Winter to Boreal

[WanoToba]

Hello! I'm just wondering of what will happen to snow dumps/other winter dlc assets when I change the base game theme to let's say boreal. I don't want to try it as I fear that it might ruin my city. Any answers will be appreciated. Thanks!

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Strawhat_Luffy:

Hello! I'm just wondering of what will happen to snow dumps/other winter dlc assets when I change the base game theme to let's say boreal. I don't want to try it as I fear that it might ruin my city. Any answers will be appreciated. Thanks!

Save the game first and then try. Nothing to fear then as you can reset the theme and replay the old save ;)

[Avanya]

I believe they will just disappear. Potentially you'll have some errors pop up (one per building that's disappeared) when you load, but you should be able to click them away, and loading up next time shouldn't have them.

If you do it, then definitely save as a new file when you have swapped to boreal, so if something unexpected happens, you can swap back to the winter version. :)

[Termite]

You could use these two mods to prevent the loss of assets.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=456408505&searchtext=unlock

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=627047745

You will get duplicate prefab errors, but the mods still work. If you don’t mind losing the growables for the old theme but still want the all the other buildings, disable the European/Vanilla style in content manager. However, there are at least three buildings that will still give errors, one is the public library (campus dlc), the others are the elder and child care buildings (sunset harbour dlc). To get rid of that message you can make your own versions of these buildings and then disable the in-game buildings using loading screen mods ‘skip perfabs’ option.

I use this method as I like to switch between Winter and the other seasons in my cities.

[WanoToba]

Thanks so much for all the comments! I'll try to save as a new file first then swap to boreal as what Avanya told. I have subscribed to the european buildings unlocker but haven't yet for winter buildings because my city is originally from the winter theme and there's no point of subbing to it so I might subscribe to that first before trying it out. Thanks everyone!