Timber to Steel

DESCRIPTION

Timber to Steel is a mod focused on the naval aspect of Victoria 3. Although it can't fundamentally change the mechanics of the game, it adds new buildings, production methods, goods, events and other additions, to give a fuller naval experience.

Main Features

New Unit Types: The naval base now has 6 main unit types, for a smoother progression. The ambiguosly named Monitors are removed, in favor of Steam Ships of the Line and Pre-Dreadnought Battleships.
New Research System: Modern ship types such as dreadnoughts are now researched through a journal entry, with additional requirements.
Navy Professionalism: Each country has a level of Navy Professionalism, that can be increased or lowered through events or decisions. It impacts a navy's combat performance and might trigger additional events.
Buying and Selling of Ships: Countries that don't have access to advanced ship technology might instead choose to purchase the capability from another power, for a cost.
Separated Civilian and Naval Shipbuilding: Civilian and military ships are made independently of each other. However, some events may still benefit from the synergy of having a well developed shipbuilding sector.
Naval Treaties: Late in the game, Great Powers might call a disarmament conference and agree to downsize their navies.

And more: New events, journal entries, characters, etc.

Planned Content

Future content will hopefully include integrating Voice of the People content, a way to exercise gunboat diplomacy, orders to blockade enemies at war, and more events and flavor for existing features.

Translation

Thanks to Koyomim for the Brazilian Portuguese translation

Contact

For feedback, suggestions or bug reports, visit the #timber-to-steel channel on the Victoria 3 Modding Co-op Discord Server

CHANGELOG

v17 - Released 2023-10-05

1.2.12 * Fixed errors in Brazilian Portuguese translation

v16 - Released 2023-10-03

1.2.11 * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation

v15 - Released 2023-09-22

1.2.10 * Fixed event that allowed countries to blame themselves for exploding ship * Made more clear that you must have Carriers active in a naval base for the "Developing Aircraft Carriers" journal to progress * Fixed missing localization

v14 - Released 2023-08-30

1.2.9 * Fixed crashes caused by graphical issues * Fixed various bugs and issues

v13 - Released 2023-08-28

1.2.8 * Fixed countries being able to send requests to buy ships repeatedly * Fixed and adjusted settings changed in Victoria 3 1.4

v12 - Released 2023-08-11

1.2.7 * Turned some decisions into scripted buttons in journals

v11 - Released 2023-08-03

1.2.6 * Fixed bug that prevented building Admiralty, and added missing localization

v10 - Released 2023-07-18

1.2.5 * Fixed countries other than the USA getting the American Modernization event

v9 - Released 2023-07-17

1.2.4 * American Modernization event will only be triggered if the US has less than a third of the naval bases its territory allows * Modified vanilla journal entries to use new PMs

v8 - Released 2023-07-06

1.2.2 * Fixed issue with Increase Navy Professionalism events not firing

v7 - Released 2023-06-30

1.2.1 * Added new battle conditions * Changed some files for better compatibility with other mods

v6 - Released 2023-06-29

1.2 * Changed Navy Professionalism tooltip to be more informative * Added new journal for the development of modern Aircraft Carriers. The carriers unlocked by the tech tree would be in an experimental stage, so they will take some more research and development to be turned into a useful platform * Added game rule for ahistorical ship prefixes * Fixed bug that allowed Mahan event to fire multiple times

v5 - Released 2023-06-18

1.1.1 * Added "scouting advantage" combat modifier for when you have carriers and the enemy doesn't * Reduced chance to get "Lacking Penetration" battle condition * Updated Naval Yards building icon * Changed some vanilla battle conditions

v4 - Released 2023-06-14

1.1 * Added Fleet Review: A decision that can be taken periodically, to evaluate the state of the navy, and to display its capabilities to outside observers. * New Battle Condition: Lacking Penetration, which gives severe penalties to fleets that don't have the capacity to penetrate the other's armor, like sailing ships against ironclads. * Fixed ship 3D models not updating with technology * Fixed event picture for the Great White Fleet not displaying.

v3 - Released 2023-06-03

1.0.2 * Added additional event for raising very low navy professionalism * Fixed some events failing to trigger

v2 - Released 2023-05-31

1.1 * Fixed triggers that changed with 1.3 base game * Added new technology journal events involving civilian shipyards * Added event about renaming Soviet Russian battleships

REQUIREMENTS

Victoria 3

Full game

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