Wooden Coaster

The Wooden Coaster can’t build steep slopes or loops, so its thrills come from rhythm: a long lift, a big first drop and then wave after wave of hills. Every hill crested fast enough gives airtime, and the game counts airtime into the excitement rating.

Wood is also the draggiest track in the game: its friction is higher than any steel type’s, so a wooden train sheds speed quickly and needs more height to reach the end of a long layout. The reward is a generous type bonus and ratings that stay kind: intensity and nausea stay low when the track has no inversions and no tight, fast turns.

In Park Baron the Wooden Coaster can rise 62 m above the ground under its track. It can build , but not steep slopes, tight turns, loops and corkscrews and vertical drops and top hats. Its trains run 4 cars of 4 seats, 16 riders a train, and its station is 5 to 8 tiles long. Track costs $70 a piece and the station $1,000; it costs $700 a month to run, and guests pay $3.5 a ride by default. The type adds 0.50 excitement to whatever the track earns, and its rolling friction is 0.016. Children are too short to ride it. It is free to build.

Its showpiece design, Great Timber Beast, climbs 17 m, reaches 72 km/h and pulls 3.9 g, with 0 inversions over 347 m of track and a 34-second ride. It rates 6.26 excitement, 6.43 intensity and 4.39 nausea, costs $8,876 and fills 26 × 33 tiles.