Trailmakers Map Guide: Explore Worlds and City Roads

Which Maps Can You Explore?

Your next Trailmakers map gives you a reason to rethink the vehicle you just built. Campaign worlds put your engineering through missions and changing terrain, while sandboxes leave room for experiments, exploration, and multiplayer battles. New Torque City adds a dense urban playground where highways, sharp exits, and neighborhood streets challenge different parts of the same car.

The game’s environments span campaign, sandbox, racing, and competitive modes. Several worlds support both campaign and sandbox play, so the setting alone doesn’t always tell you what activities a session includes.

Map or world	Modes and activities
Pioneers	Story campaign and sandbox exploration
Airborne	Mission-based campaign with aircraft construction and combat
Stranded	Parts-scavenging campaign and sandbox play
New Torque City	Urban exploration, driving, and Downtown Drive races
Race Island	Racing tracks and leaderboard competition

Other sandbox environments include Test Zone, Danger Zone, Treasure Island, Space Sector, and The Great Carrier Reef. Dedicated activities also include Rally, Dethrone Island, and Time Trials.

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Campaign Worlds: Pioneers, Airborne, and Stranded

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Pioneers: Explore Planet Gregory

Pioneers takes place on Planet Gregory, where BOTNAK robots threaten the Froggit inhabitants. Missions involve protecting the population and improving settlements, with new parts becoming available as you progress.

The world spans 7×7 km, giving you room to drive, sail, and fly across different environments. Build around the terrain your current mission crosses: a vehicle that handles one biome comfortably can need changes for the next.

Pioneers also has a sandbox version. Choose the campaign for mission progression or the sandbox setting when you want to explore and experiment freely.

Airborne: Rescue the Chirpos

Airborne is a DLC campaign centered on the Chirpo homeworld and its invasion by Robot Pirates. Village mayors ask you to recover kidnapped Chirpos, rewarding successful rescues with additional aircraft parts.

Enemy vehicles include ground speeders, blimps, dogfighters, and flak cannons. Adjust your aircraft as those threats change; speed, maneuverability, and weapon placement all have practical work to do here.

Stranded: Scavenge Your Way Home

Stranded begins with a crash on an unfamiliar planet. You collect parts and construct vehicles to navigate difficult terrain, working toward escaping the planet and returning home.

Let each obstacle guide your next rebuild. The campaign gives scavenging and exploration a concrete purpose: expanding what your vehicles can reach.

Sandbox Sessions, Racing, and Multiplayer

Sandbox environments give you space to build together, compare creations, and arrange your own battles across land, water, air, and space. You can construct something from scratch or try premade vehicles and community blueprints.

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Two useful details when planning a session:

• Multiplayer is available across all game modes, including the main story.
• Race Island has 14 tracks with leaderboard competition.

For competitive vehicle experiments, the free PvP map introduced in 2024 supports fighting on land, at sea, in the air, and underwater. Build for the environment your group plans to fight in rather than adding weapons without considering how the vehicle will travel.

New Torque City: Roads, Landmarks, and Night Driving

New Torque City, part of Downtown Drive, packs a highway network, urban streets, industrial buildings, and residential areas into a detailed driving environment. The highway passes through the city, with underpasses and exits connecting it to smaller roads.

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Start with a manageable car and follow the main roads before attempting full-speed runs. Sharp turns off faster roads can expose steering problems quickly.

Landmarks and details to look for include:

• An airport and a large parking lot.
• Factories, offices, and suburban houses.
• Power infrastructure and elevated viewpoints.
• Waterfront piers.
• Traffic lights that cycle through colors.
• Streetlights that illuminate the roads at night.

Use the parking lot to practice turning before taking a new build into tighter streets. Leave enough ground clearance for ramps and transitions; a long, low chassis can get stuck even when its wheels have plenty of power.

Night driving changes the atmosphere considerably. Keep headlights useful and restrained: stacking excessive numbers of light blocks can wash out your view and put extra pressure on performance in dense areas.

What Update 2.5.3 Changed

Update 2.5.3 added activities and polished New Torque City’s roads and scenery. Its changes include:

• Additional Downtown Drive races.
• Trailmaker League in the city’s Golem Arena.
• New Downtown Drive map and area icons.
• Atmospheric fog in parts of New Torque City.
• Corrections to misplaced scenery, unintended rough road sections, and missing or misplaced collision.
• A fix for Motorcycle Wheels clipping through terrain after jumps.
• A multiplayer fix for starting the Harbor Drift race.
• The addition of 2.5 blocks to the Pioneers campaign.

The update also introduced a Time Progression toggle in session settings for most sandbox maps. Enable it to let the time of day advance automatically while you explore.

For motorcycles, distinguish handling trouble from the wheel-clipping issue addressed in this patch. Keep the build’s weight low and test its balance before accelerating through city corners. Add ballast cautiously: extra weight changes the vehicle you’re trying to stabilize.