Transport Fever 3 Climate Zones
You choose one of four climates when you set up a free game: temperate, dry, tropical or subarctic. It changes how the map looks and which industries appear, and nothing else in the simulation. The industry list is what decides which of your chains can ever be finished.
Temperate
Green valleys and mixed forest, the classic look of the series.
- Industries that never appear
- Cement Plant, Paper Mill, Printing Press, Rubber Farm, Tire Factory
- Cargo you cannot produce here
- Books, Cement, Paper, Rubber, Tires, Vehicles
Dry
Red rock, scrub and desert plains.
- Industries that never appear
- Cement Plant, Cotton Farm, Fishing Grounds, Paper Mill, Printing Press, Rubber Farm, Sand Excavator, Tire Factory
- Only in places
- Quarry
- Cargo you cannot produce here
- Books, Cement, Fish, Paper, Rubber, Tires, Vehicles
Tropical
Palm coasts and warm water.
- Industries that never appear
- Brewery, Brick Works, Clay Pit, Paper Mill, Printing Press
- Cargo you cannot produce here
- Beverages, Books, Bricks, Clay, Paper
Subarctic
Conifer forest, lakes and swamp; new in this game.
- Industries that never appear
- Brick Works, Clay Pit, Cotton Farm, Rubber Farm, Tire Factory
- Cargo you cannot produce here
- Bricks, Clay, Rubber, Tires, Vehicles
The chains that decide your climate
Most industries appear everywhere. The ones that do not are the ones to plan around:
- Paper Mill and Printing Press only exist on subarctic maps, so Books, a commercial-district end product, is subarctic only.
- Rubber Farm and Tire Factory only exist on tropical maps. The Vehicle Factory needs tires, so the Vehicles cargo, the longest chain in the game, can only be finished in the tropics.
- Cement Plant appears on tropical and subarctic maps only.
- Clay Pit and Brick Works appear on temperate and dry maps only, which takes Bricks away from tropical and subarctic players.
- Brewery is missing from tropical maps, and the Fishing Grounds and Sand Excavator are missing from dry ones.
The climate you pick is a choice about which of the ten end products you can build a business on. If Vehicles or Books is the chain you want to run, the map has to be tropical or subarctic before a single track goes down.
Weather and time of day are separate settings
Climate is fixed per map, but weather and time are yours to change during play. Weather can be dynamic or held at sunny, cloudy or rainy; time can run dynamically, continuously, follow your local clock, or be locked to morning, day, evening or night. None of it touches the economy: the developers describe day and night as a purely visual choice, which is also why the base game has no timetables.