Simutrans — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Simutrans 125 Released | 2026-10-01 | Highlights of this version Diagonal road signs and signals Making multiple shared owners of stops without admin New airplane state machine with much less deadlocks even on crossed runways Close diagonals Show a schedule as line in the map Prevent bridges through buildings New waybuilder tool (F7 in pak64 and pak128) can build bridges and tunnels automatically Much faster loading of paks and faster iteration with many convois Paksets updated on Steam Pak128 2.10.3 Pak64 125.0 Pak64.german 0.124.5.1.1 A note about Simutrans AI disclosure Simutrans now includes AI-generated content, so the following disclouse is now on the Steam store page. http |
| Simutrans 124.5 Release Notes | 2026-07-10 | Highlights of this version Stops can be shared without being public stops in networkgames Signals can be allowed to be passed without effect in the reverse direction. Full changelog Here's the full list of changes since the last version. Added (nazalassa) permissions for halts, to let other players serve specific halts (makie) more settings for inital climates in simuconf.tab Optional 'electricity_producer' flag (can be 0 or 1) for factories to override electricity producer status based on object name (janry) make sure the client id is valid to avoid server crashes by bad packets or bad actors (Nazalassa) button to allow signals to pass convo |
| Simutrans 124.4 released | 2026-04-04 | Highlights of this version Searchable comboboxes (just type when a box is open) Grouping goods/passengers by connection Overhauled city growth Improvements for the tutorial for pak64, pak64.german, and pak128. Paksets updated on Steam Pak64 124.3 Pak128 2.10.1 Pak64.german 124.4.0.1 Pak128.german 2.4 Full changelog Here's the full list of changes since the last version. Added new settings cost_kw_per_credit (default was 512) to change revenue from power. Smaller numbers more income searchable comboboxes; for editing click twice expose make public month to cript API elevated powerlines new flag for bridges and ways in makeobj 60.9 clip_below D |
| Simutrans 124.3.1 Released | 2025-04-06 | Highlights of this version Improved bridge building (now requiring dragging or two clicks) and multitile city buildings. Currency symbol can now be changed. Cost and maintenance can now be much higher. Full changelog Here's the full list of changes since the last version. Added CURRENCY is now translateable to a local currency (no conversions though) Maintenance costs for roadsigns and signals Changed with pause setting, server saves game after going to pause => immediately able to fulfill join requests and more current savegames on crashing servers move multitile height drawing to building in preparation of new pillar type Also download http |
| 2024 Simutrans Screenshot Contest Winners | 2025-02-11 | Polls are now closed, and the winner is… see the results on The Simutrans Blog! |
| Vote now on the 2024 Simutrans Screenshot Contest! | 2025-01-25 | Submissions are closed: It's time to vote to choose a winner! As always, voting is done on the Simutrans Wiki If you want to see the original images in full quality check the 2024 Simutrans Screenshot Contest gallery (press the tool button below the image and "Show"). IMPORTANT: Remember that each checkbox corresponds to the image above and not to the image below, even if there is a lot of space between the checkbox and the image! The winner will represent Simutrans as the new banner image at https://simutrans.com . Choose you favorite screenshot! Voting can be done until January 30th. |
| Simutrans 124.3 released | 2025-01-11 | Simutrans 124.3 comes with the new pipette and macro tools to make easier than ever to build the transport network you always dreamed of. Highlights of this version Pipette tool: Copy any building under the cursor. https://i.imgur.com/oM8xoi8.png Macro tool: Copy and save entire layouts to build them again with a single mouse click. Reworked tutorial to make it more stable and consistent across different paksets Paksets updated on Steam pak64 124.3 pak64.german 124.0.0.3 pak128 2.10.0 pak128.german 2.3 beta pak192.comic V0.72 Paksets updated outside Steam pak46.bitlit 0.1d Full changelog Here's the full list of changes since the last version. |
| 2024 Simutrans Screenshot Contest | 2024-12-18 | https://i.imgur.com/zUx6S51.png Welcome, everyone! This year 2024 is about to end, and what would be better than end it with our traditional Simutrans Screenshot Contest? Nothing! So prepare to compete and win the best prize of all: the winner of this year will become the new banner image for simutrans.com, which has remained unchanged for years. Participation 1 - You can participate with any pakset and any Simutrans version. 2 - You can submit as many screenshots as you want. 3 - You need to include title for every screenshot. Screenshots without title will not be eligible! 4 - You have until January 24st (inclusive) to submit your screensho |
| Simutrans 124.2.2 released on Steam | 2024-11-20 | Simutrans released three minor versions this summer that have finally made its way to Steam. Here is the combined changelog of Simutrans 124.2, 124.2.1 and 124.2.2 Highlights of this version New way builder: If a new way starts one tile from an existing way and ends one tile from an existing way, it will now try very hard to make a parallel track. It works as good as it can do without terraforming. It may still join at a place where it cannot pass next to it but then go parallel again, greatly saving efforts (especially with diagonals). When you click on a chat message ticker, it opens the chat window in the corresponding message tab. Paksets |
| Simutrans 124.1 Released | 2024-06-02 | Less than a month after Simutrans 124, a new Simutrans version has been released. This was supposed to be a bugix release to address some of the issues players reported for the 124 release, but it ended up being a minor release with new features (player ranking) and a renovated chat window. https://i.imgur.com/SpfoTDC.png For Steam players specifically this is also a very important release. The funcionality of the preloader has been integrated into Simutrans itself, so it is no longer required and has been deleted. Furthermore, we took this opportunity to add more Steam specific features, such as achievements and rich presence! Achievements a |
| Simutrans 124 Released | 2024-05-05 | The long awaited Simutrans 124 is finally here! This version comes with a lot of changes, although the most visible ones are the improved support for anti-aliasing of fonts and some reworked windows. Under the hood, many less visible changes were made to allow this to be the first stable Android release - which means you will be able to play online now on Android too! Note for macOS players on Steam: Due to the new directory structure, paksets installed through Steam may not show at all. You can use the in-game installer to workaround this. Highlights of this version Improved anti-aliasing of fonts, now using TrueType fonts by default. Rework |
| Pak192.Comic V0.7 | 2024-02-02 | The Pak192.Comic recently released version 0.7 of this comic themed pakset. If you are playing Simutrans on Steam and you installed the Pak192.Comic DLC, you will get the update automatically. Otherwise, please see "Where and what to download" section. Changelog Gameplay changes turned "avoid over overcrowding" off by default again , and . now work for controlling time in the game ( and ) now work for sliced view up/down road speeds from 50 to 55 and from 70 to 80 pricing that considers the actual build year of the vehicle, instead of the introduction year Pubs now comsume rum as well there is a track/track submenu now increased the productiv |
| Simutrans Extra #3: UI improvements, new paksets, new online server and more! | 2023-10-22 | Welcome to Simutrans Extra! I have been pretty quiet so far this year as I needed a break after the Anniversary events of last year, but a lot of things have been happening in the Simutrans world meanwhile. It's time to review them! But first, let's talk about the elephant in the room. When there will be a new Simutrans release? We couldn't make a Simutrans release last year, the reason behind this being the war in Ukraine. Another negative effect of the war is that Ukrainian developer Pelya was drafted for the military. Pelya is not directly related to the Simutrans project, but he maintained a set of scripts that enabled games like Simutran |
| Announcing the winners of the Simutrans 25th Anniversary Video Contest | 2023-01-23 | Votations are closed and the first winner is... "Furniture Industry Route", by meruhen205. With the diverse routes shown and the attention to details (including the music!), it is no wonder why it is the most voted video - a total of 14 votes. Congratulations! In the second position we have "Akiwa Tsuneyama Main Line Local Service from Nakahara to Yamano" (have you read it to the end?) with 8 votes by danivenk, another greatly produced video. Good job! The third place is reserved to "Airport Hotel Shuttle Bus", by DThunder (he can't stay away from the podium!), a simple yet elegant video that reached 7 votes. Nice done! Here is the rest of th |
| Vote now on the Simutrans 25th Anniversary Video Contest! | 2023-01-16 | Thanks to everyone who submitted a video! Vote now to select the winner of the first ever Simutrans Video Contest! Playlist of participants is available on the Simutrans YouTube channel You can cast your votes on this survey in the Simutrans WIki. You can cast up to two votes. Every participant will take a prize, so please don't vote for yourself! |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #10: The Music of Simutrans | 2022-12-11 | On this unscheduled last post of the Simutrans 25th Anniversary, we will honour one of the (usually overlooked) characteristics of Simutrans: its music. Simutrans is unique in more than one way. One of these uniqueness is that, considering it is an open-source game, it has an incredibly rich set of music. With over 50 songs over various genres contributed by various artists over the years, Simutrans has one of the greatest collection of music of any open-source game. To celebrate this, we have uploaded the music of Simutrans for the first time ever in non-MIDI format; so you can play it directly in your browser! You can now listen to the musi |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary Video Contest | 2022-11-01 | https://i.imgur.com/csaTmPT.png Welcome, everyone! The first Simutrans Video Contest is about to begin! This is the first time ever we celebrate a video contest, and it is not the only surprise! This year you can also win actual prizes just by participating! Let everyone win! Participation 1 - There are no categories. This means you can choose whatever pakset you want, and also whatever Simutrans version you want (yes, including Extended and OTRP). 2 - You can submit as up to two videos. This also means you can win up to two prizes! 3 - You need to include title for every video. Videos without title will not be eligible! 4 - You have until Ja |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #8: An interview with himeshi, OTRP creator | 2022-10-15 | Welcome to the last of interviews of the Simutrans Anniversary before the final event! Our special guest today has the honour of being the only other successful developer who has made a Simutrans fork: Simutrans OTRP. Let's explore the boundaries of Simutrans with the help of his creator, Himeshi! ______________________________________ First of all, introduce yourself. Who are you? Where do you live? What did you study? Where are you working or have worked on the past? I am Himeshi. Himeshi is a handle which I use in the Japanese community. THLeaderH is my handle on the International Simutrans Forum and other international simutrans communiti |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #7: The Simutrans trailer | 2022-09-30 | The new trailer for Simutrans is here! Watch it now! Schedule of the Simutrans 25th Anniversary Posts We are getting close to the end of the events of the 25th Anniversary. But before the final event, we will be having a last interview with a very special guest. In two weeks, it will be time for Simutrans OTRP developer, "himeshi", to answer some questions! 2022-06-30 - A look back at our shared history. The Simutrans Timeline. 2022-07-15 - An interview with Hansjörg Malthaner, the Founding Father. 2022-07-30 - The Simutrans Museum 2022-08-15 - An interview with Markus Pristovsek, the Adoptive Father 2022-08-30 - For everything else, there's |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #6: James Petts, the Ex-Father | 2022-09-15 | One of the greatest honours an open-source project can have is to generate enough interest so that other people consider making their own versions of it. Simutrans, being a successful open source project, is no exception, and the greatest of those versions is Simutrans Extended (formerly Simutrans Experimental). Today, we will take a closer look at this fantastic fork with the help of his creator, James Petts. _____________________________________________ First of all, introduce yourself. Who are you? Where do you live? What did you study? Where are you working or have worked on the past? I am James Petts, and I live in London. My education a |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #5: For everything else, there is Simutrans | 2022-08-30 | Enjoy this remake of a Simutrans advert video made 14 years ago by (the now inactive Devotee) vilvoh. The Simutrans Community does not only welcome coders and artists. People who spread its love for Simutrans are also important, specially when they put as much effort and love in that as vilvoh did. Let this video serve as a reminder of all of you who enjoy making and sharing Simutrans content (be it now or in the past): Thank you! Without you too, Simutrans would not be what it is today. Would you like to see (or make) more Simutrans-related media content? Well, you are in luck, because we have more surprises coming in this regard! Next time, |
| Pak192.Comic 0.6 Released | 2022-08-24 | https://i.imgur.com/1WoH7py.png After five years in the works, Pak192.Comic finally released version 0.6! Compared to the old 0.5 version, there are many changes. Be sure to check them in the Announcement in the forums. |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #4: Markus Pristovsek, the Adoptive Father. | 2022-08-15 | After Hajo left Simutrans, a man took care of continuing development - and has continued to do so for over 17 years (more than double the time Hajo was involved with Simutrans!). Without him, we would not be here today celebrating 25th years of development. It is now the turn of developer Markus Pristovsek (known as prissi) to answer some questions! You will find that many questions are similar to those from Hajo's interview, so you have the oportunity to compare the points of view of the two most influential Simutrans developers. Let's begin the interview! _______________________________________________________________ First of all, introduc |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #3: The Simutrans Museum | 2022-08-02 | In the last post of this series we talked with Hajo about the first years of Simutrans. However, many of the players reading this today have never played a Simutrans version from Hajo's era. If you ever wanted to take a taste of one of the earlier Simutrans releases, today is your lucky day! The first demo version https://i.imgur.com/SaUyD0z.png A screenshot of Simutrans demo version 0.50, with text in German. The first of the versions we have made available is not the actual first release, but it is pretty close. This beta version was released on 02/05/1999, while the history.txt starts just two months before (06/03/1999). As the "demo" name |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #2: Hansjörg Malthaner, the Founding Father. | 2022-07-15 | Simutrans was started 25 years ago, not by a game development company, not even by a team, but by a single man who dreamed to build the best ever transportation simulator: Hansjörg Malthaner, known by the Simutrans Community as "Hajo". But who is this "Hajo"? How did he develop Simutrans in its early days? What has he been doing since he left the project, and what does he think about Simutrans today? We have reached Hansjörg Malthaner himself for an exclusive anniversary interview to reply to these and more questions. Let's begin the interview! ________________________________________________________________ First of all, introduce yourself. |
| Simutrans 25th Anniversary #1: A look back at our shared history. | 2022-06-30 | https://i.imgur.com/3wuiQqv.jpg Hajo's first Simutrans sketch. At the top-right, a date can be read: 30-06-1997. Today, 25 years ago. Simutrans started 25 years ago. Not yet as bits and bytes, but in the mind of a man: Hansjörg Malthaner (known by the Simutrans community as "Hajo"). Today, Simutrans is still alive, not only as bits and bytes in the thousands of computers (and now smartphones) that run Simutrans, but also in the hearts of many talented programmers, excellent artists, amazing modders and dedicated players. To everyone of you: Thank you! Simutrans has gone very far, and it will go even further, thanks to everyone who believes in |
| Simutrans on Social Media | 2022-06-24 | https://i.imgur.com/e2lk45m.png Screenshot shared by ahakuoku on the Simutrans Discord Building amazing transport networks is a lot of fun, and after building the railway of your dreams you surely would want to share it with others! For this purpose, and also delivering to you Simutrans news and other content, Simutrans is present on many Social Media platforms. Official presence You can follow or join the following communities, managed by Simutrans contributors: (NEW!) Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimutransTeam (NEW!) Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@simutrans Blog: http://blog.simutrans.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/simutrans |
| Simutrans Extra #2: Simutrans for Android, Extended Pier System, and more! | 2022-06-15 | Welcome to another Simutrans Extra! For the ones that join us for the first time, Simutrans Extra is a series of articles bringing you the latest news of the Simutrans world, in a bulletin format. You can read previous editions in the Simutrans Steam News section. We have been very quiet this year so far, but there are nonetheless exciting things to share! We'll also be celebrating the 25 years of Simutrans during the second part of this year, so stay tuned: special publications coming soon! But now, let's review what has been happening these months in the Simutrans world, starting with the biggest plate: the Android port. Simutrans for Andro |
| Simutrans 123.0.1 released | 2022-01-30 | Simutrans 123.0.1 has been released. This is a small bugfix release to address some of the bugs of the 123 release, but there are also some interesting quality-of-life changes (such as the the option to scale the screen manually). This release brings the Steam version back in sync with the non-Steam version, so you should be able to play network games again with non-Steam players. I've also added to the Steam release an additional soundfont (MusesCore General, named as "default.sf3") with the intention to replace PCLite.sf2 in the future, as it is lighter and sounds generally better. Both of them are included for now, so you can try switching |
| Announcing the Simutrans Steam Screenshot Contest #2 winners | 2022-01-24 | Votes have been submitted and winners are very clear. Congratulations to the winners! FIRST WINNER The first position goes to... Aéroport De Jean Luc Picard, by DThunder518. Congratulations for your revenge, you finally win a contest! https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/434632/ss_7b174ddbaa51980c64b052bc500d5fac4c2c32c0.jpg?t=1643053325 SECOND WINNER In second place, we have another image by DThunder. Schmetterlingsstadt gets the silver medal. What's this, is DThunder518 going to claim all the podium? https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/434632/ss_f2008ff2536ef9c47183bb2ec507353155a758a5.jpg?t=1643053325 THIRD WINNER The we |