Victoria 3

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[Clankers and Darwinists Update, Cavalry Bugfix] Meat & Mechs: A Bio/Steampunk Mod
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[Clankers and Darwinists Update, Cavalry Bugfix] Meat & Mechs: A Bio/Steampunk Mod

Description
"As the stakes grow the question is, do you oil your warmachines? Or do you feed them?"

When Charles Darwin discovered evolution, our understanding of the natural world was greatly expanded. However, it would be his discovery of Life Threads (known in the scientific community as DNA,) that would be most remembered. For through the manipulation of Life Threads, mankind could colonize and exploit the animal kingdom itself.

However, some question the moral and religious implications of such wanton God-playing. Thankfully, the Mechanical Walker (Also known as the Mech,) would be invented and serve as a righteous alternative to Darwinist abominations.

The year is 1836. The next 100 years will be those of great change. How will you respond to these new technologies?

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/DTkc3R6A



Inspired by the video game Iron Harvest, the HoI4 mod Pax Britannica, and (honestly mainly by,) the Book Trilogy Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, this mod adds Mechs and Genetically-modified beasts and incorporates them into the industry and warfare of Victoria 3.

ADDITIONS:
-New production methods for mines, farms, urban centers, etc.: Spike crop yields with GMOs, or see the streets of London light up with bioluminescent lamps!
-New methods for army and navy buildings: March dreadnoughts on land, or let slip the dogs of war!
-New Building, Darwinist Labs
-Reskins and re-localizations, mainly to goods and events to replace automobiles with “walkers” but also has miscellaneous replacements.

Political Update:
-New law group, "Fabricated Beasts," which allows you go from no restriction all the way to luddite-like ban on Darwinist Labs and PMs that use fabricated beasts.
-New event that gives the new "Clanker" and "Darwinist" ideologies to certain interest groups. In order to get this event, you have to get a precursor event. You get this precursor event by having the "advanced life thread modification" production method in agriculture/ranching. Both of these one-time events have a 25% chance of occurring every 6 months after their conditions are met.

1.4 compatible version: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3092552052

Major Overwrites:
-common\buildings\levith_vanilla_modded_buildings.txt contains all modified vanilla buildings



-Charles Darwin, Aleksandar von Hohenberg, and possible Deryn Sharp as characters/agitators
-Different color lights for biolumenecence


Big thanks to:
-Iron Harvest artists and Keith Thomson for the majority of the art
-1230 James' Multi-line Production Methods Framework
-Scott Westerfeld for writing the Leviathan series, the main triggering inspiration which made me make this mod
-And everyone who subscribes, comments, favorites, rates, etc. Your support means the world for me and helps the continued success of this mod.

95 Comments
Interested Party 6 Oct @ 6:22am 
Hello! I was recently gripped by a bout of nostalgia for the Leviathan book trilogy, which I read first as a kid and adored. In the midst of this nostalgia I had the thought that a mod based on the series for Victoria 3 could be interesting, and while poking that thought I rather stumbled into this mod. Fascinating to see someone else had the idea, seeing as the announcement of the anime was pretty much the first indication I had that anyone but me still remembered the series. I hope you and the mod are doing well, and I look forward to seeing the eventual 1.10 update - for the moment my main focus in this game is working out how to do Austria in the base game.

Also the Discord link's dead again. I understand not paying for the boost, but without that a timer to refresh it or something is probably needed.
Mig 29 Sep @ 1:34am 
and thanks for the answer!
Mig 29 Sep @ 1:34am 
Oh, I didnt even know it had to be boosted
emarcus156  [author] 28 Sep @ 7:27pm 
@Mig Its great to hear people discovering Leviathan! I got that obsessed feeling from the books.

While i'd like to make a permanent discord link, that requires a boosted server. I've updated the link with another temp. link

No, I do not plan to make a ww1 map for this. However, if a seperate ww1 mod comes out, it would make sense for me to make a compatibiltiy patch, or maybe even piggy back off that mod's work to make a scenario closer to the world of Leviathan.
Mig 26 Sep @ 11:41am 
Last thing, do you plan to make a ww1 map of this?
Mig 26 Sep @ 11:40am 
Also, your Discord invite has expired. Make a permanent one.
Mig 26 Sep @ 11:39am 
Omg, ive just watched the anime and now im obssesed. Do you know that feeling? Anyhow, ill try out the mod ASAP!
emarcus156  [author] 21 Sep @ 1:45am 
@dedjustded Mechs are now just reskinned cars/tanks
dedjustded 20 Sep @ 2:41am 
hey so, after playing the game a little and then looking through the game files, i can't help but notice that there doesn't seem to be any tech or way to produce mechs, is this by design or did my game files not download fully?
Voryn Dagoth Ur 8 Sep @ 11:17pm 
Huzzah!