Carnalitas Love Reimagined 0.11.0

A rework of the Carnalitas Make Love interaction and its related effects aiming at better realism and immersion, more variety, and improved player experience.

The latest version is compatible with CK3 1.19.x and Carnalitas 2.16. If you are still on CK3 1.18.x, download version 0.10.2 instead, and use it with Carnalitas 2.15.

Note: Since an official CBO version compatible with the latest CK3 and Carnalitas versions is not available, you should use CBO Unofficial.

Overview

Carnalitas introduces a Make Love interaction that allows the player character to have sex with their lovers, spouses, concubines, or slaves. This feature is quite popular with players, and there are plenty of other mods that extend it or build upon it. However, it also has certain limitations that have never been addressed so far in any mod.

By default, Make Love uses the vanilla sex scene generator originally used for some of the Seduce and Romance scene events. While this generator is quite nice, it is only really appropriate if both partners are deeply in love with each other. This breaks the immersion when Make Love is used on partners different from lovers, e.g. a spouse that has a negative opinion of you, or a slave who deeply hates you, the master who enslaved them.

Originally, Carnalitas intended to support 3 different types of sex scenes: "consensual", "dubcon", and "noncon". Unfortunately, the logic to select the appropriate type never produces any other result but "consensual". Furthermore, there are actually no events in Carnalitas or other mods that would satisfy the "dubcon" or "noncon" condition.

Even the name Make Love itself may not be appropriate when demanding sex from a slave who is neither a lover nor an official consort. Historically such acts were often condemned by religion as adulterous or worse, and should have all sorts of consequences in the game, ranging from stress impact to piety loss and opinion loss with the victim. For this reason, the Carnalitas Slavery Expansion mod introduced the Demand Sex interaction, without addressing the above issues however, so that slaves, while losing 20 opinion, are still acting in the sex scene as if enamoured with the player.

This mod improves and expands the Make Love interaction in order to properly address these limitations. It does this by adding a new sex scene generator that generates animations, backgrounds, and texts appropriate to many different attitudes and their combinations in both "consensual" and "dubcon" situations. It also re-introduces the Demand Sex interaction with its negative consequences, fully integrated with the new generator, and makes a number of other changes to make Make Love more immersive and enjoyable.

Since I am not a good writer myself, I opted for not generating the sex scene text sentence by sentence as in the Paradox generator, except for a few introductory sentences that are intended to reveal the partners attitudes. The rest of the text is a quote from a work of literature that is randomly chosen from a large number of such quotes to correspond to these attitudes and other circumstances.

The other changes to Make Love (and Demand Sex) introduced by this mod include:

• You can only make love to someone who is currently at the same location as you (can be disabled via a game rule).
• Both you and the target may lose (or gain) additional stress and piety depending on your traits and faith.
• You can choose additional options in sex interactions to request "orgy" or "bdsm" sex scenes depending on your traits and other conditions.
• The pregnancy chance is dynamic instead of hardcoded.
• Important actions such as Can Make Love list all characters that can be targeted.
• Carnalitas DT traits (Voluptuous, etc.) have attraction opinion.
• Carnal Court Make Love and Carnal Court Demand Sex have conditions and effects consistent with Make Love and Demand Sex if CBO is installed.

Starting with version 0.8.0, this mod also adds an improved version of the Rape Carnalitas interaction for raping prisoners. It uses the new sex scene generator and has conditions and effects that are consistent with the other sex interactions.

Compatibility

This mod requires Carnalitas as a prerequisite (obviously). While it modifies the Make Love and Rape interactions and their related effects in a substantial way, it doesn't touch other Carnalitas features and should be compatible with all of them.

This mod also supports changing its game rules mid-game with the Gamerule Gadget mod.

Compatibility with Mods Based on Carnalitas

This mod should be compatible with all mods based on Carnalitas that don't modify the Make Love or Rape interactions. Enhancing it in a way that is supported by Carnalitas, for example adding additional sex scene events, is fully supported.

This mod has been explicitly designed to complement Carnalitas Slavery Reimagined and Carnalitas Prostitution Reimagined, so you are encouraged to use all of them. If you do this, put this mod after Carnalitas, but before CSR and CPR in the load order.

This mod has also been designed to be compatible with Character Body Overhaul. If CBO is installed, it adds Carnal Court Make Love and Carnal Court Demand Sex interactions that have conditions and effects consistent with Make Love and Demand Sex, but use CBO animations.

This mod conflicts with Carnalitas Slavery Expansion since both introduce Demand Sex interactions that are similar, but differ in important details so that making the one compatible with the other would be impossible. However, if you like both CSE and this mod and insist on using them both, you can still do this. The CSE Demand Sex interaction will be overridden by this mod's one, causing minor changes to it that can be adjusted via game rules. Other CSE features are not changed by this mod.

Localization

This mod is currently available in English, Chinese (translated by @Dark_Crow), French (translated by @don-vip), and Korean (translated by @ipni20). For other languages, it uses the original English text as a placeholder.

Links

• LoversLab
• GitHub Repository

If you like this mod, you may also consider my other mods:

• Carnalitas Slavery Reimagined, a comprehensive rework of the Carnalitas slavery system.
• Carnalitas Prostitution Reimagined, a comprehensive rework of the Carnalitas prostitution system.
• Search & Trade Artifacts, search for artifacts, buy them from other characters, and sell them to other characters.
• Travelers, characters always travel to their home when it changes instead of teleporting.
• Active Courtiers, courtiers search for spouses themselves for less micromanagement, stronger AI, and immersion.

For detailed information on all features and changes, see the full README.