Using the Ribbon World map generator with all default settings, the starting area can be missing some or even all of the starting resource patches. This happens when those resource patches would be farther north or south, but are cutoff by the height of the map.
An example random seed where this occurred: 4139512491
All of the starting resources are in a cluster just above the cutoff at the north edge. You can see this by increasing the height beyond the default for ribbon world.
[0.17.3] Ribbon world default settings sometimes don't have starting area resources
Re: [0.17.3] Ribbon world default settings sometimes don't have starting area resources
Thanks for the report however that's a risk you take by playing the ribbon world preset. Just press escape and click restart.
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