{"id":2569,"date":"2026-04-04T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:26:53","slug":"simutrans-124-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Simutrans 124.4 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Highlights of this version<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Searchable comboboxes (just type when a box is open)\n<li> Grouping goods\/passengers by connection\n<li> Overhauled city growth\n<li> Improvements for the tutorial for pak64, pak64.german, and pak128.\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Download Simutrans 124.4<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.simutrans.com\/index.php\/topic,23858.0.html\">Download on the Simutrans Forums<\/a> (From SourceForge)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/434520\/Simutrans\/\">Download on Steam<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Paksets updated<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Pak64 124.3\n<li> Pak128 2.10.1\n<li> Pak64.german 124.4.0.1\n<li> Pak128.german 2.4\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Full changelog<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of changes since the last version.<\/p>\n<p><b>Added<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> new settings cost_kw_per_credit (default was 512) to change revenue from power. Smaller numbers more income\n<li> searchable comboboxes; for editing click twice\n<li> expose make public month to cript API\n<li> elevated powerlines\n<li> new flag for bridges and ways in makeobj 60.9 clip_below Default is (1) but for slim structures (e.g. powerline) it could be set to zero for nicer display of structures below\n<li> Retain message of the day in servergames. Can be reshown in the game info\/network dialog\n<li> (Nazalassa) bridge renovation when building on an existing bridge\n<li> Makeobj now supports named directions for sloped way images (imageup[w&#8221;>=&#8230;)\n<li> after (FrankP) new constructions ite images for ras, com, ind as 7,8,9\n<li> (Nazalassa) Sound can now also be loaded from pakset addon directory\n<li> groups goods by lines of their next stop and sort by amount (not available for convois, of course)\n<li> (mostly Yona-TYT) flowtext recognised img tag. For now only tags #?XXX are supported, where ? is one of these letter GSDTW and XXX a number. G is a general tool icon, S and simple tool, D is dialog tool, T a toolbar and W and window gadget.\n<li> New simple tool 43 to highlight single ribi ways\n<li> Now all windows show same ordering\n<li> use system fonts in Android\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Changed<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Use fluidysnth pulseaudio driver for linux systems as the sdl2 driver is being deprecated\n<li> sound loudness slider now follows a x^4 curve, approximates an exponential loudness control for finer adjustments\n<li> more time for startign complex tutorials\n<li> (poppo) extended selection of way resp. their obj with CNTRL and SHIFT and pipette tool\n<li> Stops that are not connected to any other stops now have a blue status colour\n<li> Comobobox show current selection until actually some letters are typed to search for something\n<li> (poppo) jump tool now allows also for z coordinaate\n<li> clean up main page\n<li> (poppo) build_wayobj and dragging signals also use the test_driver like the removal tool\n<li> only clip below bridegs if there is a high building\n<li> Support separate key-down\/key-up events\n<li> if defined USE_TOWN_ROAD_BUILDER_TOOL the cityroad building tool will use the internal tool of the city (default off)\n<li> (k47) stations names drawn later in minimap\n<li> trains with both diesel and electric engine can go on non-electricfied track, but run without electric power there\n<li> Show obsolete shows lso distribution_weight=0 factories in the editor window\n<li> test renovation before new building san duse homeless and jobless numbers to releive growth of town borders\n<li> cities try harder to build slopes for expansion even in mountanious sites\n<li> Combobox try to show as much entries as possible\n<li> Unified handling of pak set dirs and names\n<li> Increase maximum loading time of vehicles to 2^31-1 ms\n<li> Add widget to change price factor for beginner mode\n<li> Move map size edits in new world diaglogue on one line\n<li> default signal spacing for dragiing to 5 (as 4 and smaller can slow down trains faster than 200 km\/h)\n<li> If there is a halt tile above ground, it will become the base tile for name and jumping too~\n<li> Pause tool unpauses server waiting for clients\n<li> Help texts will be first searched in pak directory\n<li> No longer default pixelfonts for Windows and Android\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Fixed<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Topspeed replacement with city roads was broken. Multitle buildings also may have the roads around them never fully renovated\n<li> Crash when trying to open a directory using dr_fopen\n<li> Transformers are removed by factory field expansion\n<li> Factory editor could not slect water factories from climate selection\n<li> Overcrowded stops can cause unhappy return passengers in unconnected networks\n<li> not connection to tunnels, bridges and elevated ways when extending city streets\n<li> show convoi (and line) name when permanent tooltips are enabled for convois\n<li> Inline tool icons change size when zooming in or out and scaled tool icons are enabled\n<li> Corrected format of transformer tool icon tooltip\n<li> Fatal error message when building a city house that was copied using the pipette tool\n<li> Comobobox show current selection until actually some letters are typed to search for something\n<li> (jrs) really lock the freelist_tpl\n<li> (poppo) change and delete cities first using the pointer to the city from the townhall\/house at this position\n<li> wrong bridge height allowed on end slopes\n<li> GDI did emit keypresses for SHIFT etc.\n<li> city connects correct over slopes but not to depots\n<li> (k47) world borders soemthimes not correctly displayed\n<li> (poppo) trains could not choose if electrification was not to the end of track\n<li> update test suite\n<li> trams connect to all ways also in tunnels\n<li> Not allowed for powerbridges to end on ways\n<li> Android now supports 16k pages fully\n<li> ownership check when renovating bridge\n<li> compiling with USE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK\n<li> bridge removal costs\n<li> exclude renovation buildings and not wrong connection along slopes (and simplified code)\n<li> only build new houses on empty tiles\n<li> reset illegal street slopes to flat tiles\n<li> no longer crash when city grows into fields\n<li> citybuildings no longer destroy power lines\n<li> overhauled townhall road building to cope with difficult terrain and avoid illegal tiles\n<li> (Nazalassa) use catg_index for line sort\n<li> tunnel route search suceeded even if z coordinates of portals did not match\n<li> check and correct for wrong smoke offset tiles\n<li> pak192.comic &#8216;Suck a tentacle&#8217; achievement\n<li> longblock signal reservation broken\n<li> Wrong expansion of parameterized image lists with empty image\n<li> slist_tpl returned wrong sort status when sorting lists of only two elements\n<li> Finance windows did not show powerline revenue as all revenue\n<li> (Nazalassa+prissi) toolbars can be automatically stacked again (option in simuconf.tab)\n<li> (Nazalassa+prissi) Notifications from locked players and no company messages for locked players\n<li> (Nazalassa) various bug with display of the connection (work in progress)\n<li> (poppo) a chosesignal after a presignal could lead to unsecessful route searches if the directions differed between those signals.\n<li> missing logic for handling signal\/roadsign maintenance\n<li> (Nazalassa) Players can change nickname to one that is already in use\n<li> Crash when changing the sort mode of a halt while a convoi window is open\n<li> (Nazalassa) Cursors ignore player changes\n<li> (Nazalassa) Cannot build tunnels directly above tunnel slopes if way_height_clearance=1\n<li> (Nazalassa) Ticker messages do not respect player colours when the ticker is opened\n<li> (Nazalassa) Public unread message counter is increased for private messages\n<li> &#8216;makeobj list&#8217; cannot print properties of factory nodes\n<li> Zoom in immediately followed by zoom out if SDL raises mouse wheel event with 0 vertical scroll amount\n<li> Public player cannot replace wayobjs of other players\n<li> Possible save file corruption when reverting to default settings using the settings window\n<li> Graphical glitch when dragging the forest tool across slopes if the pakset does not have double grounds\n<li> Crash when screenshotting in-game window with non-0 position\n<li> Missing collision check for water factories\n<li> properly enforce maximum city building size\n<li> multitile city building totally renovated, 3x faster city growth (at the start of the map in debug mode)\n<li> accidentally messed up replacement of larger multitile buildings by single tile buildings\n<li> count instead dir\n<li> count instead dir\n<li> multitle buildings code (and also several issues with normal renovation) fixed\n<li> crash when 2&#215;1 building did not fit\n<li> accidently add wrong offset for checking orientation of multitile bild\n<li> new city buildings were built when exceeded 2&#215;1 size (only renovated)\n<li> did not save correct when too many messages\n<li> switch reservations off when showig single way tiles and vice versa\n<li> only save the newest messages\n<li> wrong assert when replacing buildings (debug only)\n<li> single way tile did not force bridge direction\n<li> could built powerlines under bridges by just building a zero length power bridge starting under a bridge (also added to test scripts)\n<li> was assigning wrong values to old_sort_mode prevented convoi goods update\n<li> bridge builder not handling invalid end coordinates in work\n<li> stations on bridge heads drawn too low\n<li> remove some more unused variables\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of this version Searchable comboboxes (just type when a box is open) Grouping goods\/passengers by connection Overhauled city growth Improvements for the tutorial for pak64, pak64.german, and pak128. Download Simutrans 124.4 Download on the Simutrans Forums (From SourceForge) Download on Steam. Paksets updated Pak64 124.3 Pak128 2.10.1 Pak64.german 124.4.0.1 Pak128.german 2.4 Full changelog Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-development-and-releases","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simutrans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}