Our Citizens have Demands which we Need to Fill NOW in Cities Skylines!

[@jimmypickins]

Biffa I work in the mining industry and have an idea for your ore industry. Hopefully you see this and can use some or all of it. Normally on a mine there is a main security building at the bottom of the hill you have to sign in at (most use RFID cards of some kind) before continuing up to the work area. Additionally, a lot of mines run busses from one central spot to the main building, and then there are gates to protect the main area. You should make the bus to the mining area circle around at the main building, then put paths to get to the roads and build fences to "prevent" people from entering the work area in the hill. You can also put a parking lot opposite the main building which is pretty accurate to how a normal mine would work (100 employees in a remote area, lots of cars that need to park). Nevada Mining Association in the US has a virtual tour on their website so you can see what it should look like, these assets are all surface mining so I'd structure it to look like that. It's also common that these mines have a bunch of abandoned houses and such from homesteads that are 100 years old before the mine took over the land, so at the top of the mountain you should add a couple of these for decoration. If you want to go really overboard, a surface mine would start at the top of a hill and strip down to the level you are at, so you could run a road up the hill then create a circular road to get down to the work area, but that will probably cause traffic problems (aesthetic wise it would be more accurate).

[@highzone6491]

Man that’s a cool idea!

[@caligo7918]

I think, the blue route to the mines could have a mirror-route so people can get home with the bus without riding through the other parts of the city

[@Pystro]

Or make the bus run from the main city to the ore industry to the workers village, and then back workers village, ore industry, main city. That way the bus ride is only a single stop long for every employee no matter which bus shows up. ...Unless you live in one residential area and work in a commercial building in the other, or want to go shopping there, in which case you're out of luck and have to travel two bus stops (shock horror).

Ahh yes, Lungs of the City for those suffering from the Black Lung. The city may breath but you certainly can't, now get back in the mines!

[@Pyrovile42]

Hey Biffa, you sounded particularly happy this episode. It's good to hear! Keep it up!

[@LarrySkylines]

The other day I was driving and the car ahead of me decided to change lanes into the slower traffic in the right lane, making me slow down with empty lane ahead of us until he could cut in. My first thought was “That’s some horky borky lane switching. He should have picked his lane back at the junction”

[@Lucifer_Nihilum]

You have made me smile. Thanks.

[@NineEyeRon]

I’m just about to start my first ore industry, and crack 100k. Still 84% traffic, despawn off and near 4k using trains. Thanks for all you have done to make my cities better. Ive even made a Biffa Park with a big rock pile in it.

[@JohnSmith-nz4bn]

Download the resource editor (can't remember what it's called) otherwise your mines will run out super quick! Same with oil and fish. You'll see the little icons in the task bar at the bottom righthand corner need the budget and policies icons.

[@mechanical_sport]

@@JohnSmith-nz4bn I'm pretty sure the base game lets you disable resources running out so you don't need the mod, but your point still stands.

[@JohnSmith-nz4bn]

@@mechanical_sport oh cool! I just notice the ground changes shape and production drops right off so I assumed it would eventual run out. Thank you for the tip!

[@NineEyeRon]

John Smith I already use the mod for fertile land, which I move around for aesthetics, I will probably start off letting the ore run out so it is more of a challenge as I think Oil and Ore should be finite but arable land shouldn’t run out.

[@mechanical_sport]

@@NineEyeRon I agree with the idea of oil and ore being finite, but it runs out so quickly that by the time you've got your industry area built up how you want, there's nothing left for it to do. I wouldn't mind a mod that let me set the rate of resource depletion, rather than it just being on or off.

[@basedraydn8868]

To help with the realism, you might want to remove the trees from the walls and floor inside the mine and add more gravel texture to cover the ground Also @ 4:29 you banned trucks from entering the district but it overlaps the main avenue at the bottom.

[@Nick-Emery]

It doesn't anymore because he dezoned the Avenue so the shops wouldn't be university type shops

[@basedraydn8868]

@@Nick-Emery Thanks, I guess I missed that part

[@e1123581321345589144]

2:55 you could make it more interesting by adding rum to your tea and then you could do some thing like: timed traffic: 1 sip dedicated turning lanes: 2 sips asymmetrical road: 3 sips lane mathematics: 4 sips give way: 5 sips i'm wondering whether: 6 sips roundabout: 8 sips Hugo there: 10 sips

[@funkymarco4411]

Do you want to make me drunk lol

[@e1123581321345589144]

@@funkymarco4411 isn't that the point of a drinking game? :D

[@sandyap]

Also add 'im wondering whether' lol

[@e1123581321345589144]

@@sandyap good one. I added it to the list ;)

[@franciscoguinledebarros4429]

"quick sip o' tea" chug it

[@johnvalliant261]

Watching you decide on a theme for the industry suburbs reminded me of what a difference it makes that you timelapse your detailing bits. Other creators will walk us through their thought process as they place each individual house and that’s just too much for my tastes. You put in just enough for us to see how you do it, with a tour of the end product. And a tutorial for new detailing tools like the IMT and node controller. Perfectly balanced.

[@epiccollision]

John Valliant yeah the “paint a city” using C:S is a little missing the forest for the trees, sure it looks pretty but you turn the game on and it chokes

[@barti0806bb]

Hey Biffa! I must say, in the last couple of months this series has become my favourite and I'm constantly looking forward to the next episode. Your enthusiasm radiates off of the video and gets me excited to play Cities: Skylines myself again. I absolutely love the way you make your cities and teach us a thing or two every episode. Keep up the amazing videos and I hope you gain a lot more subscribers, you really deserve it.

[@mikeb8674]

"Now that the rocks are back in stock..." Now we know the real reason Biffa built an ore industry - he gets to decorate with all the spare rocks the miners take out of the ground.

[@TheRealSpakanyan]

24:51 - Spat out my tea laughing...The little pause! Brilliant.

[@clau-se]

3:22 Sip of T-junction The roads in the quarry can't be concrete, the area is constantly shifting, being digged and stuff moved as the ore depletes, only gravel roads in the quarry work area.

[@hughstewart547]

While i 100% agree in the game it just wouldn't work for the traffic needed.

[@minashai7718]

I love these big residential expansions episodes!! Figuring out public transport is my favourite part

[@NavnUkjent]

A couple of ideas for the ore region: 1) You can expand the ore area down to the lake with all the ore, and then remove the linking bit of the area. It should still count as one area, and you could then use the ore mining ships. 2) Check the postal service! I haven't seen you place any post offices in ages. 3) How about giving the new housing area a crematorium or a graveyard? 4) Please connect the HW connection that is on the other side of the city from the ore region to the road from the first high-density area.

[@paulkelleyvieth]

biffa's bingo game idea -- literally everyone would win every episode because every single episode he says "asymmetrical road", "hawky bawky lane switching", "hugo there", "ctrl left click for dedicated turn lanes", "lane mathematics", "oblong-a-bout", "i'm just wondering how many people use your metro", etc ... there's probably fifty more biffaisms that i'm not remembering off the top of my head

[@jimmybrown8225]

When is Teaport getting a port?

[@roux2502]

"I like... I just like to add, you know, it just adds textures to things. I just like it. I just like it, that's it." Biffa, 25:39

[@tri99er_]

Your heavy traffic ban affects one side of a big road connecting your industry areas. Update, you fixed it, nice.

[@iqbalhamizul]

there's a reason why we loved to watch your works, and kind of addicted to them. you create your city with just enough content for us to go through your thought process, while vividly exploring many idea, also without over-explaining them. some creators can't help and make an entire episode with it, some of them make an entire timelapse series. But you balance them enough with the timelapse, final result and go over the city. Also, I personally loved that you use mod, to smooth and customize the game a bit but not overly used them, with vanilla building still in game, its just perfect for any audience. keep it up biffa!

[@AnarchyPenguin]

“You’re always trying to give us rocks, what is it with you?” Biffa: I just think they’re neat!

[@majicmayhemm2107]

Biffa, my fiancée and I love watching your vids! That said, the bus route you expanded into the residential at about 18:10 didn't get checked for how many people are waiting & where (and as mentioned in other comments, those people have to ride the whole route to get home!). Again, thank you for making videos she and I can watch together! :-D

[@SilverAnicore]

Awesome, thanks for using our suggestions for the residential expansion! :D This turned out so pretty - I'd like to imagine that mayor Biffa forced the ore companies to provide a certain standard of living or else they wouldn't be allowed to operate in the city. (No, I don't trust companies to give a toss about their workers & employees on their own. ;) )

[@trixilux]

Stuff is allowed to be built into a hillside you don't have to smooth everything out all the time 😂 I don't think Biffa has ever been to Sheffield 🤣 Love the series though! And really enjoying the longer videos! 😊

[@teekayfourtwoone4686]

Nice new area. Need a few more paths into the actual ore area (connect road ends to main road, etc.) Blue bus route brings people from one residential area to another, then to the ore area. Not ideal, especially if the first area uses it a lot, they'd be full when they get to the second area. Plus return trip for nearby workers takes them all the way back to the first residential area before coming back to theirs. Not ideal.

[@D4n6er0us]

Love the trolling of the oil industry with the renewable green energy source right on their doorstep 😂😂😂😂😂

[@OstatniElement]

When you use smoothen terrain tool at the side of the road that was cut into a slope it does not work properly - first you need to adjust the hight of the real terrain that road was dug into - it wont treat the road as lowered terrain ( when you delete or move the road you can see that the lands height comes back to normal). You could also add a stop in the mine area before the loop goes to the new built area - they wouldn't need to go all the way around the line to go back home - taking up the space on the bus.

[@MalcolmAkner]

I just love eating and watching you build. Perfect time for lunch! Are you gonna build that space district? ;)

[@FailConGaming]

Agreed...lunch break and food+Biffa...it's good!!

[@clasher0785]

I hope he is going to build one

[@duckpond7856]

You've really designed a very nice area. Great use of the park and landscaping. The University City Modder's Pack by King Leno (aka Michael Warren) is my favorite style.

[@papajimg9238]

Biffa's favourite tune: I will ROCK you By the way, the bus lane needs changing. As it is (@18:00), they can go directly from home to work, but for the way back they have to circle all the wayyyy around the main city

[@CitiesbySteven]

Love the look of the new little town, great theme choice! Excited to see how this area grows up over time! Great video!

[@johnbucci3800]

Anyone else like listening to biffa while working? Helps me concentrate.

[@TokyoTim]

Will give that a try! I tend to listen just before nodding off. Very relaxing way to wind down the day.

while "working" yeah..

[@koko-lores]

I like listening to Biffa while stop working.. ;-)

[@johnbucci3800]

@ yes.... While working

[@Garfeildubuntu]

Biffa: "I would like it to match style" Also Biffa: Puts palm trees next to regular trees

[@derHutschi]

@34:46: maybe add a crossing there just an idea :-) PS: watching your videos of C:S is more relaxing then playing the game ^^; edit: there is one nearby, ignore my suggestion ^^;

[@boarder6246]

You should come to the US because you are so good at facilitating production! We need people who make regional decisions

[@giovannielias8153]

34:47 "Do you know what is missing right here?" Me: "hmmm, *ROCKS!* "

[@Shaka448]

I subscribed to your channel about 3 weeks ago and love watching you build. I’m going to be 53 on Tuesday and my kids are giving me a switch! This will be my first game I get and cannot wait. I know it will be a bit different from the pc version but am learning a lot of tips. Thank you!

[@brendotheoffendo]

It's cool watching your old videos. Get to see your detailing and how it has evolved. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[@Xaizen]

If we do the sip of tea game every episode, there would be a global tea shortage within about a week!!

[@clarge1]

Biffa: *needs to make a new road* Also Biffa: ASYMMETRICAL

[@nikolaspcc]

OMG!! The moment I finished making my coffee I saw that a new episode has been uploaded. I love you :D

[@Pgodsey1]

You were saying what the park needed I was thinking some type of water feature would go good.

[@agbi6277]

Excellent timing biffa! Just thinking I'd got through everything then the notification pops up! Hell yeah!

[@SwGuru]

To make your districts nice and neat Biffa, pop your cursor along the road as if you were drawing a new one when you create the district, you will feel like the cursor almost sticks to the road when you use it as the guide, right click is also useful to remove anything you don't want. This will also help to make sure trucks can use the roads you want them to. I just noticed a bit later on the video you almost succeeded, try dragging a little slower.

[@marcuskintz]

"Square and Grid-ish" somehow I heard "Square and British"! Thought you were talking about yourself for a moment there... 😂

[@brycedrew3035]

I think a little community garden asset would work well here.

[@osets2117]

For the handicapped parking, the metal sign is always on the same side as the sidewalk, the car parks parallel to the curb

[@KX36]

4:40 "big trucks will come in here to deliver to any commercial stuff we pop in, but we're not going to have the trucks taking this as a diversion." If you want that, the policy you want is Old Town which allows local traffic only. if you just do Heavy Traffic Ban, even commercial buildings within the district can't get deliveries, hence the instructions you just read off the screen immediately before.

[@MitchHelle]

Should have placed a playground for the children in one of those tree areas.

[@analogbunny]

Here's a fun request... Find a stretch of road with nothing on it (but isn't too far from water and power). Paint an entertainment district. Put in one 4x4 commerce block. Label it "ROADHOUSE" (caps and all). 👍

[@Tchelow]

This is actually how cities are created. First there's a mine, which attracts workers, which in turn attract families... Nice addition to TeaPort. ☺️

[@Harlz2807]

34:50 My guess is rocks, just knowing Biffa, he’s gone back to rocks r us and is getting more rocks delivered

[@QuickSilverTAA]

24:30 This is the real reason Biffa put in the ore industry. The rocks must flow.

[@Mike__B]

Biffa: Yeah lets put in this solar updraft tower in the oil industry area, it'll fit right in Me: Wait, what?! He's trolling them.

[@SteveS85]

Really enjoying all of these megasodes. Biffa has been putting in some serious overtime lately and it doesn't go unnoticed. Have my comment and my like sir.

[@williamholmes8339]

I'm really loving the longer videos Biffa. I'm not a huge News watcher. So these videos in the morning are what I watch. Great job.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

I don't know how many items would count in your bingo, but the overall counter should be the biff-o-meter. When you reshaped the zone to include the commercial you have removed the road from the zone with heavy traffic ban. Did you check which type of employment is needed at the ore industry? Maybe the schools out policy is not the best option... As always, great chapter, Biffa!

[@DCProductions00]

as you built your Rock Park I realized that they could have just come from the quarry. So it makes perfect sense to have a rock park in this neighborhood, but then I thought there should be some rocks in the quarry! And maybe a rock park entrance to the whole quarry district like 2 big rock on either side of the road.

[@AppleCheese12345678]

You should connect those dead ends in the ore area to the highway. There's room for an on and off ramp and will help spread the trucks out instead of all going through the roundabout.

[@cleoau1352]

The new village by the ore area feels like a Welsh mining town! You can probably add the industrial statue there and keep the industrial feel. Maybe call it Abertea for the welsh theme.

[@JLwalkabout]

Along with the ArtyFarty district, there could be a HoytyToyTea district for a high end residential or commercial area, or an amusement park of a frivolous nature. Nice ore district design, I just wish the painting elements in game were more usable.

[@jaroj1112]

Anyone else notice he changed the thumbnail??

[@Litepaw]

Please add a dog park to the industrial living area for all the dog owners there! Think of the poor doggos with nowhere to play! Or at least a cool jogging path or park or something 😃

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

4:55 your less-than-optimaly drawn district seems to cover the road quite a bit, hopefully that doesn't affect anything..👀 12:56 well, at least you got to it I guess 15:02 well you never know, they used to ;p 20:05 lmbo, that bit was great LUL 24:50 "We're gonna put some rocks down..(well fruit...)" XD

[@icelandic1717]

I love the Ore village, looks great :) maybe some pedestrian crossings along those longer avenues at points to help them get around a bit (if you still have that mod). Really really liking Teaport(duh)

[@cody5012]

You could look into the mod "More Advanced District Snapping" by Dendraspis. It fixes the snapping mechanic when painting districts so it snaps along roads so it isn't as horky borky

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Amokra]

25:41 imagine waking up to find a big rock in your backyard and the Mayor driving by saying "Your Welcome!" LoL

[@Tbonepwnge]

interesting.. 30 seconds and someone has already commented lol

[@DigorengDadakan]

His patrons maybe?

[@lukearts2954]

nah, any time indication is just that: an indication. Your comment is marked "3 hours ago" while I just received the notification and the "video posted" time stamp is "1 hour ago"... So if they can't even figure it out on the scale of hours, what's the point showing seconds or minutes, right?

[@wienerschnitzel186]

take a shot for every time he says "Dedicated turning lane"

[@cody5012]

take a sip of tea for every time he breathes

[@Vessecora]

That was some perfect sarcasm there Biffa!

[@peterahazlewood]

Time for Biffa to start including some level crossings when working on the mass transit... It's great fun to watch them and looks better than millions of bridges all the time 😁

[@LambChop00S]

Really enjoyed this episode. Love your enthusiasm and humor. Thank you!

[@lukearts2954]

A small request: can you switch on the trace option for your mouse pointer? I often have a hard time following the relatively small mouse pointer, especially when you are explaining things with "down here" and "over there" when a lot of information is on the screen... You're giving a lot of great information (like key combos while you're using them) but I'm sure I would get even more from your videos if I could always follow your pointer (and thus your own focus). A short ghost trace would fix that easily! Thanks for your uploads and great content!

[@kartikkkkk]

Here is an idea do an challenge with an cities skylines youtuber and build 2 different cities with some restrictions and some unique goals

[@simonekurtz4168]

That's a great idea

[@oldenfarten5350]

Don't forget to expand the area marking for the no heavy trucks to include those angled streets at the edges of your residential expansion.Great videos.

[@restcure]

From what I can tell, the only part allowing trucks is the asymmetrical segment up to where it becomes two lane

[@tomrebbettes380]

If you line up your screen, use the district/area tool, click and hold... Then use WSAD to draw the area you can get some nice straight lines. :D Love your videos.

[@thedeadadadns9517]

Do you or anyone use the 4.0 industry policy? If so when is good time to use it? 🤔

[@thejugshow]

I thought after playing this game for so long biffa you would know that putting schools on the outskirts means that 5% of the houses actually only get school coverage.. when you opened the education overlay nearly all of the houses did not have coverage.. the elementary school and high school need to be smack bang in the centre of a build up area.. keep up the good work mate.

[@LordKilchester]

The ore area residential looks just like suburbs built for workers near where industry was around Birmingham Alabama. The University City pack was definitely the best choice.

[@stevengalloway8052]

"Where's he going!?" 😆 "No one's using the car park. Fantastic!" 😆 I do like the balance of the low residential, commercial, and parks, Biffa, to the high residential and commercial. That's how it is in real life. Also, I'm assuming you're planning to put in an airport, of course. Maybe a combination of a sort of super transportation center with the airport, metro, bus, monorail, and train? 🤔 Still looking for that space center and the rocket launches, since you do have the ore to set aside for it. 😏😌 Looking forward to seeing more, thanks...

[@marcuskintz]

One of the best things to wake up to after a long night shift. A new video!!! Thanks!!!

[@DrGreenGiant]

I'm not a fan of rocks for decoration but I get your point about it adding texture. For a mining village I think it's apt though :)

[@tomthumb4503]

should use the hydro at some point as you have a river and maybe just do an area just for factories

[@alanbutler9791]

Like the extra bits of detailing your doing and thanks for letting us know how your doing it, I've learnt so much. Thanks for all the content, your helping to make lock down more bearable with every video.

[@MrEmoPanda18]

the way the screen panned down at 18:48 made it look like my monitor was falling backwards lmao

[@nicdesmedt7443]

I think you might want to add a trainline for passengers and maybe a cargo line, with a direct link to the car factory and a port and shipyard from the ore industry might be cool. Don't forget about your bycicle and pedestrian highwayst too! Looks sweet though! In Belgium those area's have football teams as well, might add to the look.

[@OpenMindet]

Just finished shopping for the weekend and you walk home tired, a huge rock falls at your feet. Shock for life. 24:50

[@mr.highschoollocksmith6080]

Biffa is the only guy to be worried about car park making noise. ;) Love ya biffaf 👌

[@Shadowguard331]

Hoffa the things you are wondering about at 5:04 are the electrical box that control the power for the block.

[@bugbasher]

You should add a small tourist viewing point on top of the hills, so people can look out over the mines.

[@patrickchapman8583]

What about adding some walking paths connecting the ends of the roads with factories and the maintenance buildings to the main road into the ore industry zone? There are bus stops on the main road and maybe a couple of short walking paths to the industry maze roads that end just short of the main road would improve walkability. Also, how about a short walking path to connect the road the schools are on to the road it doesn't quite connect to? When you put in the rocks next to the Lungs of the City "for the kids to climb on" I was wondering about instead putting an actual park and the climbing wall feature.

[@audrey-chan6290]

25:43 "I just like it. I _just_ like it. That's it. You can quote me on that." -Biffa, 2020 I quoted it.

[@sumonkey72]

Lets put some nice renewable energy in the middle of the fossil fuels :)

[@claytonhoffman3533]

Nothing quite as satisfying as watching your unique factories producing goods!

[@amFortunate]

Thank you 'ore' for watching. See you next Time.

[@OneFuriousDon]

You should put more walking paths (especially close to bus stops next to industry area and through the huge commercial block) to reduce traffic and encourage people to walk or use buses. :)

[@aliozanerbektas]

Those asymmetrical roads are just pure eye-cancer...

[@pangolin83]

Biffa: Let's give the old folks a nice place to live Also Biffa: ...next to a mine

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😜

[@TransportofPerth]

There is a asymmetrical 1+2highway road instead of using those small slow ones on your fast road near the stadium.

[@ejsvegas5724]

Wish there was a Mod to make the walking paths smaller, kind of strange to make them as long as a 2 lane road but it still looks ok as long as you don't zoom in LOL. Great job though!