Distributrains

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• Announcements·20 Jul 2026Official

  Waste Power Plant & general improvements

  This update contains the following improvements: Added Waste Power Plant Reduced tidal generator output from 1.5 MW to 1 MW Modified Industrial Aid priority order for "high level" industries Buffed Relaxed Zoning card to reduce distance by 2 instead of 1 Added house cost table to Town UI Fixed several bugs where card extra information windows tried to read invalid ingame state when opened in the progress menu Fixed bug where the Export Negotiation extra info button would crash the game Any Import card and ordinary import cards now have extra information windows Too few orders notification will no longer appear for trains that will stop automatically Altered fuel refinery model to eliminate z fighting with nearby structures Revised GREASY.MID Fixed a bug where import contracts could not be created after resuming from a Limited Term game over In addition, the windowing library has changed from GLFW 2.7.9 to GLFW 3.4, bringing the following improvements: The game window now has an icon Changes to the fullscreen option can now be applied without restarting the game Issue where screen resolution was changed for no reason on Linux should be fixed Issue where mouse movement was affected by DPI scaling in fullscreen mode on some Windows systems should be fixed Mouse cursor will no longer malfunction when using absolute pointing devices (e.g. touch screens) in fullscreen mode The default hotkey layout is now more consistent across different keyboard layouts However: Existing custom hotkey settings for users with non-english keyboard layouts have been broken and need to be restored to default or manually recreated The game window will take longer to open on some systems The Waste Power Plant adds a new use for the Waste resource. It is able to generate a good amount of power (18MW peak), but in doing so it burns through Waste exceptionally quickly, so this is not sustainable. However, like the Steam Power Plant, it is able to adapt its output to match the current demand, and ...
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• Patch Notes·10 Jul 2026Official

  Ice King fix

  Fixed a configuration error preventing Steam from acknowledging the Ice King achievements
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• Announcements·9 Jul 2026Official

  Resource Graphs

  This update contains the following changes: Added Resource Graphs functionality Added nodebuggl command line flag to disable OpenGL error checking Fixed a bug where metal was not refunded for using the remove mode on tracks Fixed incorrect event text for one of the PR Campaign options Fixed regression where combustion engines would fail to use tanked fuel when the Train Core is empty The resource graphs window contains several infographics: Produced/Consumed/Used: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46033375/09c437e90c691e38a1197c0f72a97670be4a54a5.png These tabs show line charts with historical data about every resource. Produced - The sum of imports and production of industries Consumed - The sum of exports and consumption of industries and combustion engines Used - The sum used by player actions, e.g. building infrastructure and trains, minus metal refunds. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46033375/1b01e7e4d0652a424357f9b66d6e3ed46fe0edc1.png Hovering the mouse over the legend isolates the line for single resource. Resource Allocation: These tabs show bar charts illustrating the allocation of a specific resource. For instance, in the Waste tab: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46033375/1508f4b7be454cea5de06e0e7eefcdc5c9e03d17.png These bars, from left to right, indicate that this cycle: A small amount of Waste has been consumed by Produce production (Farms) Some Waste has been produced by Food production A lot of Waste has been consumed by Fuel production A lot of Waste has been produced by Semiconductor production A small amount of Waste has been produced by the Town In sum, Waste production has been somewhat greater than Waste consumption {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46033375/528341425b1ba283852b3cff0062395cea8ee4d8.png Hovering the mouse over a bar shows information about it.
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• Announcements·2 Jul 2026Official

  New Achievements, Tidal Power, Export Targets

  This update contains the following changes: Added Export Targets option to custom game menu (requires an increasing number of export contract completions per cycle) The Snow Town achievement has been replaced by the Ice King achievement Added Speedster achievement Added Tidal Power Plant Fixed broken text for train temperament selectors The Export Targets rule is intended to allow increasing the tension in custom games, especially when playing with "Allow actions while paused". In the future, I'm planning to add a few presets in a submenu under "Start Game", some of which will include this rule. The Snow Town achievement was replaced due to being too dependent on random numbers. The Ice King achievement requires the Train Core to be above the snow line instead of the Town Hall. This makes a somewhat similar type of challenge, but much more likely to encounter a map where it is possible. The Speedster achievement requires doing an unusual playstyle where only "fast" trains are used, requiring special considerations, especially to get access to them at the start of the game. In Distributrains, the sea has just been an obstacle, with no real uses. The Tidal Power Plant changes this by allowing power to be extracted from water connected to the map edge. It consumes metal to build tidal generators, which produce constant output independent of climate. However, these break down after a time (e.g. due to being in a highly corrosive environment), and cost metal to be rebuilt, so this power plant is suitable for metal-rich runs.
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• Patch Notes·26 Jun 2026Official

  Save file compatibility bugfix

  Fixed a bug where the game would fail to load some old save files.
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