The following is a guide on how to create your own translation files for Simplified Gossip. I hope it helps!


Each gossip entry is identified by a tag. For example:
This identifies that the following text is used for describing the event of a civilization founding a new city. This text for each entry will be located inside a starting and ending element tag:
Everything inside these tags will be included in the gossip text and is called a String.

Since these gossip strings have to be reused by the game for any possible civilization, leader and city name you will see that the names of these things are marked like this:
You must not modify or remove these from the text strings. However you can change their order and position in the translated sentence. So for example:
The first example is the shortened text used by Simplified Gossip for this gossip entry. The second is another variant that could be used if we wanted to. Keep this in mind when translating so that you can create the shortest possible sentence without losing its original meaning.

At the start of each string you will also see a tag like this:
This is used by the game engine to insert icons into text strings and is used by Simplified Gossip to help categorise each gossip entry. These should stay at the beginning of every text string so do not remove or edit these.

Finally (and probably the most confusing) is the grammar tags.
Depending on the language used you will see complicated looking tags like these being used to manage sentence grammar like plurals and gender.

The first tag here for example is used in the English translation to determine whether to use the word ‘a’ or ‘an’ before the following word. Meanwhile the tags in 2 and 3 for French and Portuguese respectively are being used to determine the gender of the following tag.

Whether these are needed in your translation or not will be your decision, if you are unsure if it is necessary I would suggest leaving them in and working around them.


The text replacement mod files should be located here: (assuming you have the game installed on your C: drive)
Original Text files are located here:
You may want to reference the original translations by the developers before attempting to translate the shorter version that Simplified Gossip uses to get a good idea what is being communicated.


First create a new translation xml file in the same directory as the others. If you are translating from English then make a copy of the Gossip_Text.xml file. Rename this file to Gossip_Text-xx_XX.xml (replacing the xx_XX with your language’s initials. You can see what these are in the original text files directory listed above.)

Open the new .xml file in a text editor like notepad. (I recommend something like Notepad++, a free application with more features and line numbering/text colour coding. It will make this a whole lot easier!)

You will now need to change the gossip tag language marker:
After each gossip tag is where the language being used is marked. Change all of these to the initials for your language. You can change them all at once with the Find and Replace tool in most text editors.

Now you can translate all of the text strings within the <Text></Text> element tags. Remember not change the name/translate or remove any of the Tags, they must be left in english for the game code to recognise them. As a tip you can reference any existing translation file that others have provided for the mod to see how they did it:
Remember there are also a few new gossip entries for the latest expansion, you’ll need to repeat the process for these files too.


Simply upload the new files to a file sharing service (I suggest Google Docs!) and notify me here or on the mod page. I’ll download them and add them to the official release.


Yes! And here’s how:

In the base folder for the mod there is a .modinfo file which defines all of the files that the mod loads. Open this in a text editor and add a new entry for each file under the following tags:
You can copy an existing entry and rename the language initials. Save your changes and re-launch CIV6. Provided you have the game set to the right language and named the files correctly your translations should be used while the mod is active.