[TOGoS] [0.17.15] Error with map-gen-settings.json

[Cooldude2606]

All within write_dir/data/map-settings.json
Within "_property_expression_names_comment" it says to "Leave it blank to get 'normal' terrain." however when I used "elevation": "" no water was generated at all on the map (including non in the starting area) after chaning it to "0_16-elevation" it then started placing water so I feel that they is either a bug with the config loader or that there has just been a mistake with the comment in the file.
Thank you for looking into this report, see below for full map gen settings.

map-gen-settings.json

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{
  "_terrain_segmentation_comment": "Inverse of map scale",
  "terrain_segmentation": 0.17,
  
  "_water_comment":
  [
    "Multiplier for water 'coverage' - higher increases the water level.",
    "Water level = 10 * log2(this value)"
  ],
  "water": 1.33,
  
  "_comment_width+height": "Width and height of map, in tiles; 0 means infinite",
  "width": 0,
  "height": 0,
  
  "_starting_area_comment": "Multiplier for 'biter free zone radius'",
  "starting_area": 4,
  
  "peaceful_mode": false,
  
  "autoplace_controls":
  {
    "coal": {"frequency": 0.25, "size": 1.5, "richness": 3},
    "stone": {"frequency": 0.25, "size": 1.33, "richness": 1.5},
    "copper-ore": {"frequency": 0.25, "size": 2,"richness": 1.5},
    "iron-ore": {"frequency": 0.25, "size": 2, "richness": 1.5},
    "uranium-ore": {"frequency": 0.17, "size": 1, "richness": 1.5},
    "crude-oil": {"frequency": 0.17, "size": 1.5, "richness": 1.5},
    "trees": {"frequency": 0.5, "size": 1.5, "richness": 1},
    "enemy-base": {"frequency": 1.5, "size": 1.5, "richness": 1}
  },
  
  "cliff_settings":
  {
    "_name_comment": "Name of the cliff prototype",
    "name": "cliff",
    
    "_cliff_elevation_0_comment": "Elevation of first row of cliffs",
    "cliff_elevation_0": 15,
    
    "_cliff_elevation_interval_comment": "Elevation difference between successive rows of cliffs",
    "cliff_elevation_interval": 20,
    
    "_richness_comment": "Multiplier for cliff continuity; 0 will result in no cliffs, 10 will make all cliff rows completely solid",
    "richness": 5
  },
  
  "_property_expression_names_comment":
  [
    "Overrides for property value generators",
    "Elevation influences water and cliff placement.",
    "Leave it blank to get 'normal' terrain.",
    "Use '0_16-elevation' to reproduce terrain from 0.16.",
    "Use '0_17-island' to get an island."
  ],
  "property_expression_names":
  {
    "elevation": "",
    
    "control-setting:aux:bias": "0.000000",
    "control-setting:aux:frequency:multiplier": "6.000000",
    "control-setting:moisture:bias": "0.300000",
    "control-setting:moisture:frequency:multiplier": "4.000000"
  },
  
  "starting_points":
  [
    {"x": 0, "y": 0}
  ],
  
  "_seed_comment": "Use null for a random seed, number for a specific seed.",
  "seed": null
}

[TOGoS]

Hmm, sounds like a bug.

For now, try removing the key/value "elevation" pair altogether.

[TOGoS]

Next release will treat empty expression names the same as lack of an entry, meaning 'use the default'. Thanks for the report!