American Trucks Simulator Bundles Shopping Strategy
With new Iowa DLC it is already 18 state DLC released for American Truck Simulator to date. Unless California, Nevada and Arizona are available for free, all other states are chargeable and if you start purchasing expansion from the scratch it can be really costly. For sure, better way to buy add-ons on sales but you can save even more with bundles and for now we have already 6 bundles which includes not only map DLC but also other nice add-ons. And one of the benefit of bundles that it gives discount on total price but if already have DLCs from the list its price will be excluded.
Below you can find all available bundles including brand new with Iowa DLC. Unfortunately Missouri Mighty Haul disappeared right now so Missouri DLC is selling for full price.
Great Plains Calling! Bundle
This amazing bundle includes Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/33975/Great_Plains_Calling_Bundle/
Northwest Bundle
Bundle includes not only maps but base game itself, and several other DLCs so it is great jumpstart pack. States in bundle: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Additionally in bundle: Forest Machinery, Wheel Tuning Pack and Retrowave Paint Jobs Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28881/Northwest_Bundle/
Texas-sized Bundle
This bundle gives you also a nice value. It includes base game, couple states: Texas and New Mexico, tuning, paintjobs and special cargo DLCs. Wild West Paint Jobs Pack, Heavy Cargo Pack, Special Transport, Space Paint Jobs Pack and Wheel Tuning Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28883/Texassized_Bundle/
Arkan-saw Bundle
This bundle is a small one and only includes Arkansas DLC and Forest Machinery. Arkansas is available in this bundle only.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/45098/Arkansaw_Bundle/
Southwest Bundle
States included in this valuable bundle: New Mexico, Utah, Colorado. But it also includes Base game and Special Transport, Heavy Cargo Pack, Steering Creations Pack and Classic Stripes Paint Jobs Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28882/Southwest_Bundle/
Iowa Freight & Fields Bundle
This is the latest bundle which includes Iowa DLC, Forest Machinery, Retrowave Paint Jobs Pack and Special Transport
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56131/Iowa_Freight__Fields_Bundle/
As you see some DLC can be presented in several bundles. And content of bundles periodically changes as well as bundles themselves. Above information is actual to July 2025 and ATS 1.55 so please check if bundles available for you or not. The same for pricing and discounts. Prices can be vary depending of region and current Sales.
Hidden Roads Study – July, 21 2025
I’m trying to share all found hidden secret roads in both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 and for if for Europe we have no many of them since the Greece release in 2024, for America we had significant update after the Missouri release and have some new added with Iowa. And as mentioned on Telegram I discovered couple of new roads in Iowa and added them to list of cities by states https://trucksim.top/y9t6. I believe a lot others will be found while cruising Iowa and in the end I will refresh the video guide.
This takes considerable time, and YouTube analytics show that viewers prefer map mod combinations over guides like these. Therefore, I’ll be giving this project lower priority, along with other regular guides
ETS2 (updated 04.25.2025, actual on 1.55, 80 roads so far)
ATS (updated 05.16.2025, actual on 1.55 without Iowa, 224 roads so far)
Unfortunately, YouTube search results often prioritize older videos, so even though I’m updating descriptions, outdated guides still rank higher in search results. Please always check if a more recent and updated guide is available.
How to Merge Map Progress in Profiles for ETS2 and ATS – 2025 Guide
In this short guide I will explain you how to merge several profiles map discovery progress on example of merging vanilla 100% and Roextended 89% profiles on ETS2 1.53. You can try this scheme on 1.55 and in both ETS2 and ATS. Below you can find link to text version, tools and also ready strings used in this video (updated to 1.55 for America).
Guide:
1. Reason
Merge discovered items in two profiles let you have updated visited roads in the end even if you exploring maps on different profiles. Also when the new version of the game is being released you can again discover as much as possible and then merge with your old combined profile.
2. Preparations and tools
Download and install software we plan to use – TS SE Tool, Notepad++, make sure that you have mods in mod folder if you plan to merge mod’s profile, make sure that Steam cloud disable for all profiles which will be changed, check config file if you can decrypt game files (g_save_format 2) and can use console (uset g_developer 1, uset g_console 1) and so on.
3. Backup
Backup all the profiles to the separate drive before doing any manipulations.
4. Profiles job
Enter to the profiles you wish to merge and save game to locate desired profiles by timestamp. You should carefully pick correct profiles. Decrypt profiles one by one and open game.sii in each mergeable profile and copy all discovered items to new text file (in this file we will merge them). We can merge 2 or more profiles but don’t forget that it should be from the same version of the game.
5. Merge (most important part)
When all discovered items strings pasted to the text file we have to change the order of numbers – the way as game read each string. Start from removing left part of the string (discovered_items []: ) with Notepad ++ command Find and Replace (Ctrl+C). On the Find what enter discovered_items \[\d+\]: and keep blank on Replace with (we have to remove them). Do not forget check Regular Expression in Search Mode. Replace all and you will get list of numbers. On this step you can also remove duplicates. Now we have to return discovered_items []: text with empty brackets. Alt+C and choose Text to insert and place there discovered_items []: and push ok. On the next step we have to add numbers to the brackets with correct order from 0. Select all in bracket spots (Choose first one and with Alt+Shift select last one) and again Alt+C and choose Number to insert – Initial should be 0, increased by 1, format decimal. Push ok and wait. If you have lot of string it can take a while. When all numbers added to brackets we can remove redundant spaces. Now we can copy strings and paste them to the target profile where will me merged result.
6. Results we get
We have to see discovered roads from 2 or more profiles we combined.
7. Back to play Load from profile where strings added and if you see desired result you can back to game but please bare in mind that recruitment agencies are not gonna work with this method so if you want to hire drivers you game will probably crash. To avoid it hire drivers before profiles modifications.
Useful links:
TS SE Tool https://github.com/LIPtoH/TS-SE-Tool/releases/tag/v0.3.11.0
Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org
Strings:
Roextended +Vanilla and all DLCs (99% opened) shown on video: https://sharemods.com/3lmagkhl784x/roex99percent_trucksim.txt.html
Vanilla ETS2 1.53: https://sharemods.com/le4g91swcadh/trucksim-ets2-full-save153.zip.html (video guide: https://youtu.be/H12qpCG_RIQ)
Vanilla ETS2 1.54 https://sharemods.com/sbr79ko0zc6h/ets154fullsave_trucksim.zip.html
Vanilla ATS 1.54: https://sharemods.com/2awrhvf2e9fl/trucksim-ats-100discovered-may25.zip.html
Vanilla ATS 1.55 (before Iowa DLC) https://sharemods.com/yd3fx9nrc3w8/trucksim100percent155.zip.html
Promods 2.74 (99.9%) https://sharemods.com/njxw5ia2bwqb/promods-trucksim.zip.html (video: https://youtu.be/sZzEPyASnAM?si=RUmCuI5c0vzeHn59)
Louisiana DLC Sneak Peek
Upcoming DLC for American Truck Simulator of Louisiana State is probably will be released in the end of 2025. I collected official SCS Software footages and pics. You can follow details of the new DLC on official SCS blog and in social media.
First Iowa Map Combo for ATS 1.55 with 18 Maps – July, 15 – 2025
The first big map combo for ATS 1.55 with Iowa DLC includes Coast to Coast, Reforma, More American Cities, Sierra Nevada, EMMN, Ontario Quebec, Yards and other mods. Links below consist 18 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
Links:
📌Coast to Coast Map 2.21.55.0 https://trucksim.top/mck5
📌Reforma 2.9.2.155 https://trucksim.top/j8q9
📌Reforma Mega Resources 2.9.2.155 https://trucksim.top/et5v
📌Reforma Sierra Nevada 1.7.1.155 https://trucksim.top/0vxg
📌Reforma OtherMaps Patch 30.155 https://trucksim.top/pnhz
📌Discover Oregon 2.0 https://trucksim.top/akve
📌Texarkana Yard 1.01 https://trucksim.top/6m0u
📌Miles City, MT Yard ATS Expansion Addon 1.01 https://trucksim.top/oado
📌Columbia, Mo Yard 1.54.3 https://trucksim.top/hj8m
📌More American Cities (Washington) 1.2 https://trucksim.top/x5fs
📌More American Cities (Utah) 1.1 https://trucksim.top/7rib
📌More American Cities (Idaho) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/qnh7
📌More American Cities (Colorado) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/rblk
📌More American Cities (California) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/cyi5
📌More American Cities (Oklahoma) 1.1 https://trucksim.top/efrm
📌East Meets Mid-North 1.55-1 https://trucksim.top/bt97
📌Ontario-Quebec 7-155 https://trucksim.top/wi8b
📌East Meets Mid-North – Discover Ontario RC 1.55-1 https://trucksim.top/o5pr
📌Washington Lake cabin (A-Frame) 1.1.5 https://trucksim.top/lvwh
📌Project Better Arizona 0.4.2.2 https://trucksim.top/rf0s
📌Project Better Arizona Reforma Connection 1.10.3 https://trucksim.top/aeg7
📌North America Map (Dark) (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/e943
Bonus:
📌Minimal adviser (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/jaww
Save on ATS expansions with bundles
With new Iowa DLC it is already 18 state DLC released for American Truck Simulator to date. Unless California, Nevada and Arizona are available for free, all other states are chargeable and if you start purchasing expansion from the scratch it can be really costly. For sure, better way to buy add-ons on sales but you can save even more with bundles and for now we have already 6 bundles which includes not only map DLC but also other nice add-ons. And one of the benefit of bundles that it gives discount on total price but if already have DLCs from the list its price will be excluded. Below you can find all available bundles including brand new with Iowa DLC. Unfortunately Missouri Mighty Haul disappeared right now so Missouri DLC is selling for full price.
Great Plains Calling! Bundle
This amazing bundle includes Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/33975/Great_Plains_Calling_Bundle/
Northwest Bundle
Bundle includes not only maps but base game itself, and several other DLCs so it is great jumpstart pack. States in bundle: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Additionally in bundle: Forest Machinery, Wheel Tuning Pack and Retrowave Paint Jobs Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28881/Northwest_Bundle/
Texas-sized Bundle
This bundle gives you also a nice value. It includes base game, couple states: Texas and New Mexico, tuning, paintjobs and special cargo DLCs. Wild West Paint Jobs Pack, Heavy Cargo Pack, Special Transport, Space Paint Jobs Pack and Wheel Tuning Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28883/Texassized_Bundle/
Arkan-saw Bundle
This bundle is a small one and only includes Arkansas DLC and Forest Machinery. Arkansas is available in this bundle only.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/45098/Arkansaw_Bundle/
Southwest Bundle
States included in this valuable bundle: New Mexico, Utah, Colorado. But it also includes Base game and Special Transport, Heavy Cargo Pack, Steering Creations Pack and Classic Stripes Paint Jobs Pack.
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28882/Southwest_Bundle/
Iowa Freight & Fields Bundle
This is the latest bundle which includes Iowa DLC, Forest Machinery, Retrowave Paint Jobs Pack and Special Transport
Link to Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56131/Iowa_Freight__Fields_Bundle/
As you see some DLC can be presented in several bundles. And content of bundles periodically changes as well as bundles themselves. Above information is actual to July 2025 and ATS 1.55 so please check if bundles available for you or not. The same for pricing and discounts. Prices can be vary depending of region and current Sales.
ATS 1.55 – 100% Explored map with all DLC (excluding Iowa)
The guide is explaining how to open 100% discovered map in ATS 1.55 with all map DLC excluding Iowa
I did the same guide periodically for ETS2 and ATS. If you did it for Missouri, you probably will not see new empty spots on map. Since #Iowa already released I started to discover it and will share the progress.
Files:
Source of discovered items https://sharemods.com/yd3fx9nrc3w8/trucksim100percent155.zip.html
Ready profile with 100% roads discovered https://sharemods.com/cmop3ku9lvj8/747275636B73696D2D6D617932303235.zip.html
Iowa DLC released
You don’t need the eyes of a hawk to see what’s coming, the Iowa DLC for American Truck Simulator officially releases today! Get ready to explore everything that the Hawkeye State has to offer.
Make the most of your visit to the Hawkeye State and enjoy every moment as you:
- Truck through 12 cities including Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Burlington, Iowa City, and more!
- Discover beautifully recreated landmarks like the Iowa State Capitol, Historic Cedar Covered Bridge, Tree in the Middle of the Road, or the world’s largest grain bins.
- Deliver cargo to or from new depots – the agricultural factory and agricultural dealer.
- Visit the biggest truck stop we have ever built in ATS on Interstate 80!
- Become a vital part in transporting farm produce from the Hawkeye State all over the USA.
- Explore more than 15 scenic towns (settlements) on your travels such as Spencer, Clear Lake, Dyersville, Oskaloosa, or Traer!
- Pick up and deliver equipment and goods to the Aluminum Factory, a brand-new prefab depot featuring custom-designed assets.
- Admire the state’s stunning expansive hills with terraced fields and picturesque farms.
- Keep goods flowing in and out of Iowa’s huge ethanol plant depots, supporting its lead in U.S. ethanol production.
- Uncover Iowa’s hidden gems, find hidden roads, viewpoints, and more!
DLC is currently available on Steam, price depends on region ($11,99 in US). You can also save a bit with new ATS bundle Iowa Freight & Fields Bundle which also includes Special Transport DLC, Retrowave Paintjob and Farm Machinery DLC. (Each DLC in bundle are on 50% discount plus 10% bundle discount).
Cruising Iowa Event
Traditionally with new map DLC we get World of Trucks event, with the same mechanics and rules. So if you ever cruised the country or state you can guess details and rewards.
Community goal – 125,000,000 driven miles while delivering cargo to or from any city in Iowa.
All routes have to be more that 100 miles and only with External Contracts or External Market, with a World of Trucks-connected profile in American Truck Simulator.
Personal goal – delivery to or from 12 different Iowa cities.
Rewards:
Personal: Players that deliver cargo to or from 12 Iowa cities will gain a personal World of Trucks Achievement and a Golden Flight ATS truck paint job Steam inventory item.
Community: When the community goal of driving 125,000,000 miles (201,168,000 km) during deliveries to or from any city in Iowa is met, and if the player has also achieved their personal goal, then they will receive a Porcelain Wild Rose hanging ornament Steam inventory item.