Derail Valley Mod (2024)

FAQs

How to unlock all licenses in Derail Valley? ›

There are 22 licenses in the game, three of which are earned after completing the tutorial. The other 19 are unlocked by purchasing them at a career manager while having no active fees.

It is not compatible with any locomotives other than the DE6 and DE2. To unlock the slug, Steve's Garage Key is needed. It costs $20,000 to purchase and is available in a Shop in Harbor. The garage is located on the long siding off the Harbor, or the farthest South East track on the map on the end.

If "Comms radio spawn mode" is turn on in the "game" submenu of options, the "Spawner" and "Cargo loader" functions are unlocked for use. The train spawner allows spawning in any car onto an appropriate section of rail. The cargo loader allows you to load cargo onto these spawned cars.

It can be unlocked by purchasing Old Bob's Garage Key at Food Factory & Town for $30,000. The key can then be used on the lock on the door of the garage. This will unlock the garage doors, allowing you to access the BE2-260 Electric Microshunter.

The DE6 is a 6-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive. It is the most powerful as well as the most expensive locomotive to use, with a $200,000 license.

To unlock the BE2, Bob's Garage Key is needed. It costs $30,000 to purchase and is available in the shop at Food Factory and Town. The BE2 is typically used for light shunting and because its slow speed and its low torque it isn't good at transporting goods. It is not multi-unit compatible.

The key for the crew vehicle can be purchased in shops (later possibly only one shop), but you need to find the hidden garage first to unlock it. the only one I know of is the handcart you get by purchasing bobs garage key and opening said garage (located between machine factory and iron mine west).

Lighters can be purchased from shops for $150. Their main use is to ignite the firebox of steam locomotives by throwing one in, after which it will return to your inventory and can be used again. It can ignite flammable cargo leaking from damaged cars.

In order to obtain the Caboose, one must purchase the Reginald's Garage Key in City Southwest, then locate Reginald's Garage and use the key on the door lock. This is also the only caboose in the game - unlocking Reginald's Garage will not cause additional cabooses to spawn.

Is Derail Valley VR only? ›

VR or non-VR? Both. Derail Valley fully supports playing on a regular PC, using mouse and keyboard on a flat screen, but virtual reality is where it really shines.

Passengers cars are used to carry passengers. They are not used for Jobs currently, and can only be spawned in using the Comms radio's Spawner Mode. Red, blue, and green versions exist. No visual change occurs when the Comms radio is used to load one with passengers, but the weight does increase by 6,000kg.

The locomotive remote is purchased in the shop at Machine Factory & Town. It is used to change the controls of a locomotive from outside the locomotive's cab.

A locomotive is a rail vehicle designed to move rail cars meant for the transport of freight, passengers, or other things. There are currently seven locomotives featured in Derail Valley - the BE2, DE2, DH4, DM3, S282, S060 and DE6.

Derail Valley has a developer console where you can type commands to perform different actions. Some of them can also be accessed in the settings, some are mostly only useful for the developers, but some can be used to tweak the game to your liking. By default, the keybind to bring up the console is ` .

Shunting jobs are generally lower-risk since they don't require you to travel between stations, instead having you move cars around between yard tracks in a single location.

Derail Valley comes with insurance included. It works on the copay principle. This means you pay up to the copay amount, and once you reach that, the insurance pays all remaining costs, and the copay period starts again. You can check your copay as well as the amount already paid in the career manager.