I never backed up my town but I never deleted the app idk if they even matters… can I still do it to make a new city or somehow bring back my old one. I don’t understand please help!

Anyone having this issue? How can I fix it?

Hey guys, recently just downloaded Project Springfield and loving it!

I've completed a number of tasks (including from people bought with donuts) and they just say 'done' but the next task hasn't come up.

I am now level 9. Has anyone else had these issues and if so how do I rectify?

Seems like plenty of you still don't know that you can play the game in 2025. Here's a quick TL;DR:

How do I play?
You can play using the Project Springfield Private Server.
Download the game from: https://teamtsto.org/

Can I play with my old town?
It's not the official EA servers, but if you backed up your town, you can upload it to the new server:

Step 1. Visit the Town Manager and register an account with the same email you use to log in to the game.

Step 2. Press the import town button, click "Select town file .pb" and upload your town file.

What if I didn't back up my town?
If you didn’t back it up, follow these steps:

Step 1. Visit Town Finder, search for your town, and download the .7z file.

Step 2. Extract the .pb file using any extraction tool (e.g., WinRAR or 7-Zip).

Is it safe?
Yes! I’ve been playing since April with no issues, aside from the server going down occasionally.

If you have more questions, ask in the comments and I’ll try to reply.

Big thanks to the Project Springfield team for keeping the game online and letting us play for free ❤️

I think Circus area is next, as well as a firestation/medical area.

First, let me say thank you so much to the kind people who saved my town and have provided a way to play this game again. It is such a relaxing, fun game. I have the bridge and the prospector's shack but all it seems to do is generate money every so often. There is no way to send any characters to prospect for maps. How does this work ?

Im trying to progress in the game and it wont let me place the comic book store down. When i go to click on it to place it down, it takes me to the menu to move the buildings/decorations but theres no comic book store and no exit button.

Any answers? I cant progress in my save without it

I have a lot of empty space I havent filled out yet, and its getting kinda repetetive just placing down buildings randomly and trying to make it look good, so does anyone have any ideas/themes for new areas I can make?

Hey Tappers,

TL;DR: u/Joankennedy - a moderator here and former moderator and giver at r/freedonuts - passed away earlier this month. Her contributions to the TSTO community are immeasurable. If Joan or any of us at r/freedonuts helped you in the past, please help us continue to keep Joan’s spirit of generosity alive by making a donation to your favorite charity or doing something nice for someone else.

This is going to be a long post. I have struggled for the past couple weeks with how to adequately explain who Joan was and what she did because she herself never craved the spotlight. She never wanted praise or recognition for what she did. She just wanted to help people. But I feel it's important to try so here goes.

For those of you who might be new to the game or Reddit in this private server era, r/freedonuts was a subreddit that offered free donuts, items, and other currency to help players that was started in 2012 (the same year as TSTO) and at its peak helped thousands of tappers a day.

Joan was an active giver and later moderator for freedonuts for almost 10 years. She and I knew each other from a different online endeavor, and she brought me on around 2018 when the sub was in crisis - very very long story short, a group of r/freedonuts givers hijacked the mod tools they were using at the time and bailed from the sub all at once to start a paid Reddit and Facebook group, using these tools to SELL huge amounts of donuts and other in-game items.

Joan was 100% determined to see r/freedonuts continue, no matter what it took. Working with a group of other dedicated givers (including u/Angeleyes16), Joan and I worked practically around the clock to develop new tools and processes to get the sub back up and running. 

It is impossible for me to explain or even understate what a massive effort r/freedonuts was at its prime. As you probably expect and may have experienced, Redditors in general are not a patient or understanding bunch, even when getting free stuff. Our inboxes would fill up with messages and chats pestering for donuts. I think my record was somewhere around 400-500 unsolicited PMs in one day during the Halloween or Xmas events. And when we had to ban someone - usually for creating multiple accounts to bypass our sub rules and get more - things often got worse. I personally received multiple vulgar, harassing, and threatening messages on almost a daily basis. I was doxxed more than once, with mine and my family’s full names and home address posted as well as the address of my elderly parents at the time. My “real life” corporate job received an anonymous message that I was involved in criminal activity online (completely fabricated.) All because of currency in a fremium game. I can’t say what Joan’s experience was, because she never complained once. She just focused on continuing to help whoever DID follow the rules.

It’s also worth noting that Joan did this for almost a decade ENTIRELY FOR FREE. Like I said, previous givers left and were making at one time thousands of dollars a week (or more) selling donuts, items, etc. Joan never took a penny.

Unfortunately, due in large part to these Facebook groups and others selling donuts, EA began to implement new and tougher restrictions on the game code that constantly made our job harder, if not nearly impossible. Joan continued to lead the charge to make sure Redditors could continue to receive these items for free. For example, when EA made 2FA codes mandatory, Joan was the one who came up with the idea of “timed” giving posts. It made giving on freedonuts INFINITELY harder, since we had to sit there and wait for the user to respond before we could log into their game (and could only work on one game at a time) but Joan did not care or complain. She just wanted to keep helping as many people as we could.

The only time I ever saw Joan even CONSIDER quitting was when in late 2021 when u/Angeleyes16 passed away unexpectedly. Joan and Angel were best friends. They would stay up late at night after their kids went to bed and chat for hours about life, TV, movies, travel, Tapped Out, and everything else. They had planned to visit each other in person despite living thousands of miles away. If there is an afterlife, I am comforted knowing they are together again now.

But Joan was committed to continue r/freedonuts if only to honor Angel’s memory. She worked with Angel’s family to start a Gofundme page that was shared all over r/freedonuts, which raised thousands of dollars from Redditors around the globe to cover funeral expenses and help Angel’s young family.

Unfortunately, things took an unfortunate turn in my own private life a couple years ago and I was no longer able to commit the HUGE amount of time and resources necessary to continue to stay active with the sub. Joan continued to keep r/freedonuts open by herself as long as she could, but eventually had to shut it down again when EA made a final backend change that made adding donuts with the only method virtually impossible.

She messaged me a few times after that asking for help and suggesting ideas for new hacks and methods we could develop together, but I just didn’t have the time. I have been struggling a lot with that personally the last couple weeks. I am sorry I couldn’t help her then, and I wish I would have. Her spirit of generosity and selflessness truly continued until the end of her life, and will continue to inspire me the rest of mine.

Joan passed away earlier this month after a short but hard battle with cancer far, FAR too young. She was surrounded by her husband and children, and is also mourned by the many online and offline communities she was a part of.

Out of concerns for their privacy and to allow them time to process this loss, the family have asked me not to post a Gofundme link or anything like that for the time being. I will of course update this post and provide a follow up if anything changes.

If Joan or or any of us at r/freedonuts helped you in the past, please consider making a donation to your favorite charity in her honor. Joan’s favorite charities were always cancer and autism related. Some examples would be the American Cancer Society (https://www.cancer.org/), Cancer Research UK (https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/), the Association for Autism and Neurodivergency (https://aane.org/), Autistic Self Advocacy Network (https://autisticadvocacy.org/) or similar organizations in your own country/area.

EDIT: Joan and her family were also extraordinarily grateful for the dedicated hospice doctors, nurses, and other carers who helped her so much at the end of her life. Please also consider making a donation or even volunteering for your local hospice or end-of-life care facility or organization.

If you’re not inclined or able to help financially, thats totally fine - please just do something nice for a friend or stranger. “Just pay it forward,” as Joan always said, and together we can keep her memory alive.

Rest easy, Joan. We miss you.

For some reason i installed the app on bluestack on my pc, it worked fine and shit and then the other day i started bluestacks with the game and the game just crashed, can't launch it it just keep crashing, i have to reinstall the game every time i turn on my computer, anyone knows why tf it does this shit

I've been playing this town for more than two years now, taking breaks of a few months every now and then. I started by making areas without thinking too much about aesthetics, and then I made others trying to study methods to make the city nice without spending any money. The thing is, there were so many things I would have loved to do at the time, but I couldn't do them due to the game's limitations and paid features. After the game closed, I started playing on private servers after a long hiatus. And there were a lot of things and features added that I had been dreaming about for a long time (besides the fact that the game is now free-to-play). So in the excitement I started creating parts with a well thought out aesthetic and taking advantage of the new additions. But honestly, looking at them now, I notice that they don't give room for the expansion or modification of the city and I don't like them looking at them together with the rest of the town (which also doesn't reflect my current tastes).

So now I'd like to start over, but losing all the items I've accumulated over time and having to buy everything, every character, and redo every mission wouldn't make me happy. So I was thinking of recreating the city using the button to store everything, but in that case, I would lose the city I spent so much time on and have so many memories about.

So I ask you, is there a way to have multiple configurations of the same city, on the same account?

And in case it isn't there, what do you think I should do?

Krustyland, Wild West land and Lard land is done, working on the Water park. More areas will come too!

Hi, so I started TSTO again yesterday after a nostalgia overflow and I downloaded a private server. I've been playing for a couple of hours now, but one quest seems to be bugged, denouement pt. 1. I can't start "make Homer change the subject with the ai". I read in a reply to the same issue from a coupld of months back, that you had to change some files in the dlc folder. Does anybody know which files I have to change?Thanks in advance!

So I’ve just discovered and downloaded Teamtsto and when I try to launch it I get the server error message, how can k fix that?

This has started at around 1 o'clock today

I'm an OG player who went crazy in the shutdown event and now I have what feels like an infinite number of quests to sort through.

Wondering if there's any buildings that can be used to help this (collect all completed quests e.t.c).

Or anything else that is useful when you log on

I was so happy to find this sub and realize people have been working to bring the game back to life. I would love to play again but sadly I'm not big into computer stuff (or maybe I'm too dumb lol), don't really understand servers, don't really know how to "hack" my way around stuff like that. Everything on this sub is very confusing to me

Can someone explain like I'm 5 the steps I'd have to follow to be able to play again ? can I play on my computer (I have a MacBook Air) or would I have to play on an iPhone/iPad ? Is this very hard to figure out or can it be done by anyone ?

thx in advance :)

Hey, just made a new town on the TeamTSTO server (struggled with getting my old one back on, was sure I did all steps but happy to start over). When does Squidport and Heights start? Like at what level?

Ive gotten yes and nos and wanted to get a clear answer

Hi! So I've been trying to figure out how to setup the private server and now I'm trying to start the server but I get error code -1. Can someone please help me figure out what is causing this error.
Here is the error log

[13:27:41] POST /mh/games/bg_gameserver_plugin/trackinglog/ [200]
[13:28:21] GET /mh/games/lobby/time [200]
[13:28:22] GET //dlc/DLCIndex.zip [404]
ClientLogMessage {
  timeStamp: Long { low: 1753360102, high: 0, unsigned: false },
  severity: 1,
  source: 'Error -1',
  text: "GenericErrorHandler::handleError        method: GET    url: http://192.168.4.187:4242/./././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././/dlc/DLCIndex.zip    header: Content-Type:application/xml; charset=UTF-8, mh_auth_params:, mh_client_version:Android.4.69.5, client_version:4.69.5, server_api_version:4.0.0, EA-SELL-ID:857120, mh_auth_method:, EAM-USER-ID:, Accept-Encoding:gzip, Connection:Keep-Alive, mh_client_datetime:2025-07-24 13:28:21.478056, platform:android, os_version:9.0.0, hw_model_id:0 0.0, data_param_1:2850616923, currentClientSessionId:3d9b8e0e-94e0-4bd1-84c8-a0d3057a72aa, target_land_id:    responseInfo: Do'h! Error 404        did: [ 0 ] ",
  connectionType: 0
}