Hi, so i wanted to make a national spirit for Austria. It should be there at the start of the game but for some reason it doesn't show up. Can someone help me?!

To have national spirits at the start of the game, you will need to add it to the country's history file.

If you only need to add that one thing, it would be better to copy the file from the game into your mod's folder, and add the line in there - that way Austria will still keep its army, leaders, etc.

How can i add it in there? Do i just have to copy it in and done? Or do i have to copy it on a specific spot?

The following line of code is what you would need to add, this can go pretty much anywhere.

add_ideas = 0_your_idea_name

Replace "your_idea_name" with the idea's title, all lower case, spaces replaced with _ and non-alphanumeric characters removed.

So if you had "We've got a big army!" that would become "weve_got_a_big_army"

If you have multiple ideas to add, do the same thing for each idea:

add_ideas = IDEA_ONE
add_ideas = IDEA_TWO
add_ideas = IDEA_THREE
...