This issue often occurs when a person edits one of those files with one of the mentioned programs and finds that EU4 crashes upon launch. Microsoft Paint, Paintbrush (on Mac), OpenOffice Draw and LibreOffice Draw (on Linux) are unable to edit rivers.bmp, heightmap.bmp, and terrain.bmp because they lack the ability to open indexed colors and retain them through saving.

2.9 Adding a province and editing the provinces.bmp.

Update: I am not sure yet but this process may break the GOG Galaxy Cloud Sync feature. I believe this trick works with other Paradox games but as I am not playing those at the moment I cannot verify it. If anything goes wrong simply change things back (remove the userdir.txt file and undo If you use Irony Mod Manager (from the above thread) remember to change the path to this folder in there too. Delete the old (renamed) Document/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris folder.ġ0. Start up the Launcher and a game and make sure everything works.ĩ. 'D:/ParadoxInteractive/Stellaris' (this time with the quotes).Ĩ. Change the line containing 'gameDataPath' to point to the new folder, e.g.

Locate a file called 'launcher-settings.json' beside 'dowser.exe' and edit that file (take a copy of it if you are worried).ħ. 'D:/ParadoxInteractive/Stellaris' (without quotes) into it.Ħ. Locate (or creaet the file 'userdir.txt' in the Stellaris installation folder (beside 'dowser.exe') and put the path the the new folder e.g. Rename 'Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris' to something else for now.Ĥ. Copy the contents of 'Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris' into that new folderģ. Create a new folder (outside OneDrive) where you want all your Stellaris mods and save files and setting etc to go, e.g. Since this folder is synched via OneDrive this was a bit of a problem.ġ. For me the Paradox mod installer just didn't seem to work and most of the mods on there were out of date in comparison to Steam.Īfter installing a couple of mods I discovered that my Documents folder was exploding since this is where Paradox puts all the mods.

Which explains how to get Stellaris mods from Steam to GOG. Apologies if this is a duplicate but I couldn't find it. Just spent a couple of hours figuring this out so thought I would share it and save someone the time.

Eu4 mods not showing up in mod folder