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Add a screenshot of the Publish tab

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	== Publishing ==		== Publishing ==
			[[File:Map editor publish.png\|thumb\|none\|700px\|The Publish tab, with a title and description filled in.]]

	# Press '''Publish''' in the toolbar.		# Press '''Publish''' in the toolbar.
	# Give it a '''~~title~~''' (the name players see) and a '''~~description~~''' (what's on the map, and anything players should know).		# Give it a '''Title''' (the name players see) and a '''Description''' (what's on the map, and anything players should know).
	# Press '''Publish'''.		# Press '''Publish'''.

4shveil: New guide: publishing a map to the workshop, review, updates and removal

2026-10-09T13:19:14Z

New guide: publishing a map to the workshop, review, updates and removal

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<p class="sg-lede">When your map is ready, publish it to the '''workshop''', where other players find it, subscribe to it and play it in their games.</p>

== Before you publish ==
* '''Save''' the map. The workshop gets the map as you last saved it, not unsaved changes.
* Run '''Validate map''' on the Check tab. The workshop refuses a map the game can't load, or one with no zones.
* [[Testing a map|Test it]] with trains.

== Publishing ==
# Press '''Publish''' in the toolbar.
# Give it a '''title''' (the name players see) and a '''description''' (what's on the map, and anything players should know).
# Press '''Publish'''.

The map then waits for review. Reviewers in the signaller.org Discord server check each map before it is listed. The Discord bot sends you a message when your map is sent for review, and when it is accepted or turned down, if you accept direct messages from the server's members.

== Where it's up to ==
Open the '''Publish''' tab again to see:

* '''Waiting for review''': nothing to do yet.
* '''Listed in the workshop''': players can subscribe to it. It also shows how many have.
* '''Not accepted''': with the reviewer's reason. Fix it, save, and publish again.

== Updating a map ==
Make your changes, save, then press '''Publish update'''. The update is reviewed like a new map. Meanwhile, the version already listed stays playable.

A game keeps the version it started with, even if you update the map while it's being played.

== Taking a map down ==
'''Remove from workshop''' unlists it. You can publish it again later; it will be reviewed again.

== AI-assisted maps ==
If you used the [[Map editor#AI assistant|AI assistant]] to change the map, the workshop labels it '''AI-assisted''' and lists it after maps made without one. The label stays for good, even after later updates.

== Playing a workshop map ==
Anyone can browse the workshop from '''Workshop''' on signaller.org's main menu. Subscribing needs a Discord sign-in, but you don't have to join the Discord server.

To play one, the host of a lobby opens '''Choose Map''' and picks a map they subscribe to. Nobody else in the lobby needs to subscribe. Every player then chooses a zone again.

[[Category:Map editor]]
[[Category:Guides]]

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