v1.12.0 'Every Tank an Upgrade' - Millennium Dawn: A Modern Day Mod

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v1.12.0d - 7/02/25 Hotfix

v1.12.0d

AI

The AI should now actually deploy planes when at war with the United States (China and Russia were the worst offenders.)

Balance

Increased the benefit of the “Improve Local Infrastructure” internal investment from 15% to 20% for all infrastructure types
By default you can no longer sending investments to countries while you have the “Bankruptcy Incoming” mission active
Added requirement for Transnistria to be independent to complete focuses with wargoals to prevent early WWIII from happeneing
Command Power has replaced Army Experience in the PKK mechanic for Turkey

Bugfix

Fixed the broken display for the “Storm the Tulkarm Fort” decision not showing up with the right information
Fixed the Israel “The Passover Massacre” operations when failed Gaza Strip becomes overlord of Israel and instead changed it so that Israel becomes the overlord over the Gaza strip
Fixed the “Resource Exports” not properly taking into account subjects when calculating your resource export income
Fixed the “Rafale Planes” focus not properly giving the Rafale M to India
Fixed the broken Romanian tooltips for the economic focuses
Fixed the stealth corvette techs not properly being limited to 2025 and instead being able to research without a tech research penalty

Database

Added a new scripted trigger “is_autonomy_that_cannot_change_level” to check if a country has a special autonomy level that cannot be changed
Changed Destroyers back to being Capital Ships instead of Screen Ships. This will be reverted in a future naval rework
Removed older “anti_air artillery” type from ship classes for the older missile system
Removed a ton of duplicate equipment variants for the “Error Stop” variant so the game should start a bit faster
Russia no longer starts with the “Naval Guns 2025” tech in 2000. Silly time travelers

Game Rules

Added a new Game Rule “Disable Investment Bankruptcy Lock” that allows you to send investments to countries while you have the “Bankruptcy Incoming” mission active

Graphics

Updated the icon for the Nigerian Idea “Blood Oil”

Localization

Changed all the vehicle hull names from “Light Tank” to “Armored Hull”
Added a tooltip to the first “Armored Vehicle Hull” tech that explains you only need to research this

Performance

Improved the performance of how the on actions are triggered for civil wars so there is less idea drag

v1.12.0c - 6/27/25 Hotfix

v1.12.0c

AI

The AI with generic focus tree should no longer take continuous focus “Increase Autonomy” if they have special (i.e. can’t upgrade) autonomy level
AI should no longer try to increase its autonomy level if it has same ideology as overlord and current autonomy level is not too low (lower than sattelite)
AI will take into account interest rates before paying reparations following a raid
AI who do not have the “Nuclear Energy” idea will no longer build enrichment facilities
AI should no longer try to build nuclear enrichment facilities if they do not have more than 5 nuclear reactors (i.e. don’t enrich your own if you don’t need to.)
Fixed the AI strategy plans for China not working as expected
Improved the AI for Nigeria handling its religious conversion mechanic
AI is likely to go to war over debt if the target is in a major faction (CSTO, NATO)
Iranian AI will be more likely to stir trouble in Yemen

Balance

Moved the added manpower from the Automatic Loading System to the Manual Loading System for tanks
For now the Russian Army Focus “Opportunity To Buy Off The Army” will give 0.015b weekly income per 10 million population instead of fixed income of 0.150b weekly
Made the United Kingdom focus “Towards The Right” remove the “Part of the 1st World” idea
Added an influence requirement to launch the coalition of the willing attack on Iran
Rebalanced Turkey’s army anger modifiers
Reduced the amount of reparations paid; down from 10% of GDP/PP to 3%
Rebalanced modifiers from Iran’s prime minister decisions
Rebalanced modifiers from Iran’s presidential decisions
Made the Coaxial Engines for Helicopters jump by 5 KM/H per generation
Removed the piercing value from the Modern Smoothbore ATGM and better laid out the ATGM hard attack by increments of 4

Bugfix

Fixed the Weaken Libya and Weaken Venezuela modifiers not properly weakening the countries
Fixed having no scrollbar in special project window
Fixed having no priority buttons for equipment in Production Tab
Fixed requiring 7 Billion of Total GDP instead of 7 Trillion for Chinese Economic Focus “Focus On Strategic Industries”
Fixed reducing domestic independence for Russian Economic Focus “Chaika”
Fixed swapped rewards from Improved Wireless Communication special project
Fixed Chechnya becoming a puppet if you successfully white peace with Russia
Fixed Chechnya having Ramzan Kadyrov instead of his father for 1 day until focus “Ahmat Kadyrov”
Fixed the Nigerian event “Nigeria Seeks Foreign Grants” not properly giving influence to the country that grants the money
Fixed the Brazilian focus “Integrate UNASUL” not properly adding the UNASUL faction to the country that completes the focus
Fixed the Destroyers for non-MTG owners being unable to deploy
Fixed the Iraqi focus “Russian Investments” display not giving the proper influence
Fixed a bug where Eastern European countries could apply to the F-35 program without being in NATO or a Major Non-NATO Ally
Fixed a bug where Hezbollah gets annexed by Israel if it wins the 2006 war
Fixed a bug where the portrait of an Iranian Prime Minister was not displayed properly in the GUI
Fixed broken Kasyanov ideas in Russian Focus Branch PARNAS
Fixed being unable to research helicopter technologies for non-BBA owners
Fixed the Spanish focus “Hispanidad” giving influence on yourself as Spain
Fixed the “Sectarian Groups Start to Seek Independence” mission in Syria cycling without actually triggering
Fixed a number of minor issues w/ Linux being unable to find specific graphics files due to file case sensitivity
Fixed the Bosnian decision “Unite Yugoslavia” not properly annexing the right nations

Content

Added an option to blacklist countries from re-applying to the F-35 program as the United States
Tabled Iran’s MEK mechanic
Added an event for the end of the Nigerian “Religious Civil War Mission” if you are able to successfully convert everything without the Islamic civil war triggering
Added 8 new American leaders to extend presidential cycles for another 16 years (4 DEM, 4 REP)
Added an option to mend ties with the United States as I.R. Iran

Database

Added the starting spirit of “Nuclear Energy” to Iran
Blocked the “Electronic Government” special project from being visible for other nations other than Iran
Adjusted some triggers in Iran to require Intel instead of Influence
Gave Poland the “Missile Experimentation” special project and Early SAMs/SAM 1 so they can deploy their starting missiles
Changed Helicopters from requiring the “Aircraft Project” special project to requiring the “Helicopter Project” special project
Added a new strengthen/weaken setting for the Czech Republic
Adjusted the Hezbollahi Focus “Steal the Bastards” to require the United States has to have declared war on Iraq, has Iraq as a subject or has military access to them

Localization

Some minor localization fixes for Russian and its subjects content
Added missing localization to two Iranian national spirits
Rewrote the entire Russian localization file for better grammar and readability

Graphics

Fixed some inconsistencies in the VLS naval tech icons for the Naval Designer

v1.12.0

AI

Rewrite the influence AI to closer to the investment AI where it evaluates by country context
Fixed the AI not wanting to take European Parliament measures due to them having a lone factor of 0
Improved the AIs performance when evaluating whether to push for laws or decisions
Improved the AI’s willingness to naval invade other countries if they are within range
German AI improved, US and GB will keep troops in Germany, until called back or leave fraction
The Debt Assumption AI now has a 90 day cooldown to prevent it from being spammed
The Nigerian AI should be more intelligent in exploring their focus tree to better assuage their economic issues
Added some new AI modifiers to make them more likely to support particular EU laws when they’re in the council
Improved the AI so they are moore likely to actually take decisions and laws as appropriate

3D models:

Added 150+ new infantry models and textures
Added dozens of new vehicles and texture variations for them
Added dozens of new ships. Hull visual model progression also added.

Balance

Adjusted the political power from 100 to 150 when you succeed in fixing the bankruptcy
Improved the EuroArmy Brigade so it’s not nearly as shit for the European Union
Reduced the industrial cost of the heavy guns by half of the cost
Added a negative foreign influence modifier as you increase your intervention law from anything over isolation
Adjusted the EU-Turkey Deal to not be able to be done unless Turkey is not in the European Union (no it does not block any law progression)
Rebalanced the Fossil Fuel Industry vs Renewable Energy choice in the Brazilian focus tree in the economic tree
Added a clamp so the minimum possible workforce that can be in a country is 0.01 in total
Added some Western Support to the NATO member idea and some defensive stability and war support to better represent it being a defensive alliance
Reduced the speed penalty of the Double Barrel and Laser Beam cannon
Rebalanced some of the Ethiopian decisions so they add influence to Ethiopia from china but reduces costs on Ethiopia for expanding infrastructure
Halved the Maximum Survivability and Dispersed Dispositions land doctrine Experience Loss by half to 7.5 from 15%
Increased the migration rate from the open borders idea by 10%
Added tourism income to the Kaaba for whomever controls it to represent the massive amount of tourism and pilgrims to the area
Pre-Accession Assistance now cancels once you become a member of the European Union
Adjusted Utility Vehicles doctrines that have a armor value to have a hardness value as Utility Vehicles do not have armor
Fixed the broken Bosnian ideas that gave you insane amount of division recovery rate
Some Likud focuses now only increase corruption when leader has corruptible trait
Added starting intelligence agency to Israel
Reduced the productivity modifier of Agriculture Districts by 10% from the Modernized GMO
Made 2035 Cruise Missiles worth using in general
Reduced the time for the missile experimentation project down
China no longer starts with 2025 Light Guns technologies for ships
Increased SAM air superiority per wing from 5 to 15.
Added a 2% boost to Air-Ground-Attack on the BBA radar upgrade, to represent ground search radars
Made the German Soldiers Popularity mechanic for the War on Terror a little more random but a little easier to manage

Bugfix

Fixed a German MIO giving piercing despite Small Arms not having Piercing
Fixes German Content Bugs, like License production, and minor stuff
Fixed the wrong colour in the display names in the laws
Fixed the Romanization decision not properly adding cores to the new states in Morocco
Fixed the Ideological Power for Communists actually increase worker requirement by 25% instead of the intended 15%
Fixed Cuban focus “Revive Cuban Metallurgy” having a hidden effect that adds the industrial complex
Fixed a random Serbian division starting in the southern Indian Ocean
Fixed the infinite political power exploit giving infinite political power when you have international investments reinvestment going
Fixed the spamming error from the Syrian on actions
Fixed the “Complete Full Use” not actually being able to be taken if you are on Neo-Imperialism instead of Global Interventionism
Fixed the “Air Space Incursion” event showing up if you haven’t researched anything that unlocks SHORAD Sites
Fixed the “Restoration” focus for Brazil not actually setting your name to Empire of Brazil
Fixed “tech_info_special_description_bottom_margin” spamming in the error log
Fixed the buttons in the navies menu not properly changing when selected for aggressiveness, splitting for repain and otherwise
Fixed immigration not scaling properly with unemployment
Fixed the “Workers Party Alignment” decisions not showing up properly in the decision menu
Fixed the Total Workforce modifier from GDP/C getting too low and causing the workforce to go extremely negative
Fixed Israel focus “Manama Economic Conference” not being able to be taken if Palestine is not a subject
Fixed Socialism not meeting the same requirements as other subideologies for boosting
Fixed the boost triggers showing up with Turkish ideas despite you tnot being Turkish
Fixed the Ethiopian focus “Secure the Eritrean Border” being locked if you integrate/own all of Ertirea without them existing
Fixed the Ethiopian decisions regarding rail investments looping indefinitely
Removed the generic.dds portrait error for all of the political leaders
Fixed the airforce cost calculation being too high due to the stockpile being duplicated
Fixed the Israeli ideas not properly impacting the proper variable for the Israeli money system
Fixed the nationalist drift for Fascist Demagogue instead of salafist
Fixed being unable to take “Gigantic Spending” idea due to it missing the trigger “Is at War”
Fixed the Carlist monarchs not properly taking charge in Spain when you choose the absolutist focus tree path
Fixed El Salvador not starting with a legacy land doctrine
Fixed various instances where random choice in decisions was always giving same outcome
Added Bypass to Chinese focus “The Bear’s Backyard” and “End US Hegemony”, Preventing China could complete these focus even though the US and Russia have been puppeted
Fixed requirements in german focus
Fixed German Equipment events
Fixed the Russian Debt Negotiation event not actually modifying the debt of the Central Asian state that requests the renegotiation
Fixed the “Integrate Bosnia” decision showing up for Serbia even though they already have cores on the states
Fixed Lahak intelligence idea giving +100 air volunteer cap
Fixed many incorrect Israeli focus prerequisites (especially in the foreign policy part)
Fixed last stage of negative Eddaic Ghost idea being impossible to remove
Fixed Jewish Might focus tree - missing war goal, state claims, incorrect army size requirement
Fixed Israeli political ideas being removed during election and coalition forming
Fixed many Israeli political ideas not being removed when their party left government
Fixed AI weights for Israeli China vs. USA focuses
Fixed Israeli focuses transferring UAV, add BBA support (China, India, Kurds, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
Fixed Israeli navy focuses - add non-MTG support, fix subs spawn location
Fixed Israeli airfield focuses being switched
Fixed Israel aircraft focuses, add BBA support
Fixed several Israel focuses and events that cancel Non-aggresion Pact instead of giving it
Fixed Israel getting resource rights twice (diamonds focuses)
Fixed Israeli Taba conference focus
Fixed several Israeli ideas giving absolute modifiers instead of factor
Fixed Israeli Arish Ashkelon focus firing event for Iran instead of Egypt
Fixed Israeli Hezbollah/Lebanon focuses requiring intelligence with = rather than >
Fixed wrong prerequisite focus on Israeli Daniel’s Lion cage
Fixed Keep Ammonia giving techs Israel already starts with
Fixed Move Tankers South removing random (and at the start non-existing) nuclear power plants
Fixed wrong tag in Israeli Green Blue deal
Fixed wrong scope in Israeli Netanyahu populist focuses
Fixed Israeli Travel to Brazil focus calling wrong event
Many miscellaneous Israel focus tree fixes
Fixed the net nuclear fuel display showing there is consumption when nuclear power is disabled
Fixed the “Man the Guns” DLC not being properly checked for when using special forces raids against naval bases with respects to landing craft techs
Fixed the air doctrine focus in Ethiopia giving the wrong category of doctrine reduction (silly Ethiopia airplanes are in the sky!)
Fixed Tajikistan not properly being able to do the Khorugh Accord decision
Fixed the duplicate weight in various raids causing it to make the weights be redundant
Fixed the EU vote events not being hidden when minor popup is stopped
Fixed Bill Clinton staying as the leader
Fixed the “Facility Drone Strike” raid not properly showing up for facilities even if a player has the required suicide drones
Fixed the Cuban High Command “Ulises Rosales del Toro” not having any trait
Removed a bug where the expected military spending modifier was not being applied properly and instead applied the expected military spending modifier to the Non Power and No Military ideas
Fixed a weirdness issue with the European Empire USoE focus having a bunch of swapping parties.
Fixed POL focus WB Warmate not granting tech bonuses for BBA owners.
Improved POL social media focuses tooltips
Improved POL focus C-130 Hercules
Several fixes for Polish-Ukrainina war escalation, triggering now only in offensive war against Ukraine and when UPR party is in power.
Early Submarine Engine is now researched on start for POL
Fixed POL missile focuses, removed ALCM focus
Replaced requirement for Visegrad focuses to not require countries to be the same ideology as Poland, instead they cannot be at war with each other
Fixed POL Purchase of Foreign Board Aircraft not giving planes.
Fixed CZE brigade deployment focuses not deploying brigades

Content

NEW/IMPROVED TREES: Armenia, Nigeria, Iran
NEW TAGS/COUNTRIES ON MAP: People’s Union Of Kurdistan (PUK), Islamic Emirate Of Kurdistan (IEK)
Ecuador’s starting leader Jamil Mahuad with the lawyer trait
Galicia, Silesia, Andalucia, Canary Islands, Basque, Bavaria and Greenland can now join the EU via Internal Enlargement
New game rules for countries : Estonia, Romania, Poland
Minor changes in the military tree of Greece
Added a new Internal Investment for Brazil that allows them to reduce the penalty of the Amazon Rainforest Conservation System in local states impacted by it
Removed restriction for the “Space Program” special project being limited to regional power and above
Added state modifier “Graveyard of Empires” for Afghanistan
Added new balance of power for Syrian Democratic path
Adjusted and improved various parts of the Syrian Focus tree
Added Conditional Peace Deals as a system for peace deals to prevent forever wars
Removed the outlook requirement from the “Assure Intellectual Freedoms” focus in the generic focus tree
Added a new Shanghai Cooperation Organization members list GUI
Expanded the list of SCO member countries
Re-added the J-10 series historical design for China, unlocked by decisions now
Added more options to the Economic Aid event granting more influence for more money and is now based on GDP over debt
simplyfied german oob
add visby-class as steath corvette
improve german navy focus tree
Added state highlights for Serbia’s “Integrate Bosnia” decisions
Changed many timed, inconsequential Israeli focuses into permanent ones (usually tied to party)
Reworked Israel events so that relations as well as Israeli influence in the target country matter
Improved Restoring Yamit - allows to transfer Sinai if Egypt is subject of Israel
Bulgaria: Focus trees of the Army, Diplomacy, and Economics have been reworked
The United Kingdom “Improve our Small Ships” focus now also reduces the costs of corvettes and frigates
The United Kingdom naval focuses now gives additional naval experience to the country
Added new Nigerian focus effects and added some more dynamics to make the tree a bit more competitive
Added several new generals to Israel
The Swiss should no longer join NATO while the have the neutrality ideas
Removed the mutually exclusives in the Romanian focus tree for the Romanian economic focuses as they didn’t need to be ME in the resource sections
Created Unified Vehicle Designer. All ground vehicle designs now come off a singular hull, and the designer now works in line with the base HOI4 designer.
Removed armored air assault subunit.
Reworked PKK Mechanic for Turkey
Flavor decisions for Kurdish unification in the Peshmerga region
Removed Turkish Cypriot & Kurdish tree until a more comprehensive rework is ready
Renamed the POL “Modernization Of Su-25” focus to “Extend MiG-29 Fleet” and changed its effects.

Database

Adjusted the European Debt Crisis timer has been adjusted to 900 days to better allow for time to pass the required laws
Adjusted the Naval Doctrines to include stealth corvettes and stealth frigates
Added FAO, BAY, BSH, CHU, CRM, DON, DPR, DRP, FAO, GGZ, HPR, HZG, KAE, KLM, KOM, KSH, LAG, LPR, LRP, MEL, MLR, MOV, NEE, OPR, PRP, RSK, RUS, SIL, SPA, TAT, TRA, VOJ, VRP, VTB, WLC to European country group trigger
Added ADJ, ADY, DAG, GOR, IKR, ING, KCC, KBK, KUB, SAZ, TLS to Middle Eastern country group trigger
Added ALT, ARK, BDA, BRY, CHS, CKK, CSB, ESB, FAR, HWI, KAM, KHM, KAS, KHA, KHS, KRP, LAD, MAN, MEG, RYU, SIB, SIK, TUV, URA, YAK, YAM to Asian country group trigger
Added ARC, ASK, FLA, IDH, KAN, LKT, NYK, UDT, USB to American country group trigger
Added ARC, ASK, CAL, CAS, CMB, CSA, FLA, GLC, IDH, LKT, NEN, NYK, TEX, UDT, USB to North American group trigger
Added RGD, SLA, TAM, TRC, YUC, ZAP, STL to Central American group trigger
Added FGU, PAT, SPL, SUL to South American group trigger
Added ADJ, ADY, CHE, DAG, GOR, ING, KBK, KCC, KUB to Caucasus group trigger
Added HWI to Oceania group trigger
Added ASK, CKK, GRL, KAE, KOM, NEE, QUE, SIB, YAK, YAM to Arctic group trigger
Added CNR to Spanish Speaking group trigger
Added all Russian Subject tags to Russian Proficient group trigger
Adjusted the Kosovar tax rates to 25% for population and 15% to corporate tax rate
Expanded the number of political parties that can go up to Neo-Imperalism (democracies can’t intervene in the same way and invade whatever but they can still invade nations who cause tension with no other tension requiremments)
Added Amapá and Roraima to the Amazon States (oversight as they are most certainly in the Amazon)
North Korea no longer can use the “Hold Elections” decision
Added vanilla (non-DLC) starting techs Israel was missing
Adjusted the maximum number of quick wings for deployment from 3 to 8
Added a new scripted effect to clear the EU vote variables when a vote fails to cleanup (effect is called EU_emergency_vote_clear)

Graphics

Fixed the “Combined Defense Industries” idea icon from missing from the generic ideas
Fixed bad file path errors in graphics in the error log when using Mac/Linux/Steamdeck
Fixed multiple Israeli ideas missing icon

Localization

Fixed a missing localization for a intervention law for the Greens for Isolation
Improved the system explanation for Brazil’s Amazon Conservation System so it’s easier to understand what to do
Improved and rewrote a lot of the Syrian focus tree localization to be more well written and additional lroe
Bunch of Israeli English localization fixes

Map

Updated the map for Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Caucasus and Southern Russia

Quality of Life (QoL):

Added a decision that allows you to disable raid event notifications of raids that do not pertain to you
Added Unemployment Rate to the Economy Overview when clicking on nations

Performance

Removed some redundant code in the European Union scripted effects
Rewrite the Nepalese on actions to not allow other checks to check whether they’re Nepal or Maoist Nepal
Improved the performance of the on_actions on monthly so they’re about 15% faster per month

Sound

Added unit voice-lines to Ukraine
Added unit voice-lines to Saudi Arabia
Redid unit voice-lines for Iraq