Map Combination Beginners Guide and Secrets for ATS & ETS2 1.57 (2026)
Map Combos for SCS trucking games are not an easy for newcomers. So you can find lot of ready setups for actual version, including here on Trucksim, but before start better to avoid obvious mistakes. In this guide I’m explaining how to build map combo for Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2) or American Truck Simulator (ATS), from how to download and combine maps, to tricks how to avoid crashes. I will cover the basics for beginners. Guide made in 2024 but is still actual in January 2026 on game versions 1.57 and latest DLCs
Mentioned in video parameters for Launch Options in Steam:
for 8GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 4096 -mm_max_resource_size 32 mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
for 16GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 8192 -mm_max_resource_size 32 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
for 32GB -64bit -nointro -unlimitedlog -rdevice dx11 -mm_pool_size 16384 -mm_max_resource_size 32 -mm_max_tmp_buffers_size 1000
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100% discovered study 01.24.2026
Currently we have 100% in ATS 1.57 with new Louisiana DLC and you see the guide below but in Europe took more time than I expected so probably ETS2 guide with Nordic Horizons and Scandinavia rework won’t be finished in January. Update is really big so it’s deserved to wait a little. For sure all the hidden roads will be in it but you can watch them right now in the video. The full guide is also still not ready but I hope this weekend it will be available on Patreon. But for 100% in ETS2 1.57 expected date is February 2026. If you’re using older strings (for instance for 1.56 below) they are still work but undiscovered areas will remain grey.
[Guide] ATS 1.57 – 100% Explored map with all DLC (with Louisiana) (December 2026, ATS 1.57, all map DLCs with Louisiana)
100% Discovered Map of ETS2 1.56 (Profile and save game) (September 2025, ETS2 1.56, all map DLCs up to Greece, not includes Scandinavia Rework and Nordic Horizons DLC)
I do these discovery since 2017 and I discover whole map almost on every game versions including all expansions and reworks.
Big Map Combo for ATS 1.57 with 21 Maps – January, 19 – 2025
The big map combo for ATS 1.57. It includes Coast to Coast, Promods Canada, ATS Expansion, More American Cities, Radiator Springs, Beyond, EMMN, Sierra Nevada and other mods. Links below consist 21 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
Links:
📌Coast to Coast Map 2.22.57.0 https://trucksim.top/mck5
📌Reforma 2.9.6.157 https://trucksim.top/j8q9
📌Reforma Mega Resources 2.9.6.157 https://trucksim.top/et5v
📌Reforma Sierra Nevada 1.10.157 https://trucksim.top/0vxg
📌Reforma Other Maps Patch 33.157 https://trucksim.top/pnhz
📌Promods Canada 1.6.0 https://trucksim.top/38bg
📌Grand Utopia of America 1.1 https://trucksim.top/n1yv
📌Grand Utopia of America – Base Map Connection 1.0 https://trucksim.top/1nzq
📌Beyond ATS 7.0 https://trucksim.top/l58f
📌Beyond Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/bxrh
📌Beyond ProMods Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/mflz
📌Beyond – Coast to Coast RC 1.57-1.0.2 https://trucksim.top/bfpv
📌ATS Expansion 19.0 (Requires Volvo Construction and Heavy Cargo DLCs) https://trucksim.top/2363
NEW📌ATS Expansion Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/v392
📌ATS Expansion-Promods Canada Fix 1.57-2 https://trucksim.top/p0ai
📌More American Cities (Texas) 1.3 https://trucksim.top/wa6v
📌More American Cities (Washington) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/x5fs
📌More American Cities (Utah) 1.2 https://trucksim.top/7rib
📌More American Cities (Idaho) 1.6 https://trucksim.top/qnh7
📌More American Cities (Colorado) 1.6 https://trucksim.top/rblk
NEW📌More American Cities Colorado Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/7d7y
📌More American Cities (Oklahoma) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/efrm
NEW📌More American Cities (Oregon) 1.0 https://trucksim.top/j47j
📌EMMN Expansion 1.57-5 https://trucksim.top/bt97
📌EMMN – ATS Expansion RC 1.57-1 https://trucksim.top/68g6
📌EMMN – Promods Canada RC 1.57-2 https://trucksim.top/e4dy
📌Ontario-Quebec 10-157 https://trucksim.top/wi8b
📌EMMN – Ontario-Quebec RC 1.57-5 https://trucksim.top/o5pr
UPDATE📌Iron Stallion Logistics HQ City 1.3 https://trucksim.top/vva9
NEW📌Radiator Springs 1.3 https://trucksim.top/58w2
NEW📌Radiator Springs Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/z5sw
📌Project Better Arizona 0.4.5.2 https://trucksim.top/rf0s
📌Project Better Arizona Reforma Connection 1.12 https://trucksim.top/aeg7
📌Trucksmap USA 1.6 https://trucksim.top/34dk
UPDATE📌Ultimate Combo FIX – ATS 1.57 – 1.0.6 https://trucksim.top/lols
📌North America Map (Dark) (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/e943
New ATS 1.57 map combo is coming
While the latest American map combo is still actual, I do a minor update for it. Not so many news but some interesting stuff added/removed/fixed. Initially it will be available today on patreon page and probably tomorrow or later on Youtube. As always load order and links to mods.
Until you wait please see current setup and don’t forget to watch Beginners Guide if you have no much experience.
Cruising Louisiana event is still goes on
As always with the new DLC for American Truck Simulator we get World of Trucks event and this time it’s #CruisingLouisiana – typical but still attractive since we can discover new state and get another trophy on ours Wotr page.
Rules and rewards are pretty equal as for other “Cruising” events so if if you played it once just apply to the new names or read details in SCS Blog.
Hidden Roads Study – January, 15 2025
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ve finished discovering all the new hidden roads in ETS2, including the refreshed Scandinavia and Nordic Horizon DLC content. We now have an impressive total of 109 secret roads across Europe! There will be two videos covering this: one featuring Nordic and Scandinavia footage, and another recap showing all ETS2 hidden road locations on the map. You can see the complete list of cities with hidden paths here: https://trucksim.top/y9t6, though the video guides will take some time to produce.
The bad news is that these videos haven’t been getting much traction. This isn’t your fault—it’s simply how YouTube’s algorithm promotes content. Unfortunately, this creates a challenge: these videos require significantly more time to create than they generate in visibility and engagement. Because of this, the Hidden Roads Study series will likely be put on hold or possibly discontinued. I’ll be focusing more on other types of guides and spending time enjoying the games themselves.
As for ATS, things are looking good! I’ve found 245 hidden roads so far. While the guide has only gotten around 400 views over the last 3 weeks, it’s still the most comprehensive hidden roads guide for American Truck Simulator available on YouTube.
I’m sharing found hidden secret roads in both American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 periodically since 2022 when this feature been released on ETS2 and ATS 1.44. Actual spreadsheet list of cities with hidden roads for Europe and America is updating periodically here https://trucksim.top/y9t6. It is probably won’t help you with exact secrets locations but you can check if you missed any.
ETS2 (updated 04.25.2025, actual on 1.57 without Scandinavia Refresh and Nordic Horizon DLC, 80 roads so far)
ATS (updated 12.26.2025, actual on 1.57 with Louisiana DLC, 245 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.
Map Combo Study 01.10.2025
Mega map combo for ETS2 1.57 is still baking since the latest one (below) was be a bit controversial and a temporary patch (primary to combine Promods 2.80 and Nordic Horizons and add Beyond). New one which I hope to finish on the weekend or later next week will be much bigger and more saturated. For ATS is more or less clear and latest Louisiana combo is working well and American setups is on pause for now.
As always I strongly recommend to start with beginner’s guide and do not ask same questions again and again in the comments and TG channel.
Before you start please always check if the guide you see latest and actual (check dates and videos availability). Please also follow rules and requirements – correct load order, DLCs compatibility and avoid extra mods that did not mentioned in the guide. In some cases you need to create new profile for stable work of maps especially if your old profile have pieces of deleted mods, garages, trucks etc.
Every single mod (not only map) can break the game and you will have a problems. I do not support stolen or pirated content so if you use it – Trucksim isn’t your place.
ETS2 Mega Map Combo for ETS2 1.57 – Tutorial – January, 6 – 2026
ATS Map Combo for ATS 1.57 (New Year Edition) ★ 20 Maps with C2C
Combo with Promods 2.77, Roex, rusmap, EAA, PR, Eurafrica but without Nordic Horizons:
Guide mentioned above could be helpful:
Youtube channel as well as this blog is my hobby so I can spend on it only the free time.
100% discovered study 01.09.2026
If you are a fan of ETS2 and ATS maps discoverability, like I am, and have no time and desire to visit every small part of map, then Trucksim is the best source since periodically after the game updates, new expansion and reworks I discover the roads and cities and share not only profile but also a text version with strings which you can inject to your game.sii and get the same results in couple minutes. Unfortunately it consumes a lot of my time and effort (both discovery and video guides). But I receive in return your positive feedback, likes and guides views on Youtube.
I’m trying to optimize the process and e.g. for American Truck Simulator do AI voiceover and reuse the guide so the ATS tutorial video many times faster (and I share this more often.)
Currently we have 100% in ATS 1.57 with new Louisiana DLC and you see the guide below and I’m on the home stretch in Europe as well so probably ETS2 guide with Nordic Horizons and Scandinavia refresh will be done in January. As well as secret roads guide.
If you’re using older strings (for instance for 1.56) they will sill work but undiscovered areas will remain grey.
[Guide] ATS 1.57 – 100% Explored map with all DLC (with Louisiana) (December 2026, ATS 1.57, all map DLCs with Louisiana)
100% Discovered Map of ETS2 1.56 (Profile and save game) (September 2025, ETS2 1.56, all map DLCs up to Greece, not includes Scandinavia Rework and Nordic Horizons DLC)
I do these discovery since 2017 and I discover whole map almost on every game versions including all expansions and reworks.
Big Map Combo for ATS 1.57 (New Year Edition) with 20 Maps – December, 31 – 2025
The final map combo for ATS in 2025. It is for ATS 1.57 and includes Coast to Coast, Promods Canada, ATS Expansion, More American Cities, Beyond, EMMN, Sierra Nevada and other mods. Links below consist 20 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
Links:
📌Coast to Coast Map 2.22.57.0 https://trucksim.top/mck5
📌Reforma 2.9.6.157 https://trucksim.top/j8q9
📌Reforma Mega Resources 2.9.6.157 https://trucksim.top/et5v
📌Reforma Sierra Nevada 1.10.157 https://trucksim.top/0vxg
📌Reforma Other Maps Patch 33.157 https://trucksim.top/pnhz
📌Promods Canada 1.6.0 https://trucksim.top/38bg
NEW📌Grand Utopia of America 1.1 https://trucksim.top/n1yv
NEW📌Grand Utopia of America – Base Map Connection 1.0 https://trucksim.top/1nzq
NEW📌Beyond ATS 7.0 https://trucksim.top/l58f
NEW📌Beyond Fix 1.57-1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/bxrh
NEW📌Beyond ProMods Fix 1.57 – 1.0.0 https://trucksim.top/mflz
NEW📌Beyond – Coast to Coast RC 1.57-1.0.2 https://trucksim.top/bfpv
📌ATS Expansion 19.0 (Requires Volvo Construction and Heavy Cargo DLCs) https://trucksim.top/2363
📌ATS Expansion-Promods Canada Fix 1.57-2 https://trucksim.top/p0ai
📌More American Cities (Texas) 1.3 https://trucksim.top/wa6v
📌More American Cities (Washington) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/x5fs
📌More American Cities (Utah) 1.2 https://trucksim.top/7rib
📌More American Cities (Idaho) 1.6 https://trucksim.top/qnh7
📌More American Cities (Colorado) 1.6 https://trucksim.top/rblk
📌More American Cities (Oklahoma) 1.4 https://trucksim.top/efrm
UPDATE📌EMMN Expansion 1.57-5 https://trucksim.top/bt97
📌EMMN – ATS Expansion RC 1.57-1 https://trucksim.top/68g6
📌EMMN – Promods Canada RC 1.57-2 https://trucksim.top/e4dy
NEW📌Ontario-Quebec 10-157 https://trucksim.top/wi8b
NEW📌EMMN – Ontario-Quebec RC 1.57-5 https://trucksim.top/o5pr
📌Iron Stallion Logistics HQ City 1.2 https://trucksim.top/vva9
📌Project Better Arizona 0.4.5.2 https://trucksim.top/rf0s
📌Project Better Arizona Reforma Connection 1.12 https://trucksim.top/aeg7
NEW📌Detailed Arizona 1.1 https://trucksim.top/cejn
NEW📌Trucksmap USA 1.6 https://trucksim.top/34dk
NEW📌Ultimate Combo FIX – ATS 1.57 – 1.0.5 https://trucksim.top/y50e
📌North America Map (Dark) (Steam Workshop) https://trucksim.top/e943
Map Combo Study 12.29.2025
With the version 1.57 for ETS2 and ATS we got new content expansions in Europe and America and map combinations – especially in ETS2 – were in challenging mode. For ATS is more or less clear and latest Louisiana combo is working well. But in Europe until yesterday we had to build separate setups for combo with or without Nordic Horizons because the DLC collided with several major mods. Promods with new DLC integration is released and we have now some options to create combo with Promods 2.80 and other maps. So the assembly of Mega combo is now WIP on my side and I hope we will see New Year edition of map combo in last days of 2025. But if I will not finish it I still would recommend you to wait to the moment when all fixes and connections will be ready and until that use below guides.
WIP and plans:
ETS2 1.57:
Mega Map Combo with incorporated Nordic Horizons, Promods, Middle East and dozens of other maps
Light Map combo without NH
ATS 1.57:
Big Map combo with updated maps (E.g. Beyond) (next week or later)
As always I strongly recommend to start with beginner’s guide and do not ask same questions again and again in the comments and TG channel.
Before you start please always check if the guide you see latest and actual (check dates and videos availability). Please also follow rules and requirements – correct load order, DLCs compatibility and avoid extra mods that did not mentioned in the guide. In some cases you need to create new profile for stable work of maps especially if your old profile have pieces of deleted mods, garages, trucks etc.
Every single mod (not only map) can break the game and you will have a problems. I do not support stolen or pirated content so if you use it – Trucksim isn’t your place.
ETS2 Christmas Mega Map Combo for ETS2 1.57 – Tutorial – December, 22 2025
ETS2 Nordic Map Combo for ETS2 1.57 – Tutorial – December, 9 2025
ATS Louisiana Big Map Combo for ATS 1.57 with 16 Maps – December, 16 – 2025
Guide mentioned above could be helpful:
Youtube channel as well as this blog is my hobby so I can spend on it only the free time.