Map seeds?

[Lith]

i noticed the new menu for selecting spawn locations has a seed option.
what exactly does it do?

[snK]

Only thing I can think of that it might be is events but I thought they generated randomly per player entering a cell so honestly I have nfi.
I was really hoping it would be a spawn location in say Riverside and you could randomize the seed next time for a different spawn but that is not the case.

[Armagenesis]

Probably related to the procedurally generated wilderness on the edges of the map. And maybe also related to other random distributions. Who knows.

[Helladamnleet]

It affects RNG. Like a seed I tried a couple times in a row had a survivor house in the same location every time I reset the map. No, I wasn't just creating a new character.

[[Censored]]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Probably related to the procedurally generated wilderness on the edges of the map. And maybe also related to other random distributions. Who knows.

yes this too - trees and rocks and stuff are randomly generated out there now - i wanna see em add waters bodies to that - but the random event thingies are in that - like campsights and stuff - before you didnt have a reason to go out there - and now theres a several reasons that will manifest in long term mp servers (animals are out there too and zombies) this is a good thing - i am the type to just go out there lol

[yayie]

...I exploited the map seed. All I know is, every time I use this specific seed, it always spawn the same specific basement. Which can contains tools, ammo and such.

House/Road events, loot table are RNG, nothing to do with map seed as far as Im aware.

[Cabbage]

Originally posted by yayie:

All I know is, every time I use this specific seed, it always spawn the same specific basement.

I used the same seed repeatedly for a few restarts because it spawned me in a basement with a bunch of bookshelves.