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Quick update on the next release: I was actually right on the edge of pushing out a new build. It included a major overhaul of the roads and roadside deco, plus some of the new crops. The road work alone took a ridiculous amount of patience—fixing the wavy edges meant touching up everything connected to them.

But… fog has always bothered me. It was too thick and too dense, and after putting it off forever and trying every trick—info layer tweaks, environment XML edits, you name it—the only real solution ended up being raising the DEM elevation. I moved the map from the old 4–55 range to 45–95.

The good news: the fog problem is finally solved. The bad news: doing this means I now have to touch up everything on the map. Some objects are a bit too high, some a bit too low, and unless people enjoy their starting vehicles spawning on top of the garage roof, I need to go through and fix it all.

It’s a lot of work, but I’m committed to finishing it. It’ll just take some time.

ye i can add the extra crops, as for the silo I'll take a look might be posible.

at first i thought it was a tree lol so i went like a maniac cutting them down, but i think i see what it is the field itself, harvesting the crop. it's most likely the elevation of the ground there. I have included a screenshot, if you can confirm this is the spot. thanks. I'll touch it up in the next update.

I'll up it in the next update, appreciate the heads up. I'll up it from .35 to .9, lower cut height but slightly increase seed rate so it's not too overpowering.

Hey, I'm finally better got a update pushed out for Starbuck. Working some on my other map. Hopefully your better also, looking forward to your work.

hey, I haven't touched a PC in over 3 weeks, finally feeling better where i can spend a few minutes on it without discomfort.  Hopefully this is the week where I can start using it again. How you doing?  

That sounds great, do you still have my email or a link to the map. My shoulder has been bothering me for a few days now so I haven't used the PC in a few days, I think I'm getting better so hopefully I'll be back on next week at the latest. I'm looking forward to check out the map then.

Of course,  I'd be interested to see what your up to.

I don't foresee Starbuck getting any more additions, there are lots of mods for income generations.  For now I'm be just touching up textures and naming of buildings, I see some medow cut has been left by the edge of some sidewalks, which after time grows through them.  I'd like to take time and play the map.  Especially considering I also have a second map I'm working on to give some love to the country of Bosnia.

i added a cabin constructable near the lake, next update is in console testing right now. so it's almost there unless they find something at this final step.

that's a interesting idea, I'll look into it

glad you're enjoying it, next update will be purely touchups, maybe some new sell points for the unused buildings, work on the RV/camp area deco. mainly focused on the edges of the road and runaway grass that should not have grass.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family as well.

it was a long fight but finally, you can contact me at Email 

looks like good news, says pending release so it must have passed the testing and will be in the next batch release.  at least that's what that means to me.

looks like its in console testing 

Lol, when farmer bob said on his YouTube channel that sometimes it's not worth dealing with mod hub. I thought he was being dramatic about it. For now I'll just keep knocking down their feedback until they get nothing more to complain about.

my god man, they got to be making s$$$ up now they now want translations for things i never touched or my log doesn't throw up warning about, like 2025-11-25 08:36:45.582 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_wheatdry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_barleydry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_oatdry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_canoladry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_sorghumdry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_sunflowerdry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_soybeandry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.583 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_corndry' in l10n_en.xml
2025-11-25 08:36:45.591 DevWarning: Missing 'fillType_propane' in l10n_en.xml

Still testing, I'm guessing weekend, usually testing doesn't go more than a workday. Will see if there's anything tomorrow

The update entered testing today. For the fix, I streamlined a few XMLs and raised the slot ceiling, since other certified maps have already gone well above the 63 i used. In my gameplay testing, the logs never produced a “no more type indexes” warning or error, so everything looks stable.

oh man this is driving me insane, my logs show no errors, my audit so far comes to TOTAL slots used: 56 / 63 , well below the max limit.  I'll keep digging at it

no go their log threw up a error in the log FoliageSystemDesc: no more type indexes can be allocated .  News to me considering I haven't seen any errors in the log myself before submitting it.  not to mention it's never been brought up before.  Hey maybe Christmas might be good luck, lol. Well time to dig in see what they see now out of nowhere again.   

I’ve decided to give them a two-week window before considering any ticket, as that seems to be the time they need. The good news is the map went into testing today, so we’ll know soon what’s going on. Hopefully, there aren’t any new issues they could have mentioned earlier, as my patience is wearing thin with only snippets of information every couple of weeks.

Pending still 

resubmitted Friday, its pending unit they get to it. if we are lucky sometimes this Thursday, but more realistic is prob 2 weeks.  Then of course the hope is they don't magically have some other issue. 

they got back to me, its still a no go, i have to remove a tiny sign that mentions a public state trail, they also want me to remove the shutout to my nice and nephew i had in the mod decs. lol At least they were specific, I appreciate that, just wish they would have mentioned some of this months back during testing.

they have put it into testing today

If you would like the newest you can now use the zip from my icho page, mod hub version will be outdated as of today, they are too slow.  Hopefully one day they can catch up lol.

I have decided to go with 2 versions, (slow modhub) and timely versions directly from me.  Anyone on PC can now download the latest zip from itch.  You'll find version 1.2.0.3 available now.

will do, as for the optional PC only upload by me, I'll think about that today.  Just be warned anyone that downloads it will be well ahead of anything available on mod hub lol.  good for solo players but defiantly not multiplayer, it would never be in sync for a while.

Still pending I'm just going to release the latest version myself. this way PC users can get it without waiting for mod hub to get off their you know what.  I'll keep the mod hub version there until they get to it.

mod hub taking their sweet time as always, they are being sassy about it too now saying they have a giant backlog and it would take a while. all we can do is just wait.

upcoming update with a boundary screenshot 

- Removed all unlicensed brands for crossplay certification  

- Added Alfalfa as a new crop  

- Starter farm barn and silo now sellable  

- Entire map now ownable Farmland 60 offers discounted access to city and roads  

- Fields touched up and resized to better utilize available land  

- Roads refined across the map for smoother navigation and improved visual flow  

- Map boundary blended for improved visual feel  

- Extended lake into boundary for natural integration  

- Vehicle Store spawn parking lot is bigger, more space.

- Toned down foliage for better performance  

- Enhanced environmental soundscapes for a more immersive experience  

- Fixed floating sign near the Starbuck Depot Museum  

- Added street lights to starter farm

NEW SAVE REQUIRED

Update has been submitted to mod hub testing.   Never know when they will get to it.  When they do it will require a new save if you do update to it. Here is some of the more noticeable.

Version 1.2.0.0 Changelog and Summary

- Removed all unlicensed brands for crossplay certification  

- Added Alfalfa as a new crop  

- Starter farm barn and silo now sellable  

- Entire map now ownable; Farmland 60 offers discounted access to city and roads  

- Fields touched up and resized to better utilize available land  

- Roads refined across the map for smoother navigation and improved visual flow  

- Map boundary blended for improved visual feel  

- Extended lake into boundary for natural integration  

- Toned down foliage for better performance  

- Fixed floating sign near the Starbuck Depot Museum  

- Added street lights to starter farm

I'll add it to the next update, your reasoning for it made great sense. Wasn't just someone saying I can't buy the roads.  👍

oh ye, the to-do list is long.  branding, redo the boundary to blend more, increase the amount of land that can be owned, finish up the custom crops, touch up starting farm sell ability, and whatever else I'm forgetting now lol.

one is a full-time job, 2 would be way too much.  lol

thanks for the heads up, the big standouts like Caseys and DG i should have changed, but I thought to myself hey mod hob didn't complain about it for months perhaps its ok lol.  I'll take a closer look at the Peter.

casey's, dollar general, the train branding etc, it caught fire and all i heard is caseys cayses on YouTube lol.  world got around.