Bi-Weekly Update, July 16th, Week 29.
The update has been pushed to Steam Workshop & Paradox Mods.

As always, thank you to the @Mod Team 👷 for their hard work.

## :sparkles: Adventurer Content Expansion
• 17 new random events related to adventurer coverage added
• Adventurers' Guild employment adjusted

## :book: New Journal Entries
• Khaduras, Thassarcia, and Stihugnado receive new JEs
• Can Khaduras tie the knot and form the Ring of Steel before Thassarcia objects?
• New giant-related JE buffs states with large giant populations

## :nazar_amulet: Soulwrought Literacy & Bugfixes
• Soulwrought now begin with 20% or 33% literacy, depending on enslavement
• Fixed bug where gnome-released countries could not produce soulwrought
• Khaduras' navy no longer gets stuck in its air node
• Onghor’s bone harvest button fixed

## :tools: UI & Tooltip Updates
• “Can form power bloc” now has a hoverable tooltip

## :scales: Law & Political Content
• The Labor Movement now properly disapproves of Mutagenic Trials
• Matriarchy and related women’s rights laws implemented as law variants
• Starbranded Bureaucrats reworked
• Plutocracy now grants 4 company charters

## :gear: Balance & PM Updates (v1.9.6 Alignment)
• Power plant construction cost and magic-banned PMs aligned to 1.9.6
• Art centers and Ice Art PMs updated
• More PM employments brought in line with 1.9.6
• Power plant PM unlocks properly repositioned in the tech tree

## :compass: New Companies & Prestige Goods
• 1.9.6 prestige goods added
• New merchant marine companies seeded around the map

## :cruise_ship: Infrastructure Rebalancing
• Ports, carpet ports, airship ports rebalanced
• Prevents absurd builds like 263 airship ports in a single state
• Air traffic control breathes easier

## :map: Map Changes (Save-Incompatible!)
• Numerous states redrawn, removed, or consolidated

## :statue_of_liberty: Cultural & Religious Movements
• Added starting cultural/religious movements for:
• Ogres, Hobgoblins, Khussite Remnants, Thiral, Rannor, and Teferet

## :billed_cap: Art & Assets
• New character clothing, horns, and headgear courtesy of the Anbennar team

## Content
• Arelon made independent, has annexed Jurian's Inquisition, and is overall stronger.
• Carpet Docks and Airship Docks can now be privately owned and turn a profit, similar to regular ports. They are also uncapped.
• Thaumic Engines give a 20% boost to Ectoplasm-producing buildings, now available to all countries and better integrated into the tech tree.
• New Journal Entry for Bintu Durve: Emerald Sunset. Formalize the succession before the Ocelian opportunists do.
• Preindustrial AI can now roll the Embrace Winds of Change strategy to begin modernization. AI is also more likely to exit Chiefdoms even without it.
• New treaty article allows licensing of soulwrought production from eligible gnomish countries.
• Soulwrought assembly plant max levels now spread across the tech tree: gnomes cap at 30, non-gnomes at 15 per state.
• Eligible countries can centralize soulwrought production, reducing national max levels by 5 but increasing output and cap in one chosen state.
• AI is now more willing to construct soulwrought assembly plants.
• New theocratic election system for Arelon, with 15 potential Kamiran church leaders.
• New characters and flavor for Arelon.
• New characters and flavor for the Emerald League.
• Emerald League setup slightly tweaked.
• Updated name lists.
• New ruler for Onghor.
• Debt Slavery now applies to relevant decentralized tags. World Slave Trade mechanics are implemented.
• Kailando Pirates, Skraggi, and ZIH are now fully sandbox-playable.
• Pirate Bird culture (Scaletide Scavengers) and Pirate Goblin culture (North Sea Raiders) added.
• Corsair Culture Group established with its own army and tax variants:
• Corsair Professional Army
• Corsair Consumption Taxes
• Lawless Society (Anarchy variant)
• Mutagenic Trials Journal Entry added, similar to Corn Laws, facilitating Mad Scientist emergence.
• Fascist Parties can now form using Political Agitation instead of requiring Mass Propaganda.

## Balance
• The World's End region of Noricum (South-East) has received a full balance pass; all nations touched up and made stronger.
• The Hag nation consolidated and strengthened; starts with the best magic-unit tech in the game.
• Cloudsilver price reduced from 45 to 40 to maintain consistency with other goods.
• Cloudsilver is now required in endgame luxury furniture and artillery PMs.
• Steel mills and munitions plants now have alternate PMGs to convert cloudsilver into more of their respective primary outputs.
• Arcane construction PMG rebalanced and buffed for greater savings and a smoother PM1 to PM3 progression.
• Gardenback Ranches buffed to align with the increased strength of 1.9 livestock ranches.
• Corporate State law updated to match the buffed vanilla version.
• Ashwall is now more likely to be claimed in a timely fashion.
• Toftir tags now actively pursue colonizing Toftir.

## Flavor
• Ruler and interest group clothing adjusted for Western races, primarily Dwarves and Ogres.
• Clothing also updated for all female dwarves, both dark elf cultures, and South Sea Ravager pirates.

## Bug Fixes

• Various minor bugs and issues fixed related to companies and prestige goods.
• Salt Waste Curse Journal Entry made available to all eligible countries.
• Reduced duration of curse surge punishments upon resolving the curse.
• Increased recognition progress granted by Salt Waste Journal Entries.
• Fixed issues with some of Horkaa’s starting laws.

The mod has been updated to 1.9 🥳

• 🌵 New Locari Expedition
• Explore the Mindrend Sands and uncover the Hiadud Audiologues.

• 📖 New Ceraun Journal Entry
• Contain the Craggedwyn Company before they repeat Alchemists’ Refuse.

• 🎖️ Prestige Goods
• 35+ new prestige goods added beyond vanilla options.

• 🧊 Ice Sculpture PMs
• Art Academies now support ice-related production methods.

• 🏛️ New Companies Added
• Includes, Vairian Icebreaker co., South Sea Co., Clearbough Estates, Narathun Chirurgical.
• All function as chartered companies with executives.
• Highland Halflings are now puppets of Clearbough Estates.

• 🐧 Linux Support
• Fully Linux-compatible.

• ⚖️ Ideology Renames
• “Humanitarian” → “Egalitarian”
• “Human Rights” → “Universal Rights”

• 🌟 Starbrand Traits
• All 12 added to the character trait pool.
• More likely with Mages IG, Magocracy, or matching State Religion.

• 🧾 Government Office Scaling
• Increased government offices map-wide for 1.9 tax and Simple Org. changes.

• 🪙 Yulug & Goblin Fixes
• Yulug and vassals now use Simple Org., removed paper economy.
• Subject income penalty in Whip and Barrel JE.
• Added Garkal Accord (Yulug canton system).

• ⚙️ Arrador Updates
• Introduced Dominion Capitalism, a new Laissez-Faire variant exclusive to Arrador.
• Power Plant PM unlocks corrected and repositioned to proper techs.

• 🤝 Treaty Updates
• Ceraun–Dumonia treaty revised.
• Whiskerfields given detailed regional treaties.

• 🚗 Car Production
• First car PMs now available.

• 🧠 Tech Tree Adjustments
• Late-game tech balancing and pacing tweaks.

• 🐞 AI & Bug Fixes
• Various minor fixes and improvements.