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Christmas! + Map event shoutouts v5.41

It's time for Christmas!
This update wraps up the Multiplayer Map Jam and includes a bunch of shout-outs of my own personal favorite maps from the event.

It's also a good time to enjoy a bunch of snowy themed maps and make use of the various winter themed features in the game!
Previous year's Christmas updates added things like:

  • Dynamic snow cover on trains and wagons (if you set the weather to snowy!)

  • The Canadian Christmas train

  • Rotary snow plow

  • Attachable snow plows you can add to any train

  • Snow globe prop

  • Christmas decoration props

  • Christmas presents

Winter themed maps

Over the years there have been tons of snowy maps and Christmas themed maps uploaded to the Steam Workshop, so here's a few of my favorite examples:

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Multiplayer Map Jam shout-outs!

Congratulations to everyone who took part in this map making event! There's a ton of amazing maps and It's been great to see public servers being hosted where people are enjoying these maps.

As with all map making events, I always play every single entry personally and at the end of the event I post some of my favorites!

So here's a few maps I really wanted to shout-out:

Boberfjorden Railways

This massive map is so impressive! It has tons of height variation with walkways and elevated tables, combined with excellent trackwork, scenery detailing and overall design:

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Primrose Mountain RR

An incredible map! It's got a beautiful range of scenery along a huge main line, one of my absolute favorites of the whole jam:

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Utah Northwestern Freelance Railroad

Really impressive map with tons of steep cliffs, bridges and verticality! It even has a switch control room hidden under the tables:

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RL30 New Westphalia and Balcones Railroad

Beautifully detailed map with heaps of little scenes and areas of interest, as well as lots of operations potential tightly packed together:

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TrainMann's TrainLine- Mid-Wales Missions

An excellent little map with a surprising amount of depth to it's operations, with a daily schedule and lots of custom freight loaded wagon mods:

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Pineland, CA

Amazingly detailed and polished map, with especially designed switchboards and electronics:

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The POTB Expanded

A massive map with a super long main line and heaps of yards, industries and sidings. This would make for some excellent ops with huge freight trains:

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Salgótarján

A beautifully vibrant and unique map with lovely scenery:

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And a couple of shout-outs to huge map projects that got big updates:

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And these two maps that did really interesting things with the "Multiplayer" theme by making unique gameplay designs!

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Of course there are SO many more maps to play than just these, and I really encourage you to go over to the Steam Workshop and have a look at all the entries yourself:

Thanks again everyone for taking part in the Multiplayer Map Jam, and have a lovely Christmas!