Cities Skyline Xbox Mods
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Cities: Skylines offers a lot of tools to its players. The road tool can create sharp or gentle curves that automatically create overpasses, tunnels, and bridges when needed, the landscaping tool lets players create and destroy mountains, and the map creator gives players complete control over the shape of the world.
However, Cities: Skylines likes to go even further. That's why the game has a lively mod community full of creators who design new assets, bend or break the game rules, and otherwise change the nature of the game so that players can have completely new experiences and push the game engine to its limits. Unfortunately, finding and applying these mods can be a very different experience depending on how and where players bought the game.
By far the easiest way to find and download mods is through the Steam Workshop. Simply go to the Cities: Skylines game page in the Library and click on the word "Workshop" that sits just below the Play button. This will bring players to a massive library of mods they can browse to find new assets, maps, game mods, building themes, and more. The workshop even has save games that show how other players have used the game to recreate cities both real and fictional.
To download a mod, click on its name and hit the Subscribe button. If a mod needs a DLC to work, the workshop will say so with a big purple banner above the Subscribe button and show the DLCs needed on the right. If a mod needs other mods to work, the workshop will also show this list.
The reason the button is called "Subscribe" instead of "Download" is because games can update and mod developers can fine-tune their creations. When this happens, Steam will automatically download the latest version of a mod or helpfully warn players that an older mod might not work with the current game version. To remover a subscription, players can check their subscribed items and unsubscribe from them.
Not every platform is as friendly to third-party mods as Steam. Both the Xbox and PlayStation versions of Cities: Skylines don't have full mod support, since creating content for these platforms requires an expensive set of developer's tools and not just a PC with a decent processor. The game is also available on the Epic Games Store, but Epic doesn't have its own version of the Steam Workshop.
Still, PC owners can get mods for Cities: Skylines even if they don't use Steam. Nexus Mods has a database of mods for an incredible variety of games, Cities included. Users will have to register an account to download anything, but registration is free. The Paradox Interactive website also has mods available, though they also need users to register. Then there are less popular websites where players can find mods, but it's important to always be cautious when downloading anything from an untrusted source.
Once players have a mod on their PCs, they'll need to install it in the right location. For Windows, the default location is C:/Users/[user's name]/AppData/Local/Colossal Order/Cities_Skylines. AppData may be hidden, but Windows users can see hidden folders by clicking "View" on the top bar, then "Show," and then checking "Hidden Items."
From this folder, players can add mods to Addons/Mods, assets to Addons/Assets, maps in Maps, saved games in Saves, and so on. If the right files are in the right locations, they should appear in the in-game Content Manager.
Regardless of what platform players use, they can access their mods, styles, assets, and other bonus content using the Content Manager in the game's main menu. The Content Manager lets players activate and deactivate mods without having to install and uninstall them every time, and it lets them choose what assets they want to use while playing so that their build menus aren't hopelessly cluttered. The manager is also a way for the developers to advertise all the scenarios, maps, and assets players could get from the various expansions.
Even console players with just the base game should check out the content manager at some point. Cities: Skylines comes preloaded with a few basic mods that work like game cheats, including unlimited money, unlimited ore and oil, and a mode that unlocks all the milestone rewards immediately. There's even a mod that makes the game harder for players who want more of a challenge. However, activating any of these mods (along with most third-party content) will disable achievements.
The new asset pack brings a host of new beachfront properties that players can now build in their cities. The asset pack also brings with it a new Waterfront zoning option, as well as new signature buildings in European and North American styles, and cosmetic items like new trees. Check out the trailer for the asset pack below.
Along with the Beach Properties asset pack, Cities: Skylines 2 has also gotten its first in-game modding options. The new tools allow players to create, share and play with Map and Code mods. These mods can be distributed through the Paradox Mods platform.
The Movable Bridge Mod allows you to build various kinds of dynamic bridges that actually move. It may appear to be a purely aesthetic choice, but having a non-static water crossing could breathe a bit of life into your city and give it a sense of dynamism that it may have been missing.
As you can probably guess from the name, the Move It mod is an incredibly useful mod that allows you to pick up and move anything. By simply left-clicking on an item, you can move it anywhere, as demonstrated by the video above. Want to move multiple things at the same time? Simply shift-click them all before moving. Every tiny detail of your city can be placed with utter perfection with this mod.
Simple switches allow you to test out and swap between traffic lights, timed traffic lights, and priority signs at busy junctions, letting you clearly see which works best. The speed limit option also allows you to easily switch between speeds on very specific sections of road, again testing out the results easily and quickly. Simply put, the Traffic Manager mod just streamlines anything to do with roads.
The beauty of the modding community surrounding Cities: Skylines is its diversity. There are a ton of collections and mods that allow you to build based on your preference for architecture and your favorite cities worldwide. With these mods, you can model your city after Brooklyn, France, Russia, Central Europe, China, Japan, and more. The creativity of the Cities: Skylines player base is truly staggering.
Think you can do better than the real-world city planners of yore? This Real World Cities Maps collection lets you try your hand at redesigning one of hundreds of real cities, from Ancona, Italy to Zakopane, Poland.
By publishing official mod tools and providing a curated place for users to upload their creations to, Colossal Order wants to make mods accessible not only to players on PC, but also to those on the PS5 and Xbox Series XS versions of the city-builder scheduled to launch this year.
Mod support will arrive alongside the first item of the revised Cities: Skylines 2 DLC roadmap, the Beach Properties expansion. Containing 70 brand-new assets as well as a dedicated residential zone for waterfronts, this pack will transform the visuals of cities built on the coast or on rivers.
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