I am unable to consider it both, your majesty. Whereas outlining their plans for Crusader Kings 3 within the new 12 months, Paradox have teased a serious growth by turning round and revealing a work-in-progress donkey. They’ve additionally spilled the beans on among the tweaks coming with yet one more “realm upkeep” replace as a part of this year-end dev diary.
Following 2025’s chapter 4 additions, which culminated with October’s All Below Heaven DLC extending the courtly strategising into medieval China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 2026 would be the 12 months of chapter 5. As has turn out to be the norm, meaning two extra main expansions.
What’re they about? Properly, this is the principle trace Paradox are providing, a minimum of in the case of one of many pair:
Both your subsequent kingdom’s Far Far Away, or one thing involving buying and selling/farming is afoot. “If 2025 was the 12 months of going huge (Nomads, all of Asia) then 2026 might be a 12 months of depth,” the studio scrawled above their ass. “We’re going to return and revisit some components of the sport that’ll deepen the general sport expertise. Similar to how Roads to Energy set the stage for All Below Heaven, the All Below Heaven growth is setting the stage for this future content material. There are some central areas of the sport that we’ve been itching to enhance for a protracted, very long time now.”
Alongside these add-ons, 2026’ll see CK3 get one other free “realm upkeep” replace geared toward revamping present areas of the sport or enacting much less pressing modifications primarily based on participant suggestions. This replace’s being geared toward a launch “early within the second quarter of the 12 months”. Amongst its tweaks might be a retooling of accolades to make them extra rewarding and simpler to cross on to a knight’s squire, whereas attributes being made clearer and there will be “extra company” round incomes them. Additionally, Paradox wrote, “Glory will get a little bit of a revamp, so it’s not misplaced when the knights die in battle (it’s their job in spite of everything, and dying in battle will be fairly wonderful in these occasions…).”
The studio then went off to point out off how among the interfaces round these modifications will look, with some panels exhibiting off extra in-depth visualisation for the varied story cycles your ruler will be wrapped up in. In case you get a pet cat or canine, there’ll additionally now be a tab the place you possibly can learn a bio for them, detailing information like their age, fur color, and whether or not they’re an excellent boy.
Not one of the pet information slides proven off recommend you may get a pet donkey as soon as the thriller ass growth drops, however there’s nonetheless loads of time for that to be rectified as soon as the calendar flips to subsequent 12 months.
