What to do first and what to do later? | Fast start Mashinky Guide

Last update: 17 October 2017

The first steps can be overwhelming: cities, mines, forest, factories... what to do first? You should start with gaining funds that will enable you to expand your company. Then you should focus on transporting resources to processing plants and factories in order to gain other tokens required for development.

• Get familiar with your surroundings and start transporting passengers
• Transport of basic goods
• Upgrades, new trains, bigger lines
• Entering next era
• New age - new challenges

Get familiar with your surroundings and start transporting passengers

Look across the map. Search for large cities that are close to each other and look for factory chains (forest-sawmill-factory or coal mine-factory). This will make it easier and faster to transport goods. Start with creating a few passenger connections. Early in the game it is the only way to gather large quantity of green tokens. Alternatively, you can transport wood to sawmill in order to process some resources into green tokens (you must first upgrade sawmill).

Transport of basic goods

Start with gathering yellow tokens. Create a connection between forest, sawmill and factory. If you see that wood production doesn't fully fill your trains, buy an upgrade that requires only green tokens. Now you will gain much more resources from stations, making the trains spend much more time en route than on stations. Yellow tokens are useful in various branches of your company: better trains and carriages, station upgrades or industrial building upgrades. Then start transporting coal to factories. Black tokens will soon prove to be useful, as they can be spent on the best trains available in the early ages.

Upgrades, new trains, bigger lines

Once you secure constant influx of all available resources, you can focus on upgrading and expanding the existing lines. First upgrades you should buy are the ones in factories that increase the number of tokens received from half-processed goods. Other upgrades are secondary, but you should consider: maybe you should create a passenger station in a large city? Add a second line and send more trains to an important line? Increase the processing power of a plant? You can obtain better trains even in the first era, but first you must upgrade the depot. Remember that some trains require other currency that green tokens for their upkeep.

Entering next era

In the map generator settings you can determine what are the conditions to get to the next age. By default there is a time limit for each stage or you can invest tokens into technological advancement. If you intend to pay and reach next era earlier, you must focus on gathering goods. You should create a larger connection and add more trains. This will enable you to get many resources.

New age - new challenges

Once the new era begins, the game will generate a new city, expand the already-existing ones and create additional industrial points and transport chains. Check the map and analyze which lines you can use to transport new resources. For that reason you should create large lines that will maintain more trains. Thanks to that you won't need to keep creating new connections or invest large quantities of money into new tracks. You will also gain access to new vehicles - you should change the most important trains into better models (that manage long tracks or transport heavy cargo).