A beginner's guide to using custom content in Cities Skylines. Intro Welcome to this guide to modding cities Skylines for beginners! If you’ve just bought the game, or finally got tired of playing vanilla, here’s a handy guide on how to get started. Modding this game isn’t a simple matter of plug & play, if you do it wrong or don’t read properly, things will not work and your game may crash. Read on! Disclaimer: I am not accountable nor responsible if your game stops working, if you screw up, or if you set your computer on fire. Modify the game at your own risk. Important! READ THE DESCRIPTIONS. I will say this a thousand times more, because mods are NOT plug&play! If you forget a required mod, things won’t work. If you install a broken mod, your game won’t work. If you don’t read how a mod works, things will behave strangely. If you can’t be bothered to read everything, please leave the workshop. Modding isn’t for you. Every asset in this game, both vanilla and custom, is loaded into the RAM on level load. If you have more assets than RAM, your game will crash. This can only be avoided by using less assets, or buying more RAM. If you have 6GB RAM or less, you can't use custom assets. If you have 8GB and DLC, you can't use custom assets. Don't complain if you ignore this and your game crashes. The more assets you want to use, the more RAM you need. 12GB is the bare minimum. But 16GB is the minimum recommended. No, putting them in the Local folder doesn't magically make them not use system resources. No, having the devs add it to the game does not magically make them not use system resources. Every game update breaks mods! You can not continue playing after the game updates. You must wait for the mods to update, and manually keep track of each mod that is and isn't updated. The list of broken/dead mods (see below) usually contains a list of broken mods after a patch, but is by no means definitive nor complete. Manually checking the update-date, comments and description of each mod is mandatory. NEVER DO A SECOND LOAD! Always quit to the desktop between loads! This is a Unity game. Which means you can’t do a second load if you mod the game. A second-load is loading another map/save when one has been loaded before in the current session, including after quitting to the main menu. The game loads mods in two halves, one part on the Paradox logo, and one part during the loading screen. By loading a second time, the game forces mods to load themselves twice, which causes problems. Do NOT use the 'Subscribe To All' button on a collection! This will subscribe all content, regardless of whether your system can run it, and doesn't check if required mods are included. Don't be the idiot who subs to a 999 item Youtuber collection, then complains his game crashes. If you disable or unsubscribe from a mod, it may break your save. Always check if a mod is safe to disable or unsubscribe before doing so! If you disable or unsubscribe an asset, it will disappear from your game and your city. In some cases, this may break your save. Be careful. If you use mods, the game will probably crash when you use the 'Exit Game' option. This is completely normal, and nothing to worry about. Some mods prevent you from going to the main menu. This is for your own safety. *Disabling a mod does not fully disable it. Mods still run code even if they are disabled. Always unsubscribe mods if you don't use or need them, or if you're using a mod that does the same thing. Mods that do the same thing are always incompatible. Don't use two mods that do the same thing. This causes conflicts, bugs, error, and can break your game and/or save. This includes old and new versions of the same mod. NEVER OVERWRITE A SAVE FILE. ALWAYS make a new save when you save your game. "Save often and in different slots." The oldest mantra in gaming history. This should be basic common sense, but apparently it's not. Make them incremental, so city_1, city_2, city_3, etc. Don't rely on one or two saves, they can become corrupted very easily, and you don't want to lose your entire city just because you only have one save. Things you need to mod Cities Skylines Your system specifications. And an understanding of what they are. Sufficient RAM. Patience. The ability to read. It is *strongly* recommended to use the Loading Screen Mod. This mod reduces the amount of RAM used by assets, improves the speed with which the game loads (by anywhere between 20% and 800%, depending on your CPU, RAM and harddrive), and improves stability. Use the process below to install it. Mods, Assets, Props, what is what? As I'm writing this, there are 168,554 items uploaded to the workshop for everyone to use. That's a lot! But what is what? And what does everything do? And how do you use it? Read on! Let's start at the beginning: Vanilla Vanilla is a software term used to describe the original state of the software. In the case of videogames, this means the game as it was made by the official developers, without custom content or mods. DLC made by the official developers is also considered vanilla. Vanilla Mods are the mods that are made by the official developers that come with the game. Custom Content Custom Content is everything for the game made by people who are not the official developers. There are three main types of custom content: Mods. Assets. Environment. Mods Mods are snippets of code that alter or add game functionality. These are usually run on the CPU, and can slow down your game depending on how powerful your system is. Mods regularly break with every update, and using the wrong mods can prevent the game from working properly. Assets Assets are all the useable content in the game. There are several different types of assets: Buildings Buildings come in various types. The two main types are Growables and Ploppables. Growable buildings grow in zoned areas, and have a size limit of 4x4 units. They work just like the grown buildings from the vanilla game. People live, work and shop in them as normal. When installed, they will be added to the list of buildings that can grow and appear automatically. Ploppables are zone-free buildings, but only function as services, parks or uniques. These are generally bigger than 4x4. The Ploppable RICO mod adds RICO functionality to ploppable buildings and growables to make them into usable homes, shops, factories and offices. More on that later. District Styles/Building Themes are text files that mention the name of every asset in that style. They don't contain any assets, you still need to subscribe to the actual buildings. Networks These are roads, walls, tracks, etc. Keep in mind that removing networks from your game may break your save, and networks like roads and tracks are required items for assets that use them. Props Props are decoration pieces. This includes everything from benches to advertising signs. Since the Park Life DLC we have access to some of the props, but for most you still need a mod like Find It! 2 Trees Trees are what it says on the box: trees, plants, grasses, flowers, bushes, etc. They can be placed via the Landscaping menu. Environment: These are maps, map themes, and LUTs. Maps are the world you play on. Map Themes are the textures that make up the terrain, such as grass, gravel, dirt and the pavement. The heavier the texture, the more RAM and VRAM it uses. LUT’s are colour overlays. These are colour filters that change how the game looks. Contrary to popular belief LUTs do not affect system performance, as the game always uses one, even if you select ‘none'. LUT's can be enabled from the ingame Options > Graphics menu. Broken & Dead mods The Workshop is not the most well maintained system in the world. (Hah, understatement.) A lot of content on it is severely outdated, and can be considered dead and/or broken. A dead mod is a mod that has been abandoned. This doesn't necessarily mean that the mod is broken, it may still work. If a game update doesn't change the code the mod relies on, the mod usually isn't broken and doesn't need updating. A broken mod is a mod that is, as it says, broken. These mods will cause your game to misbehave, throw errors, and/or crash completely. The following document contains a comprehensive, but nowhere near complete, list of broken/dead mods. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mVFkj_7ij4FLzKs2QJaONNmb9Z-SRqUeG6xFGqEX1ew (copy the URL if the link doesn't work, because steam's link filter is not the smartest biscuit in the tin, and considers all google docs links evil.🙄) Compatibility Report is also a very helpful mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881031511 How do I install mods? Through the Steam Workshop. Please note: The Steam Workshop, Simtropolis, and specific modders' official discord channels are the only legitimate sources of custom content. Other sites host stolen content and qualify as piracy. I can not and will not vouch for the safety and functionality of mods and assets acquired on third party sites. Use at your own risk. Step 1: Accessing the Steam Workshop The safest and most stable way to do this is via the browser. Go to https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/workshop/ Make sure you are logged in with your Steam account. Please note: Do not subscribe/unsubscribe to content whilst the game is running, even on the main menu. This is not safe to do, and it will also reset certain mods. If you use Network Skins or Surface Painter, all modifications made with those mods will be undone. You can also access the Workshop via the Steam Client and from inside the game. However, the Steam Client is not the most stable at the best of times, and using the Workshop whilst the game is running will reset certain mods and cause all sorts of instabilities. Stick to the browser. Step 2: Locating mods When you open the Cities Skylines Workshop, you'll find yourself on the Workshop's front page. There’s a lot of stuff here, so let’s quickly go over the basics.

最受欢迎物品：此展示区为工坊本周获赞数最高的9个物品。你可以点击“最受欢迎物品”标题，查看按过去一周热度排序的工坊全部内容的完整列表。 搜索栏：用于搜索内容，搜索范围包括标题和描述。 最上方的选项与第一个相同。另外两个选项没有用处，建议避免。“评分最高”分类下的大多数模组已失效，可能导致游戏崩溃；“最新上传”分类则充斥着略作修改的原版无用内容。 分类：若你需要查找特定类型的物品，可使用这些分类快速筛选，搜索时也可结合分类使用。 浏览：在下拉菜单中可找到“已订阅物品”选项，其中列出了你订阅的所有内容。该页面还设有便捷的“全部取消订阅”按钮。 步骤3：内容页面 警告：请勿使用资源图片上的绿色+图标。这将跳过所有重要信息并略过“所需模组”弹窗。如果使用此图标，内容将无法正常运行。 警告2：请勿使用合集上的“全部订阅”按钮！原因与警告1相同。此外，大多数合集要么是由拥有64GB内存的用户创建，要么仅作为目录使用，并非旨在完全订阅。如果您使用64GB以下内存订阅这些合集，游戏将会崩溃。因此请勿这样做。 点击您想要使用的模组图片。目前，我将使用我自己制作的其中一张地图。

订阅按钮。点击此按钮会将该物品添加到你的库中。在阅读完其余内容之前，请勿点击此按钮。 所需DLC。此处列出使用该内容所需的DLC。如果你没有这些DLC，已订阅的资产/模组将无法在游戏内激活。 所需物品。此处列出使该资产/模组正常运行所需的内容。如果你遗漏了某个必需的模组，该资产或模组将无法正常工作。请勿忽略这些内容。 关联合集。某些物品（例如地图或大型模组）会附带一个使用它们所需的物品合集。合集功能可以让你更轻松地订阅这些物品。如果某个物品与其他物品配套使用（例如一组建筑），或者创作者希望将其所有内容整合在一起，他们也会链接一个合集。 描述。接下来就是阅读环节了！这会告诉你物品是什么、有什么作用以及如何使用。请阅读物品描述！

如果你喜欢某个资产或模组，请为其点赞！这样你可以感谢创作者为此付出的所有努力，同时这也会让该内容在我们之前看到的首页热门列表中排名更靠前。 在阅读完描述并订阅所需内容（同样请阅读这些内容的描述）后，直接点击“订阅”即可。 步骤4：启用内容 当Steam完成内容下载后，启动游戏。 模组需要手动启用后才能在游戏中使用。 资产和环境内容默认处于启用状态。 在主菜单上，选择“内容管理器”。

这将打开内容管理器菜单。在此处你可以启用和禁用内容。

内容按类别划分。这些分类的含义相当直观。 模组名称和创建者。 启用/禁用开关。点击此开关可开启或关闭项目。 选项。打开模组的选项菜单。并非所有模组都有设置，资源类模组则完全没有。 创意工坊按钮。在Steam覆盖层浏览器中打开该模组的创意工坊页面。 取消订阅按钮。请勿使用此按钮。请在浏览器的创意工坊页面中取消内容订阅。不要让游戏保持运行状态。 请开启你想要使用的模组。在某些情况下，启用模组后你可能需要退出并重新启动游戏。 步骤5：使用模组 没有使用模组的基础指南。每个模组都各不相同。 所有模组都有其独特功能。请阅读它们的描述，以了解其功能以及如何使用。可放置建筑位于各自的界面标签中。 可生长建筑会自动生长。 道具只能通过模组访问。 树木可在“景观美化”标签中找到。 开始新城市时可以选择地图。 选择地图开始城市时也会选择地图主题。 LUT（查找表）可在游戏内选项菜单的“图形选项”中选择。 常见问题 有关常见问题、错误、实用技巧和一般信息的完整列表，请参阅 [常见问题]《城市：天际线》常见问题解答！ 模组[名称]无法运行。 您阅读过描述吗？ [xx]GB内存可以安装多少资产？ 这取决于资产的大小。该游戏运行于Unity引擎，游戏加载时会将所有资源直接载入内存。因此，一个60MB的火车站会占用60MB内存，一个10KB的道具仅占用10KB，所以在达到内存上限前，你可以订阅更多资源。 基础游戏的大致参考标准如下： 4GB内存：0-10个资源 8GB内存：100-400个资源 12GB内存：400-800个资源 16GB内存：800-1200个资源 24GB内存：1200-2000个资源 32GB内存：2000-2800个资源 64GB内存：2800-6000个资源 如果你安装了添加大量内容的大型DLC，每个都需将资源数量再减少400个左右。每个大型DLC会为游戏增加约250-400个资源。 如果游戏在加载界面崩溃，说明资源过多。请移除部分资源或升级内存。 我需要多少内存？ 视情况而定。纯原版基础游戏大约需要6GB内存。一旦开始使用DLC和/或资产，你将需要更多的内存。包含所有DLC的游戏至少需要12GB内存。自定义内容则需要更多。（是的，这款游戏对内存的要求非常高。） 我可以使用IntelHD集成显卡运行游戏吗？ 正如规格中所列，《城市：天际线》不支持Intel集成显卡。游戏可能能够运行，但无法流畅运行。集成显卡适用于办公用途。是的，这也包括Mac。 Steam/创意工坊无法正常工作 若Steam出现问题，请务必查看https://steamstat.us/。 Steam社区服务器（创意工坊所在的服务器）每周二至周三晚上约00:00（GMT，伦敦时间）进行定期维护。 此外，若正值Steam促销期间，服务器会持续处于过载状态。这属于正常现象。推荐系统配置 要实现不同程度的游戏模组化，我需要什么样的硬件？ 大致有四种不同的游戏体验等级：纯净版、轻度模组版、重度模组版和细节增强版。每种等级的系统配置要求差异很大。我会通过截图来详细说明，以便你有个概念。 注意：这里说的是推荐配置，而非最低配置。你可能用更低配置也能运行，也可能需要更高配置。这并非精确科学，仅作为大致参考。 另外，我将以英特尔/英伟达的配置作为基准，因为我对AMD当前的产品系列不够熟悉。你可以通过访问https://www.userbenchmark网站查询这些配置对应的AMD等效型号。com/ 警告：集成显卡芯片（如IntelHD和Intel Iris）并非独立显卡，因此不受支持。这包括大多数MacBook中搭载的集成显卡！ 原版

（图片来源：Colossal Order） 也被称为未经修改的基础游戏。 开发者推荐的以下官方配置规格相当准确。 推荐配置： 处理器：英特尔酷睿i5-5代或更高 内存：8 GB RAM 显卡：英伟达GeForce GTX 660，2 GB（不支持英特尔集成显卡） 轻度模组化

这是基础游戏，包含少量自定义资源和一些模组。所有区域均已规划，还使用了一点RICO（区域工业商业办公）系统。 推荐配置： 处理器：英特尔酷睿i5 7代或更高，或i7 6代或更高 内存：12 GB RAM 显卡：英伟达GeForce GTX 940（不支持英特尔集成显卡） 主要模组化

城市的大部分区域由自定义内容构成，通过RICO（区域工业商业办公）手动放置，包含一些细节装饰，但仍使用部分原版资产。 推荐配置： 处理器：英特尔酷睿i7 6代或更高 内存：16 GB RAM 显卡：英伟达GeForce GTX 1050（不支持英特尔集成显卡） 细节增强工具

This is what you see most Youtubers do as well. No vanilla assets, 100+mods, thousands of custom assets and props. Everything handplaced with Plop The Growables and moved into place with Move It. You need a powerful system for this! Recommended: Processor: Intel Core i7 7th gen or higher. Memory: 32 or 64 GB RAM Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards) Harddrive: SSD (For load speed. If you don't mind waiting over half an hour to load, a HDD is fine.) Mods For Beginners - Important These are some of the more basic mods that improve the game. This section focusses on mods that improve the stability of the game, and basic non-gameplay processes. READ THE DESCRIPTIONS! The Loading Screen Mod does several things: It enables multi-core loading. By default the game only uses 1 CPU core to load, which takes ages. The mod lets the game use all cores to load content, significantly speeding up the process. (Depending on the strength of your CPU.) It allows assets to share Textures, Meshes and Materials. The game loads every mesh and texture for each building, including identical ones. So if 20 assets use the same texture and mesh of 10MB, it loads 200MB. The Loading Screen Mod allows buildings to share one instance of those, so it only loads 10MB once then links it to each file. It creates a list of all loaded assets, and lists those that failed to load, weren't found, are in use, and are not in use. Check the option in the Options for it, which also lists the location of the log. The assets listed in orange as missing are not an issue you need to fix. They're just props, such as logos on a building. All that happens if you don't subscribe to them is that the building won't have a logo; the actual building will work as normal. When they are missing, they do not use system resources; if you subscribe to them, they will use RAM. The ones in red as failed are a problem you need to fix. Compatibility Report Helps you find conflicts between mods, locate outdated mods, and thus keep your game stable. FPS Booster Increases in-game frame rate. Results may vary because there are many factors like CPU/GPU speed, RAM usage, current in-game scene complexity etc. WARNING: Mac OSX not (yet) supported! Sort Mod Settings Mods in the Options Menu are normally listed by install date. This makes finding them a hassle. The mod sorts them alphabetically. Mods For Beginners - Gameplay These mods improve the gameplay. Note that how useful these are depends on how you play. As always, READ THE DESCRIPTIONS! Move It! Move It lets you rotate, move, raise/lower, copy and select every placed item in the game. Can be used on everything from buildings to roads. Also lets you export entire selections as a blueprint. A real gamechanger! Traffic Manager: President Edition) The big traffic mod. TMPE adds everything from manual lane control, junction rules, lane speed selection, and vehicle restrictions to timed traffic lights. Also adds options for an improved Traffic AI, and parking AI. WARNING: The Traffic AI is a severely heavy feature, which will slow down your system significantly. Avoid if you don't have a high end, powerful PC. You can still use all the other features of the mod, simply turn off the AI options in the mod's settings. Ploppable RICO Revisited Ploppable RICO stands for Ploppable Residential, Industrial, Commercial and Office. It makes unique buildings functional. Here's how it works: Subscribe to the Ploppable RICO Mod. Subscribe to buildings listed as RICO compatible. Launch the game and enable the Ploppable RICO Mod. (See Step 4 on how to do that.) Open the Ploppable RICO Tab. Select the building you want to place. Place it. You do NOT need to add custom RICO settings to Workshop buildings that are RICO compatible. They already have RICO settings added to them by their creator! You can also convert growables to Ploppables. See this guide. Please note: The mod was not meant for this, and it's a lot of work. If you intend to handplace growables, Plop The Growables is the one you want. (No direct link as it is an advanced mod that isn't what most people new to modding are looking for.) IMPORTANT! Local settings don't do anything until you quit the game, relaunch it, and reload your save. You can NOT install and/or convert to RICO Leisure/Tourism buildings if you do not have the After Dark DLC!!!!!! Doing so will break your game! Same goes for Eco/High Tech without the Green Cities DLC, and Industrial specialisations that came with the Industries DLC. The Ploppable RICO tab does not have a visual scroll indicator. If you can't find your buildings past the first 7, hover the mouse over the buildings in the tab and roll the scroll wheel! When making local settings, you MUST set the ConstructionCosts and Worker/Home Count to a value above 0. If you do not, you will get an error and the building does not work. 81 Tiles Lets you use all 81 tiles of the map. (AKA the entire map, edge to edge.) You MUST click the button in the mod settings, the tiles won't unlock until you do. Network Anarchy Disables collision and height detection, disables the forced road curves, and allows you to place roads anywhere. This makes building intersections and roads better and more realistic. Provides manual control over the various road modes. You can select when you want to use elevated, bridge, ground or tunnel roads. Lets you build quays on land. All other Road Anarchy mods are broken, dead, and should NOT be used! Employment Details Adds an infopanel that displays the employment levels for the various education levels. You can now see if you need Offices(high educated) or Industry(low educated) jobs. Environment Changer (+ Improved Theme Selection ) Lets you change the biome and map theme when loading a save. You no longer need to start over when you want to make your city a winter city, or change the map theme. Theme Mixer 2 Lets you mix map themes inside the game. If you only want the pavement from one theme, but everything else from another, this mod is the answer. Works inside a loaded save, no need to reload. Find It 2 Allows access to every item in the game via a searchable menu. Also allows access to props. Extra Landscaping Tools Adds the Map Editor terrain tools to the game, including Sand and Water Spawns. Surface Painter Paint terrain textures such as Pavement and Ruined where you want. Easy way to fill large spaces with pavement. Requires the Extra Landscaping Tools Mod to work. Note: May cause vanilla trees that are embedded in buildings to flicker! Roads: Vanilla+ Roads: A lot of new roads based on the vanilla template. Network Extensions 2 Roads Replacement Complete List: Adds the old Network Extensions 2 roads as standalone roads. Note: Make sure you read the description and check required mods! The 1u roads require the Zoning Adjuster mod to properly align the zoning grid. Mods For Beginners - Visuals & decluttering The game has a lot going on, visually. These mods make things easier to see, look better, and removes visual annoyances. READ THE DESCRIPTIONS! Toggle It! Adds the option to toggle certain things in the game on and off, including the topographic lines, the district names, the district icons, border lines, zoning grid and notification icons. (Note: Does not disable their functionlaity, only hides them from the UI) See mod page for the full list. Hide It! Has options to remove most of the decorative props, dirt, seagulls, purple pollution, dead trees on the shore, the ground colours from the resources (field, oil, ore, forest) and much more. Only removes the visual effects! It doesn't change the actual gameplay. Tree Control Adds the option to randomize the tree rotation. This makes the game look significantly better. Also adds options to increase/decrease/disable tree sway. Makes the game look better and improves framerate. Also adds a bunch more options such as sway. Mods For Beginners - Fixing Annoyances Some things in the game are just annoying. These mods help with that. READ THE DESCRIPTIONS! Yet Another Toolbar The interface tabs on this game are tiny, and only display 7 items at a time. If you have a lot of content, scrolling becomes a nightmare. This mod allows you to have more than 1 row in the build tabs. It also fixes the problem with toolbar icons disappearing on lower resolutions. Subtle Bulldozing, Dragging and More Every time you bulldoze or place something, the game makes a lot of noise and creates a sandstorm of dust. This mod lets you turn each of those sounds and effects off. Not only does that make things easier, it also improves the framerate. SimpleClock Adds a clock with the real-world time to the game's interface. Unlock Tracks + Metro Tunnels Lets you build train tracks and metro tunnels without having to place a station first. Does not change the milestones unlock. Mod Collections Here are a bunch of collections with useful, quality Workshop items and mods. Remember the warnings about RAM! don't sub to everything at once! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1289845913 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=840498314 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=823267366 Other Things Video guide! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUrr32e5y3M How do I unsubscribe from everything? This works best in the Browser version of the Workshop.

On the main page of the Cities Skylines Workshop, click on Browse. In the drop down menu that appears, click on My supscriptions. In the My subscriptions page, click on Unsubscribe All to unsubscribe from all Cities Skylines Workshop content. If you have a lot of content, this may take a while. How do I reset the game to a completely clean install? Backup everything you don't want to lose, such as saves or screenshots. Note that this method is for Windows, but you can use a similar method for Linux and OSX, the folder paths are just different. Do the above steps for unsubscribing all Workshop content. Uninstall the game. Open the Steam client, rightclick on Cities Skylines > Manage > Uninstall. Delete the following folders via Windows Explorer: %localappdata% Colossal Order Cities_Skylines C: Program Files (x86) Steam Steamapps Workshop Content 255710 C: Program Files (x86) Steam Steamapps Common Cities_SkylinesOpen the Steam client and reinstall the game. Do placed assets disappear if I disable or unsubscribe them? Yes. All assets will disappear from your game and your cities if you unsubscribe them. The only thing you can safely unsubscribe are maps. Those will remain as your city even if you unsubscribe them. Warning: There is a chance that unsubscribing content will break your save. This is especially common for roads that have been placed, vehicles that have been assigned to a line, stations with a line assigned to them, and props used in Prop It Up. Also, unsubscribing buildings may cause an Array or Nullreference error for every building you unsubscribed. However, these errors only appear once for every building, and then don't happen again. Big warning: Unsubscribing or disabling mods can break your save completely. Mods like Network Extensions 2, Extra Train Station Tracks, and Metro Overhaul become a dependency for your save to load. If you've used those mods in a save, that save will not load if you disable or unsubscribe those mods. Don't do that! Dictionary The Cities Skylines Modding Community uses a lot of abbreviations and slang to describe things. Here are the most common ones: Asset An object that can be placed in the game, such as buildings, trees, parks and vehicles. Asset Creator Someone who makes custom assets for the game. (Not mods) BSOD Blue Screen Of Death. General tech term for the blue screen Windows gives when it crashes. Build Limits Everything in this game has limits on how much you can place of it, and how many can spawn on the map. Please see the FAQ for more information. Cims Citizens. Short for Cities Skylines Sims. EA owns the rights to Sims, so we can’t use that. CO Colossal Order. The game's developers. Creator Someone who makes custom content for Cities Skylines. Note: People who slightly edit vanilla assets and publish them to the workshop do not count as Creators. CS & CSL Cities Skylines. Abbreviation. CSUR Cities Skylines Urban Road mod. CTD Crash To Desktop. General tech term for the game or program crashing to the desktop. Decal Decorative flat ground props. Usually tiles, brick, etc. Detailer Someone who focusses on designing (hyper)realistic scenes in the game by placing every single asset by hand. Generally does not use the zoning tool to grow assets. Find It A mod that lets you search through all the assets in the game. Growable A building that grows inside a zoned area. IPT2 Improved Public Transport 2. Abbreviation. LOD The low poly model the game displays on every asset when you zoom out. Without these, your computer would melt. LSM Loading Screen Mod. Abbreviation. LUT Colour correction filter. Map The world plane. Mapmaker Someone who makes custom maps for the game. Map Theme The terrain textures. Mod A piece of code that modifies the game. Not to be confused with Assets. Modder Someone who makes mods for the game. (Not assets) MOM Metro Overhaul Mod Move It A mod that lets you move, rotate and duplicate. NE2 & NExT2 / NExT 2 Network Extensions 2. Abbreviation. NEP & NExT Network Extensions Project. Abbreviation. Dead, broken mod; Do not use this mod! PDX Paradox. The game's publishers. Ploppable Buildings that can be placed without zoning. Ploppable RICO A mod that converts growables, parks and uniques into ploppables with RICO function. Prop Decorative item. Some props, like benches, can be used by Cims if part of a park. RICO Residential, Industry, Commercial, Office. Refers to the four main zone types. Second Load Loading the game a second time during a session. i.e. quitting to the menu and loading a different save or starting a new city, or loading/starting a city from inside a loaded city, or going from the editor into the city. You CAN NOT do this in a modded game! Tile A map tile. There are 81 tiles on the whole map, 25 are accessible, and you can unlock 9 without mods. TLMR Transport Lines Manager Reborn. Abbreviation. TMPE Traffic Manager President Edition. Abbreviation. Tris A 3D modelling term, Tris refers to the number of triangles on a 3D model. The more tris an asset has, the heavier it is for a videocard to render. Unique Buildings that can only placed be once (without mods). Can be found in the Uniques tab. Unit A single zoning block. Vanilla The game without custom content. Useful links Official Cities Skylines Forum: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/cities-skylines.859/ Cities Skylines Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/ Gaming Tech Support Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/ Tech Support Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/ Can I Run It Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanIRunIt/ Suggest-A-PC Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestapc/ Suggest-A-Laptop Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/ If you're looking for a friendly Cities Skylines community, come join us over at the SkylinesNation Facebook group. Beginner or master, creator or player, PC or console, everyone is welcome! (We do NOT do Tech Support!) https://www.facebook.com/groups/SkylinesNation/