How to start grooming and check overnight results

Follow these steps

1. Choose which trails to groom

   Select a run and inspect its Edit controls. Enable grooming for the runs you intend to maintain. Keep guest demand in view: in Part 2, the author switches one red run to ungroomed after complaints that no ungroomed terrain is available. Plan a mix your connected terrain can support rather than applying one setting to every run.

2. Build the shed, hire and assign the crew

   Open Build and place Snowcat Shed in a reachable part of the operating resort. Open Staff and hire a groomer from the available candidates. The public starting example places a shed near maintenance and then assigns groomers. Open the shed or Staff assignment controls and verify the crew belongs to this workplace. Read the actual equipment and capacity shown in your panel before buying more.

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3. Let the overnight work happen

   Advance through closing time into the night. Observe whether snowcats leave and work the chosen runs, and read the shed’s progress. In the public example, two groomers work at night, but the author notes they cannot finish all of his existing terrain. That sample does not establish a fixed trails-per-groomer rule.

4. Inspect the snow the next morning

   Open the snow view and check the selected trail’s actual surface. Compare the result with the work the shed reports, including unfinished sections. Groomed snow can show corduroy; the snow readout matters more than seeing a vehicle nearby. Keep any remaining packed/ungroomed sections separate from runs you deliberately left ungroomed.

5. Reduce the unknown before buying more

   If the night was not enough, recheck the run’s grooming setting, assigned crew and actual work path. Compare one selected run across a full night before committing to a larger fleet. Expansion and promotion decisions should follow visible unfinished work and your budget, not an assumed universal throughput.

What success looks like

Assigned groomers leave the shed overnight and work the intended run; the following morning’s snow view shows which sections were groomed and which remain unfinished. Deliberately ungroomed runs remain available for that demand.

If it does not work

Launch-week players report partial coverage, daytime overruns and shed counts that do not match the snow view. Those reports do not establish a guaranteed repair. If settings and assignment are correct but the mismatch persists, save the game and record the build, chosen run, shed count and morning snow condition for a report. CL7671 fixes duplicate dispatch after a pre-opening reload; it does not prove every coverage/pathing complaint is fixed.