Badlands

Map Difficulty: Medium

Starting Amount of Money: $30000

Starter Engine: Class C

Terrain Roughness: Low/Medium

Description

Badlands is Steam & Steel's second community-created map - owing to its' name, it is a large desert with rolling sand dunes. The map features realistic material and height setups owing to the pipeline used for creating the map itself - which was done outside of ROBLOX Studio.

Badlands and Gold Rush are the only two maps in the game that do not give a $5000 subsidy bonus upon first delivering to an industry. As a result, the player must be careful with their starting budget and plan ahead. This adds quite a bit of challenge to these maps.

Initial Depot Configuration

Badlands' initial depot configuration offers:

• Two tracks and a switch
• Class C
• Coaling Station
• 5x 17' Stake Wagons

Industries

There are 16 unique industry locations for players to interact with for transportation within this map. Badlands along with Gold Rush both have the Oil Well and Oil Refinery as late-game industries. The Oil Well takes Pipes + Machinery + Beams + Tools to produce Crude Oil. Crude Oil can then be taken to the Oil Refinery (along with Coal or Cordwood) to produce Grease, Kerosene, and Chemicals.

Industry Chain

Everything in the "Items Required for Production" section must be fulfilled for the location to produce items unless stated otherwise.
Bonus items increase production times for a location.

Tier in Chain	Location	Items Required for Production	Bonus Items Used [Multipliers]	Items Produced
I	Cactus Camp	No Items Required	Tools	Logs, Cordwood
I	Ranch	No Items Required	Tools	Cattle
II	Lumber Mill	Logs	Coal, Machinery	Lumber, Beams
II	Slaughterhouse	Cattle, Cordwood	Tools	Leather, Food, Grease
III	Gold Mine	Lumber, Beams	Tools, Rails, Kerosene	Gold Ore, Gravel
III	Copper Mine	Lumber, Coal OR Cordwood	Machinery, Tools, Rails, Kerosene	Copper Ore, Gravel
III	Tannery	Leather, Cordwood	Tools, Chemicals	Textiles
III	Quarry	Beams	Tools, Kerosene	Cut Stone, Gravel, Coal
III	Iron Mine	Lumber, Beams	Tools, Rails, Kerosene	Iron Ore, Gravel
IV	Copper Works	Copper Ore, Cordwood OR Coal	Tools, Kerosene	Copper Ingots, Pipes
IV	Iron Works	Iron Ore, Cordwood OR Coal	Tools, Kerosene	Iron Ingots, Rails
V	Machine Shop	Coal, Copper Ingots OR Iron Ingots	Grease	Tools, Machinery
VI	Coal Mine	Rails, Lumber, Tools, Beams	Machinery, Kerosene	Coal, Gravel, Uncut Gems
VII	Oil Well	Pipes, Machinery, Beams, Tools	Grease	Crude Oil
VII	Gold Smith	Gold Ore, Uncut Gems, Cordwood OR Coal	Tools	Jewelry
VIII	Oil Refinery	Coal, Crude Oil, Cordwood	Pipes, Machinery, Iron Ingots	Grease, Kerosene, Chemicals

Trivia

• Badlands was created alongside Gold Rush at the same time, although Badlands was released over a month after Gold Rush.
• This map is considered one of the least popular with the community due to its lack of subsidies and tendency to be a grind compared to other maps.

Pictures

• A scenic view of a portion of the map.
  A scenic view of a portion of the map.