Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters. Overview System Requirements. Cities: Skylines - Windows 10 Edition. Rated 4 out of 5 stars. All Cities Skylines Maps Overview – Part 2 – Snowfall and Natural Disasters August 26, 2020 Cities Skylines Tips Leave a comment In this post, I’m proceeding with an overview of all Cities Skylines maps. The expansion will also update Cities: Skylines with a new scenario editor and gameplay mode, allowing players to finally win – or lose – the game on their own terms. Keep your city going through the devastation of several possible doomsday scenarios, from towering infernos to the day the sky exploded.
Always dreamed of building a waterfall in Cities: Skylines but didn’t know how? Well, me too! But then I found out about the Fresh Water Outlet. It’s a service building that arrived in the Natural Disasters expansion.
The Outlet pumps water when there’s excess water production. It’ll shut off automatically if your city’s water demand grows so much that there’s none to spare.
I hadn’t bought Natural Disasters because as undeniably epic as the disasters are, they aren’t really my thing. But… I wanted helicopters. You can toggle off random disasters and just enjoy the new buildings. Admittedly some mods make building waterfalls and rivers a bit easier, but it’s more than possible in the vanilla game, too.
Find a spot of the outlet
Digging the bore hole.
I’m using the Eden Valley map from the Green Cities expansion. It’s got some great accessible hill areas crying out for nature reserves, but you can also build a hill yourself if you’re on a flat map.
The first thing to do is work out where your water will spring from. Once that’s done, use the Shift terrain landscaping tool to bore a hole in the ground. When it’s deep enough, use the Slope terrain to even it out a bit. That’ll help with placement, but also give you a chance to make a little hilltop lake.
Even the hole out if you like. You’ll be able to turn it into a hilltop lake. If not, just leave as a wellspring.
Now, you’ll probably need to fiddle about a bit with the placement. Try rotating the building to find the perfect spot. We’re aiming to get it sat as low as possible so that the water sits over the top of it.
Connect the Outlet up to water and power.
Make a notch and small lake
Create the notch where your little lake will spill out from.
Then, make a notch where you want the water to leave. Later, you can lift this area up a bit if the Outlet isn’t fully submerged. Connect it with water pipes and bring over some electricity. Once the water’s flowing, find out where it’s going and use the terrain tools to shape it however you want.
Keep using terrain tools liberally to shape your new waterway.
Change the shape of the pond until you’ve got the Outlet as submerged as you want.
You can use the same trick to make a lake or pond, but unless you constantly turn your outlet on and off, it’ll overflow. So in the vanilla game, it’s better to make sure you run the water out to a river or sea. The one exception is if you use a Water Pumping Station at the bottom. Its capacity is much higher than the outlet, so it’ll just suck all that water back up.
Cover up the machinery and admire your waterfall
Once you’re ready, there’s some hiding of electricity pylons to be done. You can mask them with trees, or maybe use your nature reserve’s buildings to bring power down to the water. That would give it a great finished look and act as a starting point for your trails.
And there you go! Thanks for reading.
In this post, I’m proceeding with an overview of all Cities Skylines maps. You can find the first part here.
The first Cities Skylines expansion was After Dark and it didn’t provide us with new maps. Then we got Snowfall which couldn’t be released without a pack on good winter maps so players can experience all the new cool (or even cold) features.
Cities Skylines Snowfall Maps
You won’t believe it but In Snowfall all the maps are covered with snow. Also, each map has all the existing transport connections.
Snowy Coasts
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A lot of Snowfall maps come with a lot of hill and mountains which adds challenges and doesn’t provide you with enough space to build. The Snowy Coasts is a good option if you don’t want a lot of mountains but do want plains, rivers, and a seashore. It is pretty close to many vanilla maps but snowy. You will get deposits of ore and oil on islands and some woods and farming lands on the mainland. The connections are also good so you can organize your city in any way you want. I find it Cities: Skylines best default map for enjoying Snowfall features. Building area is the largest among all maps in this DLC is 68%.
Icy Islands
That’s a good option for a fan of ferries (though you won’t have ones until you get the Mass Transit DLC). Not a lot of terrain, many small islands, some of them will be dedicated to your industries as they contain deposits of oil and ore. The starting point is located on one of the islands so you may suffer from the lack of a place to build whatever you want but that’s where the challenge is. The build area is 59%.
Frosty Rivers
A more complicated level – you’re getting islands AND mountains. Also, raw material deposits are pretty far from the starting point. I would add that some tiles consist of almost only water so you may face complications with getting to a riverbank (or buy a huge piece of water). The building area is 56%.
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Winter Hills
Narrow rivers between hills. Your objective is to build your main city parts in narrow valleys. I would play this only having Mass Transit DLC for cable cars and Parklife for natural parks on the hills. Otherwise, it’s hard to use the hills on this map. The building area is 68%
Frozenshire
Another map with mountains and small rivers. The good thing is that you’re going to get a seashore. I personally played this map and was annoyed with the lack of space. Also, ore deposits are in the mountains so you will have issues with transporting them via mountain roads. The building area is 51%
Cities Skylines Natural Disasters maps
We received only three maps with this expansion but they’re very special.
Prussian Peaks
A map with hills, with no ship connection and with extremely small building area – only 52%. Also, no oil. It is a map that requires skills and patience.
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The Archipelago
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If you think that 52% is a small area to build an interesting city then meet The Archipelago with 21% of the building area. You won’t have any train connection and this makes sense because the map consists of small islands. Also, no ore and oil. I find it interesting because you can try modeling some small country located on multiple islands that is trying to survive the tsunami threat. Though Tropico may be a better game for this. Anyway, it is the best Cities Skylines island map for me.
The Dust Bowl
This map provides you with an amazing 82% of the area to build on but somehow missing train connection. I don’t know why the creator decided to leave us without external train connections but that’s a good map that also features a river and a seashore. This is the best of Cities Skylines starting maps in Natural Disasters DLC.