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· While Cities: Skylines 2 allows city building with the base game alone, mods become highly necessary for detailed customization, traffic improvement, and city analysis.
· This video organizes mods currently in use, categorized into essential, convenience, information checking, detailing, and game adjustment mods.
· Due to the nature of user-created content, mods may temporarily malfunction or conflict with game updates, potentially causing save loading issues.
· It's recommended to keep autosave enabled when using mods and to wait for patches if conflicts occur.
· For detailed options, latest changes, and issues of each mod, please check each mod's page directly and use browser translation if needed to understand the content.

· Skyve: Rather than adding direct functions within the game, it acts as a mod manager for managing Cities 2 mods externally. It's an essential tool for safe mod usage, including managing mod play sets, updating subscribed mods, and checking mod compatibility.
· Anarchy: Unlocks the base game's placement restrictions, allowing free placement of trees, props, roads, and decorations. It's also useful for placing tricky elements like retaining walls and bridges, and includes the ability to place multiple unique buildings. However, excessive use can cause object overlap or visual errors, so caution is advised.
· Move It: Allows you to select and move or rotate already placed buildings, trees, props, road nodes, and segments. It's used for cleaning up road curves, adjusting prop placement, and modifying road structures. Excessive modification can cause errors.
· Official Region Packs: A free mod that allows you to apply various regional styles, such as German, French, British, Chinese, and Japanese, to your game.

· Better Bulldozer: Enhances the base bulldozer tool, enabling detailed deletion of surfaces, decals, props, and internal elements of assets. It's useful for removing distracting elements during detailing work.
· Traffic: Improves traffic flow by allowing direct adjustment of lane connections and priorities at intersections. It helps resolve issues like specific lane congestion, strange lane changes, and highway ramp flow problems.
· Advanced Simulation Speed: Allows for finer control over simulation speed. It supports up to 8x speed and is useful when waiting for city growth or demand recovery. It can also stabilize gameplay by lowering the speed if performance issues cause instability.
· Info Loom: Provides much more detailed internal city data, including population, workforce by education level, residential/commercial/industrial/office demand, and zoned data. It helps identify reasons for slow city growth and aids in problem-solving.
· Detailed Descriptions: Adds and provides necessary information during the construction phase, such as lot size of zones, building size, job count, road traffic speed, and public transport vehicle capacity.
· Compass: Displays the camera's direction on the screen, aiding in orientation for large city construction or development by direction.

· Time & Weather Anarchy: Allows you to fix or adjust visual elements like time, weather, seasons, precipitation, and temperature to your desired state. Useful for taking screenshots.
· First Person Camera Continued: Enables you to explore the city from a first-person perspective. You can follow citizens or vehicles, or move close to the ground with a free camera to explore the city.
· Extra Detailing Tools: Expands in-game detailing by adding functions for decals, linear decorations, and object manipulation. Allows for free placement of parking lot surfaces, road markings, wall posters, and fences.
· Advanced Line Tool: Enables precise placement of trees, props, etc., in straight lines, curves, circles, and grids. It speeds up repetitive placement tasks and allows for natural-looking arrangements.
· Find It: Allows you to quickly find and place in-game assets like buildings, props, trees, and road elements using a search bar and filters. Useful for efficient asset management, such as selecting only buildings of a desired size.
· Plop the Growables: Allows you to directly place growable buildings that would normally appear based on demand and zoning, without them disappearing.
· Extra Landscaping Tools: Provides brush shape and angle adjustments, and adds resource functions like ore, oil, and groundwater. Useful for directly shaping the map or creating industrial zones and farmlands in desired locations.
· Water Features: Allows you to place water sources directly in-game and adjust water level and radius to create artificial lakes, rivers, and waterfront parks. Careful use is necessary considering the complexity of water simulation.
· Extra Networks and Areas: Expands the placement of networks and areas that are difficult to handle in the base game, such as transparent sidewalks and train exits.

· Road Builder: A mod for creating custom roads with desired lane configurations. Allows use of combinations not found in existing roads, such as bus lanes, tram lanes, and pedestrian areas.
· Mert's ToolBox: Provides tools for accurately creating standardized road and plaza structures like circular roundabouts, polygonal squares, and multi-lane ramps. Useful for planned cities or designing highway interchanges.
· Node Controller: Allows direct adjustment of nodes where roads meet, enabling neat shaping of intersections, road junctions, and ramp merges.
· Platter: Allows placement of zoning taxes at desired locations and angles, making buildings grow oriented towards that direction. Useful for areas around curved roads or creating residential areas with front yards.
· Zone Organizer: Divides the zoning menu into low-density, medium-density, and high-density, allowing faster selection of desired zones.
· Better Transit View: Improves the display of public transport information, including routes, stops, transfer points, and vehicle flow, making it easier to view than before.

· All Aboard! (Faster Boarding Mod): Reduces the issue of public transport vehicles stopping for too long at stops due to passenger boarding. It limits dwell time by having vehicles depart after a certain delay, preventing excessive stops.
· Outside Traffic Adjuster: Adjusts outside connection traffic unrelated to the city, reducing traffic congestion and analysis interference at external connections.
· Magic Hearse: Adjusts issues related to hearse and crematorium services. It resolves problems like excessive death notifications and insufficient hearses, and can also adjust the funeral home processing system.
· No Dogs: Reduces the number of dogs accompanying citizens in the city, saving computational resources.
· City Controller: Adjusts in-game conditions such as money, milestones, and notification displays. It's particularly useful for removing unnecessary notifications that obstruct the view.
· City Forge (CTG): An all-in-one cheat panel for sandbox players. It offers various functions like adding money, unlocking milestones, adjusting demand, instant construction, and modifying citizen happiness and education levels. It can disrupt game balance, so it's best used according to your purpose.

· Mods in Cities: Skylines 2 are more than just tools to make the game easier; they are closer to work tools that resolve the frustrations of the base game and help realize your desired city more accurately.
· Mods can be affected by game updates, so it's important to save important cities separately and check compatibility via Skyve immediately after a patch.
· The mods introduced are currently in use, so compatibility issues are expected to be minimal.
· As Cities: Skylines 2 is a game that is completed through mods, we hope you enjoy creating a fun and enjoyable city life by utilizing various mods.