Community Buildings

Community Building Information[]

Completing community buildings increases your town's population cap.
Enables you to build more houses to increase your "current population".
Community buildings are important to increase your population to receive more Fields.
The "pending additional population" is the difference between the population cap and the current population.
"Population cap" is increased by completing community buildings that unlock after level 5.
Here's an example:

Current population: 3,790
Population cap: 4,000
Pending additional population: 210

Construction Balloons Building Enclosure

When the construction time of a building has elapsed, the building will be wrapped up with balloons if you have the required construction materials in your barn to finish construction, at which point you may choose to spend those materials to complete it. If you are missing materials, the building will be surrounded with wood scaffolding with a yellow construction helmet icon floating above. To see what materials you'll need to finish each building, tap on the construction helmet.

Construction Materials for the community buildings are primarily delivered by train, and the Tool Exchange {From Level 60} but may also be collected from the Zoo, the House of Luck, and rewarded by Regattas and Events. Please see the trains and Tool Exchange pages for additional notes on where to find materials.

Some buildings have animated features (just like factories when they are working). They can be simple like the Post Office man checking his watch, while others are more complex like the Roller Coaster or Fashion House. Visit Ernie or higher level friends to see which buildings will animate in your town, or refer to the table below.

NOTE: If you build more than 1 community building at a time it may throw off the train algorithm and bring you extra unwanted materials. You can read more about correcting this here.

Tips on Building Community Buildings[]

Complete the community building with the lowest amount of materials required first, then continue in that order until you are back on track.
Avoid using the Tool Exchange more often.
Having too much of 1 type of construction material from trains can result in getting too many of the same material. It's best to sell materials if you have too many of one type. Find the lowest amount needed to finish a community building or barn upgrade and sell the materials/tools down to 1 below what's required to complete the building or upgrade.
Never exchange materials that you require to build community buildings with tools, in the tool exchange
Using Tcash to buy materials is quite expensive. It's better to have the trains bring the materials.

Tool Exchange[]

From level 60, new community buildings require special tools that cannot be obtained from trains. These tools can only be produced by a special building, called Tool Exchange. The Tool Exchange produces jackhammers, drills and electric saws. The first community building requiring the special tools is the Planetarium.