Reddit's Top Questions Answered - OpenTTD Tutorial

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OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money via transporting passengers and freight by road, rail, water and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
OpenTTD duplicates most features of Transport Tycoon Deluxe and has many additions, including a range of map sizes, support for many languages, custom (user-made) artificial intelligence (AI), downloadable customisations, ports for several widely used operating systems, and a more user-friendly interface. OpenTTD also supports local area network (LAN) and Internet multiplayer, co-operative and competitive, for up to 255 players.
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[@niels_m_h]

10:06 The additional, perhaps more nerdy, answer to "where are the files", is to use the "list_dirs" console command. It'll tell you exactly all the folder locations the game will look in for each of the different kinds of content it can work with. For example, the command "list_dirs newgrf" will tell you all the folders the game would look for NewGRF files in. This even includes folders that don't currently exist, but would also be used if you created them.

[@TheFakingBox]

Thanks for the tips. I've just learned how to use schedule from old video of yours, it's beutiful. But when the city grows and I'd to add a lot of new stations and a lot of new vehicles the sytem start to fail, or might I'm doing something wrong; a lot of time it's not a big deal but I'm trying to have one or two buses in every station and them leaving at same time. An extended tutorial of this mechanic would be great.

[@snap_oversteer]

Nice list, I think I knew around 1/3. Also do you remember if original TTD had no penalty for trains (un)loading at stations shorter than the train? I think I used a lot of 1 tile train stations in TTD and was surprised why this didn't work in OpenTTD :D

[@jornhietbrink870]

#11 omg thanks. Been having issues with dragging around and scrolling through the map. Always miss a tile. Trains getting lost

[@MasterHellish]

No problem

[@joop1991]

2:30 What's the difference between transfer and unload all? I normally use "unload all" and that also works 🧐

[@niels_m_h]

If the station accepts the cargo (as in, there is something like a house or industry in range that consumes it) then Unload All will deliver the cargo and receive payment, while Transfer will still drop off the cargo on the station for something else to pick up later.

[@joop1991]

@@niels_m_h "Unload All" also drops off the cargo on a station that doesn't accept it. That's the whole point of the "all" in "unload all". I use it just like he did in the video with a feeder service.

[@niels_m_h]

@joop1991 That's exactly what I mean 🙂 If you use Unload All, then cargo that's accepted gets delivered and cargo that's not accepted gets dropped off to transfer. If you use a Transfer order then all cargo gets unloaded to transfer regardless of whether it's accepted at the station or not. The effect is that a feeder service might suddenly start behaving differently if you use Unload All orders, if a new industry or houses gets built near the transfer station.

[@nfmc6640]

Great video. Always fun to watch

[@MasterHellish]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@pocketplanes457]

Great video as alway, Hellish! Take my like.

[@MasterHellish]

Much appreciated!

[@MrHoppeltje]

question, how to convert your trains from rail to monorail? or to maglev?

[@MasterHellish]

You can't in vanilla. You need a mod to make the shair tracks and then convert them and it's not one I use. You need to sell all the ones you have and then upgrade your tracks

[@WizardBrandon]

Send all the trains to depot, sell them, upgrade to monorail, remake everytrain

[@HairyPoppinsYT]

How many times can you transfer cargo? For example, could I get my cargo to go from coal mine, to town, to another town and finally to a power station? Is there a setting to change the number of times you can transfer cargo?

[@MasterHellish]

Yep

[@vsevolodalipov4375]

​@@MasterHellishwhich question is this an answer to?

[@HairyPoppinsYT]

@@vsevolodalipov4375 Yes, Im sure that's sufficient! hahaha

[@DC4444]

Afaik there's no limit on how often you can transfer cargo

[@caseysallador4025]

does the unbunch feature is also available in mobile version?? i think it'll useful to me since I'm learning to do a scheduling vehicles also at 18:31, did they rename the "ISR: classification yard" into "marshalling yard"? about scheduling, is it advisable to schedule a freight train? in your opinion

[@MasterHellish]

The unbunching feature was brought brought in in version 14 so as long as you have that on mobile then that would be available. I wouldn't bother using any sort of scheduling or unbunching on freight just use full load at your pickup station.

[@caseysallador4025]

@MasterHellish oh okay, gonna check that on play store. give u a subs too :)

[@DC4444]

Since I started playing with ISR, it's always been marshalling yard, but it could've had a different name before I used ISR.

[@H-N-G]

1:10 isn't there a patch or newgrf which has docks without needing that hill? At rivers surrounded by houses it is quite annoying that you have to demolish houses for that hill and it even doesn't look good.

[@hamoostaffat]

Haven't heard of one, AFAIK docks need to be half on a sloped tile to put placed

[@niels_m_h]

Developers have experimented with making "flat docks" but it hasn't been finished enough yet to make it into the game.

[@jensgabrielarbeitmunck1918]

Why does the Firs doesnt seem to give me that many industries and goods? I have some additions, like china clay and sand, but not stone or petroleum fuel.

[@MasterHellish]

In the GRF settings you can choose the type of environment and there's different cargo types for the different environments

[@jensgabrielarbeitmunck1918]

@ thanks!

[@tonig2255]

Master Hellish I will name my firstborn son after you thabk you for this vid!!! :)

[@aztekenen1]

Boo, it's empty in here. I guess ill take first seat.

[@MasterHellish]

👋

[@Tzeentch33]

#16 WHAT?! O_O with ctrl O_O it`s game changer for me :)

[@MasterHellish]

Transferring can be fun to do

[@DC4444]

Another thing with ctrl shortcuts is that the tooltips that appear when you hover over a button with the mouse will often say if holding ctrl will do a different action to clicking on it normally.

[@Gil-games]

It's a good vid to throw around the reddit. Ofc nothing new here. What? You really told ppl to see the wiki for junctions.... everyone would be better off to not do that. Even better show them my vid 🤪😅

[@StudioSerinn]

I learned nothing 😕

[@MasterHellish]

Congrats on knowing your stuff in OpenTTD

[@StudioSerinn]

I was expecting signalling questions to be the most frequently asked questions.

[@bencze465]

Poor zoomers, imagine if we didn't have social media they wouldn't be able to learn and play any game.. or anything...

[@Aritase]

I guess you are a zoomer yourself then, since you found yourself watching this video