Major Steam Workshop & MOD Creation Center Update

Update Overview

• Added the MOD Creation Center

• Added the MOD Data Generation Center

• Officially opened the Steam Workshop

• Added an automatically generated Southern Song Dynasty MOD

The Southern Song Dynasty MOD is currently provided as an example to demonstrate the MOD creation process and related features. It will continue to be improved and expanded in future updates.

Detailed Update Notes

Steam Workshop and MOD Creation

• Rebuilt and continuously improved the MOD creation workflow

• Improved the Steam Workshop and MOD Creation Center interfaces

• Added a MOD selection dropdown list

• Added one-sentence World Book generation

• Improved AI one-click generation, prompts, and generated content quality

• Added a one-click restore function

• Fixed data errors when testing MODs, performing local validation, and loading MODs currently being edited

• Fixed issues with the Southern Song Dynasty MOD

• Fixed errors related to loading MODs and deleting countries and provinces

Map Editor

• Rebuilt and continuously improved the map editor

• Added map background replacement, editing, and saving

• Improved image-to-map generation

• Automatically hides the scene UI while editing the map

• Improved continent, country, and province drawing and erasing

• Added right-click country-region erasing in Step 2

• Added right-click province-region erasing in Step 3

• Erasing now also clears continent, country, and province ownership data

• Province.cells data is now updated correctly

• Boundary refreshes for all three steps are now delayed until the mouse button is released

• Adjusted the brush-size range to 0.1–102

• Increased the thickness of the map-painting cursor for better visibility

• The painting cursor no longer disappears while holding the left or right mouse button

• Darkened newly painted continent regions toward a gray-black color and reduced their transparency

• Separated editor mode from gameplay mode so political transparency settings are no longer overwritten while editing

• Fixed country names not being cleared when deleting a continent

• Fixed issues related to adding new provinces

• Fixed map background replacement issues

• Fixed an issue where MOD creation could not be reopened after returning to the main menu from the map editor

• Fixed multiple map editor issues

UI and Interaction Improvements

• Updated and improved multiple UI screens

• Improved the Steam Workshop and MOD creation interface layouts

• Adjusted the MOD Creation Center entry layout

• Added a scrollbar to the World Book

• Made file paths copyable

• Improved editor operation instructions

• Fixed multi-line switching in notification messages

• Increased the sensitivity of several slow scrollbars

• Reduced freezing and unresponsiveness when opening certain interfaces

AI and Content Generation

• Reduced garbled text in AI-generated content

• Improved one-click generation

• Improved AI prompts used for MOD creation

• Added one-sentence World Book generation

• Fixed multilingual keys not being saved during country generation

• Fixed incorrect identity recognition in secret messages

Localization

• Added and improved multilingual content

• Improved localization for newly added features

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Fixed an issue that could cause the game to freeze when opening

• Fixed land data loading from save files

• Fixed data errors when loading MODs currently being edited

• Deleting a country now also deletes its associated provinces

• Fixed errors when loading MODs

• Fixed local validation issues

• Fixed MOD testing issues

• Fixed multiple issues in the map editor and MOD editor

• Removed the Roman content pack

• Added additional data backups