# Victoria 3 Hotfix 1.12.1 is now LIVE! - Not for Problem Reports!

- Product: Victoria 3 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/victoria-3)
- Vendor: Paradox Development Studio
- Date: 2025-12-12
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/529340/view/518606895910486320
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/victoria-3/releases/2025-12-12-hotfix-1.12.1-is-now-live-not-for-problem-reports

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- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where buildings that do not use slaves would always be hiring regardless of whether they were losing money
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where having a high level of welfare would cause building owners to wage dump to extreme levels and let the government pick up the entire tab
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug when power bloc trade capacity modifiers weren't applied
- **changed** — The Cultural Commonwealth power bloc and the associated Shared Canon principle now only requires ownership of Iberian Twilight

Good Day Victorians!

We have a small hotfix today addressing key issues, including the one mentioned in known issues regarding hiring.

Check out the full patchnotes below. Checksum is `9124`.

As always please report any bugs on [our bug reporting forums](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/victoria-3-bug-reports.1114/)! We have also updated the [Known Issues post for 1.12](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/known-issues-update-1-12.1887039/) with any fixed issues!

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.12.1:

##### Bugfixes

- Fixed a bug where buildings that do not use slaves would always be hiring regardless of whether they were losing money

- Fixed a bug where having a high level of welfare would cause building owners to wage dump to extreme levels and let the government pick up the entire tab. Now they only wage dump to a moderate level and let the government pick up a smaller tab.

- Fixed a bug when power bloc trade capacity modifiers weren't applied

- The Cultural Commonwealth power bloc and the associated Shared Canon principle now only requires ownership of Iberian Twilight

**Previous Patchnotes**

[1.12.0](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/victoria-3-dev-diary-171-iberian-twilight-update-1-12-now-live.1887040/)