@Max Rooikat

Hi, I just ran a quick test to check with just this mod and the game + latest patch and had no issue. The full set of religions loaded as expected.

Are you sure you had the mod enabled in the menu before starting the game? Otherwise, are any other mods you use causing a conflict that would prevent this mod from loading?

If you can tell me if any errors show up in the ~Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Logs\database.log file "after" you start the game with the mod that will help me track down the issue.

As of 7/18/2025 mod does not work. Downloaded, loaded into a game, got a great prophet, and only the base game options are present.

@ianandsue5
Good to hear it. For beliefs, it’s the same issue where Civ VI’s beliefs are almost all Christian themed, so when you move away from Christianity there aren’t as many options besides like Sacred Places, but there’s a few that kinda work if you sort of ignore the name and look at them thematically.

So, for Smarta, Cross-Cultural Dialogue kinda works if you understand it more as inter-denominational instead of cross religions or cultures. Then maybe Feed the World and Holy Waters.

Amanaiism would be Sacred places and Burial Grounds. It doesn’t really have an appropriate Follower Belief, maybe Choral Music if you really stretch the idea of just music being appropriate.

Hi, Tomatekh. Nice to hear from you again, and I am looking forward both to purchasing Civ VII and trying out your mod on that game. For now, however, I have just started playing Civ III as well as a new game called Goat Simulator III, while, at the same time, hoping that next door's real life goats don't trample down our fence again and eat my Mother's flower boarders like they did when we first moved in here.

Can I just ask do you have any suggestions as to what Pantheon and sets of beliefs would most closely represent the Smartism Hindu denomination and the traditional Berber religion Amanaiism in Civ V?

Hey, everyone! Sorry for being MIA. The little time I have for modding these days has been busy porting the mod to Civ VII.

@Li Zhang
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the mod. Yeah, the Roman emperors usually go for either Numenius, Imperial Cult, or Christianity depending on their date. So, Imperial Cult’s a good choice for Hadrian. Robespierre is interesting because he tried to make up his own religion for France during the revolution. The mod doesn’t include his religion (it’s the sort of niche I would only include if Robespierre himself was in the game). His philosophy has some similarities to Neoplatonism in terms of his idea of the godhead and civic virtue, though obviously not directly related. It’s probably best to use one of the custom icons.

@Lunais
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I’ve already added a few new Buddhist icons to the Civ VII version of the mod I’m working on at the moment. I don’t know when I’m going to go back and update the VI version. It probably won’t be for a while as my time is limited and making the version for the new game is my current priority, but I’ll keep them in mind for when I eventually get to it.

@Eykonal
Hi, unfortunately you can’t without directly adding an entry in the religious preference file of the mod. There’s no way for me to offer a true dynamic option where you can easily set the leader to any religion, I have to individually code every preference. It’s why I only focused on historical options in the configuration file. Sorry.

@Ewandwhosearmy
Hi, it’s a limitation of the game itself and there’s really nothing I can do. At some point you just have to choose between various mods because the game can’t handle mods adding too much stuff.

@ianandsue5
Yup, already working on the Civ VII version, which is why I haven’t been on here lately. Mesoamerican religion would probably use Sacred Places, Feed the World, Defender of the Faith. Catholicism can probably choose most of them but Papa Primacy, Reliquaries/Jesuit Education, and one of the missionary bonuses, like Zeal, Preachers, or Holy Order.

@josearte777
I’ll look into the issue with it not starting in other languages next time I do an update. Unfortunately, I probably won’t be able to do it for a while. If you go into the mod folder -> Data -> Foreign and delete the foreign language files, it should at least be able to start up albeit still with English text.

@D_av3
It would only be the _PL file. Some additional text is handled in the SQL and can’t be translated, but almost everything else would be in the _PL.

@Tomatekh man, I've been playing with this mod for a very long time, and I can't get enough of it, the mod is very cool. Thank you very much. What religion do you think would suit such leaders as Roman Emperor Hadrian and Maximilien Robespierre? As for the first one, I can assume that it is the Hellenism (Imperial Cult). Not sure about second guy

@Tomatekh Can you add the various schools of East Asian Buddhism (Chan/Zen, White Lotus, Pure Land, Tendai, etc.) as denominations of Mahayana Buddhism? And Neo-Confucianism and the Confucian Church are probably distinct enough from early Confucianism to be considered denominations of Confucianism.

@ianandsue5 Communism is a religion for "Enlightened Atheists" who worship the state. You can call it a "Political Philosophy" all you want, that doesn't make it not a religion. It actually comes with all the trappings of a religion it just refuses to call itself one, and that is what makes it so insidious and allows itself to infiltrate everything.

Hi, really enjoying the mod, quick question: if I wanted to change Phillip's default religion to Arianism, how would I go about it? I tried messing around with the config file but I don't know enough to get it to work

I like this mod, but it runs into asset excess issues when combines with my other mods.

@ChrisAdams Communism isn't a religion, sir, it is a political philosophy.

@Tomatekh what pantheon and set of beliefs in Sid Meier's Civilization V would most accurately represent the Aztec Tlateomatiliztli faith and the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity? I am also curious if you are planning to make this mod for Civ VII; I haven't bought Civ VII yet as the price is too high for me from the Steam store, but maybe I will do so later in the year. For now, I'm sticking with V and VI.

sir，could you please make a communism icon? Thank you!

@Tomatekh
First of all - thanks for this great extension.

If I would like to translate it to polish do I have to just edit the HR_Religions_Text_Pl.xml file or the main one, HR_Religions_Text.xml? And how about HR_Religions_Text_Edit.sql file - do I need to translate it too?

Can you atteglate it in Spanish? It has a few very big errors and it doesn't work when you start it

What Pantheon and set of Beliefs in Sid Meier's Civilization V would most accurately represent the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity and the Aztec Tlateomatiliztli faith?

Some places already have their Christmas decorations up, and while they're pretty to look at, I can't help feeling it's a bit silly since Christmas isn't supposed to begin until the first day of advent [1st December] in my mind.

I'm hoping to get Sid Meier's Railroads! on Steam over the Christmas period and I'm going to be playing Stellaris for the first time in my life this week. Other games that caught my eye recently were a remastered version of Goat Simulator, and a game entitled Realpolitiks 3, which certainly looks very interesting.

@StarboundFinch
Glad to hear it worked out and you enjoyed your game!

@tomatekh I was literally coming back here to report that it still worked lmao. I'm glad it did because Religion victories become such a slog if you don't rush it out off rip. I had to wait for Zanzibar to spawn from a barb camp before I could really gun for the AI and my god the Poland and Ottomans were so annoying. Gandhi still takes the cake for the most annoying religious AI I've come across though

Everyone, I logged back in after a long break, and double-checked... the mod is still 100% fully functional and compatible with the latest patch. If it is not working for you, then you likely have either a conflict with another mod you are using, the mod is not properly installed/downloaded, or you haven't enabled it in the mod menu. It's not an issue on my end and I can't really help further.

@StarboundFinch
Mazdayazna is Zoroastrianism. It's just the native name for the religion which the mod will default to using if the Zurvan branch of Zoroastrianism is also present. The mod doesn't overwrite/remove anything. The achievement also still triggers no issue.

@A.Z.Eastern
Since the mod adds new entries to the religion table, it needs to be enabled when you start a new game and can't be added into existing games without messing up everyone's chosen religions.

this mod does not work

Hey so why did this mod replace Zoroastrianism? I've been doing some achievement hunting while I was for Civ 7 and it appears that you overrode Zoroastrianism with Mazdayazna. I'm hoping that it was just renamed and it'll still pop later on (it could be hopeless anyway if Zanzibar is stubbornly absent) Either way, I'll report back if the achievement works still and, if not, I'm gonna have to drop this mod which sucks because I enjoyed the wider variety of religions. I just don't understand why a base game religion was just overwritten/removed

Not working for me too.

not working

Is it need to start a new game to active？affect the old savefile too?

Can we get the option to rename "Eastern Orthodoxy" to the name actually used by said churches, "Orthodox Christianity"? There are options to rename "Oriental Orthodoxy" to Coptic or Miaphysitism, but not for the Constantinople-based one.

Also no way to custom-name vanilla religions? This would have fixed my issue too.

for me also not working anymore

doesn't work for me anymore, sadly

@Lwantssugar
You either have a conflict with another mod that's overriding this one or it's an old Steam Workshop bug where Steam downloads the mod but then never actually installs it. I don't know if the direct download links I posted still work, but if they do you can try manually downloading it and placing it in your ~Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Mods folder.

for whatever reason none of the additional religions load in and Im stuck with the vanilla ones

@ianandsue5

You can do something like:

Polynesia:
Oral Tradition/Ancestor Worship
Ceremonial Burial
Religious Center
Reliquary
Sacred Sites

Druid:
Fertility Rites/Goddess of the Hunt/One with Nature
Initiation Rites
Asceticism/Religious Art
Religious Unity
Sacred Sites/Underground Sect

I haven't played Total War: Pharaoh yet, but I've been meaning to get it soon.

What Pantheon and set of beliefs do you think would most resemble the Polynesian Manaism religion and the Celtic Druidic faith?

Yes, I've noticed that trend, too; it does seem to favour Christianity in Civ 5. hopefully, they'll address it in Civ VII. Right now I'm just waiting for the new Dynasties update for Total War: Pharaoh, while making a huge fuss of my friend's new puppy, which we did last week as well.

@ianandsue5
Looking over them again, I'm reminded how most of the included beliefs are really biased towards Christianity. So, there's no real easy choices for pre-modern non-Christian religions. If I had to choose for them, I'd go with something like:

Viking:
God of War
Ceremonial Burial
Holy Warriors/Religious Center
Defender of the Faith/Missionary Zeal
Sacred Sites/Heathen Conversion

Aboriginal:
One with Nature/Fertility Rites/Desert Folklore
Initiation Rites
Religious Community
(Honestly none of the Enhancer Beliefs really fit)
Sacred Sites

@ Tomatekh Here are the Civ V beliefs at the bottom of this article.
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Religion_(Civ5)#Beliefs

The Religions I am curious about are the Viking Forn Siðr religion as well as the Australian Aboriginal Tjukurpa faith.

@Tomatekh I don't mind it, but thank you for replying

@GeoChonker

I think about 4 of the symbols are technically variations of the swastika; it’s used in a lot of different religions. The specific Nazi design of the symbol is not used and you can use the configuration file to disable any of the symbols from appearing in your game.

@ECHO

At this point in Civ VI’s life it’s not really worth it in terms of the time required to do that sort of update, especially as there would be several difficulties making it work for multiplayer that I’d have to figure out and I haven’t coded in a while to do it quickly. If your friends don’t want to edit the config file, I’d suggest just sending them a copy of your edited config file and having them overwrite theirs with yours.

@the_buccaneer82

Yeah, sorry. It’s impossible for me to include everything. I mostly added religions based on requests and new mods that were made when I was developing this mod early in Civ VI’s life. I’ll keep them in mind when/if I make the Civ VII version of the mod.

@jesmith199

The mod calls ancient Mesopotamian religion “Chaldaeanism”.

@ianandsue5

Hey! Glad to see you’re still around and enjoying Civ! I’ve been well, but I’ll be honest and say I haven’t really touched Civ or moding in a few years at this point, so I don’t even remember what beliefs and pantheons are in the game anymore to give a suggestion. Sorry.

Oh no. The Hindu symbol (3rd image, 7 to the right 5 down) plus Hitler mod is about to be crazy

Are there any plans to have some of the config options be part of the frontend UI? For multiplayer, asking my friends to navigate to and edit the config file gives them an aneurysm.
I'd mainly like to use this mod as a library of custom icons that can be renamed which requires a non default config.

No Maronite options 😢

what would be Sumer's historical religion?

Hi, Tomatekh.

I know I've been away for a while [I've had a lot going on in my life] but I thought I'd stop by first to ask how you are doing, and also if you have some thoughts as to what set of beliefs and pantheon in Sid Meier's Civilization V would most accurately represent the Viking Forn Siðr religion and the Sami Noaidevuohta religion?

@declanvick Unfortunately, there’s no real easy way to implement a choice. Everything has to be pre-coded which is why the alternative options are limited. If you’re comfortable editing the code all the info is found in the HR_Religions_Set section of the HR_Religions_Data file in the mod (this section is divided by each leader). For the leader, you would have to find every entry of ‘RELIGION_ ‘ and change it to the religion you want. Keep in mind a leader can have anywhere from 1 to like 20 of these entries, so it can get pretty tedious.

Is there a way to change the preferred religion for a specific leader beyond an alt preference? It wouldn't be historically accurate but I'd like to modify some of the leader's Christian preferences so I don't have 4 civs vying for Catholicism or Buddhism in a game. I think I tried before but ended up doing something that wrecked the mod & had to redownload it rip

Hey Author. I just wanted to say thank you for this.
I follow the doctrines of Arius (Arianism)
and there are no Churches or denominations today that really follow that.
So seeing it in one of my favorite games is great
This means a lot to me. Sincerely, thank you

Русский перевод здесь - Game and mods - Russian translations
Russian translation is here - Game and mods - Russian translations

---

Dear Tomatekh, you can attach a link to my mod with translations into Russian and then more users will be able to enjoy your work.

@PersusjCP
The mod includes a religion that represents various shared beliefs across the plains peoples. That's not to imply there are not significant distinctions, but at a certain point it no longer became feasible for me to add so many religions and I had to prioritize similarities where they existed. I named it after "Wakan Tanka" because I added the religion to the mod long before the Cree were added to the game (and named it in the mod files based on likely additions from past Civ games). However, you can use the mod's config file to change the religion's display name to "Kishe Manitou" instead if you prefer the Algonquian cognate. (Basically, I made the mod gradually over a few years but didn’t have as much time to mod when the expansions released compared to the base game, so there are a few well-intentioned compromises with some of the expansion civs).

@ture
The mod includes Norse religion under the name "Forn Sidr". You can use the mod's config file to change the display name to "Asatru", "Wotanism", or "Heathenism" if you prefer.