HOI4 Cheat Control Panel

Cheat Control Panel

A categorised, tooltip-driven cheat and debug menu for Hearts of Iron IV. No console typing, no memorising internal equipment IDs. Open one panel and click.

Press Insert to open it, or use the logo button below the top bar. Esc closes it. The key can be changed to F8, F11, F12 or Ctrl+F8 in Settings.

15 sections. 76 actions. 238 buttons. 11 state actions. 145 equipment variants. 328 technologies.

New in 3.2.0

• Fixed: forts, coastal forts and supply hubs did nothing. They are province buildings and now go into the right provinces

• New: railways from your capital to every state, at four levels

• New: spawn divisions in a state you picked instead of your capital

• New: delete the whole army of a country you picked

• Esc closes the panel, and closing no longer depends on anything else loading

• In Ironman the menu is hidden and the notice explains why and how to close

What is inside

• Dashboard - a live summary of your country: political power, command power, manpower, army/navy/air experience, stability, factories

• Resources - political power, command power, manpower and all three experience types, with scaled presets. For any other amount, tap it in on the number keys on the right, then press CUSTOM on the row

• Equipment - every addable variant in your installation, grouped by category, with a live stockpile count on each row. Add one, add the latest of a line, or add a whole category. Anything you have not unlocked is greyed out and its tooltip says why

• Research - every technology, grouped by research folder. One at a time, a whole folder, or everything in the game

• Countries - annex with troop transfer, puppet, declare war, white peace, or switch to playing as any country

• States - take a state, or take only its ownership or only its control. Hand it, or just its control, to a country you picked. Add and remove cores and claims, set compliance and resistance. From the list or by clicking the map

• Nation - stability, war support, research slots, fuel, CIC funds, world tension, legitimacy, instant research bonuses, free doctrines, default occupation law

• Politics - ruling party, popularity per ideology, civil war, autonomy

• Raw resources - all seven resources added to every state you own

• Military - nuclear bombs, division spawning in your capital or in a state you picked, disband everything, army/navy/air experience

• Construction - eleven building types at several levels each, built instantly across every state you own, railways from your capital to every state, plus off-map factories that cannot be bombed

• Diplomacy - opinion, intelligence, war goals, truces, factions, collaboration, guarantees, release, independence, and deleting a country's army

• Commanders - skill, attack, defence, planning and logistics for every general and admiral

• History - the last ten actions, each repeatable

• Settings - hotkey, confirmations, diplomatic rules

Every action offers several amounts, not one. A card carries four or five buttons, so 76 actions become 238 choices. Every section is functional; there are no placeholder buttons.

Languages

The panel follows your game language in English, Deutsch, Francais and Russian. Everything it owns is translated; equipment and technology names come from the game itself, so those follow your game too.

Turkish and Dutch were removed in 3.1.1. Hearts of Iron IV loads exactly ten localisation folders and neither is among them, so they used to travel as an overlay written into the English folder. An update was uploaded while that overlay was applied, and English players got Turkish menus. That is fixed: the overlay is gone and the mod now ships only languages the engine keeps separate. Apologies to anyone who hit it.

A description in six languages is on the GitHub page linked below.

Compatibility

• Built for Hearts of Iron IV 1.19

• No DLC required; DLC content appears only if you own it

• Additive - no vanilla file is overridden and every identifier is namespaced, so it works alongside other mods

• Singleplayer - country switching, annexation and state transfers can desync a multiplayer game

• Ironman - the panel opens on a notice page and no section can be opened, because an Ironman save cannot be rolled back. This is intended, not a bug. Close it with CLOSE, Esc or your hotkey

• Not compatible with Millennium Dawn or other total conversions that replace common/scripted_effects. They remove every action the panel performs while its interface stays on screen

• Running any mod disables achievements

Honest limits

These are engine limits, not unfinished work:

• No undo. The engine has no state snapshot, so destructive actions ask for confirmation instead of offering a way back

• No typing. Scripted menus cannot read a typed value, so amounts use a digit pad and lists are browsed by category and page

• No console commands. Mods cannot invoke them. instanttraining, fow, yesman, allowtraits and freefocuses have no scripted equivalent and are absent; where a native effect gives the same outcome, that is what the panel uses

• Doctrines are made free, not researched. set_technology does not reach them, so Nation removes their cost instead

• Ships and railway guns are not listed. The engine refuses to add them to a stockpile; they are built as units

• No A-Z filter. Equipment names differ per language, so filing rows under an English initial would be wrong in three of the four

• No national focus completion. It needs a specific focus token, and focus trees cannot be read at runtime

Open source

MIT licensed. Source, build tooling and issue tracker: https://github.com/X1NPAR1/hoi4-cheat-control-panel

The equipment and technology lists are generated from your own game files rather than hand-written, so they stay accurate across game updates, and anything the game cannot name is left out instead of showing a raw internal ID.

Hearts of Iron IV is a trademark of Paradox Interactive AB. This is an unofficial fan-made mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.