Cities: Skylines II · map editor
Richards Bay 1628 — what still needs placing
Terrain, worldmap, sea, lagoon and river channels are already in both saved maps. Everything below is placed by hand in the editor. The lake outlines you can see in-game are carved into the heightmap, so they cannot be moved or damaged by anything you add on top.
- Water
One source per basin. The outlines are already in the ground — fill to them, not past them.
- Road connection
Must sit on the map border. Anywhere along it works, so long as that stretch is land.
- Starting tile
Map Inspector → Select Starting Tiles. Put it on the arrival site marked in orange.
Vanilla · 14,336 m
3.50 m per pixel. Requires MapExt set to None. The whole map fits on screen at full zoom-out.
Water sources
One per basin. Click inside the outline, then raise Height until the water reaches the edge — and stop there.
| Basin | Area | Map px | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake Mzingazi #1 | 6.58 km² | 2726, 1259 |
| 2 | Lake Mzingazi #2 | 3.24 km² | 3556, 679 |
| 3 | Thulasihleka Pan | 0.52 km² | 1430, 1777 |
Where the road connection can go
It must sit on the map border and refuses anywhere else. These stretches of border are dry land — the rest is sea, where it is useless. Marked in orange along the plate edge.
- top edge 0–100%
- bottom edge 0–14.2%, 19.2–32.8%
- left edge 0–59.5%, 60.3–65.3%, 65.9–76.4%, 91.6–100%
- right edge 5.2–30.6%
MapExt ModeA · 57,344 m
14.00 m per pixel. Requires MapExt set to ModeA. Too wide to see at once — you will need to pan between basins.
Water sources
One per basin. Click inside the outline, then raise Height until the water reaches the edge — and stop there.
| Basin | Area | Map px | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake Mzingazi #1 | 6.57 km² | 2216, 1851 |
| 2 | Nhlabane #1 | 5.06 km² | 3467, 633 |
| 3 | Lake Qhubu | 4.00 km² | 1312, 2489 |
| 4 | Lake Mzingazi #2 | 3.24 km² | 2424, 1706 |
| 5 | Nhlabane #2 | 1.14 km² | 3455, 822 |
| 6 | (unnamed) | 0.84 km² | 1383, 1723 |
| 7 | Lake Mpangeni | 0.58 km² | 428, 2214 |
| 8 | Thulasihleka Pan | 0.52 km² | 1892, 1980 |
Where the road connection can go
It must sit on the map border and refuses anywhere else. These stretches of border are dry land — the rest is sea, where it is useless. Marked in orange along the plate edge.
- top edge 0–100%
- left edge 0–78.5%
Things that cost me time
- Height slider
- Click on the track. Dragging the handle does nothing, and typing into the number field is rejected — it silently keeps the old value.
- MapExt mode
- Open the 14 km map while ModeA is active and the terrain stretches four times over. Switch the mode, restart the game, then load.
- Worldmap import
- Throws a Performance Warning dialog that blocks every other click until dismissed. It is easy to miss and looks like the editor has frozen.
- Removing water
- Deleting a source does not drain what it already made. Use Reset Water, then Apply Sea Level to bring the sea and lagoon back.
- Heightmap picker
- Caches the folder at game start. A file added while the game is running will not appear until you restart.