Mods / Society Traits

• SSo Many Society Traits (SMST)by KingofApplesDescription Adds many society traits to make your species with. These new traits are balanced around other vanilla traits. More traits are planned to be added. Comment with any balance complaints, bugs, or trait suggestions. Compatibility File edited: None. Should be compatible with everything. M...14.0k downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• MMore Societal Traitsby MattAdds more societal traits to choose from! Currently have seven new traits, one for each affinity and one with dual nature/astral affinity. PSA That Hellbinders and Soul Shifters do not currently work after a recent patch, I will take a closer look at fixing them when I have a chance. Animal compa...11.0k downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• TTomb Lordsby [PAF] Renard BlagueurBe Cruel, Be Dead ! Recent unrest has awakened the Lords of the Tombs, ruthless undead descendants of an ancient civilization dominated by the tyranny of magic and the fascination of the astral plane. -New undead culture with shadow and astral affinities. -Kill your ennemies or sacrifice your sla...7.6k downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• FFree Society Traitsby KudosilOverview This mod removes point costs from society traits while also removing their conflicts with other traits. 2 Blank Traits have been added that cost 1 point each so you can actually finalise your custom factions. The mod effects traits from the Basegame and all current DLC's including traits...7.5k downloadsupdated 25 d ago
• TTB - Society Traitsby ThaBombsA good day to you all. I present here the society trait mod I've been working on. These traits are inspired by builds I've been wanting to try myself or by community request. This is a beta release and will be updated with balance and bug fixes in addition to new content. *Content:* See images fo...5.3k downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
• GGrove Tenders (Society Trait)by SereliaAdds the Grove Tenders Societal Trait, granting: - +1 Mana and +1 Food per forest domain. - +2 fortification per forest domain. - +1 Rank to Plant units. - All Plant units gain the Healing Roots trait (works with Gaia's Chosen). - Starts with an additional Plant unit. One bug I know of is that Fl...4.5k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AAnimal Cults - Society Traitsby HakuWatariIntroduction I really loved how the Primal update focused on cultures that worship or integrate certain animals into their culture but I feel it didn't go far enough. There are so many cool animals and creatures available in the game that the player never gets access to or cannot access them reli...4.3k downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
• SStarting Racial Transformations Liteby Digger at ArmsThis is the limited version of Starting Racial Transformations. This version has less transformations so the AI doesn't pick them as much. If you want access to all the transformations, please use Starting Racial Transformations Starting Racial Transformations Allows the player to select a societ...3.3k downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• 00 society pointsby RenMakes all Society Traits cost 0 points. Adds 2 empty Trait that costs 1 points each at the end so you can continue. (Remember to grab both blanks at the bottom of the list to continue culture creation) (Still looking for the ascension traits atm... Found em and added, keeping the two 1 point trai...2.7k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• AAnimal Cults - Expanded WildLifeby HakuWatariIntroduction This mod brings the animals contained within Visie's Expanded Wildlife mod into my Animal Cults - Society traits mods. You will need both of these, for this mod to work. Your load order should look like this. Animal Cults - Society Traits Expanded Wildlife Animal Cults - Expanded Wil...2.2k downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
• KKaige's Society Trait Buffsby KaigeBuffs/modifies some underperforming Society traits in the following ways: Bannerlords: Increase the initial Allegiance gain from +25 to +50 Devious Watchers: Additionally starts you with Enchanted Crow Companion and makes it free Experienced Seafarers: Gives +2 Defense & Resistance (canceling out...2.1k downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
• FFree Visionsby KingofApplesDescription Makes the three Vision Society Traits (added with Archon Prophecy and the Griffon Update) free to pick - you can pick a vision and two other society traits. No more choosing between a trait or a vision, you can have it all! Additionally, Every player or AI without a Vision Society Tra...2.0k downloadsupdated 14 mo ago
• CChosen Destroyers Improvedby KingofApplesDescription Chosen Destroyers is widely regarded as the worst society trait in the entire game. This mod fixes that. Enjoy your one-base playstyle and slaughtering the whole realm! (Note: This mod does not unlock the trait automatically. You still need to unlock it through your Pantheon.) Compati...1.8k downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
• 22 Extra Society Pointsby IceQ4Adds 2 Extra Points. If its not nice enough feel free to download and edit it. No credit needed. Note if the faction is saved, do not edit it. The game will reset it to three traits. It may be due a game limitation, my carlessness or it may be due to the culture setup (like its definition). Then...1.4k downloadsupdated 15 mo ago
• SSociety Trait - Guardians of Natureby DarkCultist69Jay DoubleU and CookieMagic bring you the hidden society trait "Guardians of Nature".1.4k downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• FFabled Hunters Expandedby Muad'DibUpdate 05 March 2024: Compatibility with Primal Fury and minor changes. =============================================================== Expands the bonuses of the Fabled Hunters Society Trait. - Favored Enemies - collect experience as you fight Bloodless (undead, plants, constructs), Cosmic (cele...1.3k downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• CCombat Society Traitsby ThyronDexterThis mod adds 6 new Society Traits for your empires which are all about forgoing that economy in favor of COMBAT POWER. There is one Combat Society Trait for each Affinity and they all work in the following similar way: 1. Three Types of your Units, most fitting to that Affinity (by my judgment),...1.3k downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
• SSociety Traits for Roleplayingby Pax LuporumIncluded are several society traits that I designed with roleplaying in mind. I normally play on Very Large maps that go on for a long time. So if you like doing that, and want some weird alternatives to the existing societies- try mine! Also this is my first ever published mod. Please let me kno...1.2k downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• 破破晓星辉（Starlight at Dawn）by sdy新增一个社会特性——破晓星辉，该社会特性可以给予一个能不断进化变强的特殊单位，且不占用特性点数。 该单位的自T1至T5进化，进化路径为天界狮鹫-独角兽-凤凰-正义判官-星神。T5以外的每种形态保留主动技能，均统一被（1）全方位意识 （2）无所畏惧（3）状态效果免疫（4）复生所替代。 此外每次进化可以学习新的主动技能与被动技能，并可在下次进化时保留到下一个形态。 T1- 最好的伙伴：召唤一个独特的缠绕卫士。 学习能力：该单位每回合额外获得50点经验。 撤退专家：在从战斗中撤退时，该单位会在下一回合回归，且永不会受到致命损伤。 最好的伙伴- 1.该单位的防御模式为凝石，新增技能盾击（捍卫者版...1.2k downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• 99 Trait Points + More Society Trait And Society Trait Pointsby 76561198846779407支持最新版本 这个模组将可用的种族特性点数从5提升到9 城邦初始容量提升到5 Support the latest version This module increases the number of available racial trait points from 5 to 9 and increases the number of city cap from 3 to 5 2026/3/28 新增了四个社会特性 1.使社会特性点数+1并开局获得100帝权 2.开局人口+2 3.开局额外获得一个耳语石 4.开局所有理念+1 ***社会特性目前配置了英语翻译但我并不知道如何配置多个...1.1k downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
• TTB - Bonus Society Traitsby ThaBombsA good day to you all. I present here a simpel mod I made for my own use that provides: - 5 society traits that each give between 1 and 5 bonus society trait points. Allowing you to play with more than 2 society traits at once. - A Form trait that gives + 20 form trait points. I have used other m...1.1k downloadsupdated 16 mo ago
• DDevious Watchers Expandedby Muad'DibExpands the bonuses of the Devious Watchers Society Trait. - Agent Network - spread your agents and influence across the map to gather information and gain various advantages via shadow ops. - Infiltrate enemies (and allies) to steal resources and spread paranoia and distrust. Then use sneaky spe...997 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• PPerfectionist Farmersby FarsightAdded a new Society Trait called "Perfectionist Farmers" which is basically the Food version of Perfectionist Artisans. Effects: - Populations cost 100% more Food but grant +1 City Stability and +5 Gold in addition to their normal effects. - Unit tier 3 Units have +1 Rank. - City Cap is decreased...982 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• 11 City Hermit Kingdom Reworkby KaigeChanges Hermit Kingdom to limit the player to only 1 city (similar to Chosen Destroyers), but significantly increases the bonuses gained from the trait Knowledge bonus is increased from +15% to +60% Food bonus is increased from +15% to +45% Production bonus is increased from +15% to +30% City Sta...918 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
• GGifted Casters Expandedby Muad'DibExpands the bonuses of the Gifted Casters Society Trait. - Your Battle Mage and Support units can use their innate arcane talents to modify their magical abilities by expending Arcane Energy. - Develop the Metamagic Aptitude of your people by investing Imperium in the Empire Tree, and by achievin...759 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• [[Upan's Mod] Starting Major Race Transformationsby 유판The following social policies are added to enable large-scale race conversion from the start of the game. 1. A contract engraved in the soul (2 Point) 2. Messenger of God descended (2 Point) 3. The One Who Abandoned Warmth (2 Point) 4. Gaia's Chosen (2 Point) 5. Death Line (2 Point) 6. Dragon's H...670 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• CCorpse Eating Fixby FarsightThere is currently a bug with Corpse Eating, it does not regenerate new models for multi model units that were lost in combat. This mod fixed the issue by increasing the healing amount from 15 to 30 (Similar to Bone Golem's Consume Corpse). Latest Update: - Updated for Ways of War!635 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• PPBEM Competitiveby DreadReaprBalance mod for Multiplayer game with Manual Combat vs Ai and PvP Changelog: 🔗 General 🔗 Balance 🔗 Bug and Exploit Fixes 🔗 Descriptions Links: 🔗 AOW4 Multiplayer Community 🔗 PBEM Competitive (Paradox version) For Bug reports or Suggestions: leave a comment or join Discord and post in forum485 downloadsupdated 7 mo ago
• CCorvo's Cult of Personalityby 76561198322559657OVERVIEW Cult of Personality now triggers a Pantheon Hero Recruitment Event at the beginning of the game.449 downloadsupdated 12 mo ago
• HHermit kingdom rebalanceby SyrxRemoved the mechanic that negates hermit kingdom bonus if bordering owned city.433 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• SSorcerer's Apprentices Society Traitby babouYou get a spell, and you get a spell, everyone gets a spell! This trait lets your battle mages use low-tier spells as abilities. These "apprentice spells" are their own thing and do not count as magic attacks for the purpose of unit enchantment. Available spells: Ice Shackles Cosmic Ablation Cond...321 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• EEmpire of the Cosmos buffby michel le godMake the rewards more impactful at all stages of the game. You will now get 10 gold, 10 mana, 10 research and 7 imperium with each tier instead of 20 mana tier 1, 20 research tier 2 and finaly 20 imperium tier 3.305 downloadsupdated 8 mo ago
• MMore Societal Traits Liteby MattA lite version of the societal traits added in my mod "More Societal Traits." This mod has weaker versions of the buffs provided in the base mod, without any drawbacks. Note that you MUST have the More Societal Traits base mod installed and loading AFTER this mod in order for the changes to take...288 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• EEndless Altars of Marching Gloomby 76561198364690485A mod that allows you to place an infinite amount of Altars of Marching Gloom once per city, allowing you to spread Urrathic corruption across the entire realm. A new visual to the altar has also been included as well. Designed to be used alongside the Umbral Abyss Revamp mod as seen in the last...267 downloadsupdated 5 mo ago
• [[Upan's Mod] English Translate - Starting Major Race Transformationsby 유판My Starting Major Racies Mod translate to English. ※ Required My Mod263 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• SStarlight at Dawn (English Language Support)by sdyEnglish Language Support for the Starlight at Dawn Mod This mod should be placed below the original mod in the load order. This has been tested and confirmed working. If translation fails after enabling many mods, you can try copying the language files directly into the original mod's folder to o...224 downloadsupdated 3 mo ago
• NNo Transformation - Society Traitby King中古騎士A mod ripped out from my personal arcanum, this add a free society trait that disable transformation spell, preventing the player or AI with the trait from casting them. Activate on turn 2. Strongly recommend to use with the "Transformation Traits" by Gurgle Nurgle, as the idea of this mod is bui...177 downloadsupdated 23 mo ago
• AAffinity Puristsby KroughfireTHIS MOD IS OUTDATED - I WILL UPDATE SOON This mod adds 6 new (free) Society Traits which grant major bonuses to your civilization while you are playing single-affinity games. Tomes other than the purist trait you have picked have an 80% research penalty. Known issues: playing Barbarian Chaos Pur...176 downloadsupdated 4 y ago
• CCult of Personality starting buffby ArchAnge1LTCult of Personality gains 2 ability points per renown instead of 1.166 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
• AABM - Yet Another Ballance Mod for AOW4by ukiyoYet Another Ballance Mod for Age of Wonders 4 multiplayer. Key features: - All Rites are repeatable with 1 Turn cooldown - +175% more Repeatable Rites - Income of base buildings in cities are based on the population, so Food now most important resource - Heroe's classes rebalanced / Leaders rebal...159 downloadsupdated 2 mo ago
• BBetter Reclaimersby abolish icecubesA simple mod that, so far, only increases the binding essence amount gained via pillaging provinces from 10 -> 25. If you have any suggestions on how to make different aspects of the Reclaimers society trait more interesting, feel free to drop them down in the mod comments.132 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• GGuthukFFAby guthukUpdated to Manta Beta Many of these are taken from AoW4 Evolved, found here: Now uses a super easy to understand, and awesome formated, Google Document for all changes. Entirely up to date.131 downloadsupdated 9 d ago
• EEnhanced AI Societies (Extra)by EstelleseAn alternate version of my other mod. This mod aims to give custom-made AI leaders extra society traits, to make them a little tougher. However this alternate version also has an option to give players extra traits as well. (Keeping the same gap between the player traits, and the two stronger AI...125 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• Lless bad artisansby AvlaenMakes perfectionist artisans cost 50% more production rather than 100, thats all :)123 downloadsupdated 11 mo ago
• NNoUnderGroundStartby GloweyeAre you sick and tired of selecting "massive player distance", and then meeting your first AI on turn 4? Than this is the band-aid solution for you. The RMG is unable to figure out starting distance between different map layers, and therefore it often disrespects distance when some players start...105 downloadsupdated 3 y ago
• EEnhanced AI Societiesby EstelleseA niche mod. This adds two society traits that will give additional points to spend on other society traits. Intended to be given to custom-made leaders the AI will use, to make them tougher. Can it also work on a player character? Technically yes. These would be put on custom characters you make...94 downloadsupdated 4 mo ago
• UUmbrally Righteousby InvertinAllows compatability between the Righteous Oathsworn subculture and the Umbral Disciples society trait. Why? Player freedom is always good. But also specifically I'm a big ol nerd who's had a faction with a "cursed by the Umbral and fighting back against it" vibe for a long time, and Oathsworn Ri...69 downloadsupdated 2 y ago
• UUnpopularby VeltasEver want to have a harder time making friends? To be... unpopular? The totally free Unpopular Society Trait gives general empire relations minus 300, and costs no points on its own. Thus, you can pick this and 2 normal traits, and all the other empires will be generally less friendly to you. it...67 downloadsupdated 4 y ago

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