Developer snapshot 2026-07-06

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• The upper Midwest and Great Lakes fill in with twenty-nine new cities across five states. Illinois gains Springfield, Bloomington, Champaign, and Decatur. Michigan gains Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Port Huron, Muskegon, Jackson, and Traverse City, plus the Upper Peninsula iron and shipping towns of Marquette, Escanaba, Sault Ste. Marie, Iron Mountain, and Houghton. Wisconsin gains Kenosha, Eau Claire, Wausau, and La Crosse. Minnesota gains St. Cloud, Rochester, Mankato, Winona, Willmar, Albert Lea, and Hibbing on the Iron Range. Indiana gains Gary and Lafayette. Every city comes with real, named freight facilities -- haul taconite pellets from the Hibbing mine, steel out of Gary Works, new Subarus from Lafayette, and turkeys from Willmar -- with truck-routed corridors, real truck stops, and labeled highway exits along the way. Long slogs like Minneapolis to Fargo and Chicago to Indianapolis now have proper stops in between, and Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Evansville trade their generic docks for real ones like the GM pickup plant and the Mead Johnson formula works.
• The Great Lakes split into three regions that each feel like themselves. The Upper Midwest covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula; the Great Lakes keeps the lower-lakes industrial belt from Chicago through Detroit to Buffalo; and the new Corn Belt takes interior Illinois, Indiana, and southern Ohio. Each has its own weather, fuel prices, freight market flavor, and road hazards, so a winter run out of Duluth no longer sounds like a summer haul into Cincinnati.