Guess what, time for a livery jam!

Have you ever wanted to think up a fictional railway with its own unique logo, colors and history? Well then this is the perfect opportunity to do so!

It's easy to get caught up in all the little accuracies and details of realism when it comes to making liveries, but why not make something completely new? Personally I absolutely love designing logos and color schemes, so when you combine that with trains what's not to love.

The goal of this jam is to be creative and design your own fantasy (fictional) railway line, along with as many different kinds of liveries as you want to go with it. You can even make a layout based on the locations your railway takes place in!
You can even think up a backstory and history to your railway if you want!
And of course you can upload as many designs as you want, even multiple different railroads too! There is no limit on how much you can make.

This is a "jam" not a competition, so dont worry about making the largest, most detailed railway in the world, just have fun with it. Even a single wagon with a special color scheme is a worthy entry!

There won't be any specific prizes for this jam, but I'll of course be posting screenshots and giving shoutouts to peoples entries along the way, and at the end of the jam I'll do a nice roundup of some of the most interesting ones!

This jam will last for 2 weeks, and ill post some early-bird shoutouts at the half-way point too!

To include your livery/layout in the jam, all you need to do is tick the "Fantasy livery jam entry" option when you are uploading to the Steam workshop.

And that's all! Simple as that.
Just have a go at designing your own fictional railway, make some liveries for it, and include a layout and/or backstory if your feeling adventurous.
And try out other peoples entries along the way for inspiration!

To get things started, I've already made my own example:
The "Bog Pit Railroad"

It's a coal railway for a fictional mine in the outback of Australia, and it has a range of liveries which all serve a different role in the railways activity (and history).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2119554155

You can also read a quick story about the railways history in the description for the layout:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2119545415

I can't wait to see what kind of things people can come up with!
Designing fantasy railways can be a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy it ːsteamhappyː

If you've never made a livery before then is actually a lot easier than you think!
All you need is very basic image editing software (even Paint is fine!)

There is a full guide here on Steam which explains step-by-step all that you need to make a livery:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1405658466

Aside from announcing this livery jam, this update also includes a few other features:

• Track can now be stored in custom drawers.
• Painter props (like color painters, track detail painters, pantographs, plows, etc) can now be placed in custom drawers.
• Custom drawers now have multiple pages! If you make lots of drawers they will now be stored over multiple pages which can be switched between.
• Rolling Line now has a rainbow prop! you can find it in the "Misc -> Unlocks" drawer.
• There is also a special fantasy livery jam wagon, which you can also find in the "Misc -> Unlocks" drawer.
• Two new props were added, a beer bottle and a washing machine.
• Placed shelves now have an "apply" button when you are placing them. this means that you can place a new shelf on your map, then apply edits, without needing to use the "apply all" option on the edit tool.
• Liveries now have a unique ID as well as their name, which means you can give liveries the same name without conflicts. Please keep in mind that this will not apply to previously uploaded liveries. you need to create a new livery for this new ID system to be used. You should still give your liveries unique names though for good practice!
• Generic names like "empty" and "new game" are now blocked from being used when uploading items to the workshop. Please give your uploads proper names!
• You can now open/close the category and page popup windows on drawers by clicking the button again.
• Deleting a livery no longer refreshes the entire livery list, which means the game no longer freezes when deleting a locally saved livery.
• Fixed glitch where refreshing the custom livery images would break other liveries that you have saved in the same game session.
• Fixed issue with quickMod wheel position in custom drawers.
• You can now use the "Insert" key both in photo mode and in normal gameplay to lock/unlock your cursor.
• Fixed distance spacing between props when using the biome brush. Also fixed issue with biome brushes not saving their data correctly.
• If you experience an error when loading props/trains into a custom drawer and error message will be shown and the broken props will be removed (instead of floating around the sky). Please post in the Bug Reporting thread if you experience this issue. NOTE: this has been fixed! this should no longer happen
• Increased the room size limits to 1000x1000x1000 (more than anyone could possibly ever use)

And this everything for this update!
On a side note, if you want a high-resolution copy of the "fantasy livery jam" logo (along with the previous competitions) you can download them here:

Fantasy livery jam logo:
https://imgur.com/gallery/TdI7dlW

Compact comp logo:
https://imgur.com/gallery/BWN44oT

Color comp logo:
https://imgur.com/gallery/kovBeBZ

Enjoy!