Production chains/Industry

[ThwartMantella]

I have recently purchased Trainz: A New Era, and I want to make my own route. I'm having trouble with finding the appropriate buildings for certain goods. I have figured out that a "Forestry Basic" will produce logs and that a Lumber Mill accepts those logs. But I don't know what industries accept the products from said Lumber Mill. The game does nothing to order the industries, or make buildings easy to find.

I have looked in different fora, but without finding anything.

Any information would be more than welcome.

 

[SailorDan]

I have recently purchased Trainz: A New Era, and I want to make my own route. I'm having trouble with finding the appropriate buildings for certain goods. I have figured out that a "Forestry Basic" will produce logs and that a Lumber Mill accepts those logs. But I don't know what industries accept the products from said Lumber Mill.

Open Content Manager and find and select the lumber mill. Right click and choose List Dependencies. In the new list, find the product you are interested in. Right click and choose List Dependants. That will tell you everything that is configured for that product. You will probably want to sort by type so that you see traincars and other industries separately.

CM can be open at the same time as Surveyor.

 

[oknotsen]

Hi and welcome to the Trainz community!

Consider Trainz as a big sandbox:
If it does not contain the industry your are looking for, build it yourself.

This could be as easy as using one of the industry tracks you can configure yourself and putting fitting buildings around it.
Or as complex as learning a 3D modeling tool and some scripting and build your own content.

What helped me at lot at the start was simply check out already made routes. Check which industries they have.

 

[PC_Ace]

Welcome to the forums and to the wonderful World of Trainz!
Here are some of my favourite production and consumption chains which I use in many of my home-built routes and sessions:

Forestry Basic - Lumber Mill - Hyde Pulp Mill Rebuild - Container Station - Seaport/ Industry Airport
Coal Mine (or Coal Loader) - Power Station
Coal Mine - Seaport
Oil Field - Oil Refinery - Seaport/ Industry Airport
Multiple Industry New - huge number of possibilities where you can turn almost any building or yard into a production or consuming entity for an amazing array of different commodities

I have some huge layouts where AI drivers shuttle continuously between industries loading and unloading goods and commodities - and sometimes passengers - for hours on end autonomously, whilst I look on from above like a demi-God.
These circuits are hugely fun to construct, refine and run.
Enjoy!

 

[philskene]

The alternative is to use an interactive track, for example, the Multiple Industry New.

I've uploaded several youtube videos showing how to configure interactive track and rolling stock, for example (full screen / 1080p):

Alternatively, T:ANE now allows you to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjE0oOmXa7k

 

[Roy3b3]

Also, don't forget <kuid2:35815:26206:2> Lumber Warehouse

which is ideal for receiving huge stacks of lumber from the Lumber Mill

Cheers,
Roy