Horse Update Now Available for the Early Start DLC

Today we are releasing a free update for the Early Start DLC that expands its logistics system in a new direction. The Horses and 1920 Start update brings full horse support across the game and pushes the Early Start DLC further based on your continued support and feedback.

Horses are now integrated into the logistics system across multiple vehicles. Passenger carriages, cement carts, pull behind cranes, and plows all have horse variants. Horses run directly inside the vehicle scripts, so speed and pull load behave as expected, with additional horses increasing performance. A stamina system has also been added so they cannot be pushed endlessly.

To support a fully horse driven setup, we have added the necessary buildings, including horse hospitals, horse construction offices, feeders, stud farms for breeding, and a carpenter’s workshop for producing carriages.

The update is free and live now. Thank you for your continued feedback and support of the Early Start DLC.

We are also planning another DLC for 2026. We think you will be very happy with it, and we will share more details when we are ready.

Check out the latest trailer below.

New Images Approved by the Ministry of Aesthetics

Aside from horses finally leaving their stables, we’ve also replaced the old portraits with brand new artwork.

Research icons have been fully reworked with a complete visual overhaul.

Campaign mission images have been updated as well.

Because the quality of these images is much higher than what the game itself requires, we’ve included them in our press kit. Feel free to use them for videos, streams, or other community content.

Merry Christmas from the entire Soviet Republic team to you and all your loyal citizens.

Detailed changelog:

1.1.1.0

• Added horses with new buildings

• Added labour halls

• Added worker-based excavation and terrain flattening when no excavators or bulldozers are available

• Added 1920 start option

• Replaced 2D art images (mission images, portraits, research icons)

• Attempted to fix the issue of universities becoming overcrowded by workers

• Fixed an issue where bio-waste could not be unloaded under a rare condition (very small amount of fertilizer remaining in the bio-waste storage)

• Fixed occasional crash on launch

• Fixed an issue where construction offices outside the range were assigned when construction was re-started

• Fixed an issue with the loyalty filter when workers were moving into residential buildings

• Fixed a problem where upgrading footpaths was free (asphalt → brick with lamps)

• Fixed SFX issue when trams moved from railway track to tram road

• Added checks when loading saves containing DLC stuff

• added Ursus A30 trucks,

• added Skoda 706R trucks,

• tweaked various MAZ-200 stats,

• corrected the mass of the Skd 706RTTN refrigerator, D-211 roller and D-150 paver,

• lowered the pollution of early start heating plants

• added early nuclear fuel production chain

• added new textures for ZiS-151 trucks

• added ZiS-151 logging truck

• fixed sounds for ZiS trucks

• added ZiS-150 trucks

• Re-baked some previews for V3S trucks.

• Fixed the model for R-2203 van and RF-977 ambulance.

• fixed ZiS-5 families

• added 3 old panel houses,

• locked modern panel houses behind brutalism and modernism

• YaG texture tweak

• Sound changes fixing missing early start klaxons and some vanilla car engines

• added Vetra trolleybuses (part 2)

• added DKW Meisterklasse, Skoda Tudor, Tatra 600, EMW 340, Citroen 11CV cars,

• added ZiS-8 bus,

• added ZiS-5 gravel and concrete trucks

• added SO Series electric locomotive

• gaz-67 and ifa f8 ambulance has also been added

• Fixed zis-155 covered length preventing purchasing this vehicle

• GAZ AA bread buffed to 1.5 t capacity

• Russo-Balt T40/65 trucks limited to 1920s, given back historical speed (20km/h)

• Ya-4 trucks given more variants (Dumper, Concrete mixer, Waste truck)

• Added T-111 vehicle family

• Reworked KRS-SM11 bus and added KRS-SL11 bus

1.1.1.1

• Fixed missing localization strings for vehicles

• Fixed nuclear factories being displayed twice in the list

• Ships now correctly display that they can load trains in the vehicle schedule

• Fixed an issue where it was sometimes possible to duplicate horses when sending a carriage from storage with two or more horses

• Fixed available years information for the T-111 family

1.1.1.2

• Fixed replace vehicle problem and crash

• adjusted a few vehicle availability dates,

• Zawrat bus is now available for dollars, not for rubles,

• factories which don't explicitly consume power for production can now also work without power with low efficiency

• added Essen wagons,

• added new early start buildings: small food factory, small distillery, another restaurant, theatre, monumental sports hall

• vehicle availability dates adjustments and fixes

• added more passenger train stations (modern and early start),

• modern clinic becomes available at brutalism, not modernism

1.1.1.3

• Production is now displayed in the building list for production plants

• Fixed an issue where removing a piece of road, tram, or trolleybus electric connection did not trigger regeneration

• added Holt 75 bulldozer and tractor

• added more rail and road gates,

• added an old nuclear power plant

• added an old metro station

• added an old vehicle storage

• added Skoda 1201

• Added Fiat 626 and 666 trucks

• Added GAZ-51 trucks (part 1)

• added Saurer B-typ trucks (part 1)

• added rest of T111 family (and T-141 and T-147)

1.1.1.4

• Fixed a performance issue with the technical office and vehicles (constant pathfinding in case of an error in the road network).

• Fixed an issue where an excavator or other machinery waiting on construction for transport prevented cranes from entering.

• Fixed waste production for the stud farm and carpenter workshop.

• Fixed an issue with dummy storages at the horse workplace and water warnings.

• Changed the SFX of steam locomotives (separated engine and underlay).

• Limited the maximum speed of a train to the speed of its slowest locomotive.

• Fixed animation when towing steam locomotives.