POLL: What are you planning to do with the Canvas Towns?

[LennyOgg]

(All the info we currently have about Canvas Towns below)

So, already in June 2026 we’ll get our first Canvas Town and I don’t know how I feel about it.
I’ve been in a team where we’ve created a whole world from scratch in the Sims 3 where we had all the freedom and it was one of my biggest wishes to create something similar in The Sims 4 (which never happened).
So I should be super excited, right?
But when I look at these empty blocks, I feel intimidated ^^’
40 lots! I’ve hardly built ten lots so far over all these months (in almost 1.000 hours), since building in inZOI is still such a hassle for me. So how long will it take me to build 40? ö.Ö’
Or the minimum amount that’s necessary so that the town does feel enough like a town and I’d feel confident to move my Zois there?
I have ADHD and there’s no way for me to keep myself invested enough to fight through this
An empty save where I just log in to build.
And downloading lots from Canvas is no option for me either.
I think I’ll probably wait until October for the rural town where empty lots don’t stick out that much.

So:

What is your plan for the Canvas Towns?

• I will tackle this and built all/the majority of these 40/50 lots myself
• I’ll download whole Canvas Towns from Canvas
• I’ll download houses from Canvas and place them on the empty lots
• I’m not interested in Canvas Towns
• A mix between the first three options

What do we know about Canvas Towns?

Found the following information here:
Kjun’s post on Discord mid November (there is also the video from which I have the screenshots from):

:: Advantages of “Canvastown”

• Keeps the open-world structure intact while allowing new buildings and shops to be added.

• Even with around 40 plots, optimization remains excellent.

• Shorter distances between lots make it easy to notice neighbors and nearby shops naturally.

• Players can decorate the entire town and share it through Canvas.

• The compact layout means less travel stress and no delays like waiting at traffic lights.

• Because Zois appear frequently in a small space, the town feels more alive and dynamic.

• Multiple small towns could be connected with short loading times in the future.

:: Limitations of “Canvastown”

• Its current size is about 1/8 of Dowon, so it’s relatively small.

• Since it’s built only with the building system, natural visual expression has its limits.

• There’s limited space for vehicle content.

And here is the Canvas Town schedule from the Roadmap Part 2 (that can be found → here in Kjun’s post from December 2025)

Schedule
March 2026
Implement integration so Fate Engine and Canvastown operate together.
May 2026
Expand Fate Engine to work in cities beyond Canvastown.
Add update and download features to the Canvastown canvas.
June 2026
Release Canvastown #1, a small village with about 40 lots.
October 2026
Release Canvastown #2, expanded to about 50 lots, featuring a calm rural countryside atmosphere.

This Canvas Town from the video with all the ‘box houses’ looks like the Devs have been intimidated too ^^’

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→ Should inZOI try to work on its reputation?
→ What’s your preferred day length?

[Samuriko]

I can’t wait to try people’s creations.
I’ll probably build my small town on my own in my free time, most likely waiting between updates.
Depends how easy it is(setting NPCs to man the new creations and stuff)

[Killerpoet]

This would be VERY awesome since I want to build my own town and make it just the way I want it.

My only concern is the neighboring buildings are they going to interfere with the buildings you make?

Since for example in Bliss Bay there is a nice plot of land I built a gorgeous beach house or two on it. However it’s very difficult to play since the houses that are only deco get in the way of being able to see inside my house.

Hence when too close I am forced to play from the top down and only look at their heads, that’s no fun.

I do hope they will add an option to hide or at least fade out the houses, trees, lamp posts, telephone lines and poles…. everything deco hide / fade it out as you play the property only show it when you are not on that property.

Then building the various sized buildings beside each other would be great since the one beside wouldn’t interfere with the only you currently are visiting or living in.

[JoyIsFunner]

I wish there was a canvas world, but apparently they’re going to be pre built.

Like yo hook me up with a blank canvas and let me ley the roads, grass, dirt, beaches, sidewalks, stop signs, trees, buildings, airport, you know everything that’s in our towns exactly where I want it.

[Luna_H]

I’ have low confidence that the devs will ever allow for creating entire maps due to canvas upload limits and the complexity around allowing players to create something like that. This is something we will likely have to rely on modders to do.

Once the game and modkit are fully released, I have no doubt someone will be working on creating their own City, like what a modder did with creating the Brookhaven map (meant to resemble NYC) for the sims.

[Luna_H]

I am very happy about Canvas town because that mean the dev team will be forced to add a whole lot more architectural build assets, which is desperately needed by us builders.

This community is super creative so while I’ll love to build a cluster of suburban homes I’ll rely on canvas uploads for other properties, like cafes, bookstores, etc.

[Liessahl]

A bit of everything, probably. I’m not much of a builder so I won’t build entire towns for myself, but I’ll download other people’s, and replace some of the lots with Canvas buildings and / or my own creations.

[JoyIsFunner]

Yea I know, you are probably right, I remember back in sims 3, downloading player created worlds to customize from scratch, I was only trying to prompt the devs to outdo the sims and to be more creative, I sure hope that they don’t have to follow what other games have done, I hope they have true freedom to make this game unique