[Mod] [HOI4] Hearts of Desire

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51 minutes ago, Blankspacexxx10 said:

I reinstalled all the mods and even the whole game, but still broken. I am using nothing else but the 3 mods. 

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I took a look and everything seems normal, even when i disable the NCNS dlc. What I can suggest is checking the launcher settings, maybe trying to clear the cache. So far, no one else has reported the same problem, as HOD doesn't modify the game's leaders in any other way besides the portraits. I really hope you can solve your problem..

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2 hours ago, Mister_Wake said:

This is an odd question, but I must ask:

How much new content roughly does this mod add?

I am not very good at HOI4, but I have learned games before for the sole purpose of enjoying lewd mods. Darkest Dungeon, for example, I learned to play through this site's content. I would be interested in playing this mod and learning HOI4 to see its rewards, but I do not know if its worthwhile if this mod adds little content.

Well, the mod mainly changes the event pictures, some leader portraits to have hentai images, in addition to some new events, and the reworking of some existing events for the mod, some mechanics, a new resource, but in general, it's a mod that's much more graphically focused than anything else, but it's a project in considerable development, so there will be more things in the future if everything goes well.

[Blankspacexxx10]

I FIGURED IT OUT, THIS BAFFLED ME FOR SO LONG.

 

The culprit was in "HOD_R56\common\characters".

This folder has outdated txt files which must have changed when R56 was updated. I don't know if this folder has anything important for HOD, but I removed the whole "characters" folder and it worked. Japan and Sichuan have their leaders back.

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13 minutes ago, Blankspacexxx10 said:

I FIGURED IT OUT, THIS BAFFLED ME FOR SO LONG.

 

The culprit was in "HOD_R56\common\characters".

This folder has outdated txt files which must have changed when R56 was updated. I don't know if this folder has anything important for HOD, but I removed the whole "characters" folder and it worked. Japan and Sichuan have their leaders back.

aaah, I'm so sorry, I must have forgotten to delete the characters file when I was adding the files to the .rar archive. I'll update it right now, thank you so much!

[Blankspacexxx10]

I also fixed two other issues that I have come across while fixing the leaders. 

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ISSUE #1

Go into HOD_R56\interface and replace the two files in the folder with the ones I've provided.

Interface Fix.zip

 

ISSUE #2 (Some portraits missing even though they shouldn't)

This is caused by HOD being overwritten by another mod which is caused by the load order. Road to Anime will overwrite HOD because the game loads the mods in a "alphanumeric hierarchy" (https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1bvv3aa/mod_load_order_possible/). The load order in the game launcher doesn't matter.

 

To fix this, go in to the mod folder and rename "HOD_R56.mod" to "zHOD_R56.mod". This will make it load last due to Z being the last letter of the alphabet.

 

Then go in the game and check if Romania's portrait is an anime character

 

Edited December 21, 2025 by Blankspacexxx10

[Blankspacexxx10]

Found another issue. When doing King's Party, it uses a generic leader instead of Edward. Culprit was "HOD_R56\history". Removing the "history" folder fixed it.

 

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Edited December 21, 2025 by Blankspacexxx10

[Permanchik]

I'm either doing something wrong, or the mod doesn't work with city capture / country surrender / some events. Instead of unique images, there's a standard image from Road to Anime. The same goes for the vanilla version, except there's only one standard surrender image. In global events, the images are only partially displayed. I'm not quite sure why this is happening, However, the rest of the mod works perfectly, with text and mechanics functioning as expected.

Edited December 22, 2025 by Permanchik

[Blankspacexxx10]

6 hours ago, Permanchik said:

I'm either doing something wrong, or the mod doesn't work with city capture / country surrender / some events. Instead of unique images, there's a standard image from Road to Anime. The same goes for the vanilla version, except there's only one standard surrender image. In global events, the images are only partially displayed. I'm not quite sure why this is happening, However, the rest of the mod works perfectly, with text and mechanics functioning as expected.

 It could be that its being overwritten by Road to Anime or something else which is caused by the load order. I have a fix for that on one of my posts earlier in this page, but if that doesn't fix it I'll test things out.

Edited December 22, 2025 by Blankspacexxx10

[NotGraze]

Im glad to see this is still being worked on. Cheers dd! 

[river16543]

Sorry if my English is a bit awkward — I’m Japanese and using a translation tool.

I really enjoy your mod, thank you so much for your great work!

I wanted to share two things.

First, I found a mod that could be an alternative to The Road to Anime, which your mod is based on.
It’s called “Waifureich - Road to Vanilla.”
It supports more GFX and also the new DLC (NCNS).
However, all images in that mod are AI-generated, and I haven’t fully checked if there are any issues.

Second, I made a Japanese translation of your mod for my personal use.
I’m not sharing or uploading it right now, but I wanted to ask if there are any rules about distributing translations.

Thanks again for the awesome mod!

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21 hours ago, river16543 said:

Sorry if my English is a bit awkward — I’m Japanese and using a translation tool.

I really enjoy your mod, thank you so much for your great work!

I wanted to share two things.

First, I found a mod that could be an alternative to The Road to Anime, which your mod is based on.
It’s called “Waifureich - Road to Vanilla.”
It supports more GFX and also the new DLC (NCNS).
However, all images in that mod are AI-generated, and I haven’t fully checked if there are any issues.

Second, I made a Japanese translation of your mod for my personal use.
I’m not sharing or uploading it right now, but I wanted to ask if there are any rules about distributing translations.

Thanks again for the awesome mod!

Thank you! 

 

My mod is not 100% reliable on Road to Anime or Anime History, and any replacements of these two should probably work, you can always test it and tell the results here, i recommend that you look into the .mod files and change its mod requisites, since i'm not sure if it will work correctly without AH or RTA .

 

As for translations, my mod is free for anyone to modify and share its version here, including translations, and if you wish i could even add it to the mod itself with your credits.

[river16543]

On 1/3/2026 at 2:34 PM, dd\df\ds said:

Thank you! 

 

My mod is not 100% reliable on Road to Anime or Anime History, and any replacements of these two should probably work, you can always test it and tell the results here, i recommend that you look into the .mod files and change its mod requisites, since i'm not sure if it will work correctly without AH or RTA .

 

As for translations, my mod is free for anyone to modify and share its version here, including translations, and if you wish i could even add it to the mod itself with your credits.

Thank you very much for the reply!

I’ll try testing the mod on my side as well, and if I find anything useful, I’ll share the results here.

Regarding the translation, I think I’ll post it myself for now.
I’m not sure how much demand there will be, and it should also be easier for me to keep it updated that way.

Thanks again for your kindness and for the great mod!

[river16543]

Just now, river16543 said:

Thank you very much for the reply!

I’ll try testing the mod on my side as well, and if I find anything useful, I’ll share the results here.

Regarding the translation, I think I’ll post it myself for now.
I’m not sure how much demand there will be, and it should also be easier for me to keep it updated that way.

Thanks again for your kindness and for the great mod!

I’ve posted the Japanese translation here:

Thanks again for the great mod!

[NotGraze]

I can confirm that the mod works regardless of any image mod you have on. So if you'd like, turn off your image mod and have mpreg galore lol.

[elepeplin]

I can't seem to grasp how the sex workers function, they are just a number that don't do anything, also, maybe you could make a path where if you implement the sexists laws too 

quickly the girls start a civil war, it would be cool too to have a non sexist path, like a "bastion of womanhood", it would be fun to rp as a feminist nation in a rapist world lol.

[NotGraze]

On 1/8/2026 at 4:52 AM, elepeplin said:

I can't seem to grasp how the sex workers function, they are just a number that don't do anything, also, maybe you could make a path where if you implement the sexists laws too 

quickly the girls start a civil war, it would be cool too to have a non sexist path, like a "bastion of womanhood", it would be fun to rp as a feminist nation in a rapist world lol.

The sex workers dont seem to be anything beyond that for the moment, no. And I agree, that does sound fun.

[Perhana]

Hello, if anyone else having trouble loading the mod proper like portraits just go to the .mod files and add "The" to Road to 56 & Road to Anime. Seems like the mod thus fails to overwrite the RtA images, Works well now, great mod.

Edited January 20 by Perhana

[johng123]

Hi I'm having trouble downloading this mod as when i look at my playset it shows up just as content loading and im unable to select it or preview it any help/tutorial on downloading it?

[arnaldus]

Keep getting event to assasinate Hitler, with options to Long live Hitler or proceed with the plan wich should get the event "the oster conspiracy". Even clicking one or the other option keeps bringing the event again and again every couple days

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1 hour ago, arnaldus said:

Keep getting event to assasinate Hitler, with options to Long live Hitler or proceed with the plan wich should get the event "the oster conspiracy". Even clicking one or the other option keeps bringing the event again and again every couple days

place the .txt in the events file inside the mod, it should be working fine now. I'll also update the files

HOD_Events.txt

[arnaldus]

Praise be to the Omnisiah! It worked, also praise to you and Slaneesh for the mod! Would be cool for next update if you could add more characters like Princess Elizabeth II for other nations.

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i fucked up

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2 hours ago, Ykiar said:

i fucked up

It should be working fine now, paste in "common/occupation_laws" in the mod files, files also updated

Hearts_of_Desire_law.txt

Edited January 31 by Ykiar

[NotGraze]

Cheers!

[Melonman96]

Hey how do i get the Eva events to fire, ive done three games now and cant seem to understand it, also is there stuff for Elizabeth because im seeing it when i look in the mod files?