Treaty Articles

What problem does it solve?

This guide helps modders and developers create, review, and maintain Victoria 3 treaty article definitions by standardizing structure, inputs, and lifecycle rules across mod files.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Defines article shape (kind, inputs, wargoal) and lifecycle events to ensure consistent behavior across diplomacy, AI scoring, and enforcement.
• Provides step-by-step workflow guidance for editing or adding treaty articles while avoiding common pitfalls.
• Clarifies how to locate, inspect, and align local definitions with vanilla game data and mod overrides.

Quick Start

Review the treaty_articles definitions in common/treaty_articles and ensure the article is well-scoped with inputs and wargoal logic.