Mods compilation Thread - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

If your mod fits in more than one of the following categories, it's going into the miscellaneous category. I'm sorry, but categorizing mods that do more than one thing requires too much thinking, and I hate thinking.
Also, I'll only be including mods that have links to files. Nothing hypothetical.
If I've forgotten your mod, then please tell me in this thread (with a link to your mod, so I don't have to track it down).
So far, only mods from the Desura and Invisionfree forums are included.
If Edi or someone else with the power to edit other people's threads would take this over for me, I'd be so happy. So happy. Alternately, someone could copy+paste what I've done so far and improve on it themselves. This thread could then be forgotten in favor of the newer, ostensibly superior version. I totally wouldn't mind it if someone copied and pasted this. You don't even have to credit me or notify me. Just do it.
If you have any issues, please tell me in the thread. So if you feel a mod is in the wrong category, or if I made some sort of error, then go ahead and tell me and hopefully I'll fix it.
Also, there is a mod compatibility project on the Invisionfree forums that lists compatible mods. Link
Nation mods
New nations
*Aksum: Empire of the Savannah
Adds a nation based on medieval Ethiopia
*Sawaiiki, Eternal Sea
Adds a nation based on Hawaii
*Warhammer High Elves
Adds a nation based on Warhammer's High Elves
*Tzeentch Warhost
Adds a nation based on the Warhammer god Tzeentch's demons and followers
*Bantulu
Adds an EA nation based on Southern and East-central African Bantu speaking cultures
*Dwarf Nation Mod
Adds a nation of fantasy dwarves
*Themiskyra
Creates an MA Amazon nation
*The Blood War: the Legions of Baator
Adds a Dungeons and Dragons devils' nation
*Byzantine Pythium Nation Mod
Creates a new nation based on the Byzantine Empire (like Pythium, but not)
*LA Marverni
Marverni in the Late Era styled after the French Revolution. Hopefully makes lots of Mel Brooks references
*LA Ulm: Blood and Steel (I was gonna type Blood and Stele, but woops, no, that's Aksum: Empire of the Savannah, lol)
A different LA Ulm more powerful in combat, but weaker in magic
*Tataraba, Gunpowder Against the Gods
Adds an LA nation based off of Irontown from the film Princess Mononoke
*Nation Gen
Randomly generates new nations\
*FF's Kushan Mod
An MA nation of berserkers
*Warhammer Ogre Kingdoms
Adds a nation based off of Warhammer ogres
*Warhammer Dark Elves
Adds the Dark Elves from Warhammer as a playable nation
*Berserk Mod
Adds the Kushan Empire and the Band of the Hawk from the manga/anime "Berserk."

*Slaanesh, Warhammer
Warhammer Slaanesh-themed nation
*Warhammer Lizardmen
Adds Warhammer Lizardmen as a nation
*Vanahird
A nation of Vanir isolated from the other Vanir nations (like Iceland, or Greenland, or something)
*Lodum, Viral Death
Zombie/Zerg sort of nation for the Late Age
*Old Jomon, Withered Bushi
An LA nation based on Jomon, but with undead and evil kami
*MA Musafir
A nation of intelligent tigers
*Sahuagin, Sea Devils
Adds an EA underwater blood nation
*Arga Dis
Adds a nation based off of Sparta
*New Houlem
Hoburg Puritans
*Artea, Wisdom of the Land
An EA nation of bear-lovers. I'm not saying they have sex with bears, but how else did they get those bear-people hybrids? Thank goodness people like me are here to ask the right questions.
*Shambhala, the Hidden City
And MA nation based off of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism
*Avernum, Crystal Souls
A new Middle Era nation based on the Exile series by Spiderweb Software
*Warhammer Empire
A nation based off of the Empire from Warhammer
*Orphas, Stygian Gate
An LA nation based off of Helheim
*LA Tortuga, Black Sails
A nation pirates. Arh
*Svarogia, the Dark Forests
Adds a nation based off of old South Slavic mythology
*EA Musafir, Storm of Reflections
A desert nation of light troops
*EA Muspelheim
Adds a fire giant nation based off of Norse mythology
*LA Archons
Adds the Archons from Age of Wonders as a playable nation
*MA Aurum, the Golden Tower
A nation of heavily armored infantry with a thing for gold
*EA Lagos, Fu Inle
A nation inspired by Richard Adams's Watership Down novel
*Esubonten
Dinosaurs in West Africa
*Eljundir, Frost of the Nether Realm
An EA nation of dark and cold. The download link can be found on the second page (since apparently, whoever created this mod has no idea how to edit the OP)
Conquest of Elysium Nation Imports
*CoE Senator Mod
*CoE Cultist Mod
*CoE Baron Mod
*CoE Witch Mod
*CoE Enchanter Mod
Nation adjustments
*Caelum Booster
Adjustments to Caelum troops to make them worthier warriors
*Expansion pack: Eriu
Adds new units, a pretender chassis, and some summons to Eriu
*Expansion pack: Blood and Fire (MA Abysia)
Adds new units and summons for MA Abysia, as well as a slew of tweaks
*Expansion pack: Sceleria
Adds new units and items to Sceleria, and rebalances existing units
*Joe's Improved EA C'tis (I can't believe this barbarian forgot the apostrophe in C'tis)
Various flavor additions to EA C'tis
*Joe's Better Caelum MA
Adds new recruitable units and some tweaks to existing units for MA Caelum
*Joe's Wet EA Ulm
Gives Ulm some Atlantian units
*Balance Modding: Agartha
Improves the nation of Agartha (probably obsolete with patch 2.03)
*Big Damn Heroes: Vanarus Edition
Gives Vanarus heroes
*FF's Improved Agartha
Adds various tweaks to Agartha across the ages
*Yomi Rebalanced by Telos
A variety of tweaks and additions to make Yomi's power level comparable to other EA nations
*Jomon Broken
Adds horror themes to Jomon
*Black Ulm
Ulm, but with strong death themes
*Demons Spreading Chaos and Stuff
Causes several nations, most notably Yomi and Lanka, to spread turmoil
*EA Pelagia Revamp
Adds more recruiting variety and changes some others for EA Pelagia
*Gunpowder Mod
Adds gunpowder weapons to several LA nations
Spell mods
*Disabled Vanilla Spells
Disables all non-mod spells
*CoE Summons Converted For Dom4
Takes summons from Illwinter's Conquest of Elysium and turns them into summons for Dominions 4
*Emerald Sword Mod
Adds an artifact and some summons based on music from the band Rhapsody.
*High Elf Spells
Adds a number of spells intended for the High Elf mod nation
*UWGIM
Makes many spells castable underwater, especially summoning spells.
*Gifts For All
Creates variations on the spell Gift of Reason for various magical paths
Artifact mods
*XCom weapons
Adds futuristic weapons from the game XCom as forgeable items
Unit mods
Pretenders
*Winter Holidays mod
Adds four Christmas themed pretenders
*Expanded Underwater Pretender Mod
Makes some pretenders seaworthy, and improves some original aquatic ones
*More Pretenders
Adds more pretenders
*Demilich Replacement Mod
This mod replaces the Demilich pretender with a "Thronebound Lich" who is still immobile but has some innate gem income
*Improved Rainbow Pretenders
Various improvements to rainbow pretenders (pretenders with a lower cost to adapt new paths)
*FF's Improved Pretenders
Three separate mods that give pretenders recuperation and regeneration (if applicable), give pretenders wound resistance, or significant across the board boosts.
*High Holy
Gives all pretenders H7
*Powerful Gods
Makes gods more powerful
Heroes
*Worthy Heroes
Adds various new heroes and improves existing ones
Sprites

AI Mods
Opponent AI
*No Indie Poptype Recruits
Removes indie recruiting without removing PD
*AI Recruitment Mod
Changes the way the AI recruits units, trying to make it's armies more thematic and useful
Battle AI
*Joe's Spellkiller
Disables certain spells so the AI doesn't cast them
Balance mods
*Joe's Mod
A variety of balance tweaks
Misc. mods
*Mobility! For Dom4
Increases the map move of all non-flying units
*I Heart Bakemono
Across the board changes to Bakemono as well as some gem cost reductions for a few spells
*Recruit Anywhere National Commanders Mod
Lets you recruit national commanders in any province, without a fort
*Single Age Mod
Stuffs all nations into a single era
*Dom3 to Dom4 Conversions
A variety of old mods from Dom3 converted to work with Dom4
*Fast to Recruit
Removes slow recruit
*Joe's Brightocean (Oceania) MA
Changes some pretenders and makes various tweaks to MA Oceania
*Mod Banners
Adds more elegant banners for certain more popular mods
*All Nations MA
Puts all nations in MA
*No Mercs
Removes all mercenaries
*Fast Forts Mod
Gives most nations the option to build simpler, quicker forts.
*Cheap Forts, Expensive Labs
Replaces most forts with palisades, and raises the cost of labs to 800
Modding tools
*dom4editor
Helps create and edit mods (I think?)
*Debug Mod
Helps test things in-game
*Blank Mods
Templates for creating total conversion mods

Edited by: brxbrx

Whoa. Thank you for doing this. Some nitpicks thought:

- Byzantinee Pythium is a stand-alone nation mod, it does not replace the vanilla Pythium.

- Demilich replacement mod is not only a sprite swap, it also changes the mechanics of the Demilich

Once you have time, it might be useful to have like a single line description of each of mod.

Yup. And once that happens, this becomes a sticky thread.

Wow, thanks, this is very useful. Can you add my 'More Pretenders' to the list? I've released 0.1, though the main thread is on other forums, I will do a direct download link + preview in the desura thread too.

It's at Indiedb.com (yes, final post is broken but fixing the formatting soon)

Okay, guys, descriptions have been added, revisions have been made, and David88, your mod has been added with a detailed description.
Maybe sometime soon I'll go check out any mods posted at the invisionfree forums, and maybe the Steam forums. Anybody know any other place where mods might be (I don't think there are any new ones at Shrapnel, are there?)?

brxbx, if you accept mod who aren't posted at Desura proper, I would like you to add that one : Z7.invisionfree.com

It's LA Marverni, as a Terror/revolution themed french mod nation.

Done. A couple of questions for everybody:
Should I reply every time I make a requested revision to the OP?

And how do I edit my signature? I want to add this thread to my signature, but when I go to edit my profile, I do not see the option present.

Thanks

The description for the Demilich mod is still inaccurate, but that is likely due to my OP being really shitty. I added the following sentence to it, which also could work as a one-line blurb.

"This mod replaces the Demilich pretender with a "Thronebound Lich" who is still immobile but has some innate gem income (+1 all elemental + death gems per month) to offset the gems you are losing due to your inability to search magical sites."

Ooh, so then you can't pick him up. Unless you're a giant... How big is this throne?

Edited by: brxbrx

Also, the Tzeentch warhost is not just Tzeentchian daemons, it's... Well, Tzeentch's human worshippers with Tzeentch daemons! But, a grand effort either way!

Edited by: Tzeentch-cultist

Thanks for this resource! I can see myself using it quite often in the future. A minor thing, though: Ulm, Blood and Steel is a new nation that doesn't replace normal LA Ulm. The description of the nation was a bit confusing though, hopefully it's a bit cleaner now.

Sawaiiki is based specifically on Hawaii btw.

Could you please remove the Improved ME Ulm and Healing Gods from the list atleast for now?
I'm working on updating both mods, expanding to encompass EA to LA Ulm by adding more national spells and items.
As for the healing gods, I'm creating two versions of it, one where gods recuperate and another where they simply become hard to injure.

I'm going to fully test out both mods first then post a new thread for each so as to create less confusion.
Thank you for compiling the list of mods!

DariusFF wrote: Could you please remove the Improved ME Ulm and Healing Gods from the list atleast for now?
I'm working on updating both mods, expanding to encompass EA to LA Ulm by adding more national spells and items.
As for the healing gods, I'm creating two versions of it, one where gods recuperate and another where they simply become hard to injure.

I'm going to fully test out both mods first then post a new thread for each so as to create less confusion.
Thank you for compiling the list of mods!

Alright, but you'd better post here again once the mods are finished. Otherwise I may end up looking you over.

Just a message to say thank you for this list

Ok! Posted the expanded Healing Gods mod in a new thread called FF's Improved Pretenders.
Improved Ulm is still a work in progress and should be ready to be posted soon!

I really wish you'd make one thread per mod, but I'll put it up regardless.

The HighHoly mod adds H7 levels to all pretenders in the game. Its thread is here.

Thanks for this compilation! One thing that would be nice would be to separate nation mods by age. Some say the age, but others (I'm looking at you Aksum and Blood War) don't.

MAurelius11 wrote: Thanks for this compilation! One thing that would be nice would be to separate nation mods by age. Some say the age, but others (I'm looking at you Aksum and Blood War) don't.

I'll consider it. First, I'll probably want to add the invisionfree mods.

I've created a separate section for Conquest of Elysium classes made into nations, since there stands to be a lot of them. I'm thinking of skipping descriptions since it's likely self-explanatory, although players unfamiliar with CoE might like descriptions. I'll see.

I guess you may as well add Yomi Rebalanced by Telos to the list. Description: a variety of tweaks and additions to make Yomi's power level comparable to other EA nations. Indiedb.com

I have added all mods from the Invisionfree forums, which I'm pretty sure means I rule the modding community for the next 1,000 years and the devs have to put up with my inane questions, suggestions, and requests for a while, too.
Seriously, those folks at Dom3Mods are some prolific-ass modders. It took me forever to get them all down.
I will check the Invisionfree forums irregularly, so I would strongly appreciate it if anybody there that wants their mod on this list either post in this thread or PM me (preferably, notify me by posting in this thread, because I don't know where my PMs are on this site and since I've exhausted all my mental energy creating this list, I don't want to learn).
If anybody over at the Invisionfree forums wished to, they may copy this list and post it over there. You have my blessing, don't need my permission, and don't need to provide attribution. If you'd like, you can even claim that you were a pixie I locked in my closet and forced to make this list, thereby framing me as a pixie-enslaving plagiarist and taking all the credit for yourself. I would not have a problem if you did that.

You should add a link to the Mod Compatibility Project that Sombre is in charge of. All those mods are compatible with each other.
Z7.invisionfree.com

Edited by: amuys

This is an excellent bit of work, thank you brxbrx. This is doing something rather different from the MC, in that it lists /all/ known mods. MC is just about the /best/ mods being compatible. So the community certainly has need of both.

Now I just have to alphabetize them.