Ice Hockey Arena Unlock Guide (Cities: Skylines)

Ice Hockey Arena
DLC	Snowfall
Building Type	Unique Building
Level/Category	Winter
Build Cost	₡250,000
Upkeep Cost	₡4,800/week
Milestone Required	Boom Town
Entertainment Value	125
Noise Pollution	20
Visitor Capacity	360

The Ice Hockey Arena is a Winter unique building from the Cities: Skylines Snowfall DLC.

To unlock it, you need to do a few things:

Play on a winter map
Build 5 Boiler Stations
Build 5 Geothermal Heating Plants
Reach the Boom Town milestone (650-2,600 population, depending on the map)

Once you’ve accomplished these, you’ll be able to build the Ice Hockey Arena from the “Winter” tab of the Unique Buildings menu for ₡250,000.

A boiler station (left) and a geothermal heating plant.

All Winter Maps

The following official winter maps come with the Snowfall DLC:

Frosty Rivers
Icy Islands
Winter Hills
Frozenshire
Snowy Coast

You can also find user-created winter maps on the Steam Workshop.

Building Boiler Stations and Geothermal Heating Plants

Boiler stations and geothermal heating plants provide heating to your citizens when temperatures are low.

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Building	Unlocked at	Build Cost	Upkeep Cost	Heating Output
Boiler Station	Boom Town	₡60,000	₡640/week	120 MW
Geothermal Heating Plant	Boom Town	₡55,000	₡480/week	80 MW

Without them, your citizens will need to heat their homes using electricity (causing a greater demand on your power system).

Here’s how to build and use them:

Step 1: Creating your Buildings

You’ll find them in the Heating tab of the Water, Sewage, and Heating menu.

The boiler station in the build menu.

The geothermal heating plant.

Step 2: Upgrading your Water Pipes

You’ll need to upgrade your existing water pipe network to distribute heating.

Select Water Pipe with Heating Pipes, then use the upgrade tool on your existing water pipes.

Use the upgrade tool to switch your standard water pipes to ones that can deliver heating.

Of course, don’t forget to connect your new boiler station or geothermal heating plant to your pipe network using upgraded water pipes.

For this unlock, you’ll need five boiler stations and five geothermal heating plants.

Tip: Creating a Restore Point to Unlock Early

Depending on the size of your city, 5 boiler stations and 5 geothermal heating plants may be far more than you currently need.

If you have the spare cash to build the 10 buildings, but don’t want to spend all that weekly upkeep for heating that you don’t need, you can simply create a save point to revert back to.

Step 1: Create a save point. You can name it “before heating plants” or something so you know which one it is.

Step 2: Make sure autosave is off.

Step 3: Build the 5 boiler stations and 5 geothermal heating plants to unlock the Ice Hockey Arena.

Step 4: Close the game without saving.

This works because once unlocked, unique buildings remain unlocked across your different saves. So you’ll still be able to build the Ice Hockey Arena when you go back to your “before” save.

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