Community Suggestion: Family tree/Bloodline customization: Reign of rulers, custom icons, former spouses and displayed family lines
Family tree/Bloodline customization: Reign of rulers, custom icons, former spouses and displayed family lines
Feature Upgrade · Family trees · Created by Dork117
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family-tree bloodline management
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
1. Reign of rulers: The ability to add the reign of kings or leaders of an orginisation to characters on a family tree/bloodline. Perhaps the ability to add custom dates in general like the years of a marriage. 2. Custom icons: Being able to add additional icons (rings) to a family tree/bloodline to better distinquis certain things. For example rulers havinga certain ring color or people who married into the family or were adopted. 3. Former spouses: A way for former spouses to show up only if they had children with a character on the family tree/bloodline. Preferably without the neeed to switch between spouses. So for example Charater A had 3 spouses, 2 of which he had children with. 1 spouse doesn't show up and the other 2 are both displayed next to him instead of ontop of one another with the need to switch. 4. Displayed family lines: More detailed control of what shows on the family tree/blood line. For example character A has a son and daughter whom in turn have children of their own. Being able to customize only the male or female line would be nice to make the family tree/bloodline less cluttered. So in one option the children of the son wouldn't show while in the other the children of the daughter wouldn't show. Or you can make them both show. Lastly, the ability to have family tree's show more ancestors and decendents or for bloodlines to show spouses.How does this feature request address the current situation?
It would allow for more custimizations. Giving people more freedom to decide what they want to see on a family tree/bloodline and make things more readable. One could make massive dynisty trees which only show relevant information and highlights rulers or people could make smaller family tree's with a bit more clarity and information if they wish.What are other uses for this feature request?
Beyond the family tee/bloodline it has little other uses but it would greatly enhance the feauture. Giving rise to many creative ways to use the addition custimization of what is shown and highlighted.Follow up
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! Some of this is planned for future updates to the family trees, while some of it isn't for technical reasons (although future updates might still cover those points or make them irrelevant). It's very difficult to address a suggestion that's made up of four different suggestions; in the future please try to keep each suggestion focused so we can give you a better answer!
Current score
40/300 Votes · +9304 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by DMFW
on 2026-03-27 10:51I like all these suggestions. At the moment I don't think I'm really getting what I would ideally like to see from my family trees. I'd like more nodes to be shown explicitly, especially the ability to see former spouses and their offspring side by side. If relationships had a start and end date it might help in ordering them logically left to right (e.g birth date, marriage date(s), death date)
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+300
by Milo Wolfhart
on 2026-03-26 18:29 -
+300
by Kal0sN0rden
on 2026-03-25 16:32 -
+100
by Elb Tenebris
on 2026-03-25 09:45 -
+300
by Anglette
on 2026-03-25 06:57 -
+300
by ZeeklyBeekly
on 2026-03-24 21:51 -
+1
by A Fierce Dwarf
on 2026-03-22 17:29 -
+300
by Aparre
on 2026-03-22 06:04 -
+100
by NicoleAntoinette
on 2026-03-22 01:19 -
+100
by atrippuk
on 2026-03-21 08:55 -
+100
by Gregorian
on 2026-03-20 20:31 -
+300
by Lonnie makes mayhem
on 2026-03-20 00:35 -
+100
by McCastle
on 2026-03-19 17:28 -
+300
by Writing Bishop
on 2026-03-18 21:19 -
+300
by Anamunn
on 2026-03-17 20:31 -
+300
by Ebsfive
on 2026-03-17 14:47 -
+100
by bphilippe
on 2026-03-17 06:04 -
+300
by A Revolutionary Hobbit
on 2026-03-16 14:52 -
+100
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2026-03-14 21:24 -
+300
by Adcheryl
on 2026-03-14 15:24 -
+300
by KCKramer
on 2026-03-13 13:33Family trees are really complicated to keep track of and dates would be super helpful, especially for.... messier family trees.
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+100
by tswag42
on 2026-03-13 01:00I'd love to be able to construct noble lineages for my kingdoms and not have it tied to a character. This would create something from which to pull NPCs and know how they are connected in my world.
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+300
by A Goodhearted Velociraptor
on 2026-03-12 13:50 -
+300
by Aphitis
on 2026-03-11 23:07 -
+300
by IBB
on 2026-03-11 20:04 -
+1
by kkm7
on 2026-03-11 15:08 -
+300
by WeStanNikolai
on 2026-03-11 10:52 -
+1
by A Frightened Velociraptor
on 2026-03-11 04:17Former spouses would be a great thing, especially.
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+300
by Avendir
on 2026-03-10 18:56The additional features would be helpful when I try to use the trees as a reference when working on something
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+300
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+300
by A Uncontrollable Bananafolk
on 2026-03-08 13:40 -
+300
by isaacbabad
on 2026-03-08 11:44 -
+300
by J. J. Van Dyke
on 2026-03-07 19:52I agree that it would be cool if content trees allowed all family tree relationships. For example, I might want to include a set of siblings and their parents (both parents) as well as the siblings' spouses and children.
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+100
by FictionFan1995
on 2026-03-06 14:30 -
+1
by kaixabu
on 2026-03-06 11:30 -
+300
by A Glamorous Mlem
on 2026-03-06 07:22 -
+300
by ourg0dsal
on 2026-03-05 20:28 -
+300
by Comic Book Lady
on 2026-03-05 17:01 -
+300
by ResplendentMoon
on 2026-03-05 15:14 -
+300
by Eldigiii
on 2026-03-05 09:57 -
+300
by Dork117
on 2026-03-05 09:01
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