adjusted pops for Moldavia, Wallachia, Montenegro, Russian Dobrudja, and a few Ottoman states -Adjusted pops for about half of the Spanish states -Ili is now a state for Turkestan formation -Bumped up Korea's arable land to Paradox's values -Tributaries are now no longer subservient in all scenarios -Carlist and Reformist revolts are now revolution diploplays Bugfixes and Minor Tweaks: -Reduced error log down to under 400 errors, most of which that are remaining being unavoidable -Protectorates are now colored based on their overlord (subject to change) -Renamed Columbia District to Columbia Department -Canadian tags should no longer collapse into decentralized tags -Columbia Department states in Montana and Wyoming should go to the US during the Oregon Treaty -Ainu should properly be a Japanese tributary again As always, this doesn't include the full extent of changes and fixes, which can be found by visiting our GitHub and reviewing the commits for specific folders or files. Previous versions of the mod are available there as well as on Paradox Mods in order for you to continue saves from before the update.
v0.4.0 - Released 2023-01-04
Victorian Flavor Mod v0.4.0 Changelog: Content: -Added the Chartered Company subject type that replaces the previously used dynamic dominion name -Added the Russian-American Company -Added independence journals for Chartered Companies -Added diplo play to dissolve Chartered Companies -Added and expanded on the Treaty of London journals and events -Added unification journals for Romania -Added ten new releasables across Northern Europe and Russia -Added various Finno-Ugric cultures -Added Baltic-German culture -Added nationalism journals for the Baltic Governorates -Added Paulett Affair journal for Hawaii -Added additional provinces to split up the Hawaiian Islands -Added the new states of Natal, Basutoland, and Swaziland -Added journals for Matabele Migration -Added decisions to subjugate Boer countries -Added Ethiopian unification diplo play -Added Age of Princes event for Ethiopia -Added numerous tags to split up Qing China -Added numerous religions to split up the base game's animism -Numerous redraws to state and country borders in Africa and the Middle East Gameplay: -Malaria state traits should no longer be swapped around when colonizing -Adjusted the starting laws for Sweden and Finland to be more historically accurate -Prussia now has the necessary relations with German minors for customs unions to not instantly break -Gave Luxembourg and Limburg to Belgium at game start -Baltic Governorates now have national supremacy instead of ethnostate -Reduced Ryukyu to a principality -Posen's primary culture has been changed to North German while under German rule -Liechtenstein and Andorra added to customs unions Bugfixes and Minor Tweaks: -Swazi now has pops -Separate Congress Poland tag created to free up the Poland tag as a formable/releasable -Fixed Venezueland Reformists not having any buildings -Lightened Zoutpansberg's color to reduce graphical errors -Fixed typo in Zimbabwe's capital state -Countless fixes to errors in the error log

REQUIREMENTS

Victoria 3

Full game

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