Easy enough, I'll copy the trade route history file over and remove that entry outright so I don't have to think about it anymore. By removing Ohio from the USA, we've reduced wine consumption enough that a scripted trade route that the USA starts with needs to be changed or removed.Please, I beg you… read the error logs and fix the errors reported there.Īnyways! In our case, there's four sources to these errors: I'm not even talking to just potential V3 modders now. Please read the error log and fix errors reported there. Any time you're working on a mod, I cannot emphasize enough how useful it is to run the game with debug mode on and do your best to resolve any issues reported in the error log. We have errors! We'll open up the error log, which can be found at ".\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3\logs\error.log", and let's take a look at the error messages. Open it up, and we'll paste text like this bad boy into it: Inside our mod's "common\country_definitions" folder, we're going to make a little file I've arbitrarily called "ohio.txt".
#Victoria 3 dev diary 19 mod
This mimics the path of the base game (that "Victoria 3\game" bit), so when the game reads this mod and tries to figure out how it interacts with the base game, it doesn't scream and die. In V3, country definitions are stored at "Victoria 3\game\common\country_definitions", so in our "It's Ohio!" directory we're going to make a "common" folder, and then a "country_definitions" folder within that.
#Victoria 3 dev diary 19 how to
The key thing with how to set up a mod is that you have to essentially copy the paths used in the main game, so the game reads everything right. Go back to the main directory, so that you're looking at "\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3\mod\It's Ohio!" If you want to tinker with that stuff later, go on ahead, but we're not gonna touch it for this. That folder and file is where all the data is stored that the launcher reads when checking out the mod, including the mod's name, version number if you wanna be fancy, and so forth. Inside that directly, you're gonna find a folder named ".metadata", with a single file inside that, called "metadata.json". If you look in the upper-left of the launcher, you'll see four little options: Home, DLC, Mods, and Game settings. When you fire up Victoria 3, you'll be greeted by the game's launcher. If that stuff still leaves you a little baffled, don't worry about it! We're gonna walk through the basics of making a whole mod, from the first point of creation to actually running the darn thing. If not, I will happily let Crusader Kings 3 explain a bit about how scripting in Jomini works.
If you know how those games tick scripting-wise, you're 90% of the way to knowing how to make a V3 mod.
#Victoria 3 dev diary 19 mods
There's all sorts of mods out there! And, hopefully, by the time you've finished reading this dev diary, you'll know how to create the start of your own mod for Victoria 3, too.įirst thing's first: the way the innards of Victoria 3 operate is similar, but not exactly the same as, Crusader Kings 3 and Imperator, since they're all derived from the Jomini engine we also use. I've seen sweet little mods that just add a person's pet as a graphic, or even one that I spotted on Hearts of Iron's workshop page as I wrote this that added in a dearly-departed office cat as a replacement for Joseph Stalin. Some mods are total overhauls, some are just simple little tweaks. Modding is a whole world of things in Paradox games. Hi folks! I'm Mike, one of the Game Designers who specializes in content for V3, and today we're going to talk about the delights of modding.
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