3 Simple & Easy VANILLA Service Interchange Designs In Cities Skylines! Modular Builds

Today we're ticking the service interchange design off the list but we're doing 3 instead. These are designs I've used across my various series, they look great, work nicely and can be used almost anywhere to help your cims get on and off the highway!
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[@billythepuppet4114]

Meanwhile my roads: ⬆️↘️↙️⬇️↩️➡️↘️🔄↩️⬅️⬅️↘️⬇️

[@GeminiStars]

You are the Bob Ross of Cities: Skylines - a calm, smooth voice that reassures us we can do it and add our own creativity to the build.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you so much! That's very kind ☺️

[@KiwiFruit23_]

AHHH I WAS JUST THINKIKG THAT 😭😭

[@jxslayz6663]

Now that you mention it I can't stop laughing sporadically thinking about it!

[@SkateClipsAndTips]

Him and czardus are the bob ross's of City Skylines

[@timclark6439]

"11:00 and over here just a nice little tree will be appreciated .... there we go" Just highways and happy little trees 🤣

[@jxslayz6663]

Third one is definitely my favorite. It's a perfect balance of realism and good game traffic management. I find too realistic leads to bad traffic, and too meta/unrealistic leads to my unhappiness.

[@javastat7312]

Absolutely love how you make building of interchanges so understandable!

[@sirtotty8130]

Exactly what i was thinking!

[@70M45-c9r]

In the First one, downgrade the middle sections between the slip lanes And the left turn intersection to 4lane road for better lane mathematic

[@cookiehustle]

THANK YOU for these vanilla guides for us console users

[@chefdoc]

Seconded. Really got into console cities skylines after watching a lot of these videos. His orchid bay series is phenomenal

[@70M45-c9r]

The last one blew my mind absolutely

[@MrYup864]

I’ve been looking for so long for good interchange ideas. Thank you. You just earned another subscriber

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks for the sub!

[@justinfrerich8132]

not gonna lie, thought that first one was gonna plug up real bad in my city, but it worked out real well. I did end up doing some lane management with traffic manager just to make it a touch more efficient, but it does pretty good. Thank's for the design man.

[@DokisKalin1]

I just replaced my ugly pre-made round about with option A and it's handling heavy traffic in and out of my town so much more efficiently! It looks even better with tropical foliage by MrMaison.

[@bazzakrak]

Nice ones, I think the 3rd one is my fav, mostly because you have that space to put in the road maintenance building

[@shadowslip7125]

Thank you! I love that last one! I've used it in a couple now! Easy to build on PS5 too!

[@Sweet05cts]

Fortunately, for us PC players, we can just grab someone else's hard work off the workshop and drop them in, LOL, but for all vanilla & console players, this is great!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Oh hey Casino

[@Xenc5]

Really liking the attention to detail! Thank you for the excellent guide!

[@rahill-95]

Great video!!!! Definitely an helpful guide to reduce traffic congestion and make interchange look aesthetically pleasing within the city.

[@AngelaM745]

Lovely, I'll definitely use these. Would love the option in vanilla to actual build ponds or lakes without the need of water acces/drainage.

[@BakedZiTi77]

I always come back to this video when I need some inspiration 🤙🤙

[@jimbosarmoreddivision]

I really liked the last one. I saved this video to my CS content on YT. Thank you And I’m a new sub!!! 🎉

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks for the sub! Lots of content to enjoy :)

[@thargoff]

Highway interchanges from OE, who just loves to do one-side sliproads to highways... :) I love it. :) Anyway, great designs!

[@ltsmum3316]

This was everything I've been looking for and so easy to follow!

[@ChristManifestee316]

I know this video is old but thanks so much for this. The way you explained things made it easy to replicate in my own City! I made the 45degree diamond interchange, and the asymmetrical overpass one that you said would be good for industrial service! The both fit so well and I got a confidence boost from building the interchanges manually as opposed to plopping down big clunky pre-made ones that done fit well into my city! Much thanks!

[@jxslayz6663]

I like the fact that you say everyone is going to be happy. Me, I'm everyone lol. You really are teaching us alot thank you sir.

[@ghost_chaser_gr9493]

I’m brand new to this game so I have no idea what I’m doing this helped very much!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No problem mate. If you are new, I strongly suggest checking out my noobs guide series. Teaches you everything from the ground up! kzbin.info/aero/PLW9ZbMsZn0d5MGKEw9et_NKxhuEG6rC8e&si=8YYY1c-wcdo-f9X7

[@ghost_chaser_gr9493]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG I appreciate that brother thank you! Now it’s just trying replicate what you did in this video lol! But I definitely need to figure out the power and water thing first! I’m coming from Jurassic World Evolution 2 sooo much different!

[@ghost_chaser_gr9493]

Definitely got an idea now! Thank you!! Watching your tutorials rn

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@ghost_chaser_gr9493 no worries, glad they can help! 😌

[@larrylindgren9484]

With a little Lane Mathematics and few lane connectors from TM that first one could handle a bit of traffic. Roundabout interchanges work until they get silly busy then they are worthless. Which is your second one. The last is another one as long as it doesn't get busy it was work great and look oddly cool. But the first one with just a touch of work could be a beast.

[@Gengar99]

these are pretty good, nice use of fences.

[@frizzyrascal1493]

The 3rd one is my favorite...small, compact and it looks nice. I don't like the 20-way intersections. As I only play the Vanilla version (Switch), this is quite helpful.

[@Nick9Three]

Get this man to 100k subs! I’ve been subbed for years and I can’t believe you haven’t hit 100k yet! But then again I’m not sure if 100k people have even played skylines lol. But good video mate, always a banger!

[@TheHirenkyaku]

I found your channel just yesterday and I'm already in love with how you build and design cities. I haven't played the game for a long time, plus I'm a console player so I don't have mods to make some things easier like the traffic flow. Definitely gonna try some of this when I start a new city. 🙂

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Ah thank you! Glad you're enjoying the videos. If you want Vanilla inspiration, my two cities Palaven & Noveria are both vanilla, Noveria is snow. They are much loved and very nice vanilla builds. Thank you for watching :)

[@Kerem-ng8qf]

Thank you for the video. It would be very helpful I will definetly use these in my next vanilla city! 😊👻

[@TrippyHippieTiara]

Thank you!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You're welcome!

[@noughtypixy]

First one was super ease to build, thank you for being concise.

[@jeffrow27]

Thank you. These are great and you explain it so well

[@Anne5440_]

I like these. Thank you.

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

Sound-barrier hwy roads also are a good fencing alternative, tho with obviously limitations.

[@eax2010EA]

I wish road infrastructure would cost more to build and maintain so that we could have a challenge of using roads wisely.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Hard mode increases upkeep costs I think?

[@eax2010EA]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG oh really??? I didnt know that, thx man

[@70M45-c9r]

Also, the traffic Lights should be on the other junctions in the First exit

[@fashionforty]

Great and simple instructions

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jarijn60]

I am just a beginnner with cities skylines 1. But this video is very good. It takes some time for the decoration but you made a flew nice examples. I have a small city (44.000 people with $ 3,5 million) but at the start I have made the roads from the highway direct to one road for entering the city. But how I have a “red point” wich made problems for the traffic at the highway. I shall start a new city and shall keep enough space for the future.

[@will-bp9gz]

I've just done number 3, remember to do it the other way round for left hand driving 🤦‍♂️

[@davidbell1684]

Love these for console!! Great content

[@amenboughanmi5819]

Awesome Marina brings life to the down town also It would be amazing you build an Olympic city in Thessia with aquatic Centre, Basketball arena and high capacity real football Stadium

[@industrialnomad]

Not sure the maths make sense. Before the interchange was added I assume there was 3 lanes of traffic on the highway. After the interchange is added the highway traffic is forced to merge down to 2 lanes for no good reason and then merge back into traffic joining the highway instead of the other way round. Also this turns one lane of the highway into a turning lane.

[@ClareFlack]

This is so very helpful thank you 😊

[@kyyuun]

Just what I needed, thanks a ton!!

[@nilscibula5320]

Very nice interchanges! But you forgot about the lane mathematics at the 2nd one.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Can't do lane mathematics in vanilla

[@smccan]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@jamariscott]

I want to like this video several times and I'm on the first tip

[@confidentwreck]

It’s taken me an hour to get the highway parallel with just enough grass in between it to do 15:42

[@daniellarusso3392]

Simple but effective... Thoughts for me

[@iammeniece]

I see a collab with YumbleTV yall minds together, the roadway would be so clean!

[@dooder39]

I have been following this video to the detail replacing my clogged-up highway exits, but after trying design 1 and 2 the result only made it worse.

[@TheodoreSW.]

Love the video, btw, how to I make roads go under ground?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Page up and down or d pad on controller 😌

[@kleckerklotz9620]

Very nice and easy designs. Thanks for sharing. One question: Can you make a ranking about which asset or zone creates the most traffic? I think that should be very interesting, because then you can judge where to place what.

[@neckless69]

Industry DLC Industry and Industry make the most by far but can be largely dealt with by use of cargo trains. High density Commercial attracts shoppers, public transport is your best friend. Regular commercial doesn’t attract too many shoppers. Offices only have people coming/going to their jobs. The most traffic generating assets will be your stadiums and public transport that accepts tourists from outside the city.

[@kleckerklotz9620]

@@neckless69 I know. But I'm sure not everyone knows that.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

NECKLESS has pretty much nailed it. Any Industrial assets from the DLC or zoning from the base game produces the most by a long way :)

[@sijiroy5535]

Can you make modular bulid once per week pls it's very interesting🤔

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

I can try, Modular Builds usually take a combination of planning and that moment of inspiration, hence why they're not super frequent. We have a request channel in our Discord if you want to pitch some ideas :)

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

The first one with the tunnels is begging to be made into a SPUI, a single point urban interchange wherein those left turns are curved inwards to a single intersection. Wonder if it’d work in vanilla?

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

I just made a vanilla SPUI in my first city and it works pretty well even with industrial traffic going through it. Seems to work a bit better than a A2 parclo even though its not a fair comparison because I have a lot of private vehicles and truck traffic going through that one. I'm sure mods would make both better though.

[@keithrowley7381]

Superb. :) Pleasure to watch.

[@loafofbred22]

Can you please make an interchange for a noob like me with no dlc? Im tired of everyone using the cool highways on mass transit and the fences on Parklife. Please make a true vanilla interchange.

[@emptycloud8669]

Please tell me what setting and or mods do you use for these graphics/lighting. Looks soo fresh but realistic and contrast

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Only graphical settings on is ultimate eye candy and I'm using the RelightSoft3 relight ☺️

[@emptycloud8669]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG Thank you, great video

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@emptycloud8669 thanks for watching ☺️

[@bruhder5854]

5:50 I don't understand how you get those blue markers. I'm trying it right now and it just doesn't give it to me

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Road Guidelines for the dotted line, road length for the marker

[@nimishsethi2187]

What is the name of the software you are using? I would like to give it a shot and recreate.

[@seadogg404]

Nice work

[@voxxel]

Love that. Subbed

[@roqsteady5290]

Last one looks great. So you think 5m is enough clearance for road and rail bridges in the game?

[@thanasis-_-]

I don't get how can you turn left from the two way to the highway in the 3rd design

[@Mike-mz9cm]

I'm going to make this but the 6 lane portion between the slip lanes, i am going to cross over directional 3 lane one ways to essentially make a diverging diamond. 👌🏻

[@basilismakedonas4531]

what mods are you using? Are they compatible with the updated version of the game ?

[@ben0329]

And as always great builds

[@marklunn321]

Always enjoyable

[@confidentwreck]

8:57 never works for me. Always gives me a “space occupied” or “distance too short” message

[@alibengali1463]

What the Name of the Song at the end of every section.

[@bricks_and_cities]

Great ideas!

[@ramonoz9680]

Hi, can you tell me the mod for producing Ore, Oil, farm land, and forest, its a round icon, also the mod that extends your menu show heaps of roads etc. Cheers Ramon.

[@neckless69]

Great video for some starter interchanges. A more efficient version of the diamond interchange (first one) can also be made i.e. the diverging diamond interchange, to accommodate more traffic/heavier traffic. To make them feel less surgical, I usually make my interchanges freeform, going around/staying in the natural heights/dips of the earth they’re being built on and not perfectly straight and symmetrical. This is especially great for system interchanges (highway-highway).

[@nmerri459]

Hi mate, need help! I used the first interchange m, however my AI are not using the tunnel, Any advice?? On xbox

[@Face_meltor_]

Just quick question, where do you get the fences from? Is that a workshop to a dlc asset?

[@Jasonofindy]

It has been two months so I’m sure you already have your answer, but I figured I’d answer here for anyone watching and reading later. (especially those like me playing on console with no mod options) The Park Life DLC comes with four fence designs (one from each park type). The Industries DLC comes with four more. (one from each industry type). Finally, the Airport DLC comes with one airport fence which isn’t ideal for other aesthetic uses because of signage detail on the fence, but will work if you own no other fence options. Especially in cases where you are not using fencing for detailing aesthetics, but to deconflict overlapping zoning by “canceling” the zoning from the offending street by lining it with fencing.

[@Face_meltor_]

@@Jasonofindy yeah thank you very much, I knew the zoning trick that's why I wanted to get the fences I used paths before that, now with the sale on the playstation store I got the season pass 2 on a big discount so I have the park-life and industry dlc Still have to get into how the dlc main stuff works efficiently but I have the fences now! Also with the last free update we got the city fences.

[@Starmanw422007]

What map is this OE

[@TexMackerson]

Vanilla but dlcs

[@kristiadihartanto2623]

Lot of cities skylines youtuber just create a good looking city but not many of them build realistic services line. You are not one of them.

[@brandonchambers1661]

😊😊

[@shakaama]

"simple"

[@Alexelliste]

2nd

[@suffianal-hadi9487]

Not to sound off! BUT! How is this Vanilla? Look at ice-cream, You have vanilla than you have other flavored ice-cream! Such as you have in this one! Your other flavored ice-cream are the DLC'S! THUS in addition your using MOD"S! THIS is in no way anything like Vanilla Ice-cream! It's Other flavored Ice-cream with mod's= [Toppings]!

[@KaitouKaiju]

You can build all of these with no dlc and no mods

[@GB19751]

I feel some plagiarism coming on.

[@darthfatass42069]

Love the modular builds. I've put few of them in my cities.

[@geenicoll2920]

Oh get you building interchanges like the pro you are :D That last one is very compact yet visually appealing.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

I'm ok with service interchanges lol. Highway interchanges my mind melts :') Thanks bro!

[@karolinagorna5384]

Thank you!

[@wendyperez8714]

This has been such a game changer. I had no idea how to even tackle that highway thing and it was demoralizing. Subscribed. Will watch everything you've done. Thank you!

[@gabrielmalabanan4906]

Can I do the first one without the dlc or would it not be as efficient?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You can, won't lose too much efficiency with it

[@rayphenicie7344]

How do I do this at the very start of the game? Is it affordable in view of keeping initial road building to a minimum in order to get the city started? This example seems to be done in a city with a population of 10,000 or so.

[@bruhder5854]

My advice is to push the landmarks and get a shitton of money first. You can temporarily set the taxes to their highest and easily make a lot of money and turn them back to 12% to keep people happy. There's a lot that you'll end up having to change, especially given how much traffic you'll get once you setup a cargo system like with train or ships.

[@dragade101]

i really dig #2 for how clean it looks. You want the roundabout to work and the AI probably will respect this well enough

[@marelideschamps8610]

Great information with exact measurements to create🎉

[@kirkstenvall8892]

I know this has been around for a few months but it's still relevant. This are really nice! Totally different than anything else I've seen. I love them. Thank you!

[@josephp9141]

is it good to a build a highway through the middle of the city?

[@jamesecroucher]

Late to the party! But what mod do you have for all your extra Road type options ?

[@kanojune5754]

That's Vanilla... Other roads came from Mass Transit DLC

[@DG0011]

can you upload these to the workshop please?

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

10:15 with this one, would there be any traffic concerns with putting the ramps for the west-bound hwy on the same side, mirroring that of the east-bound hwy?

[@rhettparker7105]

The way he just goes mmkay reminds me of the principal in South Park 😂

[@johnneil921]

Very nice! The way it always is on this channel 👊

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Oh you!

[@nedim_guitar]

Nice! Very helpful.

[@anonpadius]

Please add chapter markers. Thanks for your videos!