Pyramids & how to find them

[BossBTL]

Pyramid is a structure that has a random chance of spawning in a newly created world. its basically as what its name implies, an egyptian pyramid in a desert biome, allmost allways 2/3rds under the ground, with just the tip poking out.

it contains unique items in chests, and unique decorations.

now, an experiment was made a very long time ago, back during an old version of the game, where 100 worlds were made. less than 15% of them had 1 pyramid in them, and even less had 2 or more.

however, that was a long time ago, as mentioned before. now we have no idea about the likely hood of them spawning.

suggestions?

[Ethril]

Can't give you any specific numbers, but they're definitely a lot more common now, although I've yet to see a non-Large world with 2 or more.
The thing is, despite them having a higher chance to spawn nowadays, the desert is usually taken up by the Antlion caves, which seems to block pyramids from spawning there (though it could just be bad luck on my part, so that's not necessarily true?), meaning you'll probably need either a particularly wide desert biome, or a world with more than one desert.
HOWEVER, I think (not sure) they can be generated anywhere there's some amount of sand close enough to the surface, since I've heard of people finding them in beaches and the jungle (not the Lihzahrd temple, regular sandstone pyramids), but this may have been patched out (or never there to begin with?) to restrict them to the specifically-generated official Deserts, which excludes beaches and random patches of sand. That's all just hearsay and conjecture, though.

[Old Acccount]

ive seen em quite often id say about every 5/10 have em and every 2-3/10 have 2 or more

[Potkan]

I've made 30 worlds (10 Small, 10 Medium, 10 Large) and this is what I found:
No pyramids on small worlds (probably bad luck)
2 medium worlds with a single pyramid and 1 medium world with 2 pyramids.
2 large worlds with a single pyramid and 2 large worlds with 2 pyramids.
All the worlds were Normal Corruption

[Old Acccount]

Originally posted by Potkan:

I've made 30 worlds (10 Small, 10 Medium, 10 Large) and this is what I found:
No pyramids on small worlds (probably bad luck)
2 medium worlds with a single pyramid and 1 medium world with 2 pyramids.
2 large worlds with a single pyramid and 2 large worlds with 2 pyramids.
All the worlds were Normal Corruption

can you test it with 20 large and crimson please?

[Old Acccount]

Originally posted by Potkan:

I've made 30 worlds (10 Small, 10 Medium, 10 Large) and this is what I found:
No pyramids on small worlds (probably bad luck)
2 medium worlds with a single pyramid and 1 medium world with 2 pyramids.
2 large worlds with a single pyramid and 2 large worlds with 2 pyramids.
All the worlds were Normal Corruption

exept for me

Originally posted by TheGreekVandreus:

ive seen em quite often id say about every 5/10 have em and every 2-3/10 have 2 or more

[Potkan]

Originally posted by TheGreekVandreus:

Originally posted by Potkan:

I've made 30 worlds (10 Small, 10 Medium, 10 Large) and this is what I found:
No pyramids on small worlds (probably bad luck)
2 medium worlds with a single pyramid and 1 medium world with 2 pyramids.
2 large worlds with a single pyramid and 2 large worlds with 2 pyramids.
All the worlds were Normal Corruption

can you test it with 20 large and crimson please?

Here are the results from 20 large crimson worlds:
10 of them had 1 pyramid
If you want the seeds for the worlds, add me.

[Teryces]

The chance for an pyramide to spawn in 10% per desert generation, and thats why you won't find multiple in small worlds, since theres just one desert (rarely there are 2, but one is too small and achso has no antlion cave)
(of course it actually is possible, World Generators sometimes break rules ;D)

[BossBTL]

Originally posted by Teryces:

The chance for an pyramide to spawn in 10% per desert generation, and thats why you won't find multiple in small worlds, since theres just one desert (rarely there are 2, but one is too small and achso has no antlion cave)
(of course it actually is possible, World Generators sometimes break rules ;D)

can someone find a seed of a small world with both a pyramid & somewhat of a large desert to go with it?

[dreynar_swag]

i got several small worlds with 2 pyramids so go figure