Cities Skylines, but there's NO WATER... 

The one rule for moving into town is that you need to come with a full bladder, otherwise the entire balance is thrown off.

This is the most efficient sewage usage I've ever seen, 0 waste.

I love how you casually didn't disgus the shape of your second reservoir.

Normal people: it's called "People" and "Population" Matt: No it's "Poople" and "Poopulation"

Hey Matt, small hint: Use the Eco Water Treatment Plant from the Green Cities DLC instead of the Water Drain Pipe. They treat the water before releasing them into the environment. Therefore the released water is much cleaner and you need fewer Floating Garbage Collectors to make your water drinkable. Overall this should save you a lot of money because garbage collectors are very expensive to operate, but the water treatment plants are only marginally more expensive than the drain pipes. Additionally, I think an engineer's paradise such as your cities should have as much amazing engineering as possible, and the water treatment engineering bits have been neglected by all of your cities so far. Dumping your waste untreated into the environment is for architects only.

It's good to know that if you are dying of dehydration in the desert, you can always use your poo as an endless supply of water.

It's time for Economics 101 with Matt... *Disclaimer: Do not use RCE as a reliable source of how to structure a city wide, oil based economy, or you may end up creating a dystopian hell-scape.*

As someone who grew up in Arizona I can say this video is 100% accurate

Which came first? The water or the sewage? One of Philosophy's great questions.

Hot, sunny, no water, sounds like yer typical festival😃

I notice that in the view from Casa de Matt, the financial district buildings hide the chemical wasteland of your industrial district.

Matt really just embraced his inner gold-digging industrialist

i live in an oil town thats in a desert and i 1000x% love that it feels like we're being called out, with the whole skyscrapers out in the middle of nowhere to the flip flop of our local economy being basically solely reliant on how well oil sells. Not quite there on the whole drinking our own literal poop yet, though some might say they think otherwise. Love your vids!

There's no water? That's my architect landlord every other day.

Ah gotta love it when in Cities Skylines you set up a specific industry in a specific zone and the game is like "Hey we didn't get the raw materials for a second! Import it in!" Because I love it when my lumber industry imports lumber despite setting it up in a forest with plenty of lumber according to the location... :D

As a petroleum engineer I absolutely love seeing all them pumpjacks and rigs, its beautiful.

So much better seeing you play with gameplay demands

For some reason I don't fully comprehend, this was one of the most relaxing and fulfilling episodes you ever put out.

20:15 RCE: The arch, the lovely symbol of Engineering... you mean, Architecture? 🤣🤣

Could you make this into an ongoing series?

"Building a city in the middle of the desert that has no natural resources like water that you need is bloomin' expensive" Me who lives in Arizona: 👀 I'm pretty sure you just built Phoenix in 21 minutes.

>no water >lots of oil >desert >dysfunctional sewer system >high density skyrises So basically Dubai.

3:38 Ah yes clean energy winds turbines who's only purpose is to power oil pumps. Truly glorious

as a former Land Surveyor, I'm always amazed by drainage engineering. So, I've always thoroughly enjoyed your content. Keep it up.

It’s crazy how accurate the process of industrialization in the desert is in the game to real life (that is ignoring all the crazy prices of technology in the game of course)

"Oh look a tower" - Looking at the Space Needle

I Finally finished Binge Watching every City Skyline Video you have posted. Please post more of these!!

"no one have complained about the water in ages" 2 secends later 18 people have asked for water🤣

The Stillsuit is necessary to survive the harsh Arrakis weather while you're mining spice. It uses the body's moisture to rehydrate the wearer.

18:28 I see what you did there, very cheeky. Love it. Got you a Sub, Like and Ringing of the Bell.

Would love to see RCE take a crack at Oxygen Not Included, given his interest in converting poo water to clean water. Also a great game for clever engineering solutions.

Send in the beavers!

Matt is officially an architect

This is one of the best depictions of issues with desert mega cities

Wouldn't mind seeing you continue on this map.

" 'oppression office' we're in the desert 💀

Even more hubris than dredging up oil in a desert would be to turn it into a farming capital. :) (See the Colorado River basin and the Sonoran Desert for a real life example...)

"OMG it's huge. I forgot how big they were. We want to shove it in that end I believe." 😂 nice one 🤣

Dry, sandy and no water? Sounds like the UK in summer

I got a traffic questions and a bridge question! There is a overpass in the US where our traffic changes from driving on the right to driving on the left. Why would you do this when controlling traffic and is it called something specific? The GPS coordinates are 38.817969, -77.640031 and it's route 15 that does it. It's been driving me crazy trying to figure out why they do this. My bridge question is, how do you feel about the US having one of the London Bridges from 1800's? Any plans to check it out? The bridge is the one over Lake Havasu in the US.

So what Matt teaches us about sewage treatment is, fill a hole in the earth with poo water, flick out the turds, pump it back into people's homes, which makes more poo water.

Alternative title: Dubai

ok so i know this probably won't get any response, but i've been slightly obsessed with the little choir piece at the end of the video here (i know RCE uses it a lot, but this is a pretty clear example). i've sort of figured out what the notes/chords are, i just can't place whether or not i've heard it before... does anyone maybe have an idea what it's from/who it's by??

Engitopia, the city hydrated by the tears of architects

You should do a series for Prehistoric Kingdom, it'd be awesome to see you engineer some of the stuff on there!

As a petroleum engineer, seeing a rig producing Oil is 😂😂. Oh game!!

Matt you’ve inspired me to become an architect because being an engineer means that you have to do too much work

This is basically my hometown in summer (and the other seasons too)

I really like this concept. Please keep up this series.

Please make this a series! so fun

"Opression makes the world go round"

Architects sit their and doodle on a piece of paper and then say it’s sufficient for the engineer to figure out get rid of the middle man and just leave us with engineers

I would like to revisit this city again in the near future

RCE just made a perfect example of a desert city. On the outside there is such advanced skyscrapers but on the inside the basics of life are missed for example Dubai doesn't have working sewage. This city doesn't have good roads

Video starts, hang on is Matt actually making a serious Cities video. 2:50 in. Nope of course not. Laughter ensues. Quick double take a few minutes later as the engineering actually makes sense. Nicely done, might try this in my own city.

so funy thing about cities skylines, if you start with everything unlocked, you don't have a city full of people that can pay for the things that get unlocked... and when you add people to your city, they demand things like police, fire service, garbage collection exetera, right? well if you DIDNOT unlock everything, then the game disables the people's desire for fire service, police service, garbage colelction AND other stuff. because the developers of the game decided that it made more sense to limit what you have to juggle at the start of a game, at least until you unlock some milestones, like getting your city to a larger sized population. so using the 'unlock everything from the start' option, makes the game fundamentally HARDER(, but not impossible). If you want to try this challenge again, try it without unlock-everything. another little fact, the cars, trucks and everything, need turn around spots in your roads, otherwise they'd proceed to the end of the road regardless of where they want to actually go. this is fairly unrealistic behavior so most people don't think to deal with it or work around it, but you have to actually include like intersections and stuff so that they don't just generate out of thin air, and proceed to go the wrong direction for the destination they have in mind for AGES before eventually turning around and going the correct way. this also affects the walkers. because they have the same a.i. so you counter-intuitively need turn around spots, like intersections, for paths. and oh yeah, not every road has a path for them to walk on, and some things might not be valid turn-arounds, so you'd have to actually watch the path to see if it gets used.

Some deserts stay quite cold from undergrond rivers, or sea fog, or different sand material. One desert in usa or mexico is made of gypsum.

Thank you so much I've been bord lookin for something to watch for 2 hours

Bro the second pump is a masterpiece both efficiency and design

I always thought City Skylines was a hyper realilistic game until it said oil field workers needed to have an education 😆

Such a beautiful and artistic design he made for water treatment 18:28 its a piece of art

I feel like this would be more interesting with a regular start, instead of unlocking everything right away

the highlight of my day!!!

The Burj Khalifa is truly a feat if engineering, built on sandstone and on massive pillars, incredible height, everything bout it is amazing

If you are going to build in the desert, you need casinos.

😂Matt-“I’m not going to dig down I’m going to dig up “😂

I think I'm a architect secretly. I want to make a giant solar power array that's set up in space that's pretty much giant sails and they are in geosynchronous orbit and tethered to the ground with power cable. Plus since it's in space cables to keep the form so no heavy bulky wieghts...weights.... except for the tons of sails and cables

5:18 is crazy

14:37 I liked it when he did this.

Is that donkey Kong tropical freeze music in the background lol

I don't know if this is still the case but it use to be that due to the way the game rounds water volume you make more water from the sewage then the city uses I watched a sires where this was solved using big evaporation pans

Bro really tried to use 'poo-lution' instead of 'sew-lution' which actually rhymes 😭

The beginning part sounds like an intro to a documentary

Love your daily content!!!!

We love you RCE

You live in a city:😊 It’s got gravel roads:😀 The water is made from poo:🥲 The city is bankrupt:😕 Your in the desert:😞 The city is made from rce:💀

Matt, next time to get more money into the system let ALL your people WALK through a few parks before reaching the Oil industry. Also use WAREHOUSES for better and faster export of your oil production. Maybe you can make a POOP basin ONLY, and use fire helicopters to put out a (constant) fire you create in a pit where you also have the regular water pumps. Makes you wonder if that scooped up poop will still be poop if dropped from those helicopters. 🙂 Don't forget to 'credit' me for giving you this idea lol... :P :D

I wish I am engineer like you, but instead I am just a lawyer 😔 Lawyers are architects 😪

Love the shape 😂 18:28

id happily wtch a series of this!

the ad was for the ninja drink machine before a video with no water 💀💀💀

It really is amazing how many different uses oil has, plastics, medicines, energy

18:29 the perfect shape

I love your cities skylines series RCE

PLAESE MAKE THIS A SERIES

Aha i knew it from the beginning that you were going to turn that sewage push into clean fresh drinking water

I'm so happy to see RCE struggle with money after all the modded episodes

16:51 Lmao dammit architects 😂 They're too busy trying to make the oil rig look pretty instead

I have a game recomendation, its very similar to Cities: Skylines as it is a city building game. The game is avaible on steam and its called "Workers and Recources Soviet Republic"

Jesus could turn water into wine. Engineers can turn poo into water.

It was great episode!

Imagine forgetting there is a building made to clean poo water in the water tab instead of wasting so much money buying lots of those trash cleaners why not use those

Matt: Drink more water so we can recycle it into sewage and blah blah blah! Also Matt: Save your water we don’t have enough! Still Matt: Drink more water for more sewage! The citizens: bruh

Everytime I think of deserts I think about Las Vegas and how ridiculous it is to put a megacity into a desert when you have other options.... On the other side a Mafia hideout on the middle of nowhere sounds great

Rce makes just over 1k per week Rce: this is increadable!

Love it. Thanks!

Very cool. We need a series, WE NEED A SERIES!

18:29 wow that is a cocky, water treatment plan.

trying to fool us with a timberborner episode! im onto you!!!

0:08 Let's hope Matt doesn't become Darth Architecture.