PYT - Drone v1.1

⚠️ Updates are pending — this is out of our control. As soon as they have passed we will remove this notice.

Console players: in the meantime, this mod will crash your game if you open its window. The fix is there, waiting for approval. Thanks for your understanding!

💻 PC players: you don’t have to wait. We’ve put the latest update for PC on our web page, tfbpx.com/early-access.html — feel free to grab it; full install instructions are on the page, and it can check your download for you. Drone 1.1.4 includes:

• Plays nice with Mod Bar: a click in the PYT bar could freeze the game and close it — fixed.
• The PYT button can fade until your mouse is over it (PYT - Settings).
• The PlayStation fix that’s waiting for approval.

✔ Tested against Transport Fever 3 build 40423 (22 October 2026).

FLY YOUR CARGO OVER THE TRAFFIC.

A Drone Base, a 16-pad Distribution Centre, a 10-bay Drone Tower and five cargo drones — from 2020.

PYT Drones — a PYT (Play Your Transport) mod by Epod. Version 1.1.1.

"When the city is jammed, your job is still the same: get the people their goods. You have the problem. PYT - Drone has the solution."

PICKED FOR “TRANSPORT FEVER 3.1”

⭐ QuickNiq’s curated collection Transport Fever 3.1 gathers the mods that “really should have been features of the base game” — and PYT - Drone is in it. Thank you, QuickNiq!

Built for the big city. When the streets are full and there's no room left for another depot, a Drone Tower fits on one plot downtown and the drones fly over all of it.

Deutsch? Eine Kurzfassung auf Deutsch findet ihr weiter unten.

NEW IN 1.1.3 — CONSOLE FRIENDLY

⏳ This update is pending approval — the current version for download is 1.1.2. It works fine on PC. Console players: please don’t open its window until this update is live.

Our windows politely asked the PlayStation for a close button. The PlayStation doesn't have one, took offence and walked out — taking your whole interface with it. We've had a word.

• In plain terms: on PS5, the drone panel and the PYT news window no longer crash the interface. On PC nothing changes
• Thanks: to Maxmadimus, whose Pay Your Tolls report found it

NEW IN 1.1.2 — ONE NEW PAGE FOR THE FAMILY

The drones held a staff meeting and voted to share a noticeboard with the rest of the PYT family.

• In plain terms: A NEW button in the PYT row: what's new in every PYT mod you have, the rest of the family, and a call for testers
• Nothing else changes — same mod, same saves

NEW IN 1.1.1 — REPAINTED

Unfortunately, the arts department was found to have a corrupt employee who bought the cheapest paint they could find for your drone port signs, leaving your paying customers with low-quality signs. We have since fired those responsible, found a much better paint supplier, and repainted every sign, so they now show as they should — rain, hail or shine, from any angle.

• In plain terms: the drone tower's signs and glows no longer flicker in first-person, driver or drone view

NEW IN 1.1 — ONE CLICK AWAY

• Hover the PYT icon (top left): a row folds out — the drone and a cog for Settings, plus Blueprint Exchange if you have it. Each opens its own window; no more tabs
• With Pay Your Tolls 2.6, the drone sits in PYT's own row — one icon for the whole PYT family
• Français in the PYT language choice
• Drone settings no longer show in the game's Load Preset list
• The X closes the drone windows properly

HOW TO START (2020 or later)

1. Air menu > the PYT Drones tab > Drone Base — build it near an industry. It's the only place that sells drones, and it maintains them.
2. Drone Tower — drop it in a town, right between the buildings. Ten bays, and it maintains drones too.
3. Make a line Base → Tower, buy drones at the Base and send them out.

WHAT YOU GET

• Drone Base — buy and maintain your drones: five loading pads and a hangar with an opening roof.
• Drone Distribution Centre — the central hub: rooftop pads, plus up to three Pad Wings (Configure) for 16 drones at once, with maintenance like the Tower.
• Drone Tower — ten numbered bays spiralling up a slim city tower, with a solar-roof entrance. Small footprint, maintenance included.
• Five drones — Goods, Bulk, Liquid, Flatbed and the new General Cargo drone, which carries anything but people. 250 km/h, as loud as a working drone (turn it up to full rotor, or down to a whisper), in the flag's blue and yellow — or any colour you pick.
• A Battery card on every drone — watch it drain in flight and fast-charge on the pad.
• Every pad works for you — a new line uses all the pads of a drone station by itself.
• Ground crew — open 5, 10 or 15 jobs at a station. Real townspeople come to work, and the more turn up, the faster the loading, the bigger the maintenance circle — and the further a Tower or Distribution Centre delivers (up to double).
• Change your mind any time — click a drone station: pad direction (arrows) and ground crew swap on the spot.

YOUR GAME, YOUR WAY

Click PYT in the top bar > the Drones 2020 tab: Your drone network opens first. Press Settings at the bottom to Tune your drone empire:

• Speed
• Noise — from a whisper to a full rotor roar (default: Busy — real cargo drones are loud)
• Pollution — zero to full
• Battery range — or unlimited
• Over range — how slow a drone flies when its line's hops are longer than its battery
• Maintenance range — grows with the ground crew, or the same for any crew
• Loading speed — grows with the ground crew, the same for any crew, or no staff boost at all

Every setting is saved with your game.

Change any of them whenever you like — Reset to PYT defaults puts them back.

TIPS

• Put your hub out of town by the industries, and Towers a few km into the cities — the drones fly straight over the traffic.
• A Tower or the Distribution Centre only serves the buildings close around it — build it right among the houses and shops, not at the edge of town. A full ground crew doubles its reach.
• Keep each hop inside the battery range, or that line flies in eco mode.
• Stations a few km apart = direct flights. Very short hops make the drones circle to line up.

COMING NEXT

• Build to order — ship steel and plastic to your Drone Base to build your fleet
• Drone plug-ins for train and truck stations, and warehouses
• A passenger air taxi

MODDERS: MAKE YOUR OWN DRONES

Any vehicle tagged pyt_drone flies from PYT Drone Bases — battery, eco mode and the players' tuning included. The PYT Drone Generator writes your model's settings for you. More tools and engine notes: tfbpx.com/resources.html

EARLIER UPDATES

NEW IN 1.0 — OUT OF BETA

• A fifth drone: General Cargo — carries anything but people, perfect from a Distribution Centre with mixed stock.
• Your drone network — every station, line and drone on one page: utilisation, fleet, a pin to find each station, and sortable columns.
• Deliveries reach further with a bigger crew — a full ground crew doubles how far a Tower or Distribution Centre delivers.
• A restyled Drones tab — settings on their own page with an icon for each, every setting kept.
• Busy is the new default noise — real cargo drones are loud (thanks to a pro drone pilot's feedback). Whisper is one click away.
• Big fleets run smoothly, and vehicles from other mods are never mistaken for drones.

FÜR UNSERE DEUTSCHEN FREUNDE

Getestet mit Transport Fever 3, Build 40423.

Ausgewählt für QuickNiqs Sammlung „Transport Fever 3.1“ – Mods, die eigentlich ins Grundspiel gehören.

Neu in 1.1.3: Auf der PS5 stürzte die Oberfläche ab — behoben.

⏳ Dieses Update wartet noch auf die Freigabe — zum Download steht noch 1.1.2 bereit. Auf dem PC läuft sie einwandfrei. Konsolenspieler: bitte das Fenster erst öffnen, wenn das Update da ist.

• Kurz gesagt: Auf der PS5 das Drohnen-Fenster und das PYT-Neuigkeitenfenster bringen die Oberfläche nicht mehr zum Absturz. Auf dem PC ändert sich nichts
• Danke: an Maxmadimus, dessen Meldung bei Pay Your Tolls den Fehler fand

Germany is PYT's biggest supporter: more of our players come from Germany than from any other country. Since you back us the most, it's only fair you get the brief in German too. Spot some clumsy German? Tell us in the comments!

Danke, Deutschland! Die meisten PYT-Spieler kommen aus Deutschland – ihr seid unsere größten Unterstützer. Da ist es nur fair, dass ihr die Kurzfassung auch auf Deutsch bekommt. Unser Deutsch ist nicht perfekt: Wenn euch ein holpriger Satz auffällt, schreibt es gern in die Kommentare – wir freuen uns darüber.

Worum es geht: Fliegt eure Fracht über den Stau. Eine Drohnenbasis, ein Verteilzentrum mit 16 Landeplätzen, ein schlanker Drohnenturm mit 10 Buchten und fünf Frachtdrohnen – ab 2020. Wenn die Stadt verstopft ist, passt der Turm auf ein einziges Grundstück, und die Drohnen fliegen über alles hinweg.

Die Oberfläche im Spiel ist noch auf Englisch.

So geht’s:

1. Im Luftfahrtmenü den Reiter PYT Drones öffnen und die Drone Base nahe einer Industrie bauen – nur dort gibt es Drohnen zu kaufen
2. Den Drone Tower mitten in die Stadt setzen
3. Eine Linie Base → Tower anlegen, Drohnen an der Base kaufen und losschicken

HOW PYT IS MADE

Epod designs, directs and tests every mod; AI tools help write the code and build the models. Everything is tested in game before release, and every comment gets read. The screenshots and videos are real in-game footage.

MORE FROM:

Enjoying PYT? Follow the PYT Collection to discover our latest Transport Fever 3 mods.

• PYT - Pay Your Tolls — toll signs, gantries and plazas that pay you
• PYT - Mega Warehouse — a locked store for every cargo, the stock on show
• PYT - Factory Buffer — a locked store for every cargo your factory needs
• PYT - Early Mixed Cargo Trucks — 4 types of cargo in one truck — 1890 to 1985
• PYT - Late Mixed Cargo Trucks — 4 types of cargo in one truck — 1975 to 2025
• PYT - Mixed Cargo Vanilla Conversion Kit — the game's own vehicles — trucks to ships — now with mixed cargo
• PYT - Load Planner — plan every load with sliders — and see it
• PYT - Minimap — your whole map at a glance, and a click away
• PYT - A Plus — your own line names — by hand or automatically
• PYT - Tram Doctor — every tram line checked — and fixed in one click
• PYT - Town Signs — your town's name and population — WELCOME in, SEE YOU SOON out
• PYT - Distance Signs — the towns ahead by real road distance, the capital crowned
• PYT - Speed Signs — speed signs that read the road and follow it
• PYT - Blueprint Exchange — copy, paste and share whole layouts
• PYT - Harbour City — the Wave toll plaza, from 1990
• PYT - 1940 Home Front — the 1940 Home Front toll plaza
• All our mods and tools: tfbpx.com/resources.html

One button. The whole PYT family. Every PYT mod you add slots into this one button in your game’s top bar — better than 50 buttons all over your screen! Ein Knopf, die ganze PYT-Familie: jede PYT-Mod landet in diesem einen Knopf oben im Spiel.

A SMALL ASK

If you enjoy the drones, a thumbs up goes a long way on mod.io — and a comment with your favourite settings helps even more.

Want to test new PYT mods before anyone else? Sign up as a beta tester at tfbpx.com/drone-beta.html (PC only).

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Version 1.1.3 — by Epod

📓 A gift to all my fellow modders: Transport Fever Modder Field Notes — everything we have learned building these mods, free for anyone to use.