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Updated: April 3

I trawl the depths of the Steam Workshop so you don't have to.

• Steam Workshop
• Subreddit for Cities: Skylines modders
• Check here if your are worried about that mod you want

TotalyMoo's Steam Collections:
Paradox's community manager TotalyMoo has created several collections if you just want to get to the good stuff.

• Moo's Collection: I Want It All
• Moo's Collection: Mods & Functionality
• Moo's Collection: Crème de la Crème

Mods:
Mods will disable Steam Achievements unless you use this: Mod Achievement Enabler.

General:

• All Spaces Unlockable - With Right Price: 9 squares not enough for you? Why not 25?
• AutoSave - Configurable: No more lost hours due to crashes. Configurable to autosave whenever you want.
• Automatic Bulldoze: Gets rid of abandoned and burned down buildings automatically, you lazy mayor.
• Tree Brush: No more carpal tunnel planting down a forest.
• Cursor Jail: Locks the cursor to the game window.
• AutoLineColor: Paint the town blue with your buses. Also auto-names your lines.
• SimCity Fudged Population: Simcity.GetFudgedPopulation
• First-person Camera: Streets of CimCity.
• Flight Cimulator: Follow your dreams.
• More Simulation Speed Options: Cheetah Speed now enabled.
• Metro Slope Mod: Makes it easier to build metro under tunnels.
• Toggle Zoning: Toggles zoning next to road networks. This mod will not add a zoned area to highways.
• Cimtographer: Import roads from real world road maps, and export cities and view them with road map viewers.

Visuals:

• Dynamic Resolution: Better anti-aliasing so you don't cut your iris on all the jaggies.
• Ambient Occlusion: Adds Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) for greatly improved graphics.
• Sun Shafts: Praise the Sun.
• PostProcessFX: Less intensive anti-aliasing solution compared to downsampling, with a bunch of other post-processing effects.
• Bordered Skylines: Welcome to Pandora.

UI:

• HideUI: Useful with the First Person mod.
• Persistent Resource View: Keeps the resource infoview up until you close it yourself.
• Extended Public Transport UI: Now we Cities in Motion.
• City Vitals Watch: Keep track of your power and water (among other things) at all times.
• CitizenTracker: The NSA is nothing compared to you.
• Road Assistant: Adds a grid overlay to help build grid networks.

Balance Changes:

• Proper Hardness: Game too easy? NOT ANYMORE.
• PopBalanceMod: Rebalances the population numbers of buildings, so that smaller buildings hold less and larger buildings hold more. Also makes some balance changes regarding water/electricity consumption, garbage accumulation and income of different buildings.
• Building Simulation Overhaul: An extensive modification of zoned buildings and how they develop. Leveling up is generally more difficult.
• New Game Plus (NG+) (configurable): Adjust your starting values, and unlocks various transit options at the start.
• Configurable Transport Capacity: No more tiny buses and trains. You need to recreate your lines in existing cities for it to take effect.
• Control Building Level Up: Prevents your nice little townhouses from being replaced with ugly glass skyscrapers.
• Infinite Oil And Ore: Causes Oil and Ore production buildings to never run out of resources.

Chirpy:

• Chirpy Exterminator: But why do you want to do that??
• ChirpFilter: No more lost wallets and extended vacations.
• Chirpy Banner: Turns Chirpy into a scrolling banner ala SimCity 3000.
• Reddit for Chirpy: Pulls custom chirps from /r/chirpit and displays them for Chirpy.

Beta Mods:
A little buggy, but works otherwise. Use at your own risk.

• Traffic++ (Zonable Pedestrian Paths): Adds new network types like zoneable pedestrian paths and bus lanes.
• Traffic Report Tool (Beta): Wondering were that car is going? Wonder no more.
• NoPillars: Build elevated roads, rails, and paths with no pillars or collision detection. Also unlocks rails in the asset editor.
  [*]ScaleUI (beta): For those with high resolution monitors. Or the half blind.
  [*]Isometric Camera: Go back to the days of SimCity 2000. Note that it does not work with other camera mods.
• Terraforming Tool: Terraforming finally arrives in Mayorland. It's very expensive though.
• FindIt: CTRL-F to find any named citizen, house, car, seagull & more.
• Toggle Traffic Lights: Add or remove traffic lights at all road intersections, including highways.
• Fine Road Heights: Decreases the vertical step distance for elevated roads from 12m to 3m.
• Road Color Changer: Changes the color of roads to a customizable color.
• Better Bulldozer: A Marquee bulldozer tool. Removes underground pipes and tunnels too.
• American Roads: 'Merica.

Buildings:
There are 2 different types of buildings: growables randomly rise in their corresponding zoned areas, while ploppables are built by you. Buildings (and other assets) do not disable Steam Achievements, which is weird since there are already cheat buildings...

Users You Should Follow:
Generally these users create great stuff and you should follow them and get their stuff.

• Gula
  [*]AleX_BY
  [*]Feindbild
  [*]Micha
  [*]sukritact
  [*]Ngon
  [*]kowkamurka
  [*]xave
  [*]andysave92
  [*]robert
  [*]btwist.inf
  [*]ArakanI
  [*]Rabbit
  [*]ON
  [*]tobse
  [*]Enos Shenk
  [*]aradras
  [*]Aetos
  [*]8bitwonder

Ploppables:

• Doughnut's SC3k Power Plant Set
  [*]Combine Citadel - Half Life 2
  [*]Stuttgarter-Fernsehturm
  [*]College of Art and Design (COAD)
  [*]Ministry Office
  [*]The Agricultural Field Collection
  [*]The Motherland Calls
  [*]UOB Plaza Singapore
  [*]Photovoltaic solar energy park
  [*]Music School
  [*]Sunken Plaza
  [*]Min Jao Tower
  [*]Rural Station
  [*]Gundam Statue
  [*]Space Needle
  [*]Tennis Court 4x3
  [*]Baseball Field
  [*]Ghostbusters Firehouse
  [*]Historical Water Tower
  [*]Wayne Enterprises
  [*]Emerald Plaza
  [*]Modern Art Plaza
  [*]Church
  [*]Campus Dorm
  [*]Angel of the North
  [*]Prison - Jail - Gefängnis
  [*]Riebi's Tennis Stadium
  [*]Baseball Stadium
  [*]Medium Football Stadium
  [*]Old Town Art School
  [*]Crypt

Growables:
Note that there currently is a bug that limits the amount of custom growables per type and level to 8.

• Modern Condominium
  [*]Old style office building
  [*]Office Tower #1
  [*]B1337's European Apartment-House
  [*]Los Pollos Hermanos
  [*]Bluth's Banana Stand
  [*]News Stand - Newspapers, Magazines!
  [*]Concrete Jungle: 4x4 HD Commercial, L3

Maps:
I haven't tried all the maps so they might not be fun to play in.

• Cologne/Köln v2 - detailed, hand drawn map Crazy detailed map with some interesting techniques used on the highways.
• Boulder Rapids v2: I like long walks on beaches. Long beaches.
• Venish (Venice): "It's not Venice. It's Ven...ish."
• Los Santos GTA V Map: Because why not. And here is the actual recreation of the city.
• Singapore: Downtown Central: Totally not bias with this pick.
• Delta of the Pharaoh (v2): Talking about beaches, how about a desert full of them. Or you could stick to the river with all its crocodiles.
• Bora Bora - Vaitape Island v3: Vote El Mayor or Else.
  [*]Santa Cruz: Made by our very own Crispy75.
  [*]Reach Bay (Boreal Climate): A hilly natural harbor with lots of fertile land.
• Powatan Valley: A steep valley flanked by high bluffs on both sides.
• Heart of the Alps - Innsbruck: A wide fertile valley surrounded by the Alps.
• Ajaccio, Corsica: A quiet bay flanked by mountains.

Color Correction LUTs:
Basically, filters for the game. You can change them at any time in game in the graphics options.

• Fall Color Correction
  [*]Blockbuster Color Correction
  [*]Film noir look
  [*]Oldish Color Correction
  [*]Sin City
  [*]Toy Film Camera
  [*]Photoreal Colour Correction
  [*]More natural colors
  [*]Cities Skylines Instagram Style Colour Filters
  [*]Vibrant (Color Correction)
  [*]Violet/Dramatic Color Correction
  [*]Mirror's Edge Red Menu
  [*]Hellscape
  [*]Evergreen! color correction
  

 

[KingSnake]

I need a mod to get the updates from this thread on Chirpy.

 

[Jintor]

No Chiry link to reddit mod?

I have to probably reinstall it, it seems to be linked to showerthoughts still on mine

 

[spiritfox]

No Chiry link to reddit mod?

I have to probably reinstall it, it seems to be linked to showerthoughts still on mine

Not sure if it works yet. I need to play the game >.<

 

[Corgi]

subbed.

holy shit... didn't realize that road upgrade tool allowed direction changing. mins wasted redoing my highways

 

[Durante]

Extended road upgrade and automatic bulldoze are small additions but huge time savers that really should make it into the base game.

 

[spiritfox]

Added Reddit for Chirpy.

 

[Linearskillz]

Extended road upgrade and automatic bulldoze are small additions but huge time savers that really should make it into the base game.

Road upgrade definitely, but I strongly disagree about automatic bulldoze. It just makes you miss problems with your city. Why do you have so many abandoned buildings in the first place?

ps: you can see the reason why a building was abandoned if you select the building and hover over the abandoned icon.

 

[Durante]

Road upgrade definitely, but I strongly disagree about automatic bulldoze. It just makes you miss problems with your city. Why do you have so many abandoned buildings in the first place?

ps: you can see the reason why a building was abandoned if you select the building and hover over the abandoned icon.

I know why I have abandoned buildings, it's because my people are too well-educated to work menial jobs in industry
But I don't really want to raze each industrial building manually in my slow transition to offices.

 

[dmr87]

Sub'd, thanks OP.

 

[Jintor]

Added Reddit for Chirpy.

you're the best fox

 

[flohen95]

Oh god that Cologne Map. Someone needs to do that for the Bonn area and for Frankfurt and I'd die a happy man.

Also, seeing that map, I may have to think about getting the game earlier than I originally wanted to. It's kinda hard to justify since it's a PC game and I don't really play games on PC, and then there's the fact that my laptops likely wouldn't run the game in a nice way. But it's really damn tempting.

 

[Xater]

A couple of the life improvement mods should definitely make it into the game with a patch. Hope they are thinking about that.

Anyway, this thread is a great resource and I subscribed to a couple more interesting thing sI have missed before. Also grabbed that Cologne map. So good.

 

[Dolor]

Great list OP. Agreed on most counts.

 

[koolin101]

oh my fudged pop mod made the list! funny enough I don't even use my own mod, prefer the real numbers.

looking forward to seeing some really interesting stuff in the next few weeks

 

[spiritfox]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409338401

There's a Scale UI mod out. Seems to work fine right now.

Adding buildings soon. So much shit to go through.

 

[Shahadan]

I know why I have abandoned buildings, it's because my people are too well-educated to work menial jobs in industry
But I don't really want to raze each industrial building manually in my slow transition to offices.

zoned building are easy to raze with the dezoning tool at least.
I wish I could delete lots of roads quickly.

 

[Jintor]

The scale UI mod works great for the most part. It kind of fucks up chirpy when you first load a game but it seems to correct after that. A few text boxes can't contain the text but it's mostly playable and a damn sight better than squinting at everything.

I play on a 28'' monitor that I use as a TV in front of my kotatsu so... yeah

 

[OchreHand]

I'm subbing and I don't even have the game yet. But I already have a list of things i want to add.

I bet/hope total conversion mods will appear within a year

 

[spiritfox]

Ooh totally missed this: Zonable Pedestrian Paths.

Also added some buildings.

edit: Other than a bit of graphical glitch where it intersects with a road, it totally does work.

 

[Netherscourge]

That GTA5 map would be perfect for me since I'll be jumping back into Los Santos when the PC version ships next month.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Good, good, Ive been creating a custom map that is taken me hours and hours (im not kidding, is all hand drawn using a shitty height map as a base and trying to be as perfect s possible) of my home town with the real life intersecctions.
Im just testing know distances to see if everything was done correctly.
I need tunnels RIGHT now, I really cant wait for the official update. And I hope they are thinking of making underground tunnels typical of cities, and not only the mountain tunnels seen when you are in the countryside.

Also, terrain editor on city map, PLEASE! Thats one of the thing why making the custom map is taking me so much time.

 

[Hari Seldon]

I know why I have abandoned buildings, it's because my people are too well-educated to work menial jobs in industry
But I don't really want to raze each industrial building manually in my slow transition to offices.

Not enough educated workers might mean that workers cannot get to the industry to work. I believe the algorithm works like if someone is stuck too long in traffic they say fuck it and go home lol. So check your traffic.


I need an undo button mod, is there such a thing?

Edit: The extended road mod is essential and I fully expect the devs to patch this in.

 

[T.O.P]

Subscribed, gonna check this out later tonight

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Here's an in-progress mod some may be interested in:

Transport Lines Manager

A shortcut to manage all city's public transports lines. It's a beta version, so may have a lot of bugs.

How does this work

When you click on the button in the top left corner and a window will open. Each button is a line of the public transport of the city:

- B lines are buses lines
- T lines are train lines
- M lines are metro/subway lines

The number after the letter is the internal line number of the line in game. This cannot be modified by now...
The background color is the line color.

Known bugs:

- When you load a new city inside game, the button not work anymore.

And here's a rails over roads one:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409073164

FUNCTIONALITY:

- Adds toggle button for pillars under elevated railroad tracks.
- Build free-floating railroad tracks in game.
- Build railroad tracks in the asset editor.

The toggle button shows up in the bottom left corner. Click it to equip the railroad track tool. Click it again to switch all newly laid elevated railroad tracks to free-floating tracks. Click it again to switch back to normal.

ASSET EDITOR NOTE:

Floating tracks in assets revert to normal elevated tracks when you use the asset in game. This means you can't make assets with free-floating railroad tracks, because the pillars will grow back once the asset is used in game.

You can use this to make assets with elevated railroad tracks on top of normal roads. The space between the pillars is just enough for cars to fit through on a basic two-lane road.

And no, you can't make elevated train stations either. Unfortunately they use a special track type that doesn't support elevation to mark the spot where the train should stop.

 

[Big Brett]

Subscribed, nice post! Have yet to dabble in mods until installing the Achievements w/mods Mod. Excited to check back for more

 

[bjaelke]

And here's a rails over roads one:

Best one so far. Especially since it has a lot of potential for further development with other track types.

 

[spiritfox]

Here's an in-progress mod some may be interested in:

Transport Lines Manager

And here's a rails over roads one:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409073164

Yeah, the 2 of them still looked a little rough in the edges so I didn't include them. The rails one is what I need though, but I'll wait to see if they manage to do something with the supports.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Yeah, the 2 of them still looked a little rough in the edges so I didn't include them.

Maybe a WIP/Beta section in the OP with a "use at your own risk" caveat?

 

[spiritfox]

Maybe a WIP/Beta section in the OP with a "use at your own risk" caveat?

Added.

 

[Durante]

zoned building are easy to raze with the dezoning tool at least.

I know, but that makes people unhappy sometimes. I rather just let it go empty gradually.

I wish I could delete lots of roads quickly.

Yeah, a deletion brush or marquee selection tool would be amazing. If no one makes one before the weekend I might give it a try.

 

[Dolor]

Here's an in-progress mod some may be interested in:

Transport Lines Manager

And here's a rails over roads one:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409073164

Those both look super sexy.

 

[Conkerkid11]

Mod achievement enabler changes everything.

Fantastic thread!

 

[LizardKing]

I mostly play pc games on my tv so I'd really like a mod that makes the text bigger at the very least if not the icons. Is that likely to come? I have this problem with some other games too but never am able to get a text size mod. Maybe it's hard to do?

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

If you want to receive the sometimes useful Chirpy tweets, such as someone moaning about no water or a dead body, but you don't want any of the spam about lost wallets and cats I use ChirpFilter.

 

[Xater]

I mostly play pc games on my tv so I'd really like a mod that makes the text bigger at the very least if not the icons. Is that likely to come? I have this problem with some other games too but never am able to get a text size mod. Maybe it's hard to do?

Text scale mod is in the OP.

 

[Divvy]

Is there a way to manage mods while a map is loaded? Like being able to change lighting mods without having to go back to the menu?

EDIT: Nvm found it

 

[dejay]

Subbed hard. Thanks spiritfox. The mods so far have been amazing.

Extended Road Upgrade has been of massive benefit - I can layout a road in any direction I want to make design easier and swipe it all in the direction I want afterwards. Auto-bulldoze is cool, but I only enable it for burnt down buildings - abandoned buildings are informative.

I'll try the Proper Hardness on my next city - there are actually two flavours of the mod out now.

 

[Acerac]

Awesome, thanks for putting this together.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Havent seen it in the thread but somebody created a mod for Chirpy that acts like the SimCity3000 scrolling marquee:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406623071

 

[LizardKing]

Text scale mod is in the OP.

I read the OP and for the life of me didn't see that. Thank you.

 

[RandomExpletive]

Well the UI scaler definitely helps when you're running at the lowest possible resolution ;D

finally got to make some progress on the city!

 

[Matty8787]

Awesome. Subbed.

 

[dreamlock]

Yep. Definitely subbed.

I'll post suggestions to add to the OP as I find them.

Example: Isometric Camera (for that good ol' retro feel.)

Do note that it does NOT work with first-person mod or other mods that alter the camera currently, this may be changed in the future. I've tested and verified that the mod itself is in fact working though, but there's sort of a glitch that makes your buildings not appear if you haven't zoomed in. I hope he fixes it.

EDIT: Melon Husk kindly clarified on current issues below -- shouldn't add it to the OP until it's fixed.

 

[Melon Husk]

Yep. Definitely subbed.

I'll post suggestions to add to the OP as I find them.

Example: Isometric Camera (for that good ol' retro feel.)

It's not perfect yet, but I'll keep an eye on it.
Problems: can't hear sounds, low level of detail buildings, enlarged icons because of low field of view.

Right now useful for retro-look screenshots.

Havent seen it in the thread but somebody created a mod for Chirpy that acts like the SimCity3000 scrolling marquee:

Combine this with that? And UI scaler too?

 

[TimeEffect]

Borderlands-styled filters (File Under Beta for now, page should be updated when modder okays it as properly working)

 

[OchreHand]

Wow at those filters. Love it.

 

[Big Brett]

Hey guys, don't use Reddit for Chirpy for the time being.

WARNING: Do not download the Reddit for Chirpy mod. It has permanently broken several cities that had this mod installed after an update for the mod was pushed.

 

[Cth]

I'm half tempted to make a Big Hero 6 city mod (ala San Fransoysko)

Anyone interested in helping? It's been a while since I've used 3ds Max.

Some resources images/inspiration:
http://big-hero-6.wikia.com/wiki/San_Fransokyo
http://gizmodo.com/a-tour-of-san-fransokyo-the-hybrid-city-disney-built-f-1642066794
https://www.google.com/search?q=san...a=X&ei=ZKUIVcagIc79yQTxwoCwDQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

(Not sure where this is from)

 

[Smiley90]

Apparently reddit for chirpy has broken people's savegames, so I'd be wary of using that one for now