A CK3 Trait & Education Guide (+7 Genetic Tips!)

[@MYPSYAI]

If you're trying to breed superhumans then your best bet is to go for the strengthen bloodline decision. You need a character with all 3 leveled congenital traits, and one of those traits must be top tier. Once you select that decision your dynasty received a modifier that gives you a bonus that stacks with the first legacy on the blood line. With both of those stacking bonuses your dynasty will all be maxed out on positive traits within 3-5 generations. This information should be included in your guide, nobody talks about this strat.

[@MYPSYAI]

You can also create a ruler who can strengthen bloodline right at the beginning of the game, on ironman with achievements.

[@randomizedgen1015]

Thanks for this, recently picked up CK3 and have a lot of fun trying to breed these traits into my blood but was unsure how best to do it

[@angermacfadden2702]

​@@randomizedgen1015 It is easier as a female ruler imo, you marry a genius etc and pop put the first gen.

[@villekorpi714]

This channel is the hidden gem of CK3 guides.

[@SmonteGaming]

Thanks, Will try to keep em coming!

[@Bnasty1414]

It really is!!

[@visoth7791]

My question is in regards to breeding 2 of the same congenital trait of different tiers. I will use 2 examples: A character with Beautiful(tier 3) + A character with Comely (tier 1) vs A character with Beautiful (tier 3) + A character without any (visible) beauty traits Would the tier 1 "Comely" trait *improve* the chances of getting a "Beautiful" trait? Or would it reduce the chance? Logic to me would say that Comely is better than nothing for getting a Beautiful. But I have read mixed things online (which could be misinformed) about it reducing the chances of getting Beautiful.

[@bananagamer8298]

This is better then my classes thank you monte now i know how dna works!

[@SmonteGaming]

This made me chuckle

[@tgarmendia]

What a great video. Nice flow, well explained and fantastic editing. I'm a hardend Ck2 player and I have quite some experience in CK3 but I learned something new today. Nice.

[@SmonteGaming]

Thanks for the kind words. Really appreciate it

[@CountCristo]

Great video - clear, hits the points you need to know, doesn't get bogged down Really well put together

[@SmonteGaming]

Thanks!

[@SmonteGaming]

I'm quite proud of my snazzy intro. Almost an hour of chipping up that screenshot!

[@roybon4424]

Efficient & straight to the point, bravo !

[@zeblissoof2924]

Learned all I wanted to know, wonderfull content!

[@MushroomGravy]

Thanks man. Most KZbinrs are either explaining the obvious (and getting it wrong) or guessing as 'it more or less should be this', and it isn't. Annoying as hell when you want actual accurate information. You also don't have enough subs for the quality, got one more.

Yoooo where were you all this time? This channel is gold!

[@99Pierogies]

Damn, I've been doing highest learning this whole time for education. This was very good info

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Here's an idea for a similar game: It's set in the world of Dune, and you're a Reverend Mother controlling some Bene Gesserit, and they engage with nobles to produce the Kwisatz Haderach.

[@michaelhallii3322]

Make my head spin please. Good work

[@SmonteGaming]

Yep some of these game mechanics are best left a mystery :P

[@alexirons52]

Great explanation! You got a new subscriber!

[@SmonteGaming]

Thanks! Goal is to be comprehensive yet succinct

[@chrisrudolf9839]

You didn't mention the one exception to always going for a spouse with the highest trait level: If a character has the second trait level, it's far better to marry them to someone who has the trait on the same level, since those two are practically guaranteed to pass on at least the second trait level with a good chance to reinforce it to third level. If you instead marry someone with the second trait level to someone with the third trait level, inheritance basically works as if they had entirely different traits, i.e. there is a chance to inherit either, but also a chance to inherit only the level 1 version or even no trait at all.

[@ultimate0000]

I know I'm a bit late but this is what I took from your video 1. take on your child as a ward and hold onto them until you have influenced what personality traits you want them to have ( until age 13 if I'm not mistaken ) 2. then at age 13 send them off to be educated by a genius or similar, followed by who ever has the highest stat you want your child to also have and if all fails just give them to someone with high learning ? Is that correct ? Liked and subbed

[@SmonteGaming]

Yep that's a good summary and as per my understanding. Thanks for the support!

[@dmitriidoroftei4478]

Just awesome content! Thank you!

[@Bnasty1414]

Could you do a video covering the modifiers for the other traits at some point?? Love your videos man, keep it up!

[@VjShil]

Yo bruv, I've only played fifa21 on my console. But was considering buying ck3 after watching a few lets plays. Would a Lenovo 550 process such world building? Also great learnings, good stuff. You got yourself a sub.

[@SmonteGaming]

Though I cannot confirm I believe you might be below the minimum specs. It probably will run, but once the game goes on it starts requiring quite a bit of processing. Ck2 is free on steam, you can see how that runs first and also get a feel for the game. Definitely cant say for sure how ck3 might run for you. Thanks for watching.

[@haribo836]

A question on the guardian of a child and the education trait. I'm in a situation where I have a very low martial skill and no intelligent trait, but want to make my heir martial focused. What if I am the guardian of the child for most of his childhood so I have control of his personality traits, but then switch guardians to a martial focussed one once all 3 traits are chosen. Does that affect the likelyhood of him getting a good education trait? Basically it comes down to the question, is the education trait determined by his guardian when he reached age 16 or is it an accumulation of the guardians he had during his whole childhood?

[@SmonteGaming]

Once your child is 6 and you can set his/her focus they will always receive an education trait from that focus. So in your case you'll want a bossy or rowdy son as these will both be the ideal childhood trait for marshal lifestyle. Once your child is 6, however, and you do elect the marshal focus, you'll want to hand him off to the educator as this is when the game starts calculating the level of the kids education trait. Just to be clear, educate until 6. Select desired focus. Then hand off to genius. Their focus won't change.

[@haribo836]

@@SmonteGaming Thanks for the reply. I did some research myself as well and tested a few runs. Seems that each year after age 6, looks like at the birthday, the games makes a roll to see if he scores points (higher odds with good learning traits, good guardian etc), these points get put together at age 16 to see which level perk he gets. That's what the research told me. Then in my test runs, did a few first with just the good guardian and a few with me as a guardian. Difference was quite noticeable. What I then did was a run where I had a good guardian most of the times, but at his 9th, 11th and 13th birthday, I switched to me being the guardian to get the control over the perk and then switched back to the good guardian once the perk was chosen. I was still getting the "good guardian" perk, but had control over the personality trait. Think that is the best way of dealing with it.

[@SmonteGaming]

@@haribo836 Ahh nice, thank you for the additional details! I never fiddle that closely but that sounds like its probably the best way to control things properly.

[@JesseKerson]

Good video! You got into some dense information without making it to meaty to swallow.... I think I'm hungry

[@damiang6644]

So I can choose for my child whether I want him to have the quality of a negotiator or of being brave or rowdy?

[@SmonteGaming]

So the education trait (Midas Touched, Grey Eminence, etc.) is only controlled passively by you/your educators Intelligence trait (genius, quick etc.), their skill in the desired stat, and their learning. With the Intelligence trait being heavily favored. So there really isn't anything you can do in terms of choice when it comes to that. Brave/Rowdy type traits can be chosen by you from periodic events when you are the child's educator. You'll notice a choice to have your ward "keep brave" or "lose brave and pick up some other trait" generally causing you stress. Hope this helps.

[@daisukix2018]

Thanks this made sure I was doing it right somehow 👍👍👍

[@dark85Schneider]

do you know how to get the berserker trait? that trait is unbelievable powerful. my enemies had 2 berserkers, and he destroyed half of my knights on one battle :D

[@SmonteGaming]

So it looks like this comes from a random event for religions with the Warmonger Tenet. (this is a default tenet for Asatru) Basically if you have this tenet, there is a random chance during battle. The chance of developing Warmonger is higher when the character has any of the Brave, Impatient or Wrathful traits.

[@attrage7545]

You get a thumbs up because you just gave me a hilarious idea - I'm going to try to cultivate the imbecile traits. To hell with a line of super humans, I'm going to create the dumbest dynasty of all time!

[@Blockhead-ps3rx]

Does this work irl?

[@SmonteGaming]

One sec, need to find some cousins.

[@sztallone415]

So a genius + lvl 2 education trait guardian is better than a plain lvl 4? IIRC in Ck2 the max level of trait (midas touched) was the most important in a guardian

[@SmonteGaming]

The formula doesn't care about guardian's education trait (per the wiki). Based on how the game weights each factor a genius with 5 in the relevant skill and 5 in learning has the same "roll success chance" as a guardian without genius but 30 in both learning and relevant skill. So its crazy how valuable the Intelligence trait is to the education process when picking a guardian.

[@Remmo_Uk]

Super helpful, thank you 👍

[@andrefreitas1678]

Thanks, i was looking for this. I keep getting bad heir because I´m doing their education. But, what about the traits? Should we also be aware about the guardian´s traits? For example, i want my heir to be an amazing commander with traits like ambitious and brave, and I find a genius character with 25 martial and 15 learning, but he is lazy, shy and sadistic... should he be the guardian?

[@SmonteGaming]

Hmm automod held this comment sorry I missed it! Yes their traits will affect how they choose your child's traits. There is a way to micro manage it by switching back and forth between your Heirs guardian and yours to pick the traits when the prompt comes up and back but I'm not so sure when the game does those checks. But yes always good to consider lazy etc when picking guardian.

[@damiang6644]

If I want to make a decision: "Strengten Bloodline" then I have to make sure that for at least three generations my children will have one of the traits at a high level, such as genius, so that I can move on to the next trait, beauty?

[@damiang6644]

Hmmmm?

[@SmonteGaming]

Few things: first you must be head of your dynasty. In addition you'll need one of each of the intelligence, physical and beauty traits. Also at least one needs to be max rank so for example beautiful, quick and hale would satisfy that criteria. Finally you can't have any bad congenital traits such as inbred. My understanding is that your current ruler making the decision needs to meet these requirements and thus your children etc, do not matter.

[@SithJenova]

Heya, I tried building up a clan of cannibals in the game but failed to pass it on to my children. I realise this is not a congenital trait so I tried to be a ward for my two oldest children but never got the chance to give it to them. Was this just bad luck? Would I have a higher chance if my regent would have had a higher learning stat? I have never seen AI characters in Europe or Asia have this trait, does this mean it's impossible to get it naturally if I am from one of the native cultures/religions there?

[@SmonteGaming]

So, poking around a bit there really doesn't seem to be a reliable way to create cannibals outside of random events, stress, etc. It does look like you can have a decision called Faith Cannibalism which will convert all your close family members to cannibals but its has quite a few requirements that make it seem difficult to pull off. -be a cannibal -have a faith with Cannibalism Tenet -have a cannibal for court chaplain -head of faith is cannibal Amongst others. Hope this helps!

[@SithJenova]

@@SmonteGaming aww that's too bad. But thank you so much for taking the time to research and reply to me!

[@SmonteGaming]

@@SithJenova NP thanks for watching!

[@Jaydee8652]

I feel the title should specify it’s CK3, I clicked on this video because I had no idea what it was about.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

you know whats annoying? my son became craven and he has low martial for someone with a level 4 education trait what of his legacy, he is the grandfather of the great conqueror son of the richest african king and yet here he is having the craven trait and being horrible at military(hes not that horrible he does have decent stats in diplomacy and stewardship which always helps but its still a pain

[@alexxans1154]

Oh you meant in game

[@blank2809]

6 years old, hale, quick, beautiful

[@youngoutlaw5150]

You could always marry your courtiers with positive traits, but you could marry into your family in the future

[@SmonteGaming]

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[@Zwerggoldhamster]

"A character cannot have opposing traits?" I am pretty sure one of my characters was both generous and greedy

[@SmonteGaming]

Hmm I'm fairly certain that is the case, though, maybe what you experienced was an exception.

[@blastedtheking813]

If I have intelligent should I get a wife with genius or intelligent I have blood 1

[@Niko-yk1pl]

Why do you show gameplay that's completely unrelated to what you're talking about? To me this is rather distracting.

[@AndyObserver]

costumize children they say

[@SmonteGaming]

The things you end up saying when playing this game...

[@TacitusKillgore1]

Is there any way to remove or replace them on PC with a mod or cheat?