Hello Victorians.

We have a small hotfix today addressing a few issues, including a crash which could cause save game corruption and some infamy related issues.

 We have also reverted one improvement from 1.12.2, where Iberia would inherit the Old Empire Journal Entry upon creation as it wasn't working correctly in its current state and needs more extensive work to function properly. We will address it in 1.13 instead.

As previously mentioned in 1.12.3, we will have a dev diary at the end of January, which happens to be today, so look out for that in a couple of hours time! 

Otherwise, check out the full patchnotes below. Checksum is `19ff`.

As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums[forum.paradoxplaza.com]! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.12[forum.paradoxplaza.com] with any fixed issues!

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.12.3:

• Reverted the ability for Iberia to inherit the "The Old Empire" Journal Entry on account of requiring substantial changes to work properly, we will look into an appropriate solution for 1.13

• Fixed a save game crash caused by trying to show invalid revolution map objects, which could also result in corrupted save files

• Fixed an issue with Windows "Smart App Control" blocking game executable

• Infamy discount modifiers for diplomatic plays against unrecognized countries no longer apply for countries that are unrecognized themselves

• Fixed an issue where infamy from war goals was refunded twice in certain conditions when capitulating

• Fixed an issue where a war goal targeting a country would not be removed when that country switched sides in a diplomatic play

• Fixed a bug where some commanders didn't count their units towards Two Spains JE Liberal/Conservative progress

Previous Patchnotes

1.12.0[forum.paradoxplaza.com] | 1.12.1[forum.paradoxplaza.com] | 1.12.2[forum.paradoxplaza.com] | 1.12.3[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

Happy New Year Victorians!

Welcome to 2026! We have a hotfix fresh out of the developer forge today, featuring the contents of 1.12.3’s Opt in Beta and a variety of other fixes, improvements and other balance changes.

Also, as we said in the last dev diary of 2025, we will have our first dev diary of 2026 at the end of this month, written by Martin - the subject will be revealed with the diary itself.

This is our final planned hotfix for 1.12 as we shift over to future content, which we will share with you in Q1 of this year.

Check out the full patchnotes below. Checksum is `8825`.

As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums[forum.paradoxplaza.com]! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.12[forum.paradoxplaza.com] with any fixed issues!

If you are on the 1.12.3 Opt in Beta and want to use this new hotfix, please remember to change your beta setting to 'none' in the Steam Beta section!

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.12.2:

• Upon researching Corporatism, the stances of the Carlist and Miguelist ideologies will change to support Agrarianism and Interventionism, and less intensely disapprove of non-Autocracy distribution of power laws

• The Two Spains Journal Entry may now be retained after forming Iberia as Spain

• Carlist, Miguelist, Legitimist, Catholic Fundamentalist, and Catholic Rights movements will now experienced increased Activism if their owner country has poor relations with the Papal States

• Reinstating the Basque Fueros as the Carlists will now add a Basque primary culture to Spain. Revoking this amendment will remove the primary culture.

• The "Ausgleich" event for Austria will no longer annex a player Transylvania without warning; rather, it will make Transylvania into a Hungarian subject

• The Spanish State Religion law at game start now has the State Anti-Clericalism amendment

• Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes not deploy garrisons to fronts in adjacent HQs, even if failing to do so threatens the overall theater they are stationed in

• AI Liberal Spain will be now be much less willing to pursue the Reconquista

• The Claim Greater Khorasan button for Persia will now add claims on Turkmenia and Merz

• When Interest Groups want to leave a party, they will no longer do so instantly but rather at the start of the next election, except in cases where their membership is no longer valid (for instance due to law restrictions)

• The traits of Interest Groups whose clout would make them marginalized will now only have half the effect if they remain Influential for non-clout reasons (such as being in a party)

• Interest Groups that are supported by less than 2% of the population and whose clout would make them marginal will now leave any party they are part of (and thus become properly marginal)

• The "The Good Mother" event for Portugal now typically fires in November of 1853, rather than January

• Moved the point at which Carlists and Miguelists become willing to participate in electoral politics from Political Agitation to Corporatism

• Removed negative tax revenue modifier from the Individual Redemption Payments amendment

• Pursuing the Reconquista of the New World as liberal Spain will now cost more infamy

• Added a new event and wargoal for Portugal to restore the Union with Brazil in the case of a Republican coup

• After completion of the Carlist War Journal Entry, we now also move the market capital to Madrid

• Added Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada as a starting Intelligentsia leader for Brazil

• Goods expenses for construction is now split into private and government construction

• Fixed issue where UI was lying that goods from modifier (like the Carlist small arms) were available in market even though market access of state was zero

• Fixed issue where UI would list buy orders as sell orders in interface for goods from modifiers

• Building options in the production lens are now always fully alphabetically sorted

• Confirmation tooltips for actions that could cause a coup will now longer go off screen

• Fixed the infamy reduction for transfer money article enforcement that could result in 0 infamy against big nations (Thanks to player Gaspote)

• Fixed a bug when battles could be unable to start

• Fixed an issue where infamy values for Regime Change were calculated incorrectly, resulting in too low values

• Fixed an issue that caused several war goals to default to their infamy minimum value

• Fixed the Unstable Raj timer not updating upon Presidency Stability declining below 225

• Characters will no longer launch coups against law enactments that they support

• Fixed an issue where a coupist general could create a government with no Interest Groups

• Fixed a bug where the Revoke All Claims wargoal would be instantly invalidated, resulting in the wrong wargoal being used for secessions

• Fixed a bug where requirements for repealing amendments had disappeared.

• Emperor Pedro of Brazil now only starts the game as immortal if Colossus of the South is active

• Fixed a bug where agricultural buildings such as farms and ranches would not get cash reserves

• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to nationalize without compensation unless you had the money for compensation on hand

• Added trigger localization to the amendment_geheime_staatskonferenz amendment that was missing

• Fixed an issue that would cause the Modernisation Movement to pre-emptively switch ideologies, possibly locking AI countries into Peasant Levies

• Fixed an issue that led to the Yankee and Dixie cultures losing their Small Arms obsession upon the monthly tick

• Fixed a bug where adding a Liberate Country wargoal made the Conquer State wargoal unavailable even when not targeting conflicting states

• Fixed an issue where the ruling party would continually reform and disband under Single Party State

• Fixed a bug where Financial Districts and Manor Houses under Cooperative Ownership would pointlessly invest into foreign buildings that would then get collectivized

• Meiji Restoration events for Japan will no longer select Japan as the relevant foreign country

• Fixed a bug where buildings would sometimes try to pointlessly privatize themselves under conditions where they are able to self invest (such as Guild System)

• The "The Emperor's Regency" event for Brazil will now properly fire at game start

• Fixed a bug where unraised conscripts in a formation counted towards maximum manpower

• Fixed a possible NULL_OBJ in the Abdication and Resignation tooltip

• Fixed a crash during the disbanding of a company with a colonization charter

• Fixed a random crash when calculating a political strength of a pop

• Fixed a misplaced variable that could erroneously grant the Regeneration achievement if the Economic Regeneration journal entry timed out without making use of any creative accounting

• The Carlist Movement for Spain will no longer launch a second Carlist War whilst the first is still ongoing

• Fixed an issue where the african beard gene could get duplicated causing error spam and fps drop

• Fixed a bug where Treaty Port status would not get cleared correctly when a Treaty Port is annexed, leaving a state with 0% market access behind

• Fixed the abandon_revolution effect so that it properly removes targeted IG from a growing revolution

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the independence war goal wouldn't save in the game

• Timing out the "Bilaad al-Siba" Journal Entry for Morocco now removes the State of Anarchy state modifiers

• Fixed a bug where the cut down to size diplomatic demand was not possible to start through the interface

• Fixed a bug in the Carlist/Legitimist succession script which could spawn multiple clones of the same claimant, rather than a single claimant capable of inheriting both thrones

• Fix a bug where Trade Potential could sometimes incorrectly show up as a negative value when constructing Trade Centers

• Fixed a bug where the wrong alliances would be broken when declaring neutrality

• Fixed a bug where the election fraud event would not fire on the first election

• Added STATE_ENTRE_DOURO_E_MINHO, STATE_OLD_CASTILE and STATE_MURCIA to iberian_treaty_ports, requirements missing for The Western Protectorate achievement

• Fixed several events that couldn't fire due to incorrect trigger scopes

• Prevented the "Independence Day" event from briefly popping up as Cuba if the Carlists win the Carlist War

• Fixed a bug where oncreate effects for create_character could sometimes run twice

• Fixed an issue that caused Jose Rizal to be unable to spawn (Iberian Twilight)

• Fixed an issue where Pedro of Portugal could erroneously die if made the heir to Brazil in 1853

• Fixed an issue that caused stacking of multiple iterations of the "Setting Up Election System" modifier upon switching between Distribution of Power laws

• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to sign a renegotiated treaty if the can_ratify check failed for old, unamended articles, making it look like the AI was declining the renegotiation

• Fixed a misplaced adjacency line between Zulia and the Dutch Caribbean

• Fixed an issue in "The Status of the Vernacular", which incorrectly radicalised French pops for Spain

• Fixed a bug where having enacted/not having enacted NULL_OBJ could show up in law enactment tooltips due to checking against law groups that are not valid for the country (such as caste system)

• Fixed a bug where localization was missing in the map tooltip for diplomatic actions involving making subjects

• Fixed a bug where place holder text was shown to the player in the market panel

• Secessionist Interest Groups can no longer launch a coup

• Fixed a possible repeating error in military formation script

Previous Patchnotes
1.12.0[forum.paradoxplaza.com] | 1.12.1[forum.paradoxplaza.com] | 1.12.2[forum.paradoxplaza.com]