When you start a new game, you will get to choose one out of 20 area squares where you start building your city. Throughout the game, you will be able to buy more squares/land to add to your city.

Here is what the first 14 addional areas will cost you.

1.50.000
2. 290.000
3. 807.500
4. 1,7 Mio
5. 3,088 Mio
6. 5,090 Mio
7. 7,827 Mio
8. 11,420 Mio
9. 15,988 Mio
10. 21,650 Mio
11. 28,528 Mio
12. 36,740 Mio
13. 46,408 Mio
14. 57,650 Mio

Tipp: Heed the hints on the left of the screen on how to choose the best starting square. Get one with wood and clay. Another square with iron should be next to your starting area. It could be helpful be close to the water with your first one, so you can use trade when necessary (I often have the problem that I need more tools when I have not yet unlocked the iron mine and tool wrought, and import some then).

Street sizes, speed limit, build cost (per 20m) and maintenance costs.

2- and 4-, 6- and 8- as well as 10- and 12- lane streets can be upgraded and downgraded to each other.
You can't, however, upgrade a 4-lane street to a 6-lane one, for example, so consider this before building. Remember this when building, once you unlock bigger streets I strongly advise to use them, and you should not make your blocks too big. Once you have a densely built city and can't upgrade your streets, smaller blocks and more streets will relief the traffic situation.

Two-Way Streets


One-Way Streets

These are the basic production units broken down to one (some will have the whole number unit in brackets for better understanding). It's what a factory can produce at its basic level, before any upgrades due to fulfilled missions (stars left of the name in the building info window) or research.

This is meant to help you know how many of one type of factory or mine you need to even out production and thus make it more efficient.



Note: Color can not be produced, only imported (in case you were wondering, like I did, because I didn't read properly at first...)

Unless you play in Sandbox mode, you will have to unlock zones, buildings and industry through achieving certain numbers of population.

((What you start out with.))

Available:

• Zones: Craftsmen zone (Living zone 1)
  
• Food industry: Fisher | Vegetable farm
  
• Building material: Small Logger | Sawmill | Hemp Insulation farm
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Doctor's Office/Surgery | Supermarket
  
• Administration: City Hall
  
• Infrastructure: Small Wind Turbine | Small Electrical Substation | Small Water Tower | Local Garbage Collector (+ Garbage Dump zones) | Small Port | Local Haulage Company
  
• Roads: 2-lane

Needs
750 workers

Get

• Zones: Office zone 1
  
• Food industry: Fruit plantation
  
• Building material: Clay Pit || Brickworks
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Small Car Park
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: Medium Wind Turbine
  
• Roads: ---

Needs
1400 workers

Get
+ Public Transport | Credit | New Region

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: Corn farm | Distillery
  
• Building material: ---
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Bus Stop | Small Church | Small Police Department | Small Fire Department
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: Coal-fired Power Station | Gas Power Plant | Small Solar Power Plant
  
• Roads: 4-lane | 6-lane

Needs
2200 workers

Get
+ Missions | Credit | New Region

• Zones: Employee tone (Living zone 2) | Office zone 2
  
• Food industry: ---
  
• Building material: ---
  
• Consumer Goods: Sheep Farm | Textiles Factory | Furniture Factory | Ready-Meal Producer
  
• Services: Park | Playground | Elementary School | Canteen
  
• Administration: Mayoral Residence | Bank
  
• Infrastructure: Small Recycling Centre | Medium Warehouse
  
• Roads: One-Way 2-lane | One-Way 4-lane

Needs
2200 Craftsmen + 1800 Employees

Get
+ Research | New Region

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: ---
  
• Building material: Iron Mine | Small Iron Smelter | Charcoal Kiln | Tool Wrought | Medium Logger
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Hospital
  
• Administration: Research Centre | Kindergarten (Day Care)
  
• Infrastructure: Regional Haulage Company | Big Water Tower | Small Water Pump
  
• Roads: ---

Needs
3000 Craftsmen + 3600 Employees

Get
+ New Region

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: Wheat Farm | Mill | Bakery
  
• Building material: ---
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Church
  
• Administration: Planning Office
  
• Infrastructure: Garbage Power Plant | City Garbage Collector | Small Local Warehouse | Large Warehouse
  
• Roads: 8-lane | One Way 6-lane

Needs
4000 Craftmen + 6000 Employees

Get
+ Laws | New Region

• Zones: Engineer zone (Living zone 3) | Office zone 3
  
• Food industry: Hop Farm | Brewery
  
• Building material: ---
  
• Consumer Goods: Toy Factory || Electric motor factory || E-Bike Maker
  
• Services: Shopping Mall | Medium Police Department | Medium Fire Department | Advanced Training Center
  
• Administration: Courthouse | Large City Hall
  
• Infrastructure: Medium Electrical Substation | Medium Solar Power Plant | Offshore Wind Turbine | Biogas Plant
  
• Roads: ---

Note: To enact laws, you need to build the Courthouse first.


Needs
4000 Craftsmen + 6000 Employees + 6000 Engineers

Get
+ New Region

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: --- (Agricultural Machinery Factory)
  
• Building material: Coal Mine | Quartz Quarry | Small Glass Furnace
  
• Consumer Goods: Paper Mill | Printing House
  
• Services: City Park | Movie Theater
  
• Administration: Tax Office
  
• Infrastructure: National Haulage Company | Reprocessing Plant | Large Recycling Centre | Port | Medium Local Warehouse
  
• Roads: 10-lane | 12-lane | One-Way 8-lane

Needs
5000 Craftsmen + 8500 Employees + 15.000 Engineers

Get
+ New Region | Building Subsidization

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: Hen Farm | Confectioner
  
• Building material: Small Steel Blast Furnace | Limestone Quarry | Cement-Concrete-Factory | Ferroconcrete Factory
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: Cathedral | University Hospital
  
• Administration: Technology Centre | Building Renovation
  
• Infrastructure: Big Water Pump | Huge Warehouse
  
• Roads: ---

* Space Harbor: Construction Site | Construction Depot (needed for further unlockable improvements through research)

(Had to split this up, apparently there is character limit...)


Needs
7000 Craftsmen + 13.000 Employees + 30.000 Engineers

Get
+ New Region

• Zones: Manager zone (Living zone 4) | Office zone 4
  
• Food industry: Cattle Farm | Butcher
  
• Building material: ---
  
• Consumer Goods: Silk farm || Textile factory (Elegant clothing)
  
• Services: High School | Large Police Department | Large Fire Department
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: Large Local Warehouse
  
• Roads: 14-lane

Needs
7000 Craftsmen + 13.000 Employees + 35.000 Engineers + 50.000 Managers

Get
+ New Region

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: Vineyard | Winery | Cannery
  
• Building material: Large Iron Smelter | Large Glass Furnace | Large Steel Blast Furnace | Large Logger
  
• Consumer Goods: ---
  
• Services: University | Stadium | Large Recreational Park
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: ---
  
• Roads: ---

Needs
10.000 Craftsmen + 17.000 Employees + 48.000 Engineers + 100.000 Managers

Get
+ New Region | New Difficulty Level

• Zones: Investor zone (Living zone 5) | Office zone 5
  
• Food industry: ---
  
• Building material: Copper Mine | Small Copper Smelter | Semiconductor Factory | Gold Mine | Gem Mine
  
• Consumer Goods: Electronics Factory | Jeweler | Cable Factory
  
• Services: Megatower 1 | Megatower 2 | Executives Traning Center | IT-Service
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: Giant Warehouse
  
• Roads: ---

Needs
10.000 Craftsmen + 17.000 Employees + 48.000 Engineers + 150.000 Managers + 200.000 Investors

Get
+ New Region | Start Area Selectable

• Zones: ---
  
• Food industry: ---
  
• Building material: Deep Coal Mine | Deep Iron Mine | Deep Copper Mine | Large Copper Smelter | Titanium Mine | Lithium Mine
  
• Consumer Goods: Battery Factory | Car Factory | Medical Technology Factory
  
• Services: ---
  
• Administration: ---
  
• Infrastructure: Nuclear Power Station | Large Electrical Substation
  
• Roads: ---

Unlocks only new regions by population count as follows

• 13.1.: 15.000 Craftsmen | 25.000 Employees | 70.000 Engineers | 150.000 Managers | 400.000 Investors
  
• 13.2.: 20.000 Craftsmen | 36.000 Employees | 98.000 Engineers | 320.000 Managers | 600.000 Investors
  
• 13.3.: 27.000 Craftsmen | 52.000 Employees | 140.000 Engineers | 460.000 Managers | 900.000 Investors
  
• 13.4.: 37.000 Craftsmen | 76.000 Employees | 190.000 Engineers | 670.000 Managers | 1.350.000 Investors
  
• 13.5.: 50.000 Craftsmen | 110.000 Employees | 270.000 Engineers | 1.000.000 Managers | 2.000.000 Investors
  
• 13.6.: 70.000 Craftsmen | 160.000 Employees | 380.000 Engineers | 1.400.000 Managers | 3.000.000 Investors
  
• 13.7.: 90.000 Craftsmen | 230.000 Employees | 530.000 Engineers | 2.000.000 Managers | 4.600.000 Investors
  
• 13.8.: 120.000 Craftsmen | 340.000 Employees | 740.000 Engineers | 3.000.000 Managers | 6.800.000 Investors
  
• 13.9.: 170.000 Craftsmen | 490.000 Employees | 1.000.000 Engineers | 4.300.000 Managers | 10.000.000 Investors
  

When you click on a building, you will see three sections of requirements:
Infrastructure, Consumer Goods and Services.

Infrastructure is easy: Each house and apartment building requires Water, Electricity and Garbage pickup. Make sure to have every building supplied with that.

Consumer Goods: Basically you need to produce enough of each to keep your population happy. It's helpful here to check out your resources statistics and the resources monitor (top bar, the package symbol on the right of that bar). If you produce less than is consumed, you need to build more factories, farms etc.

Tipp: Clicking on the good will deactivate (or activate) it, this way you can exclude certain goods you can't/won't produce for the moment.

Services: This is a little more tricky. As you will see in the tables in this guide, many buildings offer a certain service level and cover a certain range (number of grid squares). Coverage is not cut hard, but slowly lessening at the edge.
Each service has a different effect on satisfaction -- some more, some less: E = Elementary / VB = Very Big / B = Big / S = Some


Example: A large fire department (service level 70/grid squares 60) will cover the fire protection needs of a lv. 3 (engineers) building in an area of 60 grid squares. For lv. 4 (managers) and level 5 (investors), however, you need more than one fire department.
Their service levels won't add up - you cannot simply build a large (70/60) and a small (40/36) fire dept. to have a total service level of 110 (70+40).
It's more a question of general coverage -- the more fire departments you have, the better the service will be since the fire engines have shorter ways. Lv. 4 and Lv 5 buildings make for a very dense area of population, so this needs more fire stations.

The service level offered by Large Fire Dept. adds up as follows:
1 dept. = 70 // 2 dept. = 93 // 3 dept = 101 // 4 dept = 103
- here you can see that even four large fire departments with their service area overlapping will not fultil the demand of lv. 5 population. Research will later allow to improve service levels.

OFFICE NEEDS

With the June 2024 update Office buildings also get demands and require certain service levels. This also brings new buildings.

ADMINISTRATION

Each of these can be build once. It is also advisable to build them, as they offer more ways to manage your city:

City Hall: change tax rates
Bank: get loans
Courthouse: enact laws
Research Centre: use research to improve efficiency of your industry and city in general
Mayoral Residence: people will just be happy to have it close by ;)



IMPROVEMENT BUILDINGS

(WIP)

For information about when these buildings are unlocked, please refer to the Stages section of this guide.

ENERGY

Tipp: You first need to build an electrical substation. It needs a street connection. When placing the substation, or when clicking on it later, you'll see a certain area around it colored yellow. This is the reach of the substation; everything within that yellow area will be supplied with energy. In that yellow area you also have to place the turbine or power plant.
As your city grows, build more substations and connect them with pylons. All substations have to be connected to that very first station, either directly or by proxy (meaning via another substation).

Building costs


Note: Tidal Power Plant and Fusion Power Station can only be unlocked via research in the special research section.

Maintenance Costs

The number in brackets is the area that is supplied or affected.



WATER


The Water Pipe costs 32€/section, maintenance is 6€. All water supply stations have to be connected to the network by pipes.

For information about when these buildings are unlocked, please refer to the Stages section of this guide.

WASTE

Tipp: If you build Garbage Collectors, you also have to place Garbage Dump Zones - otherwise your Collector will stay "asleep" and not work.

Building costs


>> Gabage Dump Zones cost 800€ and 4 planks per area section (1x1 field). <<

Maintenance Costs

The number in brackets is the area that is supplied or affected.


Tipp: Recycling Centers or the Reprocessing Plant are a good way to get ressources you might be a little bit short of but don't want to our can't build new factories for (for the time being). They still need a normal Garbage Collector to collect garbage bags for them and bring it there. It's not enough to build only a Recycling Center!


HAULAGE COMPANIES & PORTS

Build costs


Maintenance costs


As of yet, haulage companies are a bit uncomfortable to handle. Once you place down a h.c., it will service every building that requires resources or pick-up of goods in the vicinity marked green.
I strongly advise to use the filter function to include/exclude buildings/farms/factories, or else the trucks will be all over the place and permanently too busy to get anything really done.
I usually try to sort my h.c. by type of good, make them only transport one or two (only wood, only iron, only paper+books etc).
Important: When you upgrade a haulage company, the service area (green circle) and filter will reset. The trucks will immediatly start to go to places you might not want them to, whereas other storages will fill up because nothing gets picked up. So be quick to set it right again, or slow down play speed when you do.

Tipp: Most of these buildings will be tier-related. The higher the tier of your population, the better the building has to be. An elementary school or a small police/fire department won't be enough for Lv. 3 population or higher, for example.

Please refer to the "Population demands & required service levels" section of this guide for better understanding!

The number in brackets shows the reach of the building.


*Important: Supermarket and Mall need a haulage company close by!

Build costs refer to the smallest possible unit. For zones, that's one little square. For farms, it's the "00x00" size as noted. Be aware that you'll always need more building materials than stated for farms, since a farm that tiny does not make any sense.

Zones



Food & Consumer Goods

This contains all products needed from stage "Commerce City" on, when manager zones (resident lv. 4) are unlocked. All these products will also only be available from that stage on (or later).

Farms and area-related industry as well as any factory producing noise and pollution will have a number in brackets - it's stating the area which is used or affected respectively.

"HW" in the waste section means Hazardous Waste.

That bloody character limit again...

Farms and area-related industry as well as any factory producing noise and pollution will have a number in brackets - it's stating the area which is used or affected respectively.

"HW" in the waste section means Hazardous Waste.

---Coming soon---

Placeholder -- DLC not yet released/implemented