[HOI4 Modding ] Creating a new country

----- IMPORTANT! ----- An important note due to changes to localization in version 1.11+, for the localization to work properly please move all the files inside the localisation folder into a folder called 'english' for the localization to appear properly. ----- IMPORTANT! ----- Due to the large amount of questions on this topic I will post this sticky so that everyone can find an answer quickly. For anyone having the issue with all countries changing their colors - This happens because you probably did not close a bracket properly in the common/countries/colors.txt file. Either find the bracket that is not closed and close it or just replace the file with the vanilla one and repeat the process of assigning a color to your country as it shown at 07:21 As you can clearly see it did not happen in my video so there is no reason for it to happen in your game if you follow the instructions carefully. For anyone having the issue of nothing changing - This happens either because you did not activate the mod in the game launcher before testing your new country or one of your folders/files is misspelled so the game doesn't know what to load. Hope this helps.

me, watching this video knowing im only going to name Italy the pizza empire

With basically no code or modding experiance I was able to hammer out a nation in less than an hour. Excellent tutorial man

I have a lot of free time, and wanted to create a mod, Thank you very much man!

"we will make spongebob a liberal"

"The ideology of Spongebob is despotism"

I still remember Trumpmania

my man put the tutorial as his background respect

Hey man I never ever thought I'd be able to create a mod but your tutorial is the most well explained I've ever seen. Thanks a lot man :)

So I used Czechoslovakia as a base instead. I hope my mod wont break the game Edit: It did, I tore a hole in France

Thank you so much, I hope to learn a lot more from you! Hoping I can mod a complete custom mod soon.

So excited now that I've finally got this working! Thanks for the great tutorial!

I love this tutorial so much! Thank you for sharing this, and taking your time to help others become a Hoi4 modder. 🙏

Just as a note to anyone wondering why the country name won’t appear, if you look into the HOI4 folder before the countries_1_English folder there is a folder called the language/English/Polish etc and you need to place that folder for it to work.

You convinced me. I think I'm going create my own mod about a scenario I wanted to play but I had no chance to realize due to the fact that one of the "countries" is basically Sci-fi stuff. I don't know if I can create that particular country, but I think I can remodeling the world map to fit my scenario. But I still have some questions. I think I will first watch a few times more this guide before start.

best tutorial ever, first one that actually worked for me

For anyone who has the problem that flags don't show up in-game and instead show up as a blank black flag, you may have compressed the flag files. To fix, try redoing the process without compressing the files. Edit: Note, the ability to compress files are generally shown when you save the file.

Directions and steps as windows wallpaper, very creative!

every time i feel this immense relief when starting the game and everything works. thank you for that

Today i watch this video and follow all steps. My country was created and show up in game when i start HOI. Thanks for help. I will watch other videos too. I want to go in depth with modding 😊