(MOD) Occultus Orbis Terrestre

[MrTaxman]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

OVERVIEW:
In 1399 there were many areas of the world that were undiscovered. Some mapmakers claimed to have special knowledge of what lay just beyond the horizon. OOT is an ahistorical mod, adding those islands, countries, peoples and continents that mankind has claimed exist. OOT adds exploration and excitement for those players who, frankly, already know what they're going to find when they "discover" the unknown.

Download Occultus Orbis Terrestre 1.3.1 here
INSTRUCTIONS: Please note, you must unzip the file into your VANILLA (Main) EUIII: DW directory. It will not interfere with vanilla in any way, but it enables some of the new graphics on the trade screen. Failure to follow these instructions will result in the mod hanging just before it loads.
Compatible with EUIII: Divine Wind 5.2 patch

Sub-Mods:
fargoniac has released a sub-mod that emphasizes the Always War mod by Junuxx. You can download it here.


THANKS go to the following skilled modders:

lukew -- Death and Taxes -- (Taken from majorly for this mod - a million thanks) Krankovich -- Malaya Mod -- CanOmer -- Develt i Ossman -- Knuckey (and Rakhasa for fixes) -- Colony Name Change -- Chatnoir17 -- Japan & Anchors of Time -- (Only 4 daimyos in DWvanilla, srsly? This adds greatly needed flavor to Japan) Dafool -- American Empires -- Junuxx -- Always War -- MEIOU team -- For letting me use some of their history files -- Modestus -- For using portions of his great map -- Knuckey -- Rebirth of Rome -- GeorgeLes -- Rex Maris -- CJL78 -- Repubblica di Firenze -- Karhunkynsi -- MiscMods -- DHarper -- Dei Gratia -- TheFreez -- More Nations -- jdrou -- EU3 localisation text fixes (fix pack) -- ZomgK3tchup -- New PJL flag -- (which far exceeds my original) 17blue17 -- error checking -- Gigau -- New Resources Icons and How-to -- and to anyone else whose work I may have inadvertently used. (Just let me know, I'll be sure to include you.)

ADDITIONS:

Over 300 new provinces to explore (Now over 400 added! v 1.2.0) New cultures (including Polynesians, Atlanteans, Frislanders, Hyperboreans, Lemurians and more!) New Empires New Religions New Religious groupings Most of the changes and additions from the mods used. Bornholm was made a separate province (it shouldn't ever be grouped in with Sjælland IMO, just read its history) Easter eggs galore! See if you can find them all. New resources (v 1.1) - resource related crash fixed (v 1.1.5) Religious decisions for new religions (v 1.1) Australia now has more colonize-able land and better resembles first European maps (v 1.1) Unit descriptions added for Muror, Atlantean and Lemurian unit. (v 1.1) New Atlantean Governments (v 1.1) 1.2.0 Added North African provinces & Cultures Imported Native American tribes from Miscmod New Central African provinces Lemuria fixed and more provinces added Prester John - unique government, added flavor Lemurian decisions, unique government More Lemurian Nations Added Cibola, Quivira, El Dorado and City of the Caesars 1.2.1 Added Intelligent Wars Mod Added Jersey & Guernsey, Isle of Man, Shetlands, Isle of Wight, Avalon, Saguenay Enabled Hussite religious events New cultures form from European conquests (English, French, Scandinavian, Iberian and Germanic) Expanded colony name change to include a few European Provinces Atlantis Conquering decision chain Atlantean conquest may result in a daughter culture 1.2.2 Corrected a few minor name change issues Added a few forgotten localisations Fixed adjacency for Isle of Wight 1.2.3 - MAJOR CHANGES Corrected a few minor name change issues Added a few forgotten localisations Fixed adjacency for Isle of Wight Imported more provinces from DAO Made Hindustan a Muslim only decision, Bharatavarsha a Dharmic only decision Made religious conversion a bit more difficult Added culture group switching events Added new "daughter" cultures for long term European holdings Added PJL conversion choices, culture, changed graphical group Increased PJL conversion bonuses from Berber, African and Turko-Semitic peoples Added provinces of Bigorre, Comminges, Perth, Argyll and Scottish Marches New Dutch culture - Nederlander, enacted by decision (by a united Netherlands) it prevents German cultures from steamrolling the Dutch Group out of existence. Four new provinces in Southern Italy Majorly changed Italian cultures Majorly changed French Cultures Added minor cultures 1.2.4 General fixes - trade goods, prices, buildings, etc. 1.2.5 More minor fixes New Irish provinces! Upgraded Form Ireland decision. New and Restorable Crusader States Improved Auto-Renaming of Irish provinces 1.2.6 Added California (Nation) Added California (broken off as an island) Other small fixes 1.2.7 Fixed a double trade center issue in Constantinople (Thanks Jords!) Updated the water-map to not look so dark around Lemuria, gave Aussie interior sea some depth Improved the Lemurian coast a bunch - made it look more natural 1.2.8 Major map snafu fixed! Caught thanks to Fiyenyaa. 1.2.9 fargoniac has helped me to add some new nations Fixed a 0 colonization range bug from Isle of Wight Mu and Gulamur are now formable nations - they have been split in to many nations. Mu is now a much more dynamic continent! Aryshire and Ulster have a straight crossing. Argyll and Tyrone have a straight crossing. There are straight crossings between Lesvos and 3 'Turkish' provinces. 1.3.0 Deleted a province created by mistake (Thanks fhrubgby!) Changed Arawak and Carib nations to Tribal Democracies - now they're conquerable Un-nerfed a certain island nation in the South Pacific Added some missing localizations 1.3.1 Fixed the minimap!!! (Thanks to Shadowkano and 17blue17)

To Be ADDED:

Fix port rotations - not a fun prospect. Fix minimap - I can't seem to change it... Any suggestions?

Map SPOILER: (A list of added continents/islands/regions)

Lemuria - Indian Ocean (South of India) Atlantis - Atlantic Ocean (Just southwest of the Azores) Frisland - Atlantic Ocean (South of Greenland, a bit southwest of Iceland) Thule - Atlantic Ocean (West of the Faroes, South of Iceland) Hyperborea - Asia (Northern Russia, east of the Ural Mts.) Mu - Pacific Ocean (West of South America) Prester John's Land - Africa (Southwest of Ethiopia) A small, secluded island. Not important, really. OOT Whole World.jpg

Culture SPOILER: (A list of added cultures)

West & East Lemurians Atlantian Lankan, Dramil and Pandiyan - Indo-Lemurians Muror, Gulamur and Mul - Natives of Mu Hyperboreans Hawaiian, Savaikian, Tongan, Samoan, Rapanui, Waponi and Tahitian - Polynesian Settler cultures Hairen - Chinese Island Settlers

Religion SPOILER: (A list of added religions)

Asakti - heretical dharmic religion, centered in Lemuria Hurufite Islam Nasrani Christianity Ellenismos and Enasism - Atlantean religions Arioi, Tiki, Tangata Manu - Polynesian religions Dragon and Northern Dragon Worship - Mu religions Mazu - islander chinese religion Omnianism and Offlian - religions of native Lemurians Another religion, a way of life really, on a small island.

Also, a special thanks to:
The OOT Thinktank:

TheDarkMaster Nomad93 ZomgK3tchup Bear_Sheba Duke of Britain Yuki2310 Jords Mike88 ssfsx17 fargoniac

Please note:
I'm happy to consider your ideas, so please let me know. I do have a personal life, I'm still trying to work out bugs (if you want to bug check etc for me I'll think you're wonderful) and I'm not going to necessarily get the "next" release out tonight.

[Dafool]

Wow, quite a bit of work. I wish I had the time to really sit down and test this out. How are colonization and things like that working out?

[Junuxx]

Looks interesting, I'll definitely try this. It reminds me a little of my old Island Empires mod, but better.

[Guillaume HJ]

I toyed with an idea a little along those lines way back when, then eventually dropped it. Glad to see someone else doing it!

Also, I'm surprised the mod name isn't Hic Sunt Dracones (though I think someone misused that name already) :-p

[MrTaxman]

Wow, quite a bit of work. I wish I had the time to really sit down and test this out. How are colonization and things like that working out?

There shouldn't be any changes from Knuckey's mod (I just adopted it wholesale)

[MrTaxman]

Looks interesting, I'll definitely try this. It reminds me a little of my old Island Empires mod, but better.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I hope it works out well.

BTW, there is a CTD bug that seems to come up randomly... any help in ferreting it out would be appreciated.

[MrTaxman]

I toyed with an idea a little along those lines way back when, then eventually dropped it. Glad to see someone else doing it!

Also, I'm surprised the mod name isn't Hic Sunt Dracones (though I think someone misused that name already) :-p

I played with a few names, but decided that the Hidden World of Earth (rough translation) was most appropriate. Meh, a rose by any other name...

[lukew]

Oh wow, I just saw this. Looks awesome!

[ZomgK3tchup]

The mythology during this era was that Prester John was from India, not Ethiopia. It was when the Portuguese discovered Hindus in India that they "moved" Prester John to Ethiopia.

I would look up Prester John's "letter" to the Byzantine Emperor for this as well. It gives some interesting details on the organization and structure of his kingdom.

Also, please change the color of the text in your post. Many of us use the default skin which has a white background.

[MrTaxman]

The mythology during this era was that Prester John was from India, not Ethiopia. It was when the Portuguese discovered Hindus in India that they "moved" Prester John to Ethiopia.

I would look up Prester John's "letter" to the Byzantine Emperor for this as well. It gives some interesting details on the organization and structure of his kingdom.

Point taken about India vs Africa, however, for the sake of not doing too much in the India region, I've left it in Africa. I can honestly say that India or Africa, Prester John is a-historical

EDIT: Just as a by-the-by:
"By the fourteenth century, exploration had proved that Prester John's kingdom did not lie in Asia, so subsequent letters (published as a ten-page manuscript in several languages), wrote that the besieged kingdom was located in Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia)." here

Also, please change the color of the text in your post. Many of us use the default skin which has a white background.

Sorry, didn't realize that at all - I'll change that for ya

[Junuxx]

Also, please change the color of the text in your post. Many of us use the default skin which has a white background.

Which one is that? I thought Deep Blue edited was the default skin.

[Nomad93]

Wonderful stuff.I can see you putted a lot of work in this.When I opened the game and saw all the countries and lands I felt like overwhelmed.I didn't knew where to start
Can you tell us about the lore of the mod?
Like what new religions worship(if they worship anything)and what the new cultures resemble?


Edit:the game crashes.I arrive at like 1405 and then boom.

[chatnoir17]

Congratulation to the release!

[MrTaxman]

Wonderful stuff.I can see you putted a lot of work in this.When I opened the game and saw all the countries and lands I felt like overwhelmed.I didn't knew where to start

Thanks. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed myself trying to put it all together.

Can you tell us about the lore of the mod?
Like what new religions worship...

Dragon & Northern Dragon Worship are animistic religions that venerate the 'bones of the gods' (i.e. fossils) In Dragon worship the main god is the Three-Horned Dragon (triceratopsids), while Northern Dragon Worship venerates a different god (mosasaurids) as the chief god.

Ellenismos is the child religion of the Hellenistic period (worship of Greco-Romanesque deities)
In Enasism the worship of the Ideal God is encouraged. The Ideal God is omnipotent and omniscient, yet the god does not concern himself with the day-to-day affairs of the world (Deism, of a sort).

Practitioners of Mazu worship the Goddess of the Sea, as she preserved their forefathers in their journeys across the waters to their present lands.

Hurufism and Nasrani

Asakti was brought about through the efforts of some Hindu scholars, who believed that pleasure and focus on the 'self' brought one closer to the Divine. This sect was driven out of the Indian Subcontinent in about 1050CE, only to take up residence with the Indo-Lemurian peoples of Lemuria.

Omnianism and Offlian

Arioi, Tiki and Tangata Manu

Edit:the game crashes.I arrive at like 1405 and then boom.

I apologize for that - I still haven't tracked it down. If you go back to a save game (6mo previous) sometimes it wont happen (for a long time, or ever)

[MrTaxman]

Congratulation to the release!

Thank you very much, and thanks for being so gracious in letting me use your mods!

[MrTaxman]

I would look up Prester John's "letter" to the Byzantine Emperor for this as well. It gives some interesting details on the organization and structure of his kingdom.

Also, the governments I have for many of the new nations are placeholders at best... I haven't taken the time to write in new types (mostly because I haven't done that before, and I have lots of other things I'm trying to do IRL.

[CanOmer]

Looks awesome, downloading.

[Dutchemperor]

I love this but while looking around I already found a bug, Switzerland is completely cultureless (noculture).

[ZomgK3tchup]

Also, the governments I have for many of the new nations are placeholders at best... I haven't taken the time to write in new types (mostly because I haven't done that before, and I have lots of other things I'm trying to do IRL.

Yeah, you may want to consider something like China's Celestial Empire, as Prester John's kingdom without Prester John and/or his descendents wouldn't really be anything.

I once modded PJ's kingdom into EU3, so I learned quite a bit about it. If you don't have a flag for his kingdom, I'd recommend looking at this. I'm not a huge fan of white flags, so I'd take that one and play around with it for a bit.

If you're into redrawing the map, you should also consider redrawing Australia to match what 19th century explorers thought it would look like. See here. They thought there was a large inland sea, as well as a complex river system that created a very fertile and habitable core.

[Nomad93]

Thanks. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed myself trying to put it all together.


Dragon & Northern Dragon Worship are animistic religions that venerate the 'bones of the gods' (i.e. fossils) In Dragon worship the main god is the Three-Horned Dragon (triceratopsids), while Northern Dragon Worship venerates a different god (mosasaurids) as the chief god.

Ellenismos is the child religion of the Hellenistic period (worship of Greco-Romanesque deities)
In Enasism the worship of the Ideal God is encouraged. The Ideal God is omnipotent and omniscient, yet the god does not concern himself with the day-to-day affairs of the world (Deism, of a sort).

Practitioners of Mazu worship the Goddess of the Sea, as she preserved their forefathers in their journeys across the waters to their present lands.

Hurufism and Nasrani

Asakti was brought about through the efforts of some Hindu scholars, who believed that pleasure and focus on the 'self' brought one closer to the Divine. This sect was driven out of the Indian Subcontinent in about 1050CE, only to take up residence with the Indo-Lemurian peoples of Lemuria.

Omnianism and Offlian

Arioi, Tiki and Tangata Manu


I apologize for that - I still haven't tracked it down. If you go back to a save game (6mo previous) sometimes it wont happen (for a long time, or ever)

Game still crashes,though it does it later(after few years,like 3 or 4).Thanks for the lore,anyway,very interesting.I eagerly wait for the new(hopefully more stable)release