CK3 DatabaseCrusader Kings III · 1.20.0.3 “Crozier” · unofficial

CK3 DNA codes

The appearance of 309 historical characters as the game itself stores it (65 women, 244 men), read from game/common/dna_data of patch 1.20.0.3. Copy one and paste it into the ruler designer to give your ruler that face. Pictures show the character's realm on the start's map — the game keeps no portrait images, faces are drawn live.

Only women or only men: female DNA · male DNA.

How to use a DNA code

  1. Press Copy DNA here: the code goes to your clipboard.
  2. In Crusader Kings III, open the ruler designer.
  3. Press its Paste DNA button (next to Copy DNA). The game reads the code from the clipboard.
  4. If the game shows Paste DNA Failed, the text was changed on the way — copy it again.

The codes are written the way the game's own Copy DNA button writes them (as players share them): a ruler_designer block with the character's type and genes. Each gene line is copied unchanged from the game file. We have checked the format, but have not yet pasted these codes in the game ourselves.

Historical characters

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Developer easter eggs (121)

Vanity characters the developers put in the game (history/characters/eastereggs.txt), with the DNA the game gives them.

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DNA from players

Rulers other players designed, each with a screenshot, are on Community DNA. Designed one yourself? Share it there for others to copy.

Share your DNA