Thios was also posted to reddit by myself: Since landfill is now in the experimental releases I have been having a lot of fun with island starts. It gives you a nice quiet start and when you are ready you can choose when to create a bridge to the nearest land mass and engage the enemy. Today I encou...

Since 0.13 now has landfill in vanilla I have been enjoying island maps. You can get a nice quiet start and when you are ready you can gather stone and push into enemy lands using bridges. Here are two large islands that I posted to reddit. You can change the number of enemies without affecting the ...