Urbek City Builder News

Hello Urbekitas!

[h3]NEW BIOME[/h3]

• forest
  

[h3]NEW BUILDINGS[/h3]

• Advanced food research center - 17 floors
  
• Energy research center - 15 floors
  
• Advanced research center - 20 floors
  
• Second level for each faculty
  

[h3]MORE MODELS[/h3]

• new model for frida Verde gallery
  
• Missing lights for buildings
  

[h3]RESOLUTION[/h3]

• Select default resolution: high/medium/low
  

[h3]CONTROLS[/h3]

• inverted scrolling
  
• edge scrolling
  

[h3]BALANCE[/h3]

• Production achievements are now calculated according to the gross production rate, not the net rate.
  
• Ferries produce less connectivity
  
• orchards cost less wood and no longer consume wood
  
• coal mine consumes more labour 20>120, and heavy coal mine consumes more skiled work 20>40
  
• quarries consume less stone
  
• social building now need for roads
  
• quarries can not be build on flood plains now
  
• both wells need no wells in 6 distances (instead of 7)
  
• Stilt house now is zoning
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• The tooltip showing the list of production consumption of each resource was modified to show only the 20 most important sources/sinks.
  

[h3]BUGS[/h3]

• when trying to overbuild but there are no resources, the building you were going to overbuild is no longer demolished
  
• When you overbuild the last road in the road network, another road network is selected (before it was impossible to have roads in the network again).
  
• City hall and museum consume/produce by building now, not by tile
  
• Fixed the two bugs of the stilt houses
  
• Switching language now doesn't fail to select biome
  
• solved: Archipelago has 'Tourism' resource but the name is never filled in anywhere (always '[]' or blank string), only the tutorial mentions it
  
• solved: same for stone
  
• the rocks in the desert biome no longer have their tree names ... "pine tree" and such
  
• coal now has name
  
• tutorial asked for stone house but it's actually called desert house
  
• Now there are no "salt-beaches"
  
• neighborhood council no longer need grain silo to be unlocked in desert biome
  
• solved: typing in a new name for the city doesnt disable hotkeys, so for example camera moves around when you do that
  
• In archipelago you can no longer put river
  
• Promenades no longer spawn parking lots
  
• Solved weird bug with pedestrian zones
  
• termal can only be built on snow
  
• the palm on desert tiles in archipelago is no longer called 'cactus'
  
• solved: when i hover over some buildings the requirements mention in the city
  
• greenhouse no longer unclock twice
  
• water network variable display correctly
  
• Dessert has a new tutorial
  
• greenhouse now has a english name
  
• solved: Watermill technicians is still in archipelago despite there being no water mills available
  

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Hello Urbekitas!

In this new version there are a lot of new features



[h3]New builddings[/h3]

• Side parks
  
• New roads (urban, industrial and pretty urban)
  
• Pedestrian paths
  
• Shopping center
  
• Metro
  
• Airport
  
• Museum
  
• 12 Faculties (thanks MagOliven)
  
• Green 6-storey building
  
• Green mixed 5-storey building (thanks MagOliven)
  
• 12-storey buildings (for now only one model)
  
• offices 10 floors
  
• Open pit coal mine plus (Bagger 288)
  
• city hall
  
• New truck
  
• Tractor
  

[h3]New biomes[/h3]

• Desert
• desert house
  
• two-storey desert house
  
• green two-storey desert house
  
• large well
  
• water pump
  
• water tower
  
• greenhouse
  
• circular irrigation
  
• oil well
  
• oil tank storage
  

Archipelago

• various constructions already made: stilt houses, ferries etc.
  

[h3]New[/h3]

• more policies
  
• one more level to achieve the victory (8 instead of 7)
  
• Rotate the camera on the other axis
  
• An option in menu that dictates how many autosave/quicksave slots the game has, newest saves overwrite the oldests ones
  
• adaptable hotkeys D:
  
• Buildings can ask for a number of buildings in the city (infinite radius)
  
• policies act on the total resource produced, not just the surplus
  
• roads in steppe have new model
  
• new map type: islands
  
• rotate buildings
  
• Buildings update fast
  
• change city name
  
• resolution can be chosen
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• savegames, rankings and mods now scale well when the screen is larger
  
• minimap is now always visible
  
• Fixed the problem that setting no shadows does not remove the vsync setting.
  
• Sometimes you hovered the box to accelerate, but it was not clickable. solved
  
• sound when unlocking builds
  
• non-buildable constructions correctly display the icon
  

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• nuclear power plants are no longer free :P
  
• mixta 5 provides services and tools
  
• adjusted mine modules, now they are indeed excludable
  
• adjusted energy consumption values
  
• adjust resources according to map size
  
• adjusted number and size of ponds and iron mines according to map size
  
• banking replaces banks
  
• parks are zoneable
  
• Mixed buildings changed their mechanism
  
• mixta5 an mixta9 provid tools and food services
  

[h3]Mods[/h3]

• possibility of non-square constructions in the mods
  
• roadmodels can be replaced
  
• documentation for mods
  
• fixed a floating voxel in the big trees mod
  

[h3]Fixed bugs[/h3]

• no longer fail to load games with lakes
  
• selecting a non-square building now correctly displays the range box
  
• resource policies are now removed correctly
  
• fixed a bug where unlocking an achievement while in pedestrian mode would cause the game to freeze up
  
• shadows of buildings were no longer visible at the top of the screen
  
• solved the problem of the blocks disappearing when they appear
  
• playing on a map without snow/desert, game no longer says those bits of green gras are "snow".
  
• mods comment no longer flashes quickly
  
• Improved bugs in university, factory, park and rebel house flag models
  

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Hello Urbekitas!



[h3]New[/h3]

• Giant map
  
• Graphic options menu
  

[h3]Add[/h3]

• Lights to +50 buildings that didn't have them
  

[h3]Optimization and graphic settings[/h3]

• Field of View
  
• Add Fog / Fog color / Fog density
  
• Remove shadows
  
• Remove cars and pedestrians
  
• Play windowed
  
• Dont show alerts in pedestrian mode
  
• VSync
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• The toast notifications (top middle) overlaps when you unlock stuff
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• biomass dryer is called wood dryer in the tutorial message
  
• Cars on motorways
  

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Hello Urbekitas!



[h3]Mods[/h3]
You can replace models, add new ones and create new constructions with their own values.
There are 4 mods included, they are simple but you can learn from them.

• Larger natural resources
  
• Your own house (tutorial on how to make your mods)
  
• More sports buildings
  
• Wooden huts with more models
  
• Farms have the same model
  

[h3]Fixed bugs[/h3]

• You can see delete-city button on 1440 x 900
  
• When you quit and press "yes" for save, it saves the game now
  
• Buildings oriented to main square tiles, similar to the paved areas and roads
  
• Now roads with poplars appear easier (in the last version it was impossible)
  

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• Aadjust path of wealth, the first step was impossible
  
• Universities need a bit less highskilledwork (700->500)
  

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Hello Urbekers!

Many thanks to the discord community who helped me with feedback and great ideas.
In this version: many tweaks from the previous version, a new build (small bank) and the same tempered biome but with more options. The full list:

[h3]Map generation[/h3]

• Change how the river is generated
  
• You can select whether you want desert or snow
  

[h3]New[/h3]

• New building: small bank. Needed for mixed, instead of the supermarket
  
• Autosave
  
• Water mill and windmill now have animation
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• Selecting a biome now shows an associated drawing.
  
• scrollable menu of constructions, when it is too large
  
• now you can see where you can build a mill and a dock
  
• remove "old versions"
  
• from month 12 is correctly switched to the next year and in english (january instead of 1)
  
• remove the tutorial from the pedestrian view
  
• a "Tutorial" text is shown above the tutorial, so that it can be easily found.
  

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• Priority first to mixed, then residential
  
• Modern house needs more leisure
  
• Other minor balances
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Hospital is per building, not per tile (no longer consumes 4 times more than indicated)
  
• Solved: it displayed that I unlock Orchard twice (on top)
  
• bus stops is considered when counting iron consumption
  
• bus stops are now considered when using G and show their radio when selected
  
• alert sign is displayed correctly in large buildings
  
• round "currently" in local variables text
  
• Now nuclear power plant can be destroyed
  
• sometimes the warning sign appeared giant, not any more
  
• larger buildings (2x2) were abandoned faster than smaller ones.
  
• Number of buildings are now counted well for achievements and unlocks (before villas where counted 4x)
  
• Abandoned bus stops no longer destoy their road