Updates & Community Suggestions: 1) Kadeferr8788 has a good tip about consecrated/divine blood: if we can't consecrate our own blood, we can always find an NPC dynasty that has consecrated their blood and breed in the trait! 2) New legitimacy system penalizes marrying lowborn spouses with big legitimacy loss. This makes it less appealing to marry lowborn, but only while you are actively the ruler. Marrying your unlanded children to lowborns does not affect your or their legitimacy. So, the update emphasizes the diligence and attention needed to watch your children and grandchildren's marriages. For my own marriage, I still marry lowborn when I start out since legitimacy doesn't matter when I am small, and when I'm a big empire I can wait until I am unapproachably powerful to do as I please and marry all the lowborns I want. 3) When you seduce a character, instead of becoming a lover you can choose the second option to just lay with the target. This is one of the few ways to endlessly sleep with a character and help you have more kids than the natural cap! (Thanks brawlfan9999 and SlightRemorse)
I know Giant is technically considered a negative trait, but I want people to know without being told when they're the presence of my lineage of demi-gods. Intellect can be hard to see, beauty and stature less so, but nothing stands out like being 8 ft tall.
Love your comment! 100% after I've completed the positive traits, I breed in giant :) It's like the moment mortal Hercules claimed his right to godhood.
@@breadgodgaming It's so useful. I usually start at age ~36 with three adult children so I can get a quick witch coven, but that has a point of failure in that the children might not accept witch indoctrination. With your way, coupled with still taking the Witch trait during custom-character creation, I managed to get a foolproof Strengthen Bloodline from the get-go, plus it's a lot easier to indoctrinate the children into witchcraft when I get the "Age of Knowing" pop-up instead of having to do a scheme with a random chance of failure.
@@dracosummoner I'm glad it made your life easier :) I always educate my primary heir, then try to make sure I educate the other children starting from oldest. At 15 you get that event you mentioned and you can finish their education, or remove yourself and start educating the next child and repeat until all the other children get a shot at conversion. The conversion chance is also higher if you have high learning relative to their learning.
Thanks for the feedback! This made me look deeper and realize why, despite having timestamps in the description, they were not showing up no the timeline! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
@@breadgodgaming Every new child born into the family would have baseline Intelligent, Herculean/Amazonian, and Fecund. ...plus a couple giants bc I felt like doing some experimenting for a generation or two xd
Hello, thank you forthe guide! New player here, with 40 hours of playing tall, I still have a lot to learn and I'll watch more of your previous videos.
This is a fantastic guide. I'm creating some "how to make characters" content on my channel and this information is extremely helpful in getting my thoughts in order. Watching your videos is humbling. I'm really amazed by how much you know.
All of my CK3 games turn into eugenics experiments eventually. So much so that I end up throwing in Giant, Albino, and Dwarf in there just because I can. I have entire lines of courtiers that I breed into perfect spouses for my kids. I tend to finish a game once the number of courtiers affects the speed of the game too much.
Same here! After I learned how to master genetics, I rarely marry for any reason other than genetics. I also try to do the same and make a second line that are giant knights :)
Yea it’s such a small chance to be inherited :( A tip from another commentator said you can keep seducing the same target (like your wife) and just pick the “lay with her” option instead of becoming lovers, that way you can attempt a pregnancy every year until you die. That’s how you can get more kids than normal and hopefully get at least 1 or 2 kids and best case 1 boy 1 girl. I used to only seduce brand new targets but didn’t realize I could repeatedly seduce the same person.
@@breadgodgaming i use the seducing trick a lot. I once console commanded a spouce with pure blooded but out of like 8 kids only 2 got it, both being girls. Lost the trait in 3 generations
Wow that is some really good RNG! When I was recording the first run of my Viking World Conquest video, my first ruler had a daughter who was pure-blooded, genius, herculean, and fecund so I was so excited to maybe have perfect heirs in one succession from a grandchild. After playing for 3 hours I exited thinking my cloud save succeed but it didn't :( RIP super daughter.
Personally went into the files and made Giant a positive trait. Doesn't do anything different, I just always found it odd that it was red and thus a bad trait. (I also made Dwarf and albino good traits aswell)
One thing of note, you can choose to end a succesful seduction scheme without becoming lovers, but you still lay with the target. This almost always ends in pregnancy, so you can repeatedly seduce a particularly good spouse or concubine to rapidly make children until you get one with the desired traits. I did that in my last run to breed Pure blooded into the bloodline, 7 children in 7 years, got a couple of perfect daughters Do note that women in-game actually lose fertility with each child though
This is a great tip to help with the min-maxing! I never thought of doing that! Now I might be able to definitely create the perfect genetic heir in fewer generations.
@@breadgodgaming Yeah, it works pretty well for the first 7 children (at least in my experience), after that the lowered fertility per birth plus age starts to take its toll and you need multiple attempts. The same logic can be applied for renown farming with Romances, end them with just a kiss and they don't become your soulmate, meaning you can keep romancing the same woman
I’ve been using the “lay” option instead of lovers to great effect. Even in the rare chance it critically fails I still got a lot more pregnancy chances in. I think I easily ended with 20+ kids while being busy conquering the world
Thoughts on using sadistic to keep the succesion so that you can get rid of kids with bad traits? I find that that helps a decent amount in places where you can't choose the succesion type. PS. Good video, I knew most of this but there were some things that I didn't know such as not getting any courtiers when traveling and knowing the stats for inhering traits is nice
It can be nice if you have it, but unless you can reliably pass on the personality trait then other methods are more consistent. Wards and warden DLC does let you influence your ward so you can almost permanently keep sadistic if you want. The other downside is that sadistic is a sin in faiths like Catholicism, which I tend to play a lot of. I just uploaded a video on inheritance if you want to check out some methods :) Ironically, I forgot to include sadistic in it, but good folks like you reminded me. Thank you for your kind words!
this is amazing! I want to do this, unfortunately my own traits are horrible and it's all very overwhelming being new to the game. So many things i don't understand how to fix, such as everyone always starting war with me once my king dies and it all turns to shit and with my trait of "chronic re-roller" i just gotta start from the beginning..
Thank you! Don't sweat it...it can take many many hours before you really get the hang of it. There are so many systems in place to learn so that you don't get rekt. And even then rngesus can drop a bomb on you so part of why CK3 is fun is because you sometimes just get into hilarious situations (and deadly)
I'm not sure if this was changed, or if I was doing something weird, but at 19:20 you say you can't recruit until they're 16, but I know for certain you can recruit at any age. I know because while participating for the first time in the Crusades, I got so fed up with how useless my AI allies were that I gave up and sailed across the ocean besieging al-Ash'ari holdings unhindered for about 15 years while the crusading/defending armies stumbled around the desert. Each siege I'd imprison a couple children and "Recruit" was always an option under "Negotiate Release" so I started just keeping the ones that didn't give much of a ransom so I could marry them off to get high-stat court members. As a wise man once said, "I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die!"
Thanks for letting me know! I actually wasn't fully enlightened to the the mechanics, but I've done some more testing and you can recruit any child that is not set to inherit anything. So primary heirs are always un-recruitable until they're 16 versus extra heirs cannot be recruited if they are actually set to inherit anything. If you rob the target of their titles except for one, you can recruit all their extra children but their primary is still protected until they're 16. Thanks for having me dig more to learn this nugget!
A tip regarding making more babies - when you do the Seduction scheme you can then decide at the end not to become lovers. This lets you sleep with them, but still allow you to repeat the scheme so that you can do it again for another lay and another chance at making a baby. Timing it at about 1 month or so after the last one makes it so that it would complete roughly about a month or so after any pregnancy had happened from the previous one. Did this trick to try and make as many kids as possible as soon as possible for the "A Perfect Circle" achievement so that I can try and preserve the "Pure-Blooded" for as long as I can down the line and only got an inbred at the 5th generation, which was also the one I needed to play as to get the achievement to pop.
In AGOT the fooking Targaryen max their cognitive trait legacy. After that no one(also me) can stage a successful coup against them(Genius, beautiful, Herculean, …) fuck!!!
So.... I know this is a old vídeo, but I just for into CK3 recently and I am still learning. Your vídeos are awesome for that! Subscribed immediately. Now to the topic. If I go the Pure Blood way or the Dynasty Blood tree, does It make It harder to get any "bad" traits or just Inbred and leveled ones? Asking because I'm planning to do some specific runs with bad traits... Like a Jötunn (Giant Albino), Moria (dwarves) or Lizard Overlords (scally) Dynasties and ALL those are consideres bad traits... Can I still breed them in?
Thank you for your kind words and support! Randomly getting bad traits and inbreeding penalties are different but can happen at the same time. All negative traits can randomly appear, like 'ugly' has a 0.25% chance to randomly appear in your kids. Inbreeding penalties means if you and your spouse share ancestors/are related then there is a big chance you will cause bad traits to appear. 'Pure-blooded' trait only reduces the inbreeding penalty to spawn bad traits but it doesn't protect from bad traits itself. If both you and your spouse are 'ugly' and 'pure-blooded' then your children will still have a 100% chance to be 'ugly'. The third blood dynasty perk reduces the chance to inherit bad traits and reduces the random chance for bad traits to appear. It doesn't protect against inbreeding, but it will reduce your ability to sustain a line of bad rulers. So don't get this perk if you want to keep a bad trait lineage. As long as you are actively marrying spouses with the same bad traits or inbreeding all the time, the inheritance rules in this video is the same. Just don't get the third dynasty perk and you'll be good to go. Can't wait to see how that run goes :)
Hello, I would like you to explain how to do jihad with Muslims, in different games I have become a head of faith and I can't get the option of jihad. I have read that to do jihad you need to be a head of faith and that one of your sacred places is occupied by a different faith and that the fervor is above 75. Could you explain in a video how you can do jihad? Thanks in advance, regards.
Hello sr.blanco9358! I have some generic information here on crusades/jihads: ruclips.net/video/bkhCzI9tZDA/видео.htmlsi=laSBBbb2N4o1Y_Jd&t=3281 Who are you playing as / what territory do you control? For your specific situation, has christianity unlocked crusades already? If christianity has unlocked crusades then Islam only needs one holy site in hostile/evil hands for it to unlock Jihads. There is also a 10 year time delay between any faith unlocking great holy wars, so if crusades were unlocked 880 then jihads can be unlocked 890. If crusades were not unlocked, then two holy sites need to be in hostile/evil hands. Your Muslim faith needs to have 'Struggle & Submission' tenet. 75 fervor is correct for declaring jihads, but your faith also needs to have 35 counties following it. Most commonly, all the holy sites of Ash'ari / other Islamic faiths are already held by Islamic rulers. So you will have to purposefully lose a holy site or two to an evil/hostile enemy, especially if you're the arabian empire. Most commonly, if Islam loses Jerusalem to Christian crusaders, then they will normally unlock Jihads in short time. If needed, I can also look at your game file. If you need more info still, let me know and I'll try to create a specific video.
The Herculean/Amazonian trait is a trap, it makes your character over stay his/her welcome. When you want to start playing as your heir. Just get get hale so you can strengthen the bloodline... ^^
That is true, using hale and beautiful will save lots of points and prevent a long life, but I personally love long lived rulers since that gives me enough time and leeway to complete a lot of goals. Thank you for the tip!
I didn't play much CK2 and I was terrible at it, but so far I'm thoroughly enjoying CK3 and I think the UI/graphics/etc was a game changer to get me more into CK and understand it better. There's always more content coming out and I'm sure in a few years the amount and depth of stuff will be similar to 2. If there is only 1 DLC I'd definitely get it would be Northern Lords.
Election inheritance is full and complete as long as you own 2+ duchy titles; with one it does not override regular confederate partition. With 2 duchy titles, you pass on all the de jure counties within each title. When I’m playing with elective succession, I’m holding all the de jure counties of each duchy only. If you did have any extra non de jure counties, then yea those are up for grabs. With the exception of one extra county as you can’t split one title. You can see an explanation of elective law in my inheritance video here at 7:21 ruclips.net/video/gIWpy1HHDWg/видео.htmlsi=vZ6PdaZvdOq9yDYQ Lmk if you still need clarification!
Are you on console? The console version is about 1.5-2 years behind PC patches and disloyal was added in the 1.7 "Bastion" / Friends & Foes DLC. You don't need the DLC to have access to the disloyal trait though it was part of the free patch portion of 1.7 If you are on console, for the missing -20 refund points than you might need add some of the other negative stress traits at -5 each, lazy is a manageable negative personality trait and gives -10 (avoid paranoid, craven), some of the shunned religious traits may be contenders too at -5. Just double check they are shunned and not criminal.
Legitimacy only affects my breeding program if I'm using the major benefits like reduced vassalization acceptance/counties needed for titles, but otherwise I still prioritize genetics over anything else. Once you get your domain up and have a stack of men-at-arms, there really isn't any issues with factions
Depends on if you were head of faith (divine blood) or you were not head of faith (consecrated blood) when you took the 'Consecrate bloodline' decision
If you're starting out as count or duke, the first wife can be lowborn since your legitimacy won't matter with few/no vassals. If you start as king or emperor, marry for the best noblewoman. Once you get strong enough then having low legitimacy doesn't matter. The other thing is you can freely marry your children with lowborns and I don't land my primary heir so there's no risk of inheriting low legitimacy. Overall, legitimacy may slow down the genetics program a little bit but it still is viable and 100% worth the investment. I do have an entire video purely on legitimacy to help point out how to gain/lose/inherit legitimacy. Overall though, my analysis is that it has not really changed the way I play, I still focus on building really tall and then overwhelming power lets me do as I please.
As a feudal kingdom, I always add elective succession to my holdings and sometimes to my kingdom title. Because of elective succession & I hold a majority of titles, I can vote for whichever heir I wanted to. If you can't add elective / win your election, you can always get rid of your extra sons / daughters through war, disinheritance, imprisonment, etc until the one you want inheriting is left standing. I have a bunch of techniques in my inheritance guide on my channel or I can elaborate more here if needed :)
There's a curveball that happened to me a gameplay or two ago. I had a few good inheritable traits and I fornicated with a lowborn. I typically choose breeding this way and adopt the child with an adoption mod because 75% of my spouses end up dying within a few years of starting the game, so, I was sick of that happening... no more marriage for me. Well, the lowborn literally had no tie to my family or any other. Our son was born pure blooded, which allowed the inbreeding to begin and perpetual great inheritable traits to be in the bloodline. How my son became pure blooded is completely unknown to me. I looked in the xml edits of the adoption mod and it literally is just a script added to be able to pass them your surname. It was bonkers and amazing and would love for it to happen again. Edit: It couldn't have been inherited in my bloodline because my character was a created character and no, I've never added pure blooded as a trait. I like a bit of a challenge.
Wow that’s interesting. I’d have to find the inheritance code for genetics, maybe there is a rare chance to randomly inherit pure blooded even without inbreeding just like all the other traits. Thanks for sharing that is new knowledge for me!
@@breadgodgaming I haven't gone that far as digging into finding the multipliers in the game files, rather using the Paradox Wikis I've saved for viewing over the past couple of years. I do however look in my mod files and edits to see how they effect game mechanics and how they could alter genetics, which I'm happy to say, I have none.
@@allennewborn936 when I’m home I’ll see if I can dig up some stuff. That’s really cool to know I thought those random characters in the world spawned with different rules since like you said the wiki says it’s only by inbreeding. I don’t know if it’ll help figure out new ways to spawn more pure bloods but I’ll see :)
You are 100% correct. I apologize for the misinformation. I tend to have equal inheritance and give extra lands to everyone including daughters since that helps the AI make and keep more matrilineal marriages then me having to do it manually each generation. Thanks for pointing it out! I'll take it out to prevent misinformation.
I don't know where it is in the code, but if you search in the in-game encyclopedia for 'sexual orientation' it says "sexual orientation has no impact on who they can marry, but may reduce the fertility of a wedded couple if either spouse fails to match the other's preference". So I can't 100% confirm it is an absolute reduction or if they mean indirectly because you can't seduce/romance them. I just generalized it as a reduction and it's better to have the ability to repeatedly seduce your breeding partner anyways.
@@breadgodgaming I would imagine that "not matching" means they wouldn't have the attraction to their partner naturally. I'm curious about the code now.
I didn't see a fertility / pregnancy file so I'm not sure if we can see the raw code for fertility or maybe I'm using the wrong keywords for the search. Either way though, as long as we can have as many kids as possible we can get the best genetics program :)
Haha welcome to the wonderful world of CK3. The funniest for me is there is a notification after you have successfully seduced your sister that says: "You have seduced Sister-name, a close relative, in accordance with societal norms."
I managed to get the consecrated blood before my heir flipped the script on me. So my line is... A bit of a mess, frankly. I suppose that's what I get from having the Holy Roman Empire that has swallowed most of Europe, so it's now actually bordering the Byzantine Empire. I have a daughter of my house matrilineally married to the emperor of West-Slavia and I hold the emperor title of ... Carpathia, I think it is. I am currently trying to make up my mind of what to do with it. It seems like a shame to just leave it among my collection of non-granted titles. 😅
Combine everything into one huge Roman Empire title :) When you take the Restore the Roman Empire decision it combines all your held empire titles into the de jure of the Roman Empire :)
@breadgodgaming That would have been fun, but ran out of time, everything fractured twice. I died during my wars, so my allies got messed up, and then I had several hostile factions tearing things apart because they didn't like the new ruler. In the end I reached the end of the game as the king of Moldova lol, I started in Denmark. 😅
I love how the point of this video was to show how to master the genetics mechanic and my guy just lowkey formed an empire along the way. I struggle to hold onto my duchy!
well i have dynasty of 200 people but all of them are kind a you know... now when i try yo do a in house marrying every marriage has a at least 30 percent of being inbreed.
Oh man haha yea a genetics program takes a while to work. You might have to marry out for a bit / try to get a pure-blood in your line. Those legacies help a lot with genetics. Also witch coven is great
Thank you for your support! This game is so big, and I always feel self conscious when I release long videos but hopefully it slowly helps make things clearer! Don't worry there's a reason it's called 'grand strategy' and it's supposed to almost feel like you're going to class to learn how to play this game
If you make your dynasty big enough, you don't have to marry brothers and sisters together. I have 11k members in my dynasty in my current game. The inbreeding chances are always below 1%
Ewww cursed roman empire its blue ewwwwww wtf Lol also fyi u dont have to kill ur rulers to abdicate u can try take a tittle of ur vassals that has low chance of giving up that said title and once rhey start the tyranny war just surrender and u will abdicate for ur heir to take over this way u dont lose family members also this another way to make sure only ur heir gets all ur tittles 😌
Haha is the best color purple for the Roman Empire? Thank you for your support :) You are right you can quickly depose yourself that way, so you can definitely do this if you want to skip heirs that way. The only downside is that your parent will still be the house head so you'll still have to murder/imprison them to inherit the house head. Without being the house head, you will not be eligible to be the dynasty head.
Haha yes they nerfed it with 1.12.5 as you saw. I need to update this video in the future as they changed many things and I've gotten better at plague management
Great information, good structure. Please stop making every sentence a question, make a definitive statement. I quit listening halfway through because I felt like I was being quizzed with all the up-talking.
Thank your for your kind words! And yea...I apologize for the upward inflection, you're not the first to tell me that oh boy. I didn't realize I speak like that and I am actively trying to change it by being more conscious. Hope to improve it soon to make the experience better!
@@breadgodgaming It's all love, I enjoyed your video and watched it three times over and got myself more used to the content. I didn't mean to come off as overly critical, I just think if you were to assert yourself more and emphasize that you are presenting information it would feel less like you are asking and more like you are telling. Once again, great info and well-studied! You're gonna go far.
No offense taken at all! I love any feedback, I want to be better every time. I think it's because my day job is a service job and I literally ask questions all day so my 'respectful talk' is probably all upward inflections haha you might be driven crazy. I will definitely try to take your advice on being more presenting and not questioning. Maybe if I time I could get some voice lessons or something. Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback :)
"Brosatru" "Norwego-Telugu-Andaluso-Greco-B...",idk if thats the correct way to play,or one of the most mind numbingly horrifically strange playstyles possible,also not choosing an icon for your religion is kinda not cool
Haha everyone has their own way of enjoying things, so there's no correct way for anything as long as it makes you happy imo. I didn't know I could pick my faith's icon until after I recorded that playthrough already, but if I had known, I would've chosen something else. However, I will make a note that my future choices for naming and aesthetics may affect the viewing experience, sorry.
Yea you'll still die from recruiting/feasting with others, but the added withdraw from view and 20 days slower enemy hostile schemes makes it a decent defensive perk when you're stuck with it. It's still weak overall but not as terrible as before
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Updates & Community Suggestions:
1) Kadeferr8788 has a good tip about consecrated/divine blood: if we can't consecrate our own blood, we can always find an NPC dynasty that has consecrated their blood and breed in the trait!
2) New legitimacy system penalizes marrying lowborn spouses with big legitimacy loss. This makes it less appealing to marry lowborn, but only while you are actively the ruler. Marrying your unlanded children to lowborns does not affect your or their legitimacy. So, the update emphasizes the diligence and attention needed to watch your children and grandchildren's marriages. For my own marriage, I still marry lowborn when I start out since legitimacy doesn't matter when I am small, and when I'm a big empire I can wait until I am unapproachably powerful to do as I please and marry all the lowborns I want.
3) When you seduce a character, instead of becoming a lover you can choose the second option to just lay with the target. This is one of the few ways to endlessly sleep with a character and help you have more kids than the natural cap! (Thanks brawlfan9999 and SlightRemorse)
I know Giant is technically considered a negative trait, but I want people to know without being told when they're the presence of my lineage of demi-gods. Intellect can be hard to see, beauty and stature less so, but nothing stands out like being 8 ft tall.
Love your comment! 100% after I've completed the positive traits, I breed in giant :) It's like the moment mortal Hercules claimed his right to godhood.
Also a good bonus to prowess, if I recall
Giant is the best type of intelligent - you're always more intelligent than the other guy if they're dead!
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@@arandombard1197 aaand that’s why guns were invented.
Babe wake up, new ck3 eugenics guide just dropped
you know the game is good when you gotta open up the inbreeding spreadsheet to make sure you do not fuck up and finally get your own kwisatz haderach
I just saw dune part one and two and my goodness were they good! Thank you for the great laugh :)
Imagine role playing like a Bene Gesserit type realm
great comment I pissed myself laughing 😂
I'd never noticed you can do this to Strengthen Bloodline from the very start of the game. SUPER useful. Thank you!
My pleasure! Doing that can literally shorten the time to perfect heirs from 200 years to 100 years!
@@breadgodgaming It's so useful. I usually start at age ~36 with three adult children so I can get a quick witch coven, but that has a point of failure in that the children might not accept witch indoctrination.
With your way, coupled with still taking the Witch trait during custom-character creation, I managed to get a foolproof Strengthen Bloodline from the get-go, plus it's a lot easier to indoctrinate the children into witchcraft when I get the "Age of Knowing" pop-up instead of having to do a scheme with a random chance of failure.
@@dracosummoner I'm glad it made your life easier :) I always educate my primary heir, then try to make sure I educate the other children starting from oldest. At 15 you get that event you mentioned and you can finish their education, or remove yourself and start educating the next child and repeat until all the other children get a shot at conversion. The conversion chance is also higher if you have high learning relative to their learning.
"My pilgrimage to Narnia" made me laugh because it was so unexpected.
Videos like this really benefit from chapters.
Thanks for the feedback! This made me look deeper and realize why, despite having timestamps in the description, they were not showing up no the timeline! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
@@breadgodgamingThank you for adding them!
Absolutely a stunning guide. Wow!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the kind comment
This guide helped me create a dynasty of Herculean gods, good stuff
Awesome!! I’m glad to hear it!
@@breadgodgaming Every new child born into the family would have baseline Intelligent, Herculean/Amazonian, and Fecund.
...plus a couple giants bc I felt like doing some experimenting for a generation or two xd
I love the Albino Trait (forgot it´s exact name), because it gives me Targaryen vibes :D
its exact name is Albino is it not?
You remembered right, it is albino :)
Hello, thank you forthe guide! New player here, with 40 hours of playing tall, I still have a lot to learn and I'll watch more of your previous videos.
Thank you for the kind comment!
Thank you "BreedGod"!
Haha that's a really good one! Thank you for the kind and funny comment :)
imma be making the kwisatz haderach
Lisan al Gaib!
Learned more than in my Genetics 101 class!
Thanks for the kind words!
These videos are VERY helpful! I've been playing CK3 for a few years, now, and I have learned a lot by watching these videos.
Thank you for the kind words! I still learn new things everyday despite clocking over 2000 hours!
Finally someone who understands me!
Thank you for your support!
Very nice guide, keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Good guide, you can breed in consecrated blood from npc dynasty after getting saoshyant though.
Great tip! I added it to the pinned section so others will know :) And thank you for your kind words.
This is a fantastic guide. I'm creating some "how to make characters" content on my channel and this information is extremely helpful in getting my thoughts in order. Watching your videos is humbling. I'm really amazed by how much you know.
Thank you for your kind words!
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One way to learn about the congenital traits is playing around in the ruler creator.
All of my CK3 games turn into eugenics experiments eventually. So much so that I end up throwing in Giant, Albino, and Dwarf in there just because I can. I have entire lines of courtiers that I breed into perfect spouses for my kids. I tend to finish a game once the number of courtiers affects the speed of the game too much.
Same here! After I learned how to master genetics, I rarely marry for any reason other than genetics. I also try to do the same and make a second line that are giant knights :)
Nice video, keep covering ck3!
Many thanks!
Thank you for the kind comment!
I got pure blooded ONCE had a family of 1000 members all inbreeding. It got lost after none of his 10 kids got the trait
Yea it’s such a small chance to be inherited :( A tip from another commentator said you can keep seducing the same target (like your wife) and just pick the “lay with her” option instead of becoming lovers, that way you can attempt a pregnancy every year until you die. That’s how you can get more kids than normal and hopefully get at least 1 or 2 kids and best case 1 boy 1 girl. I used to only seduce brand new targets but didn’t realize I could repeatedly seduce the same person.
@@breadgodgaming i use the seducing trick a lot. I once console commanded a spouce with pure blooded but out of like 8 kids only 2 got it, both being girls. Lost the trait in 3 generations
@@breadgodgaming new game and the first gen of inbred kids got 2 pure blooded kids FROM THE SAME PARENTS. 1 boy 1 girl. Sometimes the rng gives
Wow that is some really good RNG! When I was recording the first run of my Viking World Conquest video, my first ruler had a daughter who was pure-blooded, genius, herculean, and fecund so I was so excited to maybe have perfect heirs in one succession from a grandchild. After playing for 3 hours I exited thinking my cloud save succeed but it didn't :( RIP super daughter.
@breadgodgaming you yourself appear to be... in - bread?
LOL love it! Thank you for making me laugh
Personally went into the files and made Giant a positive trait. Doesn't do anything different, I just always found it odd that it was red and thus a bad trait. (I also made Dwarf and albino good traits aswell)
Great content man!
Thank you for the kind words!
One thing of note, you can choose to end a succesful seduction scheme without becoming lovers, but you still lay with the target. This almost always ends in pregnancy, so you can repeatedly seduce a particularly good spouse or concubine to rapidly make children until you get one with the desired traits.
I did that in my last run to breed Pure blooded into the bloodline, 7 children in 7 years, got a couple of perfect daughters
Do note that women in-game actually lose fertility with each child though
This is a great tip to help with the min-maxing! I never thought of doing that! Now I might be able to definitely create the perfect genetic heir in fewer generations.
@@breadgodgaming Yeah, it works pretty well for the first 7 children (at least in my experience), after that the lowered fertility per birth plus age starts to take its toll and you need multiple attempts.
The same logic can be applied for renown farming with Romances, end them with just a kiss and they don't become your soulmate, meaning you can keep romancing the same woman
I’ve been using the “lay” option instead of lovers to great effect. Even in the rare chance it critically fails I still got a lot more pregnancy chances in. I think I easily ended with 20+ kids while being busy conquering the world
@@breadgodgaming excellent, glad to see my tip helped
Thoughts on using sadistic to keep the succesion so that you can get rid of kids with bad traits? I find that that helps a decent amount in places where you can't choose the succesion type.
PS. Good video, I knew most of this but there were some things that I didn't know such as not getting any courtiers when traveling and knowing the stats for inhering traits is nice
It can be nice if you have it, but unless you can reliably pass on the personality trait then other methods are more consistent. Wards and warden DLC does let you influence your ward so you can almost permanently keep sadistic if you want. The other downside is that sadistic is a sin in faiths like Catholicism, which I tend to play a lot of. I just uploaded a video on inheritance if you want to check out some methods :) Ironically, I forgot to include sadistic in it, but good folks like you reminded me. Thank you for your kind words!
this is amazing! I want to do this, unfortunately my own traits are horrible and it's all very overwhelming being new to the game. So many things i don't understand how to fix, such as everyone always starting war with me once my king dies and it all turns to shit and with my trait of "chronic re-roller" i just gotta start from the beginning..
Thank you! Don't sweat it...it can take many many hours before you really get the hang of it. There are so many systems in place to learn so that you don't get rekt. And even then rngesus can drop a bomb on you so part of why CK3 is fun is because you sometimes just get into hilarious situations (and deadly)
I'm not sure if this was changed, or if I was doing something weird, but at 19:20 you say you can't recruit until they're 16, but I know for certain you can recruit at any age.
I know because while participating for the first time in the Crusades, I got so fed up with how useless my AI allies were that I gave up and sailed across the ocean besieging al-Ash'ari holdings unhindered for about 15 years while the crusading/defending armies stumbled around the desert. Each siege I'd imprison a couple children and "Recruit" was always an option under "Negotiate Release" so I started just keeping the ones that didn't give much of a ransom so I could marry them off to get high-stat court members. As a wise man once said, "I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die!"
Thanks for letting me know! I actually wasn't fully enlightened to the the mechanics, but I've done some more testing and you can recruit any child that is not set to inherit anything. So primary heirs are always un-recruitable until they're 16 versus extra heirs cannot be recruited if they are actually set to inherit anything. If you rob the target of their titles except for one, you can recruit all their extra children but their primary is still protected until they're 16. Thanks for having me dig more to learn this nugget!
A tip regarding making more babies - when you do the Seduction scheme you can then decide at the end not to become lovers. This lets you sleep with them, but still allow you to repeat the scheme so that you can do it again for another lay and another chance at making a baby. Timing it at about 1 month or so after the last one makes it so that it would complete roughly about a month or so after any pregnancy had happened from the previous one.
Did this trick to try and make as many kids as possible as soon as possible for the "A Perfect Circle" achievement so that I can try and preserve the "Pure-Blooded" for as long as I can down the line and only got an inbred at the 5th generation, which was also the one I needed to play as to get the achievement to pop.
Great write up of a great tip!
In AGOT the fooking Targaryen max their cognitive trait legacy. After that no one(also me) can stage a successful coup against them(Genius, beautiful, Herculean, …) fuck!!!
Haha it’s tough to win against genetic gigachads
Apparently, the Egyptians knew something we didn't.
Make a video about inheritance 🙏🙏🙏
Check out my channel :)
So.... I know this is a old vídeo, but I just for into CK3 recently and I am still learning. Your vídeos are awesome for that! Subscribed immediately.
Now to the topic. If I go the Pure Blood way or the Dynasty Blood tree, does It make It harder to get any "bad" traits or just Inbred and leveled ones? Asking because I'm planning to do some specific runs with bad traits... Like a Jötunn (Giant Albino), Moria (dwarves) or Lizard Overlords (scally) Dynasties and ALL those are consideres bad traits... Can I still breed them in?
Thank you for your kind words and support!
Randomly getting bad traits and inbreeding penalties are different but can happen at the same time. All negative traits can randomly appear, like 'ugly' has a 0.25% chance to randomly appear in your kids. Inbreeding penalties means if you and your spouse share ancestors/are related then there is a big chance you will cause bad traits to appear.
'Pure-blooded' trait only reduces the inbreeding penalty to spawn bad traits but it doesn't protect from bad traits itself. If both you and your spouse are 'ugly' and 'pure-blooded' then your children will still have a 100% chance to be 'ugly'.
The third blood dynasty perk reduces the chance to inherit bad traits and reduces the random chance for bad traits to appear. It doesn't protect against inbreeding, but it will reduce your ability to sustain a line of bad rulers. So don't get this perk if you want to keep a bad trait lineage. As long as you are actively marrying spouses with the same bad traits or inbreeding all the time, the inheritance rules in this video is the same. Just don't get the third dynasty perk and you'll be good to go. Can't wait to see how that run goes :)
Hello, I would like you to explain how to do jihad with Muslims, in different games I have become a head of faith and I can't get the option of jihad. I have read that to do jihad you need to be a head of faith and that one of your sacred places is occupied by a different faith and that the fervor is above 75. Could you explain in a video how you can do jihad? Thanks in advance, regards.
Hello sr.blanco9358! I have some generic information here on crusades/jihads: ruclips.net/video/bkhCzI9tZDA/видео.htmlsi=laSBBbb2N4o1Y_Jd&t=3281
Who are you playing as / what territory do you control? For your specific situation, has christianity unlocked crusades already? If christianity has unlocked crusades then Islam only needs one holy site in hostile/evil hands for it to unlock Jihads. There is also a 10 year time delay between any faith unlocking great holy wars, so if crusades were unlocked 880 then jihads can be unlocked 890. If crusades were not unlocked, then two holy sites need to be in hostile/evil hands. Your Muslim faith needs to have 'Struggle & Submission' tenet. 75 fervor is correct for declaring jihads, but your faith also needs to have 35 counties following it. Most commonly, all the holy sites of Ash'ari / other Islamic faiths are already held by Islamic rulers. So you will have to purposefully lose a holy site or two to an evil/hostile enemy, especially if you're the arabian empire. Most commonly, if Islam loses Jerusalem to Christian crusaders, then they will normally unlock Jihads in short time.
If needed, I can also look at your game file. If you need more info still, let me know and I'll try to create a specific video.
Jihad is haram
Thanks, gonna use it irl! 😉
Haha this is the best way to guarantee beautiful geniuses :) /s
The Herculean/Amazonian trait is a trap, it makes your character over stay his/her welcome.
When you want to start playing as your heir. Just get get hale so you can strengthen the bloodline... ^^
That is true, using hale and beautiful will save lots of points and prevent a long life, but I personally love long lived rulers since that gives me enough time and leeway to complete a lot of goals. Thank you for the tip!
@@breadgodgaming
Maybe if you have absolute crown authority, with Primo- or Ultimogeniture, so you can just choose your heir. ^^
well done
Very helpfull, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I loved ck2 but never tried 3, slowly getting the urge.
I didn't play much CK2 and I was terrible at it, but so far I'm thoroughly enjoying CK3 and I think the UI/graphics/etc was a game changer to get me more into CK and understand it better. There's always more content coming out and I'm sure in a few years the amount and depth of stuff will be similar to 2. If there is only 1 DLC I'd definitely get it would be Northern Lords.
17:55 PSA: You can click this button 01/01/867 with ironman enabled by playing as a 6 yr old without a childhood trait, or a 2 yr old with one
That was fire BG
Thank you!
But with elected succession will your other heirs not still get some of your land?
Election inheritance is full and complete as long as you own 2+ duchy titles; with one it does not override regular confederate partition. With 2 duchy titles, you pass on all the de jure counties within each title. When I’m playing with elective succession, I’m holding all the de jure counties of each duchy only.
If you did have any extra non de jure counties, then yea those are up for grabs. With the exception of one extra county as you can’t split one title.
You can see an explanation of elective law in my inheritance video here at 7:21 ruclips.net/video/gIWpy1HHDWg/видео.htmlsi=vZ6PdaZvdOq9yDYQ
Lmk if you still need clarification!
I cant find the disloyal trait anywhere. Please help.
Are you on console? The console version is about 1.5-2 years behind PC patches and disloyal was added in the 1.7 "Bastion" / Friends & Foes DLC. You don't need the DLC to have access to the disloyal trait though it was part of the free patch portion of 1.7
If you are on console, for the missing -20 refund points than you might need add some of the other negative stress traits at -5 each, lazy is a manageable negative personality trait and gives -10 (avoid paranoid, craven), some of the shunned religious traits may be contenders too at -5. Just double check they are shunned and not criminal.
So I’m on the character creation screen and I found traits but after that you’ve lost me….
I'm guessing this would be a lot harder with the legitimacy mechanic
Legitimacy only affects my breeding program if I'm using the major benefits like reduced vassalization acceptance/counties needed for titles, but otherwise I still prioritize genetics over anything else. Once you get your domain up and have a stack of men-at-arms, there really isn't any issues with factions
Why divine blood turn into consegrated blood ?
Depends on if you were head of faith (divine blood) or you were not head of faith (consecrated blood) when you took the 'Consecrate bloodline' decision
One way I get around inbreeding, is I typically marry courtiers with good traits to another, then ward and marry their children with my children
That is definitely the way to go! If you can't outright inbreed, cousin breed first :)
Now with the legends of the dead, how do you marry without losing all legitimacy?
If you're starting out as count or duke, the first wife can be lowborn since your legitimacy won't matter with few/no vassals. If you start as king or emperor, marry for the best noblewoman. Once you get strong enough then having low legitimacy doesn't matter. The other thing is you can freely marry your children with lowborns and I don't land my primary heir so there's no risk of inheriting low legitimacy.
Overall, legitimacy may slow down the genetics program a little bit but it still is viable and 100% worth the investment.
I do have an entire video purely on legitimacy to help point out how to gain/lose/inherit legitimacy. Overall though, my analysis is that it has not really changed the way I play, I still focus on building really tall and then overwhelming power lets me do as I please.
Superhumans? We want to make the most weak, frail and feeble subhumans it is possible
I love your avatar!
How did you make daughters the heir?
As a feudal kingdom, I always add elective succession to my holdings and sometimes to my kingdom title. Because of elective succession & I hold a majority of titles, I can vote for whichever heir I wanted to. If you can't add elective / win your election, you can always get rid of your extra sons / daughters through war, disinheritance, imprisonment, etc until the one you want inheriting is left standing. I have a bunch of techniques in my inheritance guide on my channel or I can elaborate more here if needed :)
nice
Thank you!
There's a curveball that happened to me a gameplay or two ago. I had a few good inheritable traits and I fornicated with a lowborn. I typically choose breeding this way and adopt the child with an adoption mod because 75% of my spouses end up dying within a few years of starting the game, so, I was sick of that happening... no more marriage for me.
Well, the lowborn literally had no tie to my family or any other. Our son was born pure blooded, which allowed the inbreeding to begin and perpetual great inheritable traits to be in the bloodline. How my son became pure blooded is completely unknown to me. I looked in the xml edits of the adoption mod and it literally is just a script added to be able to pass them your surname. It was bonkers and amazing and would love for it to happen again.
Edit: It couldn't have been inherited in my bloodline because my character was a created character and no, I've never added pure blooded as a trait. I like a bit of a challenge.
Wow that’s interesting. I’d have to find the inheritance code for genetics, maybe there is a rare chance to randomly inherit pure blooded even without inbreeding just like all the other traits. Thanks for sharing that is new knowledge for me!
@@breadgodgaming Welcome, but I've looed it up too and as stated, there's a 0 chance of that happening without inbreeding.
@@allennewborn936 ah which file are the genetics codes in? I would love to learn the math, I always wonder how the wiki numbers look like in the code
@@breadgodgaming I haven't gone that far as digging into finding the multipliers in the game files, rather using the Paradox Wikis I've saved for viewing over the past couple of years. I do however look in my mod files and edits to see how they effect game mechanics and how they could alter genetics, which I'm happy to say, I have none.
@@allennewborn936 when I’m home I’ll see if I can dig up some stuff. That’s really cool to know I thought those random characters in the world spawned with different rules since like you said the wiki says it’s only by inbreeding. I don’t know if it’ll help figure out new ways to spawn more pure bloods but I’ll see :)
Aren't lifestyles locked to landed characters? Getting seduction won't happen unless you land your Daughters then.
You are 100% correct. I apologize for the misinformation. I tend to have equal inheritance and give extra lands to everyone including daughters since that helps the AI make and keep more matrilineal marriages then me having to do it manually each generation. Thanks for pointing it out! I'll take it out to prevent misinformation.
@@breadgodgaming oh that makes sense.
Does bisexual actually give a fertility penalty?
I don't know where it is in the code, but if you search in the in-game encyclopedia for 'sexual orientation' it says "sexual orientation has no impact on who they can marry, but may reduce the fertility of a wedded couple if either spouse fails to match the other's preference". So I can't 100% confirm it is an absolute reduction or if they mean indirectly because you can't seduce/romance them. I just generalized it as a reduction and it's better to have the ability to repeatedly seduce your breeding partner anyways.
@@breadgodgaming I would imagine that "not matching" means they wouldn't have the attraction to their partner naturally. I'm curious about the code now.
I didn't see a fertility / pregnancy file so I'm not sure if we can see the raw code for fertility or maybe I'm using the wrong keywords for the search. Either way though, as long as we can have as many kids as possible we can get the best genetics program :)
im trying my best to remind myself that the words used are for a game
Haha, that's me every time I come across CK3 reddit post
wait wait... "your player heir, son AND BROTHER IN LAW??"
haha wait until you meet my sister-daughter wife
@breadgodgaming cant wait 🤣🤣
I saw a meme about someone making their character rail their sister for better genetics, and here i am
Haha welcome to the wonderful world of CK3. The funniest for me is there is a notification after you have successfully seduced your sister that says: "You have seduced Sister-name, a close relative, in accordance with societal norms."
I've had 23 kids in one life time
instructions unclear fathers married their daughters a bit too often and now our kids look weird
Oh no worries those were the instructions :)
I managed to get the consecrated blood before my heir flipped the script on me.
So my line is... A bit of a mess, frankly. I suppose that's what I get from having the Holy Roman Empire that has swallowed most of Europe, so it's now actually bordering the Byzantine Empire. I have a daughter of my house matrilineally married to the emperor of West-Slavia and I hold the emperor title of ... Carpathia, I think it is. I am currently trying to make up my mind of what to do with it. It seems like a shame to just leave it among my collection of non-granted titles. 😅
Combine everything into one huge Roman Empire title :) When you take the Restore the Roman Empire decision it combines all your held empire titles into the de jure of the Roman Empire :)
@breadgodgaming That would have been fun, but ran out of time, everything fractured twice. I died during my wars, so my allies got messed up, and then I had several hostile factions tearing things apart because they didn't like the new ruler. In the end I reached the end of the game as the king of Moldova lol, I started in Denmark. 😅
I love how the point of this video was to show how to master the genetics mechanic and my guy just lowkey formed an empire along the way. I struggle to hold onto my duchy!
I’m surprised you noticed haha. I can’t help but always become an empire
well i have dynasty of 200 people but all of them are kind a you know...
now when i try yo do a in house marrying
every marriage has a at least 30 percent of being inbreed.
Oh man haha yea a genetics program takes a while to work. You might have to marry out for a bit / try to get a pure-blood in your line. Those legacies help a lot with genetics. Also witch coven is great
Witches with a breeding program manipulating religion and politics... you could make a fun Dune / Bene Geserit inspired story!
Thanks for the comment! Their outfits look unique and funny. I will add that to the list :)
I'm binging your whole CK3 content because this game makes little to no sense to me once a game begins. I get analysis paralysis and stop playing.
Thank you for your support! This game is so big, and I always feel self conscious when I release long videos but hopefully it slowly helps make things clearer! Don't worry there's a reason it's called 'grand strategy' and it's supposed to almost feel like you're going to class to learn how to play this game
If you make your dynasty big enough, you don't have to marry brothers and sisters together. I have 11k members in my dynasty in my current game. The inbreeding chances are always below 1%
That is true! this was made before there was an exact percent shown for inbreeding chance
Ewww cursed roman empire its blue ewwwwww wtf
Lol also fyi u dont have to kill ur rulers to abdicate u can try take a tittle of ur vassals that has low chance of giving up that said title and once rhey start the tyranny war just surrender and u will abdicate for ur heir to take over this way u dont lose family members also this another way to make sure only ur heir gets all ur tittles 😌
Haha is the best color purple for the Roman Empire? Thank you for your support :)
You are right you can quickly depose yourself that way, so you can definitely do this if you want to skip heirs that way. The only downside is that your parent will still be the house head so you'll still have to murder/imprison them to inherit the house head. Without being the house head, you will not be eligible to be the dynasty head.
It's not that difficult is it? Maybe it's fun once, but overall this is a negative to the game.
Is it because it makes the game too easy? Are you coming from CK2? I don't have many hours on CK2 but I enjoy CK3 thoroughly.
*The power of incest.*
10:20 LMAO
Targaryens
Germans would be proud. :D :D :D
I learned about Francis Galton in college for a history of health class actually haha
Lmao after all those hybridisations your son looks like drake
Haha yes they nerfed it with 1.12.5 as you saw. I need to update this video in the future as they changed many things and I've gotten better at plague management
@@breadgodgaming they desperately need to nerf plagues and hybridisations though, they became actual cancer on the game with the legitimacy thing.
Yea there needs to be some better balancing for sure. I hope the next major patch brings some good changes!
Great information, good structure. Please stop making every sentence a question, make a definitive statement. I quit listening halfway through because I felt like I was being quizzed with all the up-talking.
Thank your for your kind words! And yea...I apologize for the upward inflection, you're not the first to tell me that oh boy. I didn't realize I speak like that and I am actively trying to change it by being more conscious. Hope to improve it soon to make the experience better!
@@breadgodgaming It's all love, I enjoyed your video and watched it three times over and got myself more used to the content. I didn't mean to come off as overly critical, I just think if you were to assert yourself more and emphasize that you are presenting information it would feel less like you are asking and more like you are telling. Once again, great info and well-studied! You're gonna go far.
No offense taken at all! I love any feedback, I want to be better every time. I think it's because my day job is a service job and I literally ask questions all day so my 'respectful talk' is probably all upward inflections haha you might be driven crazy.
I will definitely try to take your advice on being more presenting and not questioning. Maybe if I time I could get some voice lessons or something. Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback :)
son AND brother in law? 😂
haha it gets crazier than that usually...classic CK3 shenanigans
Marry your daugther to geniuses and give them cities, cousin marriage later, get a genius wifebas soon as you can and et the blood legacies.
does that 0 year old baby have 12 prowess 😂😂😂😂 kid can kill grown men
"Brosatru" "Norwego-Telugu-Andaluso-Greco-B...",idk if thats the correct way to play,or one of the most mind numbingly horrifically strange playstyles possible,also not choosing an icon for your religion is kinda not cool
Haha everyone has their own way of enjoying things, so there's no correct way for anything as long as it makes you happy imo. I didn't know I could pick my faith's icon until after I recorded that playthrough already, but if I had known, I would've chosen something else. However, I will make a note that my future choices for naming and aesthetics may affect the viewing experience, sorry.
Big L having a genetically perfect son just for him to turn out shy.
No worries he's one of many :) Actually the new shy trait isn't so shabby I'm liking the changes
@@breadgodgaming I didn’t know they made changes to it. Was killer to get stress from recruiting or talking to anyone
Yea you'll still die from recruiting/feasting with others, but the added withdraw from view and 20 days slower enemy hostile schemes makes it a decent defensive perk when you're stuck with it. It's still weak overall but not as terrible as before