Tried to make a mod - Something isn't working out

Democracy 4 Modding
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Today I thought I’d try my hand at making a mod but for some reason it won’t show up in game and I can’t seem to understand why. The mod just simply adds two policies, and I know its not a problem inside the CSV file. I think the mod issue has more to do with pathfinding or the mod being in the wrong folder or something of the sort. From the picture I inserted you can see the path to where I put it. Please let me know if you need more info to tell me what the issue is. Thanks!

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The main folder should have the config.txt along with any and all subfolders from steamapps/common/Democracy 4 that you are adding to.

You will also need a translations/english/policies.csv to store the text that your policies will display to the player.

an example hierarchy to add a single policy would look like:

ModName

config.txt

data\

  simulation\

     policies.csv

  svg\

     icons_<policy_1_name>.svg

translations\

  english\

     policies.csv
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I tried to follow but I still think I’m doing something wrong

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does data/simulation have the policies.csv?

otherwise looks good to me.

simulation/policies.csv should have lines like:
#,policy_name,default,6,9,3,9,FOREIGNPOLICY,20,200,0+(1.0x),0,0,500,0+(1.0x),#Effects,“Patriot,0.03+(0.07*x)”

english/polices.csv should have lines like:
#,policy_name,policy_gui_name,“description”

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data simulation has the policies.csv

The policies.csv in translations/english wasn’t correct but I fixed it however that didn’t fix the policy appearing. Is there a problem with my config file perhaps

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Could you try setting the path to C:\This PC\Documents\My Games\democracy4\mods\OverhaulTest

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just tried that, it didn’t work

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Everything seems right to me. Have you tried downloading one of the mods from the steam workshop to try and compare?

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I have but I can’t seem to find the pathing towards it since those don’t show up in the “mods” folder in order to compare

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The mods from the workshop are stored in <Your_steam_install_location>\steamapps\workshop\content\1410710

Unfortunately steam gives them random numbered names so it’s hard to look through manually. :frowning:

Democracy4 checks both locations for mods

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Can’t find it, I think ill just wait until a modding tutorial pops up on youtube. Thanks for all your help :grinning: