Unique parameters

This page contains an overview of all different parameters used in uniques and what values can be filled into them. Each of the different parameter types is described below, including all possible values for them. These are split into two categories:

• descriptions: e.g., "the name of any unit"
• Text that looks like this. This last one must be used exactly the same

Note that all of these are case-sensitive!

General Filter Rules

All filters except for populationFilter accept multiple values in the format: {A} {B} {C} etc, meaning "the object must match ALL of these filters"

Example: [{Military} {Water}] units, [{Wounded} {Armor}] units, etc.

No space or other text is allowed between the [ and the first {, nor between the last } and the ending ]. The space in } {, however, is mandatory.

All filters accept non-[filter] as a possible value

Example: [non-[Wounded]] units

These can be combined by nesting, with the exception that an "ALL" filter cannot contain another "ALL" filter, even with a NON-filter in between.

Example: [{non-[Wounded]} {Armor}] units means unit is type Armor and at full health. Example: [non-[{Wounded} {Armor}]] units means unit is neither wounded nor an Armor one.

[{non-[{Wounded} {Armor}]} {Embarked}] units WILL FAIL because the game will treat both "} {" at the same time and see non-[{Wounded and Armor}], both invalid.

Display of complex filters in Civilopedia may become unreadable. If so, consider hiding that unique and provide a better wording using the Comment [] unique separately.

civFilter

Allows filtering for specific civs.

• Human player
• AI player
• nationFilter

nationFilter

Allows filtering for specific nations. Used by ModOptions.nationsToRemove.

• All
• City-states
• Major
• Nation name
• A unique a Nation has (verbatim, no placeholders)

baseUnitFilter

Unit filters can be divided up into two parts: baseUnitFilters and mapUnitFilters. The former is tested against the unit as it appears in the json. This means it doesn't have an owning civ or tile it stands on, just its base properties. The latter is tested against the unit as it appears on the map, including its nation, tile, health and all other properties.

The following are allowed to be used:

• unit name
• unit type - e.g. Melee, Ranged, WaterSubmarine, etc.
• Land, Water, Air
• land units, water units, air units
• non-air for non-air non-missile units
• Military, military units
• Civilian, civilian units
• All
• Melee
• Ranged
• Nuclear Weapon
• Great Person, Great
• Embarked
• Matching technologyfilter for the tech this unit requires - e.g. Modern Era
• Any exact unique the unit has
• Any exact unique the unit type has
• Any combination of the above (will match only if all match). The format is {filter1} {filter2} and can match any number of filters. For example: [{Modern era} {Land}] units

mapUnitFilter

This indicates a unit as placed on the map. Compare with baseUnitFilter.

• Any matching baseUnitFilter
• Any civFilter matching the owner
• Any unique the unit has - also includes uniques not caught by the baseUnitFilter, for example promotions
• Wounded
• Embarked
• City-State
• Barbarians, Barbarian
• Again, any combination of the above is also allowed, e.g. [{Wounded} {Water}] units.

buildingFilter

Allows to only activate a unique for certain buildings. Allowed options are:

• All
• Buildings, Building
• Wonder, Wonders
• National Wonder, National
• World Wonder, World -- All wonders that are not national wonders
• building name
• The name of the building it replaces (so for example uniques for libraries will apply to paper makers as well)
• Matching technologyfilter for the tech this building requires - e.g. Modern Era
• An exact unique the building has (e.g.: spaceship part)
• Culture, Gold, etc. if the building is stat-related for that stat. Stat-related buildings are defined as one of the following:
  • Provides that stat directly (e.g. +1 Culture)
  • Provides a percentage bonus for that stat (e.g. +10% Production)
  • Provides that stat as a bonus for resources (e.g. +1 Food from every Wheat)
  • Provides that stat per some amount of population (e.g. +1 Science for every 2 population [cityFilter])
• Any combination of the above (will match only if all match). The format is {filter1} {filter2} up to any number of filters. For example [{Ancient era} {Food}] buildings.

cityFilter

cityFilters allow us to choose the range of cities affected by this unique:

• in this city
• in all cities
• in your cities, Your
• in all coastal cities, Coastal
• in capital, Capital
• in all non-occupied cities, Non-occupied - all cities that are not puppets and don't have extra unhappiness from being recently conquered
• in all cities with a world wonder
• in all cities connected to capital
• in all cities with a garrison, Garrisoned
• in non-enemy foreign cities - In all cities owned by civs other than you that you are not at war with
• in enemy cities, Enemy
• in foreign cities, Foreign
• in annexed cities, Annexed
• in puppeted cities, Puppeted
• in cities being razed, Razing
• in holy cities, Holy
• in City-State cities
• in cities following this religion - Should only be used in pantheon/follower uniques for religions
• in cities following our religion
• in all cities in which the majority religion is a major religion
• in all cities in which the majority religion is an enhanced religion
• [civFilter]

improvementFilter

For filtering a specific improvement.

Allowed values are:

• improvement name
• All
• Great Improvements, Great
• All Road - for Roads & Railroads

populationFilter

A filter determining a part of the population of a city. It can be any of the following values:

• Population
• Specialists
• Unemployed
• Followers of the Majority Religion or Followers of this Religion, both of which only apply when this religion is the majority religion in that city

policyFilter

Can be any of:

• All or all
• [policyBranchName] branch
• The name of the policy
• A unique the Policy has (verbatim, no placeholders)

combatantFilter

Can be any of: - mapUnitFilter, for unit combatants - City, All, or civFilter, for city combatants

Since mapUnitFilter contains civFilter, that means civFilter can be applied to combatantFilter for both units and cities.

regionType

Used for dividing the world into regions in each of which a single player is placed at the start of the game. Allowed values are Hybrid and the name of any terrain that has one of the following two uniques:

• A Region is formed with at least [amount]% [simpleTerrain] tiles, with priority [amount]
• A Region is formed with at least [amount]% [simpleTerrain] tiles and [simpleTerrain] tiles, with priority [amount]

simpleTerrain

Used by NaturalWonderGenerator to place natural wonders

Allowed values are:

• Land
• Water
• Elevated
• The name of any terrain

stats

This indicates a text comprised of specific stats and is slightly more complex.

Each stats is comprised of several stat changes, each in the form of +{amount} {stat}, where 'stat' is one of the seven major stats (eg Production, Food, Gold, Science, Culture, Happiness and Faith). For example: +1 Science.

These can be strung together with ", " between them, for example: +2 Production, +3 Food.

stockpiledResource

This indicates a text that corresponds to a custom Stockpile Resource.

These are global civilization resources that act similar to the main Civ-wide resources like Gold and Faith. You can generate them and consume them. And actions that would consume them are blocked if you don't have enough left in stock.

To use, you need to first define a TileResources with the "Stockpiled" Unique. Then you can reference them in other Uniques.

technologyFilter

At the moment only implemented for ModOptions.techsToRemove.

Allowed values are:

• All
• The name of an Era
• The name of a Technology
• A unique a Technology has (verbatim, no placeholders)

terrainFilter

This indicates the terrain on a single tile. The following values are allowed:

• A filter names a specific json attribute (by name):
  • Base terrain
  • Terrain features
  • Base terrain uniques
  • Terrain feature uniques
  • Resource
  • Natural wonder
  • A nationFilter matching the tile owner
• Or the filter is a constant string choosing a derived test:
  • All
  • Terrain
  • Water, Land
  • Coastal (at least one direct neighbor is a coast)
  • River (as in all 'river on tile' contexts, it means 'adjacent to a river on at least one side')
  • Open terrain, Rough terrain (note all terrain not having the rough unique is counted as open)
  • Friendly Land - land belonging to you, or other civs with open borders to you
  • Foreign Land - any land that isn't friendly land
  • Enemy land - any land belonging to a civ you are at war with
  • your - land belonging to you
  • Water resource, Strategic resource, Luxury resource, Bonus resource, resource
  • Natural Wonder (as opposed to above which means testing for a specific Natural Wonder by name, this tests for any of them)

Please note all of these are case-sensitive.

Note: Resource filters depend on whether a viewing civ is known in the context where the filter runs. Water and specific tests require a viewing civ, and if the resource needs a tech to be visible, that tech to be researched by the viewing civ. The other resource category tests can succeed without a known viewing civ only for resources not requiring any tech. So - test your mod!

So for instance, the unique "[stats] from [tileFilter] tiles [cityFilter]" can match several cases:

tileFilter

Any of:

• terrainFilter for this tile
• improvementFilter for this tile
• Improvement or improved for tiles with any improvements
• unimproved for tiles with no improvement

terrainQuality

Used to indicate for what use the terrain should be viewed when dividing the world into regions, in each of which a single player is placed at the start of the game.

Allowed values are:

• improvement name (Note that "Road" and "Railroad" do work as improvementFilters, but not as tileFilters at the moment.)
• "All"
• "Great Improvements", "Great"
• "All Road" - for Roads & Railroads