Two Doors, Two Depots

VERSION 0.991 · 5 SEPTEMBER 2026 · GRF v99 UNCHANGED

A server patch on top of v0.99. The Rail Baron learns how a real terminus is wired and stops sleeping on its money, every vehicle class now sticks to its own mode, industry holdings come down to match the faster industries from v0.972, and a leak that paid players for selling vehicles is closed.

Nothing to download. GRF v99 is unchanged. No talent node moved and nobody respecs. Each world takes this at its next reset, so within four hours the whole farm is on it.

Two doors into every station

The AI's double-track terminus used to bring both main lines in through one junction tile, and an arrival could curl back into a hairpin that trains cannot take. It is now built the way a player builds one:

Every platform gets one straight exit tile carrying a path signal that faces the platform, so each platform is its own block and three trains can load at once.
Beyond the exits sits a junction row with two doors. One main line arrives at one end of the row, the other leaves from the other end, and every platform connects to both doors, so any train can enter any platform and leave again without reversing through the throat.
Stations that cannot fit the two-door throat are built single track with one platform each end, rather than two lanes squeezed into one platform.

Two depots, either end

Where trains bank up is the loading end, so both ends of a double-track line now get a proper queue: on the arriving lane a depot on each side of the track, the straight between them removed, and a signal on either side of the junction. An arriving train that finds the platforms busy waits inside a depot, off the running line, and with two depots one is always open. If only one side has room you get one depot and the log says so.

Long, medium, short

A rich Rail Baron used to spend its session failing at very long surveys. On one world three Barons ran thirty-one long surveys for two routes, each failure four to twenty minutes of silent search, while every medium survey that ran became a line. The band a Baron shops in now has to earn its keep:

Band	Route length	When
Long	300 to 600 tiles	Rich Barons, until it misses 2 rounds running.
Medium	100 to 300 tiles	The next 6 rounds after a long miss, and the default once the class has proven itself.
Short	6 to 16 tiles	4 rounds after 2 medium misses, because a short line still pays and funds the next long attempt. Then long again.

A miss is any round in the band that built nothing, including rounds where every candidate was too dear, which is exactly the case a short line funds. A route of 100 tiles or more now proves the class the way three openers used to, so a Baron that opens with a medium double track no longer goes back to hunting openers.

Every class sticks to its mode

The Rail Baron has run trains only since v0.972 and it worked. The same rule now holds for all four vehicle classes: a Roadmaster builds road only, an Admiral ships only, an Aviator aircraft only. No truck frontage on their stations, no bus feeders, no dock shuttles, no town weave around an airport. An Admiral therefore needs docks whose catchment actually sees the cargo, and picks its pairs that way. The strategy classes (Industrialist, Merchant, Magnate, Urbanist) keep their mixed fleets.

Holdings come down

v0.972 made every industry develop about three times faster, and the holdings dividend pool scales with the development it buys, so holdings income was climbing with it. The industry development dividend is now 900 per hundred extra units hauled, down from 3,000, roughly thirty percent of the previous figure. Sink dividends (power stations, water towers, banks) and town holdings are untouched: the growth multiplier never reached them.

Industries open at half

Added later the same day. A forest at "Output: 800% (ENGINE MAXIMUM)" showed the wall: OpenTTD caps any industry at eight times its default production level, and no script can raise that. Every industry now opens at half its vanilla output, so the ceiling sits sixteen times above the start instead of eight, and a developed, powered, populous industry has room to keep growing for most of a session. The window's Output figure is relative to the start, so a fresh industry still reads 100% and the wall reads 1600%. Consequences, stated: early haulage income is about half what it was until industries develop, and holdings dividends at a given development are half too; the absolute ceiling is unchanged, so a maxed industry pays what it did.

Talents and research multiply on their own

Added later the same day. Session XP used to be base, times your charter, times the finish bonus, times one percentage that added your XP talents and your XP research together. So twenty-two points of research on a +145% talent build was worth nine percent more XP, which is not what trillions of research money should buy. They are separate factors now: base, times charter, times finish, times your talents, times your research, each on its own. Contracts and records pay through the same five factors, and the rankings row shows the two you could not see before, as talents x2.45 | research x1.22.

Fixed

Selling a vehicle and buying another in the same month paid you twice. OpenTTD hands a sold vehicle's id to the next vehicle you build, and the rebate system trusted the id, so the sale was never clawed back, the new vehicle earned a fresh rebate, and when the replacement was cheaper the value gap was paid out as asset preservation on the next monthly pass. That is the extra money a minute after selling a ship. A vehicle is now identified by its engine, age and consist; the clawback (a sale within three years of purchase) returns exactly what was paid on that vehicle, never today's re-priced figure, and never charges a vehicle that was not rebated in the first place.
A free wagon standing in a depot is no longer rebated and then clawed back when it is coupled to a train.
A vehicle bought on the first day of a 31-day month now gets its purchase rebate; the old 30-day window missed it.
The talent tooltips say what a node unlocks in one line per cargo (Unlocks Coal specialist Trucks / Trams / Planes), turning green once you hold it, and your build summary lists everything your nodes have unlocked.
The v0.98 Discord card carried the v0.972 title.
AI truck stops end on a road tile of their own. The depot, stop, stop spur used to butt straight onto the town road, so a bridge head or a building at that spot boxed it in. It now lays one road tile of its own between the stops and the town road, and that tile may bend, so the stops can run alongside a bridge approach instead of into it. (Added later the same day.)
The Wood and Goods cargo jets and airlifts now unlock at their truck's node. v0.98 promised every cargo aircraft at the same node as its truck, but the forest and goods truck families are split across two nodes and the whole air family had landed on the industry half, so Kingpin Routes (rd60) read Wood Trucks and Trams while the Wood Cargojet sat a node away on Smokestack Rights. Timber and Goods/Toy aircraft now follow their trucks to rd60 and rd70; Paper, Candyfloss, Steel, Plastic and Toffee aircraft stay with theirs. No node moved, nobody respecs. (Added later the same day.)