jordsta95
Creator of this site, and lover of cake
It's been a long-time-coming. The country creator tool has finally had a much-needed update to better work with the game.
The country tool was first created in 2019, and a lot of the code was written for the game as it was back then. But over the years much has changed, and the country tool was never updated. As such, it has been the first tool to be properly modernised.
You can find a full changelog of the changes on the Community Discord server, but here's a brief overview:
The country creator has been rewritten from the ground-up, and you will notice that the style of the tool has changed drastically.
For those who have been having errors on start-up of the game due to states, this update should fix these errors.
The updated tool removes all character-based interactions in the game, instead referencing the data from the new character creator tool.
These changes mean that you can create a character and have them available in multiple countries/roles within the country with ease; think Leon Trotsky being available as a leader for the USSR, Mexico, etc. or how Miklos Horthy can be both a country leader and admiral for Hungary.
This does mean that any country leaders, admirals, generals, or advisors will need to be recreated in the Character tool and then re-assign them to your countries.
Unfortunately, due to the way the data for these were saved in the country tool, and the data required of a character, transferring this data over wasn't possible.
Whilst I have tested the tools to ensure they will work. More complex countries than those I have created during testing may have errors occur.
If they do, please post them in #help-with-countries channel on the Community Discord and include a link to your country and/or a full-page screenshot of the error you get upon exporting. For issues inside of the country tool, please include steps to reproduce.
For character creator errors please use #help-with-other channel on the Community Discord
For those who use a language other than English for your mods please note that the language file for the character and country file exports is now determined via the mod not the individual tools.
To change this, you will need to go to your mod's page and press "Edit Mod" in the sidebar, change your language, and save.
If a mod doesn't have a language set, the website will default language files to English on export.
I have pulled an insane number of hours updating the country tool over the past two weeks to get it where it is today.
This was originally going to be part of a much larger project for 2025. However, life circumstances meant I was unsure on my availability at the start of 2025, and the game's recent update breaking a lot of things meant that I couldn't leave the country tool potentially months without some of the much needed fixes.
The latest HOI4 update has added new states which means the state selector on the country tool has been updated to include these new states.
However, your browser may still have an older version of the state data for the map cached.
If the map loads incorrectly for you; you are not seeing new states/there are blank areas of the map where land should be. Click the button below to clear your browser's cached data of the map.
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The latest HOI4 update has added new states. As such the map the tool uses has been updated.
However, your browser may still have an older version of the state data for the map cached.
If the map loads incorrectly for you; you are not seeing the new states, then click the button below.
Update cached data
All this will do is clear the data your browser will have cached in regards to the site.
If you run the game in debug mode, what errors do you get?
If you run the game in debug mode, what errors do you get?
If you run the game in debug mode, what errors do you get?
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You would need to edit the state's file in your mod.
If you go to "YOUR_MODS_FOLDER/history/states" and go to state number 51, inside there is a line "set_demilitarized_zone..." If you remove it, then it will remove the DMZ.
If your mod doesn't have that folder, create it, and copy the file from the game's folder to your mod, and then edit it.
As in, you would like to edit an existing country?
You will need to go to the country tool, create a new country, use the tag of the nation you want to edit, e.g. "GER" if you want to edit Germany, make sure the country name is what the game uses for the filename, e.g. "Soviet union" for the USSR. (You can see the list if you go to the HOI4 game's folder, and go to history/countries)
After filling in all the details, you are now free to edit the country.
It would go in the "Available" box, and would look like so:
This means the focus will only be available when it 01/Jan/1937, or later. The format for dates is YYYY.MM.DD