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Not sure if this is a bug, just a visual glitch or a feature...but here it goes:

My buddy and i are on a multiplayer server, and sometimes we mess around with some Lua commands in the console.
This time we set the zoom level to a very small decimal number. So no gradual zooming out, bam straight to 0.01.

The first time this happend my game was frozen for a good bit, and then disconnected me from the MP game.
The second time this happend i noticed the following:
- i was able to see parts of the map we didn't explore yet
- my pc tried to render the entire visible map. This took up 2 whole cores of my i5-4690k (stock 3.5Ghz), and the game stil couldnt hold a decent framerate
- there is a grassland border around the map

See the following screenshots:
The "bugs"


The part we've actually explored: (note; this screenshot is taken AFTER messing with the zoom level)


We run Bobs mods.
If you need our save file, let me know.

You forced game to render map outside generated borders - so it placed random grass everywhere it didn't have actual terrain generated yet.

Did your generated area start expanding after doing this?

There's a reason the zoom is limited without using console commands

You told it to zoom out *way* more than it normally does and those chunks aren't generated yet so it filled them in with the defaults just to render something.

It's a simple problem with a simple fix: don't zoom out that much.