Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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The River Valley
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16 Feb, 2021 @ 4:44am
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The River Valley

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The area lies around a thinning, but fast flowing, distributary river that meanders through the dry landscape of the scorching desert. It is perpetually fed by a larger river, ensuring it remains flowing all year round and leaving the landscape in and around it rich and teaming with flora. The surrounding desert has oil and ore deposits ready to be mined, with some oases littered around.

General info

This is my first arid map, which, ironically, started off as a forest map. Nonetheless, the aim was to have a map with two mountain ranges with a river cutting through them. A small, flat terrain around the river is the main area for building, however, there are many flat areas in the drier terrain that offer building potential. The intention was to have a constrained environment between the mountains in which one can build small towns distributed along the river.

The map has 300k+ trees. I don't know what will happen if you don't have the Unlimited Trees mod so I've linked it as a requirement.

Connections: Rail, Car, Plane, no ship connection.

The following mods that affect graphics were at play for the screenshots:

I am building a city on this map on my YouTube channel. The playlist for the builds can be found here: Live stream series. Whilst there, feel free to explore the rest of my channel ;-)

I hope you enjoy building your own city on this map. If you like the map and want to see more maps, please give it a thumbs up. It really helps get the map noticed by others, and it motivates me to keep creating.

BIG shout out to everyone on the live streams that contributed with ideas during the building of this map.

Happy building!
23 Comments
BibleCampVictim 17 Apr, 2023 @ 9:47am 
Could you make a version that maybe doesn't require unlimited trees for people with potato PCs
GABRIEL aerospace 26 Feb, 2022 @ 9:45am 
Reminds me a lot of northen chile
NE Primo 3 Jun, 2021 @ 1:48pm 
afghanistan never looked so good
Testicruels 16 May, 2021 @ 12:01pm 
@Sanctum That makes sense. I added a turn around in the fog at the outer bounds of the map and it's fine. Having a ton of fun on this map!
Sanctum Gamer  [author] 16 May, 2021 @ 7:49am 
@Testicruels my only guess is the AI getting whacky because there's only one highway going through the map. It spawns on the one way road from one end of the map with its destination being the in the direction of the other one way road. So the only option to turn around is at the point where the highway merges into the single regional road, thereby acting as a turning point for it.
Testicruels 15 May, 2021 @ 7:53pm 
This is a beautiful map! The only odd thing - I have cars coming in from outside the map, and they just turn around at my first interchange and go back out of the map. Each vehicle is a "tourist leaving the city". This only happens on this map. Any ideas?
funchenstein 23 Feb, 2021 @ 8:38pm 
Holy crap!
Bo4ko66 23 Feb, 2021 @ 7:47am 
qk map
photogra4er 22 Feb, 2021 @ 2:51pm 
Very nice looking map. I will add this to my list. Can't wait to build on it. Thanks!
Kalifornia Belem 22 Feb, 2021 @ 3:51am 
Your map has been reviewed today by BonbonB.
https://youtu.be/DQLAjrcAdqA

You got 12 stars, I gave you 14 stars and I think you've done a great job with your map. 👏