Railway Dispatcher Pro

🌐 What You Can Do with the Workshop

With the Steam Workshop, you can publish lines you made in the map editor to other players, and subscribe to and play lines others have published.

• Find and subscribe — Find published maps from within the game; when you subscribe, they download automatically.
• Play — Subscribed maps appear in line selection, where you can play them in Sandbox or make your own timetables.
• Publish — Publish a map you made, together with the timetables made on it.

🔍 Finding and Subscribing to Maps

1. Open title → "Sandbox" (or "Timetable Builder") → line selection.
2. Choose "＋ Find Maps on the Workshop..." below the list.
3. In "All Items", find maps using search, tags, and sorting.
4. Press "Subscribe" on a map you're interested in. The status changes from "Downloading..." to "Subscribed (downloaded)".
5. Go back to line selection with "Close" (Esc), and the subscribed map appears in the list.

Tabs and Sorting

• All Items — Published maps. You can use search, tag filters, and sorting.
• My Items — Maps you have published.

While results are loading, the tab and sort buttons can't be pressed. Switch after the results appear.

Filtering by Tag

Open "Tags ▼", choose tags, and press "Search". Choosing several tags within the same category finds maps that match any of them; choosing across different categories finds maps that match all of them. The list of tags is in Tags.

Unsubscribing and Viewing the Steam Page

• "Unsubscribe" — Cancels your subscription. The map also disappears from the line selection list.
• "Page" — Opens the map's Steam page. Rate, comment on, or report it there.

🚄 Playing Subscribed Maps

Subscribed maps appear under "Your maps / subscribed maps" in line selection, marked with [Workshop]. Once selected, you can play them just like maps you made yourself.

• Timetables made by the author appear under "Official Timetables" on the timetable selection screen. You can play them as they are.
• You can also make your own timetables. In "Timetable Builder", either create a new one or duplicate and edit one of the author's timetables. You can't modify the author's timetables themselves.
• You can't edit the tracks or stations of subscribed maps (they don't appear in "Open..." in the map editor). You can't duplicate them either.

⚠️ When an Author Updates a Map

When an author fixes a map and publishes it again, Steam automatically downloads the new content. Subscribers don't need to do anything special. If a new version arrives while you have that map open, the notification log tells you. While it is open, you continue with the current version; reopening the map switches to the new version.

However, timetables you made yourself were built for the old map. If the update removes or rebuilds stations or tracks, those timetables keep pointing to places that no longer exist.

• On the timetable selection screen, the timetable gets a red [Needs repair] label. You can still select it.
• Open it in "Timetable Builder", and the notification log and the warning list show which part of which train no longer matches (for example, "Calling point X is not in the map"). Fix the calling points or paths of those trains, and you can play it again.
• If you play without fixing it, only those trains run strangely (for example, they appear to jump across sections where the track is cut).

📤 Publishing Your Map

Publishing is done from the map editor screen. One item = one map + all timetables made on that map.

1. In the map editor, open the map you want to publish.
2. Choose "File ▾" → "Publish to Workshop...".
3. Write a description. The line name is used as the title as is (to change it, use "Line Settings...").
4. Check "Timetables published with it".
5. Choose tags (Tags).
6. Read the publishing guidelines and check "I agree to the guidelines above" (Publishing Guidelines).
7. Press "Save and check → Publish". The map is saved and the pre-publish check runs.
8. When the upload finishes, "Published" appears. You can view the Steam page with "Open Workshop page".

🏷️ Tags

Tags are chosen from fixed options (there is no free input). Signaling system and Through service are added automatically from the map's content, so you don't need to choose them.

✅ Pre-publish Check

When you press "Save and check → Publish", the map is saved and then its content is checked. If nothing is wrong, it is uploaded right away; otherwise, a list appears.

🔁 Updating or Removing an Item

Updating

After fixing a published map, run "Publish to Workshop..." again from the same map. Instead of adding a new item, the same item is updated (the button becomes "Save and check → Update"). Steam automatically delivers the new content to subscribers.

Removing

To remove an item, delete it from its Steam page. You can open the page with "Open Workshop page" on the publishing screen, or with "Page" in the Workshop browser.

⭐ Rating, Comments, and Reports

Rating, comments, and reports use Steam's system. Press a map's "Page" in the Workshop browser to open that map's Steam page.

• Rating — Rating maps you liked is reflected in the "Popular" and "Trending" sort orders.
• Comments — Share your impressions and anything you noticed with the author.
• Reports — If you find content that violates the guidelines, you can report it.

📜 Publishing Guidelines

When publishing, you must agree to the following.

• You may only publish maps and timetables you made yourself.
• When publishing, take great care not to infringe the rights to others' copyrighted works (train icons, etc.).
• We accept no responsibility whatsoever for any damage arising from published content.

❓ Troubleshooting

📚 Related Guides

• Map Editor — Build lines
• Timetable Builder — Make your own timetables for subscribed maps and fix [Needs repair]
• Getting Started — Basic controls