Only DLCs Achievements
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About for DLCs!
For the achievements, you will need all the DLCs, but of course, I won't make you spend a fortune on that! Go to YouTube and search for “unlock all Cities Skyline DLCs,” look for the most recent video (because it will have all or 90% of the DLCs released and those necessary for the achievements), and then just follow the steps!
One more thing: if you're looking for a guide full of photos and detailed explanations, I wouldn't even bother reading this, lol. This is for people who already know a thing or two about the game and want something that gets straight to the point.
The order of the achievements is from left to right, corresponding to each photo.
After Dark
- Leisure Suites - Have 1000 squares of leisure specialized commercial zone.
Basically, keep expanding your city, and as you unlock the zone specializations, designate them as commercial or recreational zones, and you’ll soon achieve your goal. - Playing With The Boys - Have 1000 squares of beach specialized commercial zone.
- Prison Break - Have 15 Prisons in the city
Personally, I built 15 prisons until I unlocked the achievement, but it’s up to you. - 1001 Nights - Experience 1001 nights in the game
Is that just a one-time thing, or do you have to leave your city open for multiple nights? It’s worth noting that you need to let the in-game time (day and night) run its course; otherwise, the achievement won’t unlock. According to my calculations, you need to stay in a single city for 35 hours!
Snowfall
- Are They Naked In There? - Have a Sauna in the city.
As your city grows, once the sauna becomes available, simply build it and the achievement will be unlocked. - Speed up! - Boost 100 km of streets with Road maintenance service.
- It's Wintertime! - Change Chirper to a winter look.
In the middle of the screen at the top, you'll see the little bird (the game's blue bird) that notifies you about your city. When you click on it, just go to the gear icon and change the theme to the snowy one with the hat. - Here's A Tram - Have one tram line active.
Create a tram line in your city. - Get Your Snowshoes Ready! - Experience snowfall.
- The Plowmaster - Have snowplows collect 2000000 units of snow.
- Brrr! - Create a winter map in map editor.
Go to the map editor, select a snow map, add the necessary elements to complete it, and finish the map. - I Love Trams! - Have 10 tram lines active.
I'll be honest: to keep my city from falling apart and ensure it continues to grow healthily, I saved it and went on to build a bunch of tram lines until I had a total of 10.
Natural Disasters
One sentence to sum up everything I did to earn those disaster achievements: I saved my city, then opened the disaster menu and started triggering them one by one in my city—I ended up setting 20 disasters to occur. That’s how the achievements started to appear.
- Shake It Up! - Experience an earthquake.
- Twist and shout - Experience a tornado.
- Drop the Base - Experience a sinkhole.
- It's heading right for us! - Experience a meteor strike.
- Thunder and Lightning - Experience a thunderstorm.
- We need snorkels! - Experience a tsunami.
- Run, Bambi! - Experience a forest fire.
Find a spot on your map with lots of trees, set it on fire, wait for the fire to spread, and you're done. - Eternal City - Have ten disasters hit the same city.
When I mentioned facing a series of setbacks, it’s because of this achievement here. - What the...? - Experience a special disaster.
- Creator - Create 10 scenarios.
Just start creating various scenarios and keep saving them until you have 10 scenarios. - The Underdog - Lose 10 scenarios.
Just leave the scenario as it is (note which points will cause you to lose before starting the scenario) and let it play out. - We Have A Winner! - Win 10 scenarios.
Unlike the previous one, this one is a drag, haha. The scenarios seem easy to solve at first, but as you solve one problem, others pop up—it’s basically just you putting out fires until the city is back to normal.
Mass Transit
What I said earlier about the tram lines applies here as well. Save the city and keep adding lines until you have the ones you need.
- Triorail - Have 3 monorail lines.
- Clark Cable - Transport 5 000 passengers with Cable Cars.
Create a few bus routes to boost your city, and in the medium to long term, your routes will have carried over 5,000 passengers. - Rejoice And Be Ferry - Have 3 ferry lines.
- Cables Galore - Transport 20 000 passengers with Cable Cars.
Same as the previous achievement. - Blimp? Blimp. - Have 3 blimp lines.
- Not So Mono - Have 10 monorail lines.
- Combo Breaker! - Have one Ferry and Bus Exchange Stop, Metro-Monorail-Train Hub, Monorail-Bus Hub and Multiplatform Train Station.
Add the Metro-Bus Hub, Train-Metro Hub, Bus-Metro Hub, and others available in this category. Plus, you don’t need to create complex transit lines to unlock them—just build the buildings. - Put Some Blimp In Your Blimp - Have 10 blimp lines.
- Ferry Faerie - Have 15 ferry lines.
- Totally In Motion - Win all three Mass Transit scenarios.
I've always enjoyed solving problems involving city traffic, just like Biffa (the YouTuber), but man, those scenarios were tough—it took me a few tries. And just so you know, there are tips that will definitely help you, but the key is to figure it out on your own.
Green Cities
- Friendly Teaching - Build one of each eco-friendly schools: Community School, Institute of Creative Arts and Modern Technology Institute.
To unlock the schools, simply build one of each type in your city. - I to the T - Have all office zone in your city be specialized IT-Cluster.
When enabling zoning policies, simply go to the “Offices” tab and select the ones with a solar panel icon next to them. - Super Self-Sufficient - Have all residential zone in your city be specialized Self-Sufficient Housing.
Same thing as with offices, but this time it will be in people’s homes. - Organistic - Have all commercial zone in your city be specialized Organic and Local Produce.
The same applies to offices and homes. However, this applies to both low- and high-density commercial areas.
Parklife
It was simply the project I loved working on the most—I built so many parks in my city that there was barely any space left to build houses, lol.
- The Park To Rule All Parks - Have a maximum level park made with Park Tool.
Create a park and make sure it reaches its full potential. - Coaster Tycoon - Have a park with all Amusement Park buildings built in it.
Once you reach the maximum level, build one of each structure within the park area. - Maintain That Park - Have a Park Maintenance Service and a Zoo, Nature Reserve and Amusement Park in your city.
- Ambulare - Have 5 pedestrian Walking Tour lines.
Create 5 walking routes in your city. Easy peasy - Z00 - Have a park with all zoo buildings built in it.
Once you reach the maximum level, build one of each structure within the park area. - Parking Not Forbidden - Have 10 parks made with Park Tool.
If you don't want to have 10 parks in your city—and I admit there comes a time when you get tired of designing them or your creativity just runs out—just go to the creation tools, add 10 main entrances, and you're done. - Naturally - Have a park with all Nature Reserve buildings built in it.
There will be some parks, like this one, that will have structures extending into the water; to do this, simply extend the park area close to the shore and build the structure in the water. - Sights To Be Seen - Have 15 Sightseeing Bus lines.
Industries
- Full Capacity - Level up an Industry Area up to Level 5.
All we need to do is fill the job and production openings, and the industry will reach level 5. - Postman - Deliver 1 000 000 units of Mail.
Build post offices in different parts of your city and give it time—success will follow. - Scaling Up - Build 10 Warehouse buildings.
You know the drill, right? lol Save the game, build the warehouses, and then load the save file, or just build them and then tear everything down. - Just Tolling - Build one of each road Toll Booth buildings.
Just build one of each type of toll booth in your city, and if you don't want to use it, just tear it down. - Industry Tycoon - Build all Unique Factories.
To do this, you'll need all the production chains—forestry, oil, iron, and agriculture (I recommend using a map that shows all available resources). Once you have all the areas, just build the companies for each one, which the unique companies will gradually unlock. - Offshore Assets - Build five Oil Rigs.
- Serial Investor - Build 10 Industry Areas
Here, just do the same as with the parks: simply place the main houses in a 10x grid, and you're done.
Campus
If it was a long-term achievement you were after, well, here you go! These are simply the most time-consuming ones, because not only do you need to expand the campus, but you also have to create jobs—which takes time—and build up the highest prestige, which also takes time. And I’ll admit I struggled with this one, because I always lost a lot of students and went years without enrolling any new ones. But I hope you can do it faster than I did!
- Student Housing Project - Have total number of 10 Dormitories.
All you need to do is build 10 dormitories on campus. - Distinguished Academics - Have one campus reach "Prestigious" in reputation.
Here, you'll need to meet the construction goals for students in order to reach the highest level on your campus. - Varsity Sports Patron - Build all five varsity sports arenas on one campus in one city.
- For For-Profit Education! - Cover one campus area upkeep cost entirely with tuition fees paid by students in a campus area with more than 5000 students.
In other words, you need to reach the break-even point for your campus, at which point it will cover its own expenses. - Academic Scholar - Create 100 academic works.
- Higher Learning - Build all Campus Area types with all of their respective campus buildings and faculties.
- Education Nation - Have 15 000 students studying on campuses at the same time.
Sunset Harbor
- The Waters of Our Lives - Treat 20 000 000 m3 of waste water using the Inland Water Treatment Plants.
Just install the Indoor Water Treatment Stations and let the city grow. - Fisher King - Catch 10 000 000 units of fish.
Build fishing companies, set up the routes, and let it run. - Aquaculture - Farm 7 500 000 units of fish and sea plants.
Build fish farms; the more you build, the faster you'll unlock the achievement. - Trolleyface - Transport 35 000 amount of citizens in trolleybuses..
- World of Rotorcraft - Transport 15 000 amount of citizens in passenger helicopters.
Plan several helicopter routes around your city, preferably connecting key locations such as the airport and industrial areas, so you’ll have more passengers. - Come Fly With Me! - Have 60 tourists visit the Aviation Club during one week.
Build the aviation club in a high-traffic area or near the airport, and you’ll have 60 tourists in no time. - Multidisciplinary Transport Tycoon - Build one of each of the following transport hubs: Underground Metro-Intercity Bus Hub, Bus-Intercity Bus Hub, Train-Metro Hub, Metropolitan Airport, Bus-Metro Hub
Airports
- Airport Architect - Build an airport area with a terminal, a runway and an aircraft stand.
Pretty easy. - Airfield Expertise - Build an airport area with an area of 25000 cells.
Here you have two options: either build a really big airport—which is a good thing in a way—or save your city and gradually expand the airport until the goal is achieved. - Airlifter - Have 10 000 total passengers travel through an airport area.
- Airline Tycoon - Have an airport area reach level 3.
- High-cost-carrier - Set the airline ticket price slider to the maximum price.
When starting your airline, just set the price as high as possible.
Plazas & Promenades
- The Sweetest City - Build 10 ice cream stand plazas in one pedestrian area.
- Very Focused - Have one pedestrian area focused on residential, one in commercial, and one in workplace zones.
Just create three different pedestrian zones: one for residential areas, another for offices, and a third for commercial areas. - Garbage Collection Issues - Have 5 garbage service points reach their capacity limit.
It's just a matter of giving it time—basically, your pedestrian area will gradually grow, and at some point it will be packed, and that goal will be achieved.
Financial Districts
- So Much Cash! - Transport ₡2,000,000 using cash transport vans in one week.
Basically, what I've noticed is that the more profit you make in your city, the more money will be transported. - No risk, no fun! - Take a loan in order to make an investment.
Basically, take out a loan and then invest in the stock market. - All In - Have at least ₡1 000 000 in cash. Put all of your available cash into investments, then don't sell any investments for one month.
- Cash Flow - Have a bank building get flooded.
You might think, “I need some crazy profit in my town for that,” but guess what? You don't. All you have to do is cause a tsunami, flood a bank in your town, and that's it. - Can't Buy Me Love - Earn ₡5,000,000 through investments.
All you have to do is keep investing, selling, investing again, and making a profit until you reach a total profit of 5,000,000.
Hotels & Retreats
- Very Accommodating - Have total of 500 weekly guests to stay at hotels.
- Fully Booked! - Have the maximum possible number of guests stay at any 5 star hotel with at least 100 rooms.
Here’s a tip: position your hotel strategically, try to set all the necessary levels to the maximum, and to ensure it’s fully booked, simply adjust the price. If you just set the price as high as possible, it will never be fully booked. - Peak Season - Organize three hotel events.
Once your hotel business is at the highest level, all you have to do is organize three events at a 5-star hotel—it’s that simple.
Race Day
The achievements in the new racing DLC are basically based on playtime; as you build the tracks, they level up and attract more visitors, so you’ll unlock the achievements little by little.
- Start your engines! - Host and complete a Motor Race event.
- He Did What in This Cup? - Host the highest tier of Motor Racing event.
- Grand Circuit Pro - Build a 5km Motor Race Event route.
Create a race track that is more than 5 kilometers long. - Tour de Metro - Build a 4km Cycling Event route.
- Foot Traffic - Attract 1,000 spectators to an event.
- Grande Parade - Host the highest tier of Parade event.
- I Run This City - Build a 3km Running Event route.
- White Night - Hold a night time parade.
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