Microlandia

The Energy map now shows information about neighboring cities, what is their energy demand and what is your trade with them Improved how trees are rendered, now they look nicer and use less resources Fixed problems with user interface freezing in some cases, plus other UI annoyances You can now remove a street that has buildings on it if the buildings' addresses can be re-assigned to another stree

Starting a new city now doesn't dictate the map size or difficulty setting, you can create a new city on any region / map size combination and choose between easy (1 billion cash) medium (100 million cash) or hard (100 million loan). Each region now plays slightly differently: Alborina has strong sun but little groundwater, Campara has weak sun and plenty of water, and Salina trades power with onl

Hotfix for a problem that could cause the UI to become unresponsive for several seconds

Hotfix for a bug that could cause a UI hang Improved 3D models for cable-stayed and suspension bridges so they render without lagging the game Fixed edge-case failures of the bridge tool when building over steep terrain or when the bridge is too low Many texts in the UI have been improved for clarity

People who move to your city looking for work now look for three months before going home instead of one. Newcomers with savings are much more likely to open a business in an empty shop while they look for work, so new towns get their first employers sooner.

Fixes a bug that caused some citizens who could not pay their rent keep their homes forever. On cities with a lot of retirees and no pension or shelters, this could lead to a wave of evictions and a 10-20% population drop. Improved the user interface for maps so it uses less screen space which specially useful for players in handhelds.

Culture and employment have a stronger pull/push for migration flow: population growth stagnates when there's no culture or jobs, but at the same time it's more sticky Because of new game balancing, existing cities will likely have a 10 to 20 percent population decrease, but keeping all the culture builds and making sure jobs are being made should make the fall less severe New rare gift: the Opera

Improved the UI to add a stop between lines, by connecting another station or creating one, with more control over the route of the new stop The line view in the public service map now shows ridership, frequency, buses assigned, round trip, capacity use and traffic delay Lines also have an "extend" button that creates or connect a station on either end of the route Some stations are named after th

Hotfixes for station and bus stop placements

Fixed a bug with budget reports sometimes displaying information partially or coming from different months Clearer budget reports: better categorized, improved explainers and ability to look at past months Cursor now shows a blueprint preview of the building to be built, with a setting to turn them off Smoother camera panning and faster building placement

"Day and night" mode: a new setting that will show the city according to your system time. The sun is rising at morning, the golden hour at sunset Corner buildings: Residential apartments, mixed-use buildings and townhouses now have special models for the ones that are in a corner, with two faćades at each of the crossroads Improved UI for bus lines and bus station management Fixed a bug that made

Hotfix for visual glitches in the new public transport map

Lines, stations and fleet now are different tabs in the public transport widget Station management lines and stations are now decoupled for easier management of line rerouting Raised the limit of bus lines to 8 Improved precision of the public transport ridership simulation Transport rider demand and commute time can now also be visualized on the public transport map view Fixed a problem of bycicl

Fixed a problem with intel graphics sometimes not startingImproved textures

Fixed police coverage taking weeks to catch up after hiring officers or changing streets, and cars being stolen next to staffed police stations While placing a building you now see a preview of it Days look brighter and more colourful, and nights less murky Digging a landfill costs half as much Stats now shows how much of the total waste is being recycled The interface now follows your display's s

New Cancel action in Controls: bind a second key that backs out of every dialog, menu and tool. Escape still works Your mouse's side buttons can now be bound to any action Every connected controller now shows up in the settings, unplugging one is noticed, and a Steam Deck can switch to an external controller The controller's focus mark looks the same on every control, sliders and text fields inclu

Waste is now divided into categories: plastics, organics, paper, the rest, and unsorted New recycling bins: homes near a bin sort their waste into plastics, organics, paper and the rest New biogas digester: built beside a landfill, it turns the city's sorted organic waste into electricity Paper mills take the city's sorted paper Information about what's in a landfill can be inspected: what is buri

Small fine tunings to the business AI so they are more resilient and better at keeping their staff employed without overhiring Business owners settle for their own share of a wage instead of quitting when profits are thin Fixed how the data is presented in the business inspector so when a founder is pouring more capital in a firm it doesn't look like losses are written off Fixed the game city back

Important note: this patch corrects a problem that started in 2.1.3 that caused many businesses to close and residents to leave. If you think your city 'death spiraled' from this, you can contact us and we'll help you recover your savefile. If enough people are affected, we may also provide a website tool. Residents start companies more reliably again: fixed problems that prevented professionals f

Lowered the floor rent price of farms so they become the most accessible price for starting up a firm

Hotfix for the “results does not match” contract error making the census window failing