Hello friends! Every Friday 17:30 UTC/GMT we hold a “Let’s play together” competition. During next 24 hours everyone is welcome to try and score the best time in a preselected level. Join our Discord server and keep Discord running while playing — your results will be automatically published in the #lets-play-together channel. You need to get 5 stars to qualify.
Glittering prizes include: 1) Top 3 winners receive one random card each. Collect 18 locomotive cards and advance to next set of 6 all new cards! Complete that second set and enter a final tier of 2 very special and super limited cards! Assemble 26 cards and receive a special prize. Easy! 2) Every player registered by our Discord bot has a chance to get a card. The number of cards depends on the number of participants: one additional card for every 10 train connoisseurs on the list. More players means more prizes! Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.
A level we are playing this week is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2744686391 Just open the game - there's a link right in the main menu.
Good luck everyone!
Even more production buildings coming to Train Valley 2
Thank you for your continuing support and your feedback and creativity. As a token of our gratitude, we have some more top secret data about Train Valley 2 newest content expansion:
Please welcome the Disassembling Factory:
Quick facts:
A single incoming resource or product is disassembled into corresponding components.
Initial resource as well as resulting components capacity is limited and can be defined in the Editor.
A Disassembling Factory can produce up to 5 different components.
Disassembling process may require Workers and/or Electricity-this is optional and can be enabled through the Editor's Object Settings screen.
No Electricity refunds.
Players can follow any recipe or blueprint or let their fantasy free and dismantle candy into Steel and Fish (see the screenshot above :)
A Disassembling Factory will not process more of the incoming product before components from the previous batch are shipped elsewhere.
Players can choose components for transportation by switching between the Disassembling Factory output options with Left Mouse Button. In the screenshot above we can click Fish to switch the output, and later can click Steel Plates to go back to delivering those.
A Disassembling Factory can be used in several Scenarios and trigger Activables across the level. Stay tuned for an update to our Activables guide!
We are looking forward to meeting you during this Friday's LPT challenge! Good luck!
Extra Let's Play Together - Heal a Broken Heart
Hello friends! Due to the fact that many people are now forced to be at home in quarantine, we decided to add another Let's Play Together competition in the middle of the week. This is an experiment. There can be different crazy levels. There will be no prizes. Perhaps this will last only for the period of forced isolation, but if everyone likes this extra competition format we will make it permanent.
The rules are the same: log in to our Discord server, keep it running, play a competitive level, complete it with 5 stars and have fun! Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.
Just open the game - there's a link right on the main menu screen.
Good luck everyone!
Weekly Winner - January 31st
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733424481 by @petronille_marie
Tonight we are building magic computers-all the computational power of a modern PC combined with magic of divided by a (probably) magical river pink train valley wizards. 8:20, engine upgrades, DNSAT, LPT-certified.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2736655590 by @brunocharles
Industrial factories and secret containers, a nuclear plant hidden by great walls. First deliveries enable offshore uranium mine. DNSAT, 20 minutes, a Toll station and several production buildings' construction projects waiting to be funded.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2734359826 by @thomas
DNRT, DNDATT, 12:00, Passenger Flow valley with a secret tunnel to bring everything together and complete both your railway network and deliveries schedule.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2732297648 by @I love trains
An airport conveniently built on top of a 4 island archipelago, 140 Passenger Flow deliveries, very expensive bridges, DNSAT, a lot of room but not enough space for track layout improvement, 30 minutes timer. Great multitasking exercise with an unusual layout.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2730254237 by @Miaxlo
The bridge is now finished at 20:00 mark and the 5 star timer is adjusted to 22:30, minor stations positioning fixes. A great DNDATT terraforming-powered puzzle that inspired some of our newest Editor objects coming in the next DLC :)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2736762988 by @petronille_marie
A band of hobbits captured local amusement park, blocked the entrance and are enjoying water supplies left inside. It is up to us to open the park back and restore it to working condition. DNDATT 11 minutes terraforming adventure with a touch of magic. Let's make sure the hobbits can stay after reopening :)
Congratulations on your well-deserved award @petronille_marie! A €10 Steam gift card will be delivered by our contact ASAP.
Tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!
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A hyperloop-powered color mixing operation somewhere in the snowy valleys ruled by penguins and snowmen. The idea is to manufacture all primary colours and mix those into black colour. 21:40 timer, three island layout and tight budget.
It is 1863, we are taking part in the First Transcontinental Railroad construction, an effort to unite the country again. Build your tracks all the way to Promontory Point and connect the oceans. 14:00 timer, DNDATT, several historical landmarks to look for shortcuts around and historically accurate lack of locomotive upgrades.
Raven Railway is a compact mountainous valley with a two-part layout divided by a waterway with an island in the middle, separate altitude levels, a Customs station, a Toll station, DNSAT, DNDATT and a number of expensive production buildings to build.
A different take on leaving some clues for the players, Golden Gate Parks has almost no terrain-related restrictions and a whole bunch of unfinished and seemingly leading somewhere railway tracks. A Customs station and two autotrains will make next 12 minutes of your Train Valley 2 session extra puzzling :)
Two parts valley with different altitude and the only way to transfer trains between the two is a moving terraforming powered platform in the middle triggered by a delivery to the PC factory right next to it. 24 elevator platform uses later make sure you have got all 5 stars :) Mind the gap!
14:00 minutes DNRT journey through mud moats of Muddy Circles. WE're here to supply a particularly well-defended Canned Food Factory using produce from local farmers. Locomotive cleaning costs are going up with every delivery, some preplanning is in order it seems :)
Tonight we are riding a pyramid. With trains. In 13 minutes. With stealth option out of the picture disguising whole operation as series of Passenger Flow deliveries is our plan B. We can even throw in building a new Power Plant to further confuse local authorities :) Great landscaping, canned spiders, no locomotive upgrades.
Based on a certain series of dystopian novels, Tie Down In Small Pots is an island with delivery quests that has at least 8 different access points and only so much space for moving the trains around. A hyperloop shortcut, DNSAT and 28 minutes timer. Have fun, and don't fall in the water! :)
We are trapped inside this octavarium. Good thing we have some production buildings inside and our trusty locomotives ready. Each Books related delivery might open a way out. Hyperloops, 15:00 with a side dish of blowing up obstacles :)
Scientific train smashing at relativistic speeds-for science! We are building a new Locomotive Head-on Collider, but first we'll need to raise a lot of money and make sure we have a lot of Electricity. We'll also need building supplies, steel, trained engineers, wiring, electronics, computers-the list goes on, but so does the timer. And speaking of time, there is also a swiss hand watch delivery to complete. Don't ask where the gold is from :) At least 10 trains to Supercollide™, DNDATT and 17:00.
Congratulations on your well-deserved award @Space Ghandi [Robot House]! A €10 Steam gift card will be delivered by our contact ASAP.
Tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!
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*Do No Stop Any Trains *Do Not Destroy Any Track Tiles *Do Not Reverse Trains *Do Not Use Pause
Hello friends! Every Friday 17:30 UTC/GMT we hold a “Let’s play together” competition. During next 24 hours everyone is welcome to try and score the best time in a preselected level. Join our Discord server and keep Discord running while playing — your results will be automatically published in the #lets-play-together channel. You need to get 5 stars to qualify.
Glittering prizes include: 1) Top 3 winners receive one random card each. Collect 18 locomotive cards and advance to next set of 6 all new cards! Complete that second set and enter a final tier of 2 very special and super limited cards! Assemble 26 cards and receive a special prize. Easy! 2) Every player registered by our Discord bot has a chance to get a card. The number of cards depends on the number of participants: one additional card for every 10 train connoisseurs on the list. More players means more prizes! Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.
A level we are playing this week is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2733424481 Just open the game - there's a link right in the main menu.
Good luck everyone!
Extra Let's Play Together - Octavarium 1.1
Hello friends! Due to the fact that many people are now forced to be at home in quarantine, we decided to add another Let's Play Together competition in the middle of the week. This is an experiment. There can be different crazy levels. There will be no prizes. Perhaps this will last only for the period of forced isolation, but if everyone likes this extra competition format we will make it permanent.
The rules are the same: log in to our Discord server, keep it running, play a competitive level, complete it with 5 stars and have fun! Visit our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel) to learn more.
Just open the game - there's a link right on the main menu screen.
Good luck everyone!
Level of the Year - 2021
Nearly 1800 Workshop levels and approximately 240 Let's Play Together challenges later the time has come to choose a level worthy of the Level Of The Year 2021 title. It goes without saying that picking a single Workshop submission out of many, many wonderful train valleys is...problematic.
During the course of 2021 with your valuable feedback in mind we have added new objects and mechanics to the game, some still available only in Workshop levels. We are bringing these never-before-used by our level design team mechanics back with another official campaign as well as improving on these ideas and introducing brand new objects, buildings, stations-some are making their way into Train Valley 2 very soon. All that would not be possible without you and your unfailing interest in train puzzles. Flazm Interactive would like to express gratitude to every Train Valley player. You all are brilliant.
A process or method through the application of which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.
A fine example of our player's ingenuity that indeed resulted in a new building soon to be introduced to the Editor, Reverse Engineering by @ishKiia is a story of betrayal, hostile takeover, power play among car factory owners, some questionable business practices, heavy duty train deliveries and disassembling ready to ship cars into basic components, smuggling resulting components through many Customs stations filled with officials that are not prepared for a heist of that scale and reassembling cars using smuggled resources after. A complex multistage procedure on its own, while done in reverse requires exponentially more processing power :)
A quaint grasslands valley landscape divided by a waterway suggests several stages to this operation, limited space dictates any crazy track layout you can come up with is the way to go. 15 minutes, Do Not Reverse Trains and Do Not Allow Any Train To Arrive At The Wrong Station. You do have fastest engines from the start.
@ishKiia, outstanding work! A €50 Steam gift card is heading your way right now :)
Train Valley 2 community and developers want you, reader, to bring out your level editor and show us train driving complexity levels we never knew even existed. Build, create, compete. Having fun is a requirement :)
A yellow episode of petronille_marie's series of coloured levels-terraforming, fields on naturally occurring wild yellow biplanes and watching your engines delivering components to the yellow potion Lab through yellow flowers populated hills. DNRT.
Familiar layout yet different gameplay? @petronille_marie delivers-two different DNSAT levels with same lay of the land: attractive lake setting with islands rising from below the lake and revealing additional production buildings to connect to your supply chain.
A terraforming puzzle spiced up with DNSAT, Lost Mines has multi-level terrain that turns every delivery into a separate journey of planning railway network extensions with extra care. With demolition team unavailable and 14 minutes on the 5-star timer, this valley is a formidable challenge.
Indeed, we have just 60 seconds on the timer, but combined with Earn 28 000 TV2$ and Blow Up 1 Train objectives Very Short presents a puzzle with curiously higher replayability potential :) Dubbed "evil" by the Workshop commenters, this submission is a different experience.
Potion-making, Customs stations, complex railway junctions, unexpected shortcuts, autofactories and unconfirmed reports of some LPT-tier tricks involved. A fine recipe that gives a taste of true train puzzle challenge and strength to enhance on it with your own Editor creations :)
A multi network level with quite some multitasking and almost no changing zoom level and moving your camera around. Compact design that houses two separate supply chains is to be united into one with a trivial 350 000 TV2$ construction project. 40 minutes on the clock and at least 200 track tiles to build.
We are breaking into a snowman bank/stronghold. We are to rescue snowman crews from under the water, but the Earn At Least 2 700 000 TV2$ objective and seven separate entry points we can blow up to gain access to the shiny treasure indicate we can...pursue additional venues while we are at it :) We have highly trained spiders, dynamite factory ready to go, no idea where the next terrafoming event will take place and 20 minutes on the timer. Enjoy your ride!
Congratulations on your well-deserved award @LittleBear! A €10 Steam gift card will be delivered by our contact ASAP.
Tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!
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This train valley's industry specialized in green products and green products accessories is in dire need of its logistics system upgraded with a fleet of shiny new Tier 6 locomotives and a complete railway network overhaul. Green crystals, green water, green across the board.
Double entry, each part based on a real-life railroad landmark-the Horseshoe Cruve and the Tehachapi Loop respectively. Generous amount of tips in the levels' descriptions, educational backstories that explain production chains supported by efforts from outside the boundaries, intriguing layouts with possible shortcuts or unorthodox upgrades, top-notch landscaping based on aerial images, completable objectives and timers.
A subway train valley with NYCesque layout and Passenger Flow gameplay. Approximately 4000 manually placed skyscrapers, 120 trains to deliver and zero train crashes allowed.
A terraforming-powered delivery run with generous timers and somewhat increased restart probability. Prioritize oil extraction, follow that by refinement efforts and Do Not Destroy Any Track Tiles :) LPT'ed and recommended.
A rescue operation after an accident in a coal mine requires care, planning, expert and swift execution. Bring miners out, make sure local hospital and rescue operation command has required supplies, and extract remaining coal while you are at it. Look out for secret passages inside the mine, DNRT and terraforming events; manage evolving delivery chains and learn new potion recipes.
Congratulations on your well-deserved award @rrc22! A €10 Steam gift card will be delivered by our contact ASAP.
Tell us about your TV2 workshop adventures and visit our Discord server for an upcoming LPT challenge. Until next week!
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*Do No Stop Any Trains *Do Not Destroy Any Track Tiles *Do Not Reverse Trains *Do Not Use Pause
