Rerolling existing map

[the_griffin]

The announcement for v0.8.3 says "...or at least rerolling an existing map".

Can someone please explain how to do this? Sorry for the dumb question......

[skill issue]

settings and rerol

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Hit escape and when the options come up choose restart if you want to play the same map seed. If you want to roll a different map seed then choose the reroll map option.

Bad wording on Zan's part. Should have said "NOTE: this update will require starting a new map, or at least restarting an existing map ..."

[the_griffin]

Thank you both for your answers!
So really no chance to move on with the same town after the upgrade. That's a pity.
I misunderstood "rerolling"......

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by the_griffin:

Thank you both for your answers!
So really no chance to move on with the same town after the upgrade. That's a pity.
I misunderstood "rerolling"......

Sure there is. Restart the map again and then rebuild the town. Otherwise you can't benefit from the new features like the deep mines, etc.

[ladicken]

There are two options, don't confuse them.

RESTART option means getting the same map (seed) with the same resources that you are "restarting", except the animals will show up in different amounts and places. This will not include any new updates to the game since you first generated the map.

REROLL is getting a newly generated map with only your basic settings preserved. Basic settings are just the difficulty levels. This is what you do when the game has been updated, however, it will be an entirely new map with a new map seed.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by ladicken:

There are two options, don't confuse them.

RESTART option means getting the same map (seed) with the same resources that you are "restarting", except the animals will show up in different amounts and places. This will not include any new updates to the game since you first generated the map.

REROLL is getting a newly generated map with only your basic settings preserved. Basic settings are just the difficulty levels. This is what you do when the game has been updated, however, it will be an entirely new map with a new map seed.

Ah, is that how it works? Then Zantai's wording is correct. My bad.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

So if you want to play the same map seed you'd first need to reroll a completely different map then go back to the main menu and start a new town as normal using the map seed you want to play with.

[ladicken]

Using a map seed generated by an older version of the game might not give you the same map again. Once a new version of the game is out, the old map seeds might not generate the same map depending on what was in the update.

After an update, if it is a major one, then generating a new map is the best thing. If you find one you like, then you can RESTART it again and again (keeping the same resources) but getting the animals in a different spot each time. This is useful getting those herds of deer close to your starting point.

It's tedious, but it works. When you get lucky you have more deer than you know what to do with. But it can sometimes take quite a few "restarts".

[pckirk]

Restart Current map, is what you want. It resets Animals and all resources....