Hello all!
I've been trying to generate a good seed to play with a friend and I'm getting a whole lot of maps that only have water in the starting area. Before you start thinking "change the option for that!", no I have not set Water to "Starting Area Only" - it's set to Big.
I've tried variations of Terrain Segmentation and Water size, and I'd estimate about 80% of the maps I generate have only water around spawn - rarely do I get something else, which is mostly a variation of islands surrounded by sea, or half the map being sea (aka, the whole right part is water, starting area always is always round-ish with patches of water).
I'm on the latest version (0.12.26, I think, as of this post).
What am I doing wrong?
Too many seeds generated with only water in the starting are
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Lucky_Evie
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Re: Too many seeds generated with only water in the starting are
Hi, the latest is 0.12.29 as we're talking, but map generation hasn't changed since your version so there should be no difference. I have got a "water only in starting area" with a map I have recently started too. I admit that whrn I got it, I just thought I made a mistake when choosing my options before your post.
[Edit 2] I restarted a new game with the same map seed, and asked for a rechart of 1024x1024 around me, and seeing no water, asked a rechart of a 16384x16384 area around the starting point, it gave me this (the map zoomed out at max level) :
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[Edit] There is actual water in my map ... but probably because I asked for low terrain segmentation, and started in a desert biome, its faaaaaaar far away. Like very far [Edit 2] I restarted a new game with the same map seed, and asked for a rechart of 1024x1024 around me, and seeing no water, asked a rechart of a 16384x16384 area around the starting point, it gave me this (the map zoomed out at max level) :
Water somewhere
Koub - Please consider English is not my native language.
Re: Too many seeds generated with only water in the starting are
The map generator always gives you extra water in the starting area, even on desert maps. When you ask for "big" water, you get a LOT of water in the starting area.
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Lucky_Evie
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Re: Too many seeds generated with only water in the starting are
So apparently, this is the most perfect seed I have ever seen in my life.
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Re: Too many seeds generated with only water in the starting are
Terrain Segmentation seems to make a huge impact. if you want more bodies of Water around, i'd suggest increasing Terrain Segmentation a bit.