Hello everyone! The wait is over and I'm happy to unleash Dystopika 1.1. This update ended up having much more than originally planned and I'm excited to see what you will create.

For a quick rundown of the new features, I'd like to turn things over to DeLindsay Gaming, who compiled this excellent overview during the update's private beta phase alongside his usual work unlocking the extraordinary things that can be done with Dystopika.

The next update, v1.2, is dedicated to Photo Mode and improving not only how you capture your creations but also bringing several photo mode settings into your city settings for a whole slew of new city-building vibes.

Expect new tools for plotting camera movements, improved camera controls, being able to save presets, and likely a few more surprises.

I'm also looking ahead to 1.3 where I will start unlocking modding possibilities.


There are three types of new Transportation-themed props: Small Roads, Wide Roads, and Monorails. These props are controllable curves that can be placed anywhere on the map and height adjusted with five control points.

When close to the ground, these new types will clear away any low-lying density to prevent awkward building collisions.

6 new buildings (with 2 height variants) have been added to the existing districts. New props include the aforementioned Transportation paths as well as satellite dishes, mounted signs, and more.

While this is a small content update for buildings, there have been significant changes to props to set better foundations for future mod support, primarily in the form of...

Props now have a series of advanced controls to modify size, rotation, and other settings based on the specific prop. Press TAB to bring up the Advanced Controls panel to explore what you can do.

See Quality of Life updates for what's new with existing props.

French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai, Indonesian, and Russian has been added to the game.

Achievements are now translated as well.

I am also now opening up our translation project on CrowdIn to the public to contribute to additional languages or improve the existing translations. Join our Discord to learn more about contributing in the #dys_translations channel.

This was a secret debug tool which has now been polished and improved.

Before moving a building hold ALT to clone the highlighted building. Any attached props will be cloned as well.

To better expose the Clone Tool above and other more secretive power tools (like Light Brush size), there are now context-aware control tips in the lower left. They can be disabled in the settings.

Billboards are now represented just by their aspect ratio in the Prop menu, and can be resized with Advanced Controls (TAB) to be tiny or massive.

The Custom Media button has also been relocated to the Advanced Controls menu where there is also a HEX colour and brightness control.

Billboards from your old saves should still work, but there may be slight color/brightness shifts due to the new color and brightness controls.

Similar to Unified Billboards, the Text props have been unified to a single prop with Advanced Controls (TAB) to set size, orientation, and colour.

In City Settings you can now control how much Air Traffic your city has - or turn it off completely.

• Removed Unity splash screen
  
• Removed Grid Snapping toggle. Replaced by the control tips but buildings can still be snapped with CTRL.
  
• Steam News now displays in the Pause Menu
  
• Load City screen will now show the current city in the list of save files and a non-interactable item
  
• Safe Mode now has a persistent UI reminder

• Save Files are written to a temp file first to prevent loss of save due to a crash
  
• Additional Memory optimizations have been made to the Undo/Redo stack
  
• Improved some prop positioning constraint logic
  
• Fixed several non game-breaking writable geometry/collision errors
  
• Fixed a bug where deprecated props were accessible in the random prop selector.
  
• Tooltips now forced to stay on the screen
  
• Fixed a bug where some operations would be cancelled when mouse is hovered on the Toolbar
  
• Fixed a bug where tutorials and progress could not be saved.
  
• Prevented ENTER from spawning UI element duplicates
  
• Fixed some rotation errors related to prop placement

Hello friends, I may have cooked too much.

1.1 has become bigger than I had originally planned and it needs just a little more time to simmer.

However, I think you will be very happy with the expanded 1.1 update which now includes new content on top of the planned Quality of Life updates for billboards, custom neons, flying traffic, and more.

The Discord[discord.gg] Road Warriors have been heard loud and clear and highways are coming to Dystopika 1.1. Highways can be adjusted to create the bends and curves your dystopian heart desires. You can make roads span the full city or make them weave and duck through each other like a giant web. They are also height-adjustable to make skyways or some Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired insanity. You can also adjust traffic density and there will be multiple road styles.

Each district is getting new building types alongside several new props. New creative possibilities! More teases of the new content over the coming weeks.

The mod team will be rolling out regular timed theme creation challenge to spark your imagination and creativity. We'll be highlighting the best of the best on various social channels.

1.1 will be including more language options but we will also be opening up the translations to allow for anyone to contribute new languages and suggest changes - with the goal of being able to continuously translate and improve the localization as new features are added.

Thank you for your patience, I hope the wait will be worth it.

I'm not ready to set the exact date yet, but anticipate 1.1 to release during the second half of September.