Building Town glossary: game words explained
This glossary explains the words you meet in Building Town, from machine parts to the buttons on the Jobs board. The words are in A to Z order.
Words from A to Z
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Attach / release | The crane button that hooks the roof or lets it go. Key E, controller A. |
| Backhoe | A tractor with a digging arm and a bucket. Your first machine. |
| Band | One of the four gravel strips in the job Firm little road. |
| Batch | One drum of concrete in the mixer. Hold Mix until it says Mixed 100%. |
| Bed | The part of the dumper that holds soil and tips it out at the back. |
| Blade | The wide metal plate at the front of the bulldozer that pushes earth. |
| Boom | The long arm of the crane. Boom height moves it up or down. |
| Bucket | The scoop on the backhoe, excavator and wheel loader. |
| Bulldozer | A tracked machine with a blade, for making the ground flat. |
| Chute | The slide at the back of the concrete mixer where the concrete comes out. |
| Coins | The game money. Jobs and street projects pay coins, and you spend them on machines. |
| Concrete mixer | A truck with a turning drum that mixes and pours concrete. |
| Crane | A tall machine with a rope and hook that lifts the workshop roof. |
| Crew | The three machines that build a street, one after the other. |
| Curl | Turning the bucket up to scoop soil. The opposite is Tip. |
| Dark soil | The soil you dig. Each patch is one metre wide. |
| Detour | Another way round for the cars while a street is closed. |
| Drive | The mode where the machine moves. The tool stays still. |
| Dumper | A machine with a big tipping bed for carrying soil or gravel. |
| Excavator | A digger with a long arm on a cab that turns round. |
| Follow machine | Brings the camera back to your machine. Key C, controller B. |
| Form | The wooden frame you fill with concrete in Pour a concrete slab. |
| Forks | The two flat arms of the telehandler that go under the pallet. |
| Frame | The top of the workshop walls, where the roof goes, 6.6 m up. |
| Grade | Making the ground smooth and flat, the first stage of a street. |
| Gravel | Small stones that make the base of a road. |
| Hand over to next machine | The button that ends one street stage and starts the next machine. |
| Hoist | Lifting or lowering the crane's hook. |
| Hollow | A low dip in the ground that the bulldozer fills with a ridge. |
| Inspect work | The Jobs board button that checks your finished job and pays you. |
| Inspect and open | The last street button. It pays you and opens the street to traffic. |
| Jobs board | The card with your job, your coins and the machines to buy. Key M, controller RB. |
| Light pad | The pale patch of ground where you tip soil. Only soil here counts. |
| Load | How much soil a machine carries, shown in kg. |
| Loan | A machine you borrow for free for the job that teaches it. |
| Pallet | The flat wooden stand that carries goods. The telehandler puts it on the shelf. |
| Parking brake | Holds the machine still. It goes on in Work and off in Drive. |
| Pass | One trip of the road roller over a band. Firm little road needs 8. |
| Reach | Moving the arm or forks further out or back in. |
| Recover machine | Puts a stuck machine back at its starting spot. Its load stays on board. |
| Ridge | A raised line of earth that the bulldozer pushes flat. |
| Road roller | A heavy machine with a big drum that makes gravel firm. |
| Section | One of the eight parts of a street in the street projects. |
| Shelf | The high rack, 2.4 m up, where the pallet goes. |
| Slow controls | Makes the tools move slowly for careful work. Hold Shift or LB. |
| Stage | One of the three steps of building a street, each with its own machine. |
| Street projects | Building real streets: Herrhagen in Karlstad, or a street of your own. |
| Supports | The legs the crane puts down in Work mode so it stands firm. |
| Swing | Turning the arm or crane left or right. |
| Telehandler | A machine with an arm that slides out and forks at the end. |
| Tip | Opening the bucket or raising the bed so the load falls out. |
| Tools & machines | The menu to choose a machine, change the camera or recover a machine. Key Tab, controller View. |
| Vibration | The shaking of the road roller's drum that packs gravel tight. |
| Wheel loader | A machine with a big front bucket that holds 900 kg. |
| Work | The mode where the machine stands still and you move its tool. |
| Work zone | The closed part of a street while you build it, shown on the street plan. |
See also
- Controls: the keys for every word above.
- All nine machines: each machine in detail.
- All ten jobs: where you meet these words.
- FAQ: quick answers.
- Play Building Town.
