Archive for category Development & Releases

New releases of pak64.japan and Pak128.Britain-Ex

Good news for all pakset lovers, we have new releases of old well known paksets.

The Simutrans experimental development team has released a new version of the pak128.Brittain-Ex. The v0.7 seems to be a testing and evaluation version, but it should balance better with Simutrans-Experimental than the standard Pak128.Britain. The dev team has done a great deal of work on balancing this pakset since version 0.6, so it should work considerably better. As a side note, it doesn’t support all Simutrans-Experimental features yet.

You can download it here. More details at International Simutrans Forum.

pak64.japanOn the other hand, the pak64.japan is back after major overhaul. The content is under a mixture of licenses so it won’t be hosted at Sourceforge, but the binaries and the source are available here. Besides, the texts are available for translation at Simutranslator.

More details at International Simutrans Forum.

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Let’s go multiplayer with Simutrans

As many of you know, the development team is working hard on the multiplayer mode. In fact it’s available in nightlies since several months ago. So, now it’s time to play with other players around the world but what do you exactly need?

There’s an official list of active server with games and paksets avaliable. You just need to check the list and join a game or register a new server in case you want to create a new game. The list is updated quite often.

At the International Simutrans forum, there’s also a game servers board where you can announce your servers, with all details and you can also use the threads as changelogs, in case people has problems joining the game or with the status of the server. You can also use that forum to propose new competitions or hosting games with other paksets.

In case you want to join a game, you can follow this short tutorial. In case you want to set up a server, there’s another helpful tutorial. In brief, you need to download the nightly, register your server at the official servers list and the follow the instructions.

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pakHD v0.4 is already available


A new version of pakHD has been released. The v0.4 version of the hand drawn pakset is compatible with Simutrans v100 and newer, including the latest 102.2.2 version. There aren’t new addons this time, but the v0.2 addons should work with this new version.

You can download it here or visit the pakHD website.

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New playable release of Pak.Excentrique

Long time ago, Hajo, the creator of Simutrans, started a new pakset with the aim of making something special for Simutrans,specially for players who were bored of the common and mainstream graphic sets. The result is a pakset called Pak.Excentrique and we may define it as colorful, unsual and well…. excentrique!

Although the pakset is still under development, this might be the first playable version. It has depots, stations and two types of vehicles.

You can download the pakset at funkelwerk.de, and you can also follow the development at the International Simutrans Forum and funkelwerk.de forum.

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Pak128.Britain 1.08 Released!

SS Great Eastern After a long wait, a new official version of pak128.Britain has been released today! The new version contains mostly bugfixes, but it also incorporates some new objects such as additional citybuildings and ships.

You can download the new version from sourceforge.

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pak.german moves to experimental

pak.german logo

The pak.german development team has made an important announcement. The pakset won’t support the standard version of Simutrans anymore, at least by the pakset mantainers, but it will support Simutrans experimental from v1.1.2011. The support of this pakset for Simutrans 102.2.2 is not guaranteed.

On the other hand, if you’re willing to mantain a version for Simutrans standard, please contact with Frank and the rest of pakset mantainers to get the sources.

More details at International Simutrans Forum.

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Mud Mountains map released

Mud Mountains

Today a huge (4000×1200) fantasy map created by AEO was added to the Simutrans Maps website. It is called the Mud Mountains. It is a challenging map which forces you to build routes though a steep mountain range. The intended water level is -10.

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pak.german minor update

There’s a new small update for the pak.german pakset (102.2.2c). It’s mainly a bugfix release but it also includes several news like new stations, trams and trains.

The development team has fixed several alignment problems and has changed the attributes from some trains and platforms, in order to balance the gameplay.

You can download it here.

More details at Simutrans International Forum.

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Maps of Russia and Sindor released

Map of Russia
Today a big new map (3040×1600) of Russia created by AEO was added to the Simutrans maps website. If you use this map be sure to set the water level to -2. The recommended number of rivers is 1024, the maximum length of rivers is also 1024.

Further, a map created by Sindor was added in two sizes (256×256 and 1025×1025). Sindor's mapUse water level -6 to get the intended map. As nobody seems to know if this map actually represents a real part of the world, it can be found in the fantasy maps section. Please make a comment if you know which interesting part of the world this might be.

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Unofficial playable version of pakHD

Sometime ago we mentioned a project to reboot the old pakHD, creating a new version from scratch with the same style, called pak96.HD2, but Frank has surprised us with an unofficial version of the old pakHD release, modified to be playable with the latest Simutrans stable version.

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