South Dakota announced officially
SCS Software excited to unveil next map expansion for American Truck Simulator, which will offer a blend of beautiful nature, vibrant cities, and the joy of the open road. Their teams are currently hard at work on South Dakota for American Truck Simulator
Welcome to the Mount Rushmore State! Nestled in the North Central Region of the United States, South Dakota offers a beautiful site for truckers to admire. The state is dominated by peaceful, wide-rolling plains – its eastern region belongs to the Prairie Plains, while the western part forms a portion of the Great Plains. This part of the landscape transitions from flat river valleys in the east to plateaus, buttes, and a canyon-scarred terrain in the west.
Most probably South Dakota will be released not earlier than 2026’s second part as of SCS schedule after Iowa (summer 2025), Illinois (end of 2025), Louisiana (spring 2026). The next logical DLC after SD will be either North Dakota or Minnesota. Or even Mississippi which is left on the South.
Iowa is coming
Hawkeye State will have its representation in American Truck Simulator and it will be very soon. You’ve already seen sneak peek video and additionally SCS released Iowa gameplay footage which means that new DLC is on the way.
We also have 4 hidden achievements for Iowa in Steam (The Hawkeye State, Piggy Express, Golden Acres Explorer and Madison County Bridge). So we have chance to see the new expansion on next version of the game – 1.55 is still not even on the open beta and it could be final release right before Iowa DLC in the June or July. And it means that we have one DLC per version since Missouri released in 1.54 (Arkansas was on 1.52, while on 1.53 we have seen big California rework). Good pacing. Together with another early revealed state (probably South Dakota, but can be combined Dakotas bundle) we have 4 DLCs work-in-progress.
We also can assume cities that would be in Iowa DLC. Count of 12. My family lived in Des Moines (Urbandale) and I know a little about capital city area but nothing more. Another relatively big cities are Cedar Rapids and Davenport. The rest are really small towns, Iowa not a bit state anyway. But we are sure that SCS will do its best to show all the state’s atmosphere.
Beautiful 3 secret roads in Missouri
I collected all found hidden roads in ATS in big 224 roads guide and here are just 3 videos of secret roads in Missouri – in the Ozark area, Cape Girardeau and Mark Twain National Forest. Don’t forget that you can follow the progress on the list of secret roads https://trucksim.top/y9t6
News and early announcements are in Telegram channel https://t.me/trcksm
Cars and Pickup Trucks in new Road Trip mode for ATS in 6 minutes
Vidcast featuring SCS team – Pavel, Nemiro, Mark, and Anton – as they talk through the concept and teased some details. I cut the video to 6 minutes
Original vidcast on SCS Software channel: https://youtu.be/e7r5DwPsNr0?si=tCSOSEM0Tv1CnyGC
Iowa DLC Sneak Peek
Upcoming DLC for American Truck Simulator of Iowa State is probably will be released later in 2025 (Summer-Fall). I collected official SCS Software footages and pics. You can follow details of the new DLC on official blog and in social media.
Beautiful secret roads in Missouri
According to my latest hidden roads of ATS researched I found at least 12 new hidden roads in Missouri. Searching is still in progress. So probably soon will be update for 203 roads guide (which is obviously will be bigger) and you can follow the progress on the list of secret roads https://trucksim.top/y9t6
On couple below videos 2 of these secret roads – one in the Ozark area and one in Cape Girardeau. #CruisingMissouri. It is not Road trip mode yet, just mod car 2021 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. Hope one day to reproduce it with vanilla car in game.
News and early announcements are in Telegram channel https://t.me/trcksm
Nordic Horizons DLC Sneak Peek
All we know about new map DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 that it is very big and probably will be released in the end of 2025 or in early 2026. And for sure that it is beautiful and will add to the game a lot of content. According to #SCS development of this DLC will take more than two years and 2 map development teams. Also add here that current Scandinavia DLC will be refreshed with this expansion so all we need is wait and for sure watch sneak peeks rom developers. In this video I collected all available to this moment footages and pics of #NordicHorizons WIP.
Big Missouri Map Combo Update for ATS 1.54 with 16 Maps – May, 8 – 2025
The big map combo for ATS 1.54 with Missouri DLC includes Coast to Coast, Promods Canada, Reforma, Beyond, Aleutian Islands, Sierra Nevada, EMMN, Yards and other mods. Links below consist 16 maps and additions. Only Free mods.
Links:
📌Coast to Coast Map 2.20.54.1 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/coast-to-coast
📌Promods Canada 1.4.0 https://www.promods.net/compat.php?game=ats
UPDATE📌Reforma 2.8.9.154 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/reforma
📌Reforma Mega Resources 2.8.7.154 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/map-assets/reforma-mega-resources
📌Reforma Sierra Nevada 1.6.154 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/reforma-sierra-nevada
📌Reforma OtherMaps Patch 28.154 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/map-patches/reforma-other-maps-patch
📌Beyond ATS 4.0 https://terramaps.net/download/view.php?game=beyondats
📌Beyond – Coast 2 Coast Road Connection 1.54-1.1 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/map-patches/beyond-coast-2-coast-road-connection
📌ATS Expansion 16.2 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/ats-expansion-v13-for-151
📌ATS Expansion Cargo Add On 2.5PE https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/map-assets/ats-expansion-cargo-add-on
📌Washington Extended 3.0 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/ed-rezone-washington-extended
📌Discover Oregon 2.0 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/discover-oregon-v10
NEW📌Texarkana Yard 1.01 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/texarkana-yard
NEW📌Miles City, MT Yard ATS Expansion Addon 1.01 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/miles-city-mt-ats-expansion-addon
NEW📌Columbia, Mo Yard 1.01 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/columbia-mo-yard
📌Aleutian Islands 2.0.1 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/adak-island-alaska
UPDATE📌East Meets Mid-North 1.54-7 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/east-meets-mi-north
📌Ontario-Quebec 5-154 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/discover-ontario
📌East Meets Mid-North – Promods Canada RC 1.54-2 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/emmn-promods-rc
UPDATE📌East Meets Mid-North – ATS Expansion RC 1.54-4 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/emmn-ats-expansion-rc
UPDATE📌East Meets Mid-North – Discover Ontario RC 1.54-4 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/emmn-discover-ontario-rc
📌Project Better Arizona 0.4.2.1 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/maps/project-better-arizona
📌Project Better Arizona Reforma Connection 1.10.2 https://truckymods.io/american-truck-simulator/map-patches/project-better-arizona-reforma-connections
📌Background map options:
1. https://sharemods.com/tww7tt70t4jm/ATS_satellite.scs.html
2. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348711188
Bonus:
📌minimal adviser interface for ATS & ETS2 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=718961487
📌Alternate F2 Mirrors https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=647814782
What’s future ATS 33 DLC states?
32 already since Missouri has been released, but the rest is still actual. Speculations about what direction SCS Software will go with American Truck Simulator Expansions. On the visual my I tried to show what is already available and what we are going to wait in the future.
Expecting your thoughts about the spread of ATS and please share how many of #DLCs you have
All 203 ATS Hidden Roads – Ultimate Guide – ATS 1.54 with no Missouri DLC – Secrets, Towns, Race Tracks and Easter eggs
As I mentioned in Telegram until now I found 10 new hidden roads in Missouri – 3 in Rolla, 1 in Jefferson City, 2 in Joplin (one is update for road in Pittsburg, Kansas), 1 in Maryville and Kirksville and 2 in
Poplar Bluff. Searching in progress and you can see it in spreadsheet. But this doesn’t mean that legendary 203 roads guide is outdated – you can find there hidden roads in 16 states on American Truck Simulator before Missouri. It is still actual in May 2025 on ATS 1.54 but soon it will be revealed new one with at least 215 roads.
Also I wish to remind that some roads are periodically disappear (rebuild or become regular road) during map reworks and some new are being added in new game versions. In most cases I add only marked roads but also some easter eggs are available. I always try to avoid spoilers, mark only locations and removed hidden roads footages but if you prefer to discover all hidden roads and secrets yourself better to skip the video.
Hidden and secret roads doesn’t affect percentage of map discovery.
And again list of cities for ATS and ETS2 is updating here https://trucksim.top/y9t6
Latest European hidden roads guide for 1.54 available here https://trucksim.top/m4q8
100% Discovered Map of ETS2 1.54 (Profile and save game)
How to open 100% map with all DLC (incl Missouri) in ATS 1.54 * Full Map Discovered, Guide, Profile