Dream City: Game Guide

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Table of Contents

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...Main Guide

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Getting started
Market
Design and expand your city

• Moving buildings and roads
• Design your city
• What to do when I run out of land?

City Hall
Citizens
Goods, goods storage & loading docks
Inventory
Parts & permits
New items for new levels
Points of interest & Locations

• Main island

• 2nd island
• 3rd island

Boardwalk
Boardwalk orders list
City Exchange
Regal Cinemas
City Brooke Bridge
City Harbor Bridge
Golden City Bridge
Frequently asked questions
Gems
Regarding in-app purchases
Game version
Create a Storm8 ID
New device - transfer your games
What can I do to try to resolve my game issues?
Storm8 Forum
Storm8 Support
Update Threads
Goal Threads

...Buildings and Crafts Guide

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Introduction
Houses
Businesses

• Start a business
• List of businesses
• Submit an order
• Discard an order

Factories

• Upgrade your factories
• List of factories

• List of crafts

Civic Buildings
Highrises

• List of highrises
• Add a house/business to highrise
• Remove a house/business from highrise
• Add a slot

Landmarks
Decorations
Special buildings

...Index Listing

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A B C D E

F G H I J

K L M N O

P Q R S T

U V W X Y

Z ?

...Event Guide

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Introduction
List of Events

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Getting Started

Managing your City requires that you carefully balance the production of your goods and products. If you're having problems, this section should help! There are several important aspects to remember: Building, Manufacturing, Collecting, and Upgrading.

Building
A city needs to grow, and the best way to help yours grow is to construct new buildings. All sorts of houses, businesses, and civic buildings are available in the Marketplace, ready to be added to your city.

Most buildings can be purchased with coins, but you'll need Business Permits to build new businesses. Business Permits can be earned by mastering existing businesses and on some City Hall upgrades.

Manufacturing
Order Goods from your Train Depot by tapping on it and dragging the package size of Goods that you want into an available slot. Once the unloading timer finishes, the Goods will be delivered to the loading docks in your Train Depot. Tap on the deliveries to move them to your warehouse, where they can be used to directly fill some orders from businesses.

Most orders from businesses require an assortment of Products. These can be made in your factories, using a combination of Goods and other Products. You can tap on the 'Make' button in an order to go to the factory where it's made and see what you need to make it.
Products you can make are grouped into one of six industries: Dining, Shopping, Housing, Entertainment, Services, and Technology. Your city will eventually have factories for each industry where you can make a variety of fun items for your city's businesses!

Collecting
Collect all sorts of items from around your city to help it grow. Your Train Depot receives shipments of Goods, and your factories make all sorts of neat Products to help you fill orders from businesses. You can collect these items simply by tapping on them on the board.

You also have a chance to collect special items from your city's citizens, by tapping on them to chat as they walk around your city. Some of these special items are used to expand your city's warehouse, allowing you to store more items. Others are used to unlock new land expansions, so you can keep making your city larger. You can also collect items that allow you to unlock new slots in high-rises, where you can move mastered businesses and houses to free up more space in your city.
As your city expands, you also collect coins from your City Hall. The more 5-star businesses your city has, the more coins you can collect each day!

Upgrading
Add more houses and civic buildings to increase your city's Population. Add more businesses and help them become 5-Star establishments to increase your Mastery Star total. Once you have enough Population and Mastery Stars, you can upgrade your City Hall and unlock all sorts of great, new buildings to add to your city! Goals can involve collecting ingredients, cooking, learning recipes, and buying items in the Market.

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Market

Click on the Cash Register icon at the bottom right of the screen to purchase city buildings, factories, decorations, etc.

Click on the Road icon to edit roads. Click on the Storage Box icon to see the items in your storage.

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Design and expand your city

Expand your city by tapping on the signs in areas adjacent to your existing city. Expanding costs Coins and Parts. You can get Parts by tapping on citizens.

Moving buildings and roads
Move your building by pressing down on it until it gets into Edit mode. You can add or remove roads by clicking on the [Cash Register] icon and select the [Road] icon to go into Edit mode as shown below. You can add roads to the empty squares shown in green or you can click to remove any existing roads. The brown squares are occupied by buildings and you can't change them to road. Store the buildings first before you change them.

Design your city
Design your city layout to fully utilise the limited land. Here are some points to note when planning your layout.

• Expand towards the Points of Interest to increase your population
• City Hall and factories don't need road access
• Place as many businesses as you can in your city to increase the revenue you can collect from City Hall every 30 mins
• Use residential and commercial highrises to maximise your land. Note that highrises cannot be stored even when they're empty.
• Store the bigger size businesses (1x2) into your commercial highrises to allow more space for the smaller businesses (1x1)
• Land is scarce and highrises cannot be stored, take note of the population per square to utilise your city land efficiently. Population per square - house (4), fully upgraded small residential highrises (8), fully upgraded large residential highrises (10), civic buildings (minimum 6), landmarks (minimum 15).

Tips:
1. Place your factories clustered in an area of your city without road access to save space. Make space for 20 factories.
2. Place your factories in a row in the order they appear when you click on the ">" button to reduce your screen jumping to different parts of your city.
3. See community cities in Post Pictures of your Dream City! for inspiration and design your own.


What to do when I run out of land?
Here are some suggestions.

• redesign your city with a more efficient layout and try to make more space, if possible
• create bigger clusters of buildings
• reduce excess roads where possible - buildings need not be totally surrounded by roads at all sides; they only need to have road access on 1 square.
• store some houses and civic buildings on land and replace them with landmarks as landmarks give the highest population per square
• put the businesses on land into highrises
• keep submitting business orders to get parts to fully upgrade all highrises
• keep submitting business orders to get parts to further upgrade your inventory
• keep submitting business orders to get mastery stars to unlock all factories and crafts
  
  Plan for future when we get more land expansions
• keep submitting business orders to stock up expansion parts so that you can expand immediately
• keep submitting business orders to earn more mastery stars so that you can level up faster
• keep submitting Boardwalk orders to accumulate more tickets for future purchases

Discussion thread: https://forums.storm8.com/showthread....Land-Expansion

Related topic: Citizens, Parts

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City Hall

The level of your City Hall is your game level. Collect revenue from your City Hall every 30 mins to get more coins. Place more businesses in your city to increase your revenue. You can earn more mastery stars by submitting orders and mastering businesses. Increase your population by expanding to Points of Interest and Locations, buying houses, civic buildings and landmarks. The City Hall changes its appearance at Level 25.

Note:
1. The City Hall doesn't need road access.
2. We get revenue from all businesses placed on land and highrises. The only ones that aren't counted for revenue are those in storages. However the mastery stars from those businesses in storage count for unlocking new factories and crafts.

Special thanks to qprpaul for being so helpful in providing this upgrade information.

Upgrade To	Requirements	Cost
2	4 mastery stars, 12 population	15 coins
3	...	...
4	...	...
5	...	...
6	...	...
7	...	...
8	...	...
9	80 mastery stars, 130 population	150 coins
10	105 mastery stars, 160 population	250 coins
11	?	? coins
12	155 mastery stars, 250 population	750 coins
13	185 mastery stars, 310 population	1,000 coins
14	225 mastery stars, 380 population	1,250 coins
15	275 mastery stars, 460 population	1,500 coins
16	335 mastery stars, 560 population	1,750 coins
17	400 mastery stars, 680 population	2,000 coins
18	470 mastery stars, 810 population	2,500 coins
19	545 mastery stars, 990 population	3,000 coins
20	625 mastery stars, 1,180 population	3,500 coins
21	710 mastery stars, 1,380 population	4,000 coins
22	800 mastery stars, 1,600 population	4,500 coins
23	895 mastery stars, 1,830 population	5,000 coins
24	995 mastery stars, 2,070 population	5,500 coins
25	1,100 mastery stars, 2,320 population	6,000 coins
26	1,210 mastery stars, 2,590 population	6,500 coins
27	1,325 mastery stars, 2,870 population	7,000 coins
28	1,445 mastery stars, 3,160 population	7,500 coins
29	1,570 mastery stars, 3,460 population	8,000 coins
30	1,700 mastery stars, 3,780 population	8,500 coins
31	1,835 mastery stars, 4,110 population	9,000 coins
32	1,975 mastery stars, 4,450 population	9,500 coins
33	2,120 mastery stars, 4,870 population	10,000 coins
34	2,270 mastery stars, 5,310 population	10,500 coins
35	2,425 mastery stars, 5,760 population	11,000 coins
36	2,585 mastery stars, 6,230 population	11,500 coins
37	2,750 mastery stars, 6,710 population	12,000 coins
38	2,920 mastery stars, 7,210 population	12,500 coins
39	3,095 mastery stars, 7,720 population	13,000 coins
40	3,275 mastery stars, 8,250 population	13,500 coins
41	3,460 mastery stars, 8,790 population	14,000 coins
42	3,650 mastery stars, 9,350 population	14,500 coins
43	3,845 mastery stars, 9,920 population	15,000 coins
44	4,045 mastery stars, 10,510 population	15,500 coins
45	4,250 mastery stars, 11,110 population	16,000 coins
46	4,460 mastery stars, 11,730 population	16,500 coins
47	4,675 mastery stars, 12,360 population	17,000 coins
48	4,895 mastery stars, 13,010 population	17,500 coins
49	5,120 mastery stars, 13,670 population	18,000 coins
50	5,350 mastery stars, 14,350 population	18,500 coins

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Citizens

Citizens appear randomly walking in your city. Tap on them when they appear to collect coins and sometimes a random part.

When do they appear?

• A citizen appears after you have submitted your business order to drop you coins and sometimes a random part
• A citizen appears after you have mastered your business to drop you coins and random part(s)
• Several citizens appear after you have sent your ship off for your Boardwalk orders. They drop you coins and sometimes a random part.
• A citizen appears after your new building has finished construction. You will see several of them for bigger buildings.

Related topic: Parts

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Goods, Goods storage & Loading docks

Goods
Order your goods at your loading docks. The order quantities of your goods and the number of loading docks increase as your city levels up.

x50 - level 6
x100 - level 9?
x150 - level 12
X200 - level 20

Note: You can send goods requests to your FB friends via game.

Loading docks
Maximum available: 6

Loading Dock 3 unlocks at City Hall Level 2
Loading Dock 4 unlocks at City Hall Level 6
Loading Dock 5 unlocks at City Hall Level 15
Loading Dock 6 unlocks at City Hall Level 24

Goods storage
Purpose: Used to store goods
Capacity: 100 to ?

Upgrade Requirements
Special thanks to qprpaul for being so helpful in providing this upgrade information.

Upgrade To	Requirements
120	City Hall Level 6 and 50 coins
140	City Hall Level 7 and 100 coins
160	City Hall Level 8 and 200 coins
180	City Hall Level 9 and 300 coins
200	City Hall Level 10 and 400 coins
220	City Hall Level 11 and 500 coins
240	City Hall Level 12 and 600 coins
260	City Hall Level 13 and 700 coins
280	City Hall Level 14 and 800 coins
300	City Hall Level 15 and 900 coins
320	City Hall Level 16 and 1,000 coins
340	City Hall Level 17 and 1,100 coins
360	City Hall Level 18 and 1,200 coins
380	City Hall Level 19 and 1,300 coins
400	City Hall Level 20 and 1,400 coins
420	City Hall Level 21 and 1,500 coins
440	City Hall Level 22 and 1,600 coins
460	City Hall Level 23 and 1,700 coins
480	City Hall Level 24 and 1,800 coins
500	City Hall Level 25 and 1,900 coins
520	City Hall Level 26 and 2,000 coins
540	City Hall Level 27 and 2,100 coins
560	City Hall Level 28 and 2,200 coins
580	City Hall Level 29 and 2,300 coins
600	City Hall Level 30 and 2,400 coins
620	City Hall Level 31 and 2,500 coins
640	City Hall Level 32 and 2,600 coins
660	City Hall Level 33 and 2,700 coins
680	City Hall Level 34 and 2,800 coins
700	City Hall Level 35 and 2,900 coins
720	City Hall Level 36 and 3,000 coins
740	City Hall Level 37 and 3,100 coins
760	City Hall Level 38 and 3,200 coins
780	City Hall Level 39 and 3,300 coins
800	City Hall Level 40 and 3,400 coins
820	City Hall Level 41 and 3,500 coins
840	City Hall Level 42 and 3,600 coins
860	City Hall Level 43 and 3,700 coins
880	City Hall Level 44 and 3,800 coins
900	City Hall Level 45 and 3,900 coins
920	City Hall Level 46 and 4,000 coins
940	City Hall Level 47 and 4,100 coins
960	City Hall Level 48 and 4,200 coins
980	City Hall Level 49 and 4,300 coins
1,000	City Hall Level 50 and 4,400 coins

Related topic: City Hall

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Inventory

Purpose: Used to store crafts and parts
Capacity: 40 to 235

Required upgrade parts: packing tape, wooden crate, bubble wrap

Delete items
You can delete items from your inventory if you are close to maximum capacity (around 90%) and you'll see an "X" next to the items. Click on the "X" to delete the item. Do note that all quantities of the selected item will be removed.

Upgrade Requirements
The required number of these upgrade parts increases as your inventory capacity increases. You get 5 spaces for each upgrade.

Special thanks to qprpaul for being so helpful in providing this upgrade information.

Upgrade To	Requirements
45	1 packing tape, 1 wooden crate, 1 bubble wrap
50	2 packing tape, 2 wooden crate, 2 bubble wrap
55	3 packing tape, 3 wooden crate, 3 bubble wrap
60	4 packing tape, 4 wooden crate, 4 bubble wrap
65	5 packing tape, 5 wooden crate, 5 bubble wrap
70	6 packing tape, 6 wooden crate, 6 bubble wrap
75	6 packing tape, 6 wooden crate, 6 bubble wrap
80	6 packing tape, 6 wooden crate, 6 bubble wrap
85	7 packing tape, 7 wooden crate, 7 bubble wrap
90	7 packing tape, 7 wooden crate, 7 bubble wrap
95	7 packing tape, 7 wooden crate, 7 bubble wrap
100	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
105	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
110	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
115	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
120	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
125	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
130	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
135	8 packing tape, 8 wooden crate, 8 bubble wrap
140	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
145	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
150	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
155	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
160	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
165	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
170	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
175	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
180	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
185	9 packing tape, 9 wooden crate, 9 bubble wrap
190	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
195	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
200	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
205	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
210	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
215	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
220	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
225	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
230	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap
235	10 packing tape, 10 wooden crate, 10 bubble wrap

Related topic: List of crafts, Parts

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Parts & Permits

Parts
Get these parts by mastering businesses and delivering Boardwalk orders. Citizens and submitting business orders may randomly drop these too.

Regular parts

• Tripod, shovel, saw - land expansion
• Packing tape, wooden crate, bubble wrap - inventory upgrade
• Brick, hardhat, sledgehammer - highrises slot

Special parts for bridges

• Brown stones, green steel bars, blue cables, green jack hammers - City Brooke Bridge
• Blue lights, blue jack hammers, white cables, blue steel bars - City Harbor Bridge
• Orange lights, orange jack hammers, red cables, orange steel bars - Golden City Bridge

Special parts for Points of Interest/Locations
These are the special parts for repairing the Points of Interest and Locations.
See Points of Interest & Locations for requirements.

These drops will get harder as you get into further and further expansions.

Main Island

• Scissors - Mayor's Mansion
• Cotton candy - Chesterfield Wheel
• Watering can - Chesterfield Gardens
• Grapes bunch - Chesterfield Vineyard
• Room key - Chesterfield Retreat
• Parachute - Paraglider Perch
• Lightbulb - Lighthouse
• Star map - Observatory

2nd island

• Clapperboard - Chesterfield Studios

3rd island

• Lifeguard donut - Chesterfield Castle
• Compass - Chesterfield Landing
• ? - Fort Chesterfield
• Raincoat - Waterfall

Permits
These are the business permits for starting respective businesses. You get a permit for every business you have mastered. See Businesses on the various businesses you can start.

• Dining permit - level 1 and 4
• Shopping permit - level 2 and 5
• Home improvement permit - level 6 and 9
• Entertainment permit - level 13 and 22
• Service permit - level 14 and 24
• Technology permit - level 16 and 25

Related topic: Businesses