Proven Steel

Proven Steel transforms your common soldiers into legendary companions. When a troop distinguishes themselves on the battlefield racking up kills and outperforming their peers, you are given the choice to elevate them to a permanent hero in your party.

What's new in v1.5.3.3

Answer the Call

• Fight outnumbered and the people you raised come back for you.

• Sworn Lords and clan parties led by your Proven companions within range ride to your battle, with real travel time.

• Call notice at battle start, countdown at 60, 30 and 10 seconds, horn on arrival.

• Their party truly joins the battle, so losses and loot resolve like any ally.

• Weaker side only, field battles only, your side only.

• MCM: on/off, call radius, max parties.

Horse Whistle

• Dismounted? Press V and your horse runs back to you.

• Your own horse only.

• Key rebindable in MCM.

Companion Swap, reworked

• Your own body keeps fighting when you take control of a companion.

• It fights with the weapon you left in its hand: sword means melee, bow means it shoots.

• The AI general commands your army while you are swapped. Command returns the moment you swap back.

• You hear the general's orders as a soldier would: "Men! Charge!", "Men! Hold position!"

• Swap reach extended: 250m at sea, 120m on land.

Naval battles

• Valor, titles, nominations, banter and companion swap now work at sea.

Other

• Bestow Lordship button now explains why it is blocked.

• Sworn Lord clan renown requirement raised from 800 to 1,000.

Save compatible.

Proven Steel v1.5.1

The companions we forge in battle now have a home. v1.5.1 brings the Proven Steel tab to the Clan screen, where every veteran's record lives.

New: Proven Steel Clan Tab

• A tab in the Clan screen showing your tracked companions: portrait, tier, valor progress, and battle role.

• Pending titles sit at the top. Bestow them one at a time, or all at once.

• Each companion shows their progress to the next tier and their chosen focus.

• Change a companion's battle role straight from the tab.

Fixes

• Post-battle lines now match the outcome. A battle we lose no longer plays a victory line.

• Added lines for the battles we lose, where before there were none.

• The title story now appears once, on return to the map, instead of on the main menu.

• Pending titles survive a save and reload.

• A companion ready for a title now reminds us each time we return from battle, until we grant it.

For translators

• Added a Localization files, guide is can be found on the Discord: ProvenSteel - Discord

Core Features

• Post-battle promotion: nominated troops that meet kill thresholds and outperform their comrades. You pick one to promote.

• Random promotions: occasionally a soldier quietly earns recognition without a formal nomination.

• Role-based skill bonuses: infantry, cavalry, and ranged each get role-appropriate skills on promotion. Leadership contributes bonus points.

• 4-tier title progression: at 25, 50, 75 and 100 total kills companions earn evolving culture-aware titles. Olaf the Bold becomes Olaf, Sword of the North.

• Player-granted titles: story popup after battle, then you speak with the companion and formally grant the title. Relation improves.

• Post-battle kill counter: top 7 PS companions listed in chat with this-battle kills, total kills, and distance to next title.

• Battlefield kill milestones: gold chat message when a PS companion hits a kill milestone mid-battle.

• Clan screen stats panel: select a PS companion in the Members tab to see kills, title tier, and progress.

• Expanded companion slots: flat bonus slots plus additional slots per clan tier.

• Persistent kill tracking: kill counts saved with your game and carry across all sessions.

• Companion limit protection: nominations are suppressed when you are at your companion limit, preventing accidental culling of existing companions.

• Configurable: all values adjustable in MCM.

Settings Guide

All settings under Mod Options > Proven Steel. MCM v5 required.

Nomination

• Infantry / Cavalry / Ranged Kill Threshold: kills needed to qualify. Default 5 / 6 / 7.

• Outperform Percentile: troop must beat this share of the army. 0.68 = top 32%. Set to 0 to disable.

• Max Nominations: candidates in the promotion popup. Default 2.

• Tier Threshold: minimum troop tier. Default -1 (end-of-tree only). Set to 0 for any tier.

• Respect Companion Limit: when enabled, nominations are suppressed if you are already at your companion limit. Disable if you use a mod that removes or raises the cap. Default: enabled.

New Companion Rewards

• Base Skill Points: base points on promotion. Default 150.

• Leadership Points per +50 Skill Points: every 100 leadership grants +50 bonus points.

• Skill Points per Excess Kill: bonus points per kill above threshold. Default 25.

• Upfront Cost: gold cost to recruit. Default 0.

• Number of Skill Bonuses / Rounds: picks per round and how many rounds. Points halve each round.

Companion Slots

• Bonus Companion Slots (Flat): flat slots on top of vanilla. Default 0.

• Bonus Companion Slots per Clan Tier: extra slots per clan tier. Default 0.

Auto Promotion

• Auto Promote Chance: chance per battle for a quiet promotion. Default 5%. Set to 0 to disable.

• Auto Promote Tier Threshold: minimum tier for auto-promotion. Default 3.

Title Progression

• Title Tier 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Kills: kill thresholds per tier. Defaults: 25, 50, 75, 100.

• Tier 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Stat Points: role-tied skill points awarded at each tier.

Other

• Milestone Kill Interval: how often milestone messages fire, in kills. Default 5.

• Disable Milestone Messages: suppress mid-battle milestone messages.

• Disable Info Messages: suppress post-battle diagnostic messages.

Console Commands

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