Making the Best Forestry Industry EVER In Cities Skylines 2! | MC #25

Lewis lumber company has been the Cornerstone of ver Beach since its founding flourishing in its tropical climate but now as they look to expand and diversify their Lumber offerings they're seeking a new location with a temperate climate Chuck King the newly elected Magnolia County Executive catches wind of this news during his monthly meetings with Clearwater Southern and immediately sees an opportunity he envisions Lewis Lumber not only as a boon to the local economy but also a way to manage urban sprawl near Bend and the timing couldn't be better seeing his Bend has just approved another development that goes right up against the urban growth boundary Chuckles reach out to lisis Lumber to pitch them on the idea of setting up shop in Magnolia County he emphasizes the County's high quality of life Low Land costs and attractive tax incentives he also boasts about the high skilled and available Workforce which I think is the politest way of saying the unemployment rate is high overall though it's a compelling pitch and after careful consideration and a visit to a prime parcel off respect Lane lewi Slumber executive see the potential of Magnolia County and agree to setup shop a few months later as the deal is being authorized at a County board meeting Lewis Lumber Executives reveal further plans a paper Factory that will require at least 1,000 employees they say that the factory promises substantial growth and new opportunities for the region Chuckles is taken aback this is not what he had in mind so in this episode we're going to build a massive realistic looking forestry industry in fact I'm hoping it looks so good that you'll think that we're building with the industry's DLC we'll also bring cargo rail to the site and build what I think might be the first custom cargo terminal in City skylines 2o we'll also expand bend a bit and blend it into our forest and if you you build the custom forestry industry hit the like button and if you had no idea this was possible 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forestry industry the very first thing we need to do is a bit of site preparation and roadway layout we have our previous industry right here we'll call them Allan on that we've got a whole bunch of trees right here we'll call them Mulligan on them and then we're going to wrap our road around here and come up with a layout for this little neighborhood right here so that we don't encroach upon it so let's begin there and we will bid a fond farewell to our previous industry and buy a few tiles and what we're going to do is basically buy the rest of the tiles on this side of the river only 2 million bucks and we have those purchased so now I'm going to do a little bit of clearing here and we are going to be bringing the trees back but I want to do so in a way that's very controlled now I'm noticing that we have one little corner right here that we don't own so I'm going to purchase that quickly and I'm going to use a highway and I want to make sure we've got our contour lines on and I just want to ring this around the coast and meet up with this road right here now for that we're going to have to do a bit of grading you can see it's pretty steep in some of these locations so we'll go back and forth between our Highway tool and our slope terrain tool and there we go we've got this nice road all the way around the river now let's switch gears and start to think about the local roadway Network that we're expanding now what I'm thinking is I want there to be some sort of a breakdown of the grid the first thing I'm going to do is kind of figure out how big this block size was it's about 160 m so I care about that because I'm going to mirror that at least a little bit and what I'm thinking we're going to do to have this kind of end a little bit is we'll use our continuous tool to Loop this around that provides a definitive end right there and now what I'm thinking is I want this to loop back around and terminate back into the grid here somewhere so let's start by adding a road right [Music] here and there we go so what I've tried to do here is I I swept this road back around following the contour lines that we have right here brought this into our cue saac we have a culde saac here there's some weird stuff going on there zoning we'll fix that at some point and then this road right here is going to end up being the road that turns into our Rural Road you can see where this one is already teeing up with our existing rural roads so it shouldn't be a difficult transition to make now moving on to our rural roads I want to think about basically the backbone the arterial back backbone of our rural roadway Network that's this road right here which is part of our Jeffersonian grid this one as well and then we're going to take these existing roads and turn them into it and then I think for all of our major rural roads I'm going to upgrade these to be the paved Alleyways and then for all of the connecting roads the local roads coming off uh serving our lumber industry we'll have dirt roads for all of those now I want to respect the topography right here you see that we've got a bit of a hill and it wouldn't make a ton of sense to just drive straight up this so what we will do is use our continuous tool and come right around right there we'll do the exact same thing over [Music] here now I want to take this road and do something else with it you can see it's it's lining right up to go right past our Aggregates mine right here now for the rest of our rural roads I think that we will build them as we need them and what I'd like to do now is do a little bit of adding trees through here because I really want a lot of trees along the side of the river now part of this comes from some inspiration that I got from this US Forestry service document which kind of explained ways to sustainably have a forestry industry in a rural area and I kind of want to follow some of the guidelines that I read so what I want to do is go with a really small brush size when I say small I mean like 10 or 20 and then I want a brush that has a mixture of both wild deciduous and evergreen trees so if we wanted to create our own brush that has a little bit of everything all we have to do is hold down control select all of the trees that we want within that brush and then control click holding down control still click where you want to save the brush I want to go right along the side of this property line I'm going to have Anarchy on so that we can get a nice dense forest and then I want to make sure that we've got a variety of tree sizes if we don't all the trees will die at the same time at some point and it will look crazy [Music] and there we go and just look at how dense and lovely this looks now this does make me think though we're likely going to need to beef up the forest around here I hope I don't completely tank the performance of the build when I do it because I've got to do it it just looks really really good and with our site prepared let's move on to building our custom cargo train terminal oh boy would you look at that it looks like Myrtle knows what we're up to and she is not impressed looks like she has followed us from Verde Beach here to Magnolia County we've got to watch out for fires thankfully we've got Magnolia County's finest they're on the job but it looks like they're putting out the fire I'm guessing this is going to be a recurring issue in this area though so we can't forget Fire cover that said that's not what we're focusing on right now what we're going to focus on is making a completely custom cargo train terminal now I know that in the past I've said that this isn't possible and I only think it's partially possible right now but we're going to give it a go what I'm going to try to do is add on to our train line that's already out here we're going to go along the side of the river and then find a suitable Crossing and make a completely custom cargo train terminal I want to do this because I want to have Lumber right alongside the terminal and want to try to make this thing a little bit smaller than it would be if we use the actual asset my guess is I cannot make this function and I'll explain why as we're building it but either way it'll be a placeholder because at some point in time we will have access to a smaller asset so to begin I want to find the most suitable location here so if we look right here it's 139 M and if we cross the water we can see it's about 139 right here so I'll set that height flatten a pad and this is where our Bridge needs to reach to too now for this I think we're going to go with our two-way train tracks so we'll add that right [Music] here so now we need to buy some tiles and what I'm thinking is we want to just kind of cut across this diagonally and you can kind of see it looks like there's like a flood Basin right here or something like that it's not actually going to flood so we'll probably run down here curve in and then meet up with our track right there and then we'll get some tiles diagonally to get down to the clearing that's 14 more tiles that's just just a $5 million purchase no big deal I've got an idea this is may be a bad idea but we're going to try it anyway so just like we did over in Paradise Bay in the new urbanist development what I'm going to try to do is just draw my preferred alignment and honestly I don't like that so I'm glad that we did this you can see that that is a very sharp turn so we'll try that again we'll call the Mulligan and now I will slope between here and here all the way along this [Music] track and there we go we've spread that out very nicely and that the slopes here are much better so now we just need to make our way down the rest and you can see I didn't buy enough tiles if I don't get this just right [Music] now we have an interesting situation right here we're currently at 99 M and we need to get up to about 103 and we're at about 100 m right here so I'm going to create a flat pad and then we'll slope up to this right about here and kind of like we did over in the other segment I think I'm just going to try to draw this where my ideal alignment would be and then we'll fix it after the fact okay and that Junction looks pretty good we are going to need a junction going in the opposite direction though now all the way along this track we are going to soften the edges and make sure that we don't have trees that are right next to the track and after that we will build our terminal [Music] and I know many of you think I like to smooth things too much and you're probably right but here's the thing I just think that that it's such a satisfying tool to use I just love it I don't know what to say I just love it so much so we're going to keep rolling with it all right so what I want to do now is create this cargo train terminal so these are going to be where we actually have our cargo lines terminating [Music] so we've got a couple of lines right here and then some roads these roads are going to be critical because we are going to be placing some Lumber Storage off from here so I want to get the roads to be closer to the [Music] track and there we go you can see that there's basically no light in between these roads and the tracks now we just need to connect the track up with our main [Music] line all right and now we just need to make a couple of connections with our roads and what I'm thinking is I want to direct basically straight across connection right here and it it hates that and rightfully so [Music] and there we go we do have some lumpies and bumpy though I feel like I got to I've got to fix that we can't leave it like [Music] that and what this has come down to is I've done some real bad terrain things we may need to redo this one but I'm going to try my best to save it first [Music] and thankfully that was fairly simple to fix now for our exit out of here I want to try to work with the terrain which is easy for me to say is I've just been uh completely making the terrain respect [Music] me now let's figure out this height 146 146 is right about there we will cut up now here is where the magic is going to begin so I am going to go and pop into our developer menu under simulation and we're going to bypass validation results now this is really important B bypassing validation results allows you to do more than Anarchy in certain instances and this is one of those instances where you can do more so normally you can't actually Place one of these integrated cargo train stops when you go to place it it'll say either no cargo vehicle access or no track connection and if I only have Anarchy on I cannot place this but there's more cargo teleports from the track into the warehouse so if I were to take this integrated cargo train stop and place that right here on the track there's no place for the cargo to teleport to so that it can be loaded onto a truck so as a result it's throwing me an error message now with bypass validation results I can still place that thing here the one problem is you can see where it's connecting it wants to connect onto the side and if we take a look this is actually supposed to be right in the center of the track and like I was mentioning with the teleporting what I think is happening is they're taking the cargo teleporting it into this building and that's how they're loading it onto vehicles I don't have this building as a small asset so there's no way for me to do that and I can't change the snapping so there's no way for me to place this in the center and that's why normally you can't do anything with this we are going to do a little bit of finagling with this to make it work so I want to add a stop right here and I was able to do that we'll add another one right here and another one right here and we're going to use the replace tool again this time we'll turn everything off and we'll just shimmy this over a little ways [Music] now that we have our tracks in place in our roads I want to have some Lumber storage right along the tracks with the idea being that you could load the lumber directly onto the train from this location so for this we're going to search for forestry and if we narrow it down to industrial buildings we'll get all of these industrial storage and these are just places to store Lumber and it looks like I can go a full five units back so five is going to be the second number so I could go with these 4X FS or 3x fives so what we want to do now is use our better bulldozer and make some significant modifications to these assets and I want to get rid of all of the fences here and then we'll get rid of all of these uh containers so we'll get rid of all of these lights [Music] and last but not least I want to modify the [Music] surfaces so now is the real test so what I want to do is create three different cargo rail routes so we're going to grab our cargo route rail route tool we'll grab that first connection add a waypoint to duth and then we'll complete the the route and I'm going to do the exact same thing with all three other stops in fact we'll just go to different locations and would you look at that we've got our first train rolling in and here's what I want to demonstrate if we take a look at this there shouldn't be any cargo on here yeah we're at 0o tons it didn't pick anything up but it will go back and forth so we're halfway there now one interesting thing this train is waiting here presumably because we don't have any more double track I bet you that another train is making us but yeah it's right there we've got to fix [Music] that and I think that that should do the trick we basically just double tracked all the way through here and we should start to see these load up at each of these there we go now I do want to take a look at our different routes because I am concerned we got three vehicles knowing that this isn't doing anything and that it's purely cosmetic I'm going to get as few Vehicles as we can on each of these routes and it looks like between the three routes we're using five trains and I'm going to be completely fine with that I think that that is going to be completely acceptable and then the very last thing that I want to do here is add a whole bunch of trees around this so once again we'll use our new brush really small brush size and we will just load this in and come right up to these facilities and there we go I like that and with our train tracks in place let's build our custom Lumber industry now it's finally time to make this build functional so there's only one problem we cleared all the trees so we can't have a forestry industry without them so we've got to plant some more in the past what I would have probably done is just sprayed some trees through here and called it day and that's certainly a valid way of doing it particularly if you want to look like an old growth forest that you are just basically clear cutting but I want this to seem like a sustainable forestry industry and for that I actually want to refer back to the way that the forestry industry looked as part of the industry's DLC and City skylines 1 and you can tell with these assets trees are planted in nice even rows there a variety of sizes depending on the asset that you have and that makes it seem like it is a sustainable forestry industry here in City skylines 2 there this could actually be a sustainable industry because the trees grow so we have a really unique opportunity here so this build could be completed in a completely vanilla way we could plant all the trees one by one make our own little rows try to space them evenly and plant them over a number of years so that we have the growth mechanic working in our favor however that would be very tedious and we're not going to do that so we're going to be using two mods that are going to really help us out today we're going to use the line tool so we can plant all of our trees in nice even rows and we are going to be using tree controller which will help us adjust the age of trees but before we plant a single tree I want to think a little bit about the extractors and kind of the circulation Network through this forestry industry so we've said that these paved roads are basically our arterials running through the industry we are going to have some collectors if you will coming off from here collecting the traffic from our extractors and getting them to these main arterials so I can see one problem ready we have this right here as a dirt road and I I wanted to do this for aesthetic purposes I think we'll run all the way up to right here as that arterial and it'll break down into those dirt roads as you get closer to the tracks I also have a little bit of a surprise we're going to make this look a lot better I finally got my decals working it's been an issue now I want to think about the distributor roads coming off from here and the extractors that we're going to have with mods because we have Anarchy we could make this one gigantic extractor area we'd get about 50 or 60 workers for this entire thing and the trees would be cut down very slowly because of the size of this area so what I'm thinking is we are going to have a number of extractors and this will actually help us accomplish our goal of unlocking the paper mill eventually as well so I want to find flat areas where I could place an extractor [Music] building now I'm going to hold off on placing the extractors for a little while because I want to show you how you could do this in a completely vanilla build well mostly I'm going to use the line tool and the treat controller because I'm not a masochist but just know that without those mods you could do exactly what I'm doing in a vanilla build it would just take you a long time and we are going to plant a number of forests we're going to divide them up by tree species and I'll show you exactly how to set each of these up now I want the trees to be as closely spaced as they can be so I'm going to go for the elderly tree alone and then use the l tool and I want to make sure that we've got rotation on so all the trees don't look exactly the same and then I want to make sure that I don't have fixed length selected because that will screw up all my spacing here and I can see that there's a little bit of light in between these trees I think I want to tighten it up I want to pack as many trees in as we can and it seems like I can get away with maybe 17 they're touching but they're not so close that it's outrageous now there are two ways that I can handle the growth mechanic so I could go ahead and draw lines of trees for each of the different ages of trees child teen adult elderly but my fear is that if I do that I'll end up throwing off the spacing because it will visually look different to me so I'm going to paint these all in as elderly trees and then we'll adjust it after the [Music] fact okay and I think that that is looking like a pretty good start for us but we've got to adjust the ages here now to do that if you have tree controller you'll notice that at the bottom it says change and the first button is the change tree age tool we're going to go into that and now we can select the age that we want each tree to be so I'm going to say that we want child trees to begin with and we're going to take this and make the radius really small something that we can manage so I'm taking this down to 30 and it's really precise it's not like the forestry brush where it's kind of fuzzy this one is very precise you just go over the top and change the ages and we're going to basically do that so that we have four different ages of [Music] trees and there we go you can imagine that they'll Harvest over here and then as things age out they'll loop back around and then the trees will regrow in these exact locations so they'll just keep basically cycling through here and there will always be Oaks to harvest now we are going to go ahead and reproduce this exact same process on all of these other empty fields and we'll have at least four maybe even five different spe IES of trees that we do this for [Music] n [Music] and there we go we've got all of our trees planted and I'm going to be honest with you there's something really therapeutic about planting all the trees and then using the tree controller mod to change the ages it just it was really relaxing so I would highly encourage this kind of a build all right let's get these things functional and you can see I've left spaces in a couple of different locations for the extractors so let's go ahead and start placing them now we could do a couple of different things we have anarch on which will allow us to create a unique size and actually we're going to have to do that because you can see our first extraction building is going to be right here and it's already going to have problems because if we were to just place it right here we couldn't reach some of our Oaks so we'll have to have Anarchy on for all of these the other thing is I don't love the way that this is situating against the road so I'm going to turn off all my snapping and we will adjust this after the fact and have the road come right up to this extractor I'm going to turn all the snapping off here as well the nice thing about Anarchy is it means I can run these right through roads and things like that I just want to be really careful to make sure that I'm not inadvertently leaving this Forest so for all of these I'm going to be very very very [Music] careful and there we go and this thing is fully operational it's got three 2 employees possibility of 33 so it's even fewer than I was thinking which makes it all the better that we're going to have lots of extractors so this is exactly what we're going to do for the rest of these so I'll get these ones all finished up fairly quickly [Music] now ideally these are all currently functional forestry Industries so I just want to go through and click on these and you can see this one's already actually got some extraction occurring right here you can actually see the extractors going out and they're heading out towards some of the bigger trees so this one's working as well fantastic same thing here we've got it all they're all working so this is exactly what I was hoping to see there is one thing I'm a little bit curious about here's why I'd like some feedback from you I could eliminate the surface the forestry surface underneath here if you think that I should let me know down in the comments for now I think that we're going to leave it and with our lumber industry in place let's move on to our Myrtle Park expansion for the extension of Myrtle Park I don't want to over complicate this I basically want to taper the densities you can see right here the buildings are really close together we'll add a unit of Separation as we back away from the denser part of the neighborhood and then maybe a few units of Separation back here then I want to take the trees and bring them right into the lots and we'll probably manually Place some buildings around this culde-sac right here now the other thing I want to keep in mind is that we use the European low density right here we're going to do the exact same thing back here to make the neighborhood feel really cohesive [Music] and there we go I think that's looking pretty good you can see that we have the density is tapering off the closer we get to the woods and the forestry industry and that's exactly what we were going for there are two more things I want to do here we've got this little horseshoe right here that's empty and I think that this is a perfect spot for a soccer field now I want to see if I can potentially back back this asset back so we got this soccer field right here I'm going to turn this towards Sheffield Street and then I'm really curious about what I can get rid of on this asset the one thing I don't love look at the topography disrespect I'm going to see if I can improve this at all so a little bit of move it action to make that work and then the other thing I want to do is we've got a bit of right here we'll get rid of the cement and then we've got some manicured grass as well I think we're going to work that all the way [Music] around and there we go now it just looks like a a neighborhood soccer pitch in the middle of this neighborhood I think that looks a ton better we're going to add some trees as well but I feel like we should do something here and there we go nothing all that that crazy but we've got a little bit of landscaping through here I think that looks pretty darn good now for the rest of this we are going to just extend the forest as close into the homes as we can so we'll once again use our forestry brush and we're going to need to get close for this one because I don't want to inadvertently place this in the middle of homes we do have Anarchy on if I turn that off I think that it doesn't get as dense as we want it to be [Music] and there we go and basically as soon as I finished my last sentence I realized I probably should keep Anarchy off go with some smaller trees and place those right next to the homes because then I could get really nice and close within here and then I brought the larger trees closer to the home So eventually these new trees will grow up and it'll seem like we attempted to reforest this area as we were building the homes and I like the way that that is turned out and then the very last thing I want to do here is adjust our district boundaries because now Myrtle Park the neighborhood should extend out a bit further and the township of Lebanon probably shouldn't include some of these homes right here let's make a couple of small [Music] adjustments and there we go and we need one more name for a town so we have Brierwood way that's not a very good name for a rural town if you have one why don't you drop it in the comments below and with all of that work done I think there's only one more thing left to do that's take inventory of what we've done with a brief City tour [Music] [Music] [Music] n [Music] and I'm really curious to know how you guys feel about that tour I tried to mix it up because there was a number of comments that said that you weren't really happy with the way the tours were turning out you wanted something a little bit more intimate and that was my attempt at it I'm also curious because I haven't done it yet so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing but I'm sure it's going to be different all that said I wanted to make a couple of fixes based on your feedback and the main one is the name for this neighborhood over here that's one of the primary questions I had at the end of the previous episode is what should we name this place and right now it's currently called Bend Hills but I really love the idea that drek Fletch had naming this cerb just is a kind of a nod to James cander to jamaa when creating this neighborhood thank you so much for the idea Dre Fletch I think it's a very good one and the next bit of feedback was about all the grass surfaces that I used and it's the probably one of the more polarizing things that I've done in the build now it's interesting we've got this comment right here that talks about the grass surfaces giving the area a very specific look and that look is HOA suburbian dystopia and I I I guess I can I can feel that that said there were many comments that said that they liked it and what I think I've settled on is we're going to leave it here because it's already here and when we have Suburban areas like this very culd acki but still in relatively builtup areas we'll probably do it still but as we get into urban areas like this I'd rather not do it and we probably wouldn't do it on the hillside again and honestly that's the main reason why in this new neighborhood I have not added any of those grass surfaces because we're trying to blend it into the countryside and I just don't think it would make a ton of sense to have those surfaces everywhere here and I think with that we're going to leave it here and I really hope that you've enjoyed this episode if you did please hit the like button if you're not subscribed to the Channel please consider doing so and I just really want to thank you for your time today there's a million things that you could have been doing you decided to hang out with me and play some City skylines too and I genuinely appreciate that I also wanted to make you aware that this save will be available on Parx mods it is the 25th episode every five episodes we post it so this one will be out there if you want to check it out once again thank you so much for joining me and I can't wait to see you in the next one take care bye-bye [Music]

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Id: ixXV41be5kI

Length: 38min 25sec (2305 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2024