Mountains and Maps

[Medieval Peanut]

I think I prefer the Mountain maps the most but a big problem I have is that the "hill portions" are always on the border and never in the middle. I want to build a stronghold in and on top of a hill but can't because they are typically shared with the border, which means there is a no-interaction band around the map that I can't remove ramps or do anything defensively.

[FrodoOf9Fingers]

I've wanted a fix to this too. I think the map selection process could be a bit better. It'd be cool if:

You pick valley, hill, or mountain as per normal.

But then the generated landscape is much, much larger. The player then chooses a boundary within that larger generated landscape, and the rest is cropped out.

Would be a bit of a pain to implement: The save file would need to keep an "offset", and the generator would need to understand that offset for regeneration during save game loading. I think you could limit it to that though, if you then shifted the coordinates by the offset before applying the changes in the save file (such as minning/construction), other parts of code wouldn't need changing. This assumes that the terrain generation algorithm chosen can generate a single square without considering nearby squares. Probably true now, but things like water dynamics can break that assumption.

The other portion would be the terrain selection GUI, I'm not as good with GUI, and couldn't guestimate how hard that'd be. *Should* be moddable via code injection, but it'd certainly be easier if it was done in source.

If a developer comes out and says they won't do that, I might take a stab at it.

[ProfessorDey]

This to a T, it's one of the biggest things that bugs me atm, I'm here trying to build a defensible village, you know what basically all medieval communities have in common? Falling into one of 3 main types, Walled/Defensive Hilltop Settlements, Riverside Settlements or Farm/Grazing land settlements. Ideal villages would have all 3, like a hill that has a river running through or even better around it on 3 sides, with the flat farmland on the other side. It's annoying that even the mountain biome is basically just a rockier valley you're normally on the bottom of, though some of the river formations _are_ quite nice.

[Sam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.