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ekidhardt

Feb 28 @ 5:29pm

Change terrain without destroying map?

I am in need of a castle ruins in a snowy biome. There are lots of assets and maps out there, but soon as I want it to be frosty, it destroys the whole map.

Is there any way around this?

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Kyde

Feb 28 @ 6:05pm

Click on the Terrain button --> Change Terrain Type (tab) --> Weather --> Snow

ekidhardt

Mar 3 @ 3:17am

no, you're missing the point--it destroys whatever it is on the map when you change the terrain. Open a map with buildings, change the terrain, and it destroys all buildings. I want to say, download a castle map and turn it into an artic environment without destroying the content of the map.

Kyde

Mar 3 @ 8:09am

Originally posted by ekidhardt:
no, you're missing the point--it destroys whatever it is on the map when you change the terrain. Open a map with buildings, change the terrain, and it destroys all buildings. I want to say, download a castle map and turn it into an artic environment without destroying the content of the map.

I just started a map. Grassland. I put three buildings on it. Then I changed the terrain to snow and it made the ground all white. No buildings were destroyed. Would you be willing to join our Discord so we can exchange screenshots more easily? https://discord.gg/DungeonAlchemist

Kyde

Mar 3 @ 8:11am

Originally posted by Kyde:
Originally posted by ekidhardt:
no, you're missing the point--it destroys whatever it is on the map when you change the terrain. Open a map with buildings, change the terrain, and it destroys all buildings. I want to say, download a castle map and turn it into an artic environment without destroying the content of the map.
I just started a map. Grassland. I put three buildings on it. Then I changed the terrain to snow and it made the ground all white. No buildings were destroyed. Would you be willing to join our Discord so we can exchange screenshots more easily? https://discord.gg/DungeonAlchemist

There are two places where you can choose snow. One is on a NEW map where you choose the Snow Biome. The other is as I've already described. I just tried both of them and (for me, anyway) switching the snow biome back and forth doesn't do anything to the buildings. Are you only changing your snow biome on a NEW map? If that's the case, that's why the buildings are being destroyed.

MACx3D [developer] Mar 3 @ 1:33pm

Originally posted by ekidhardt:
no, you're missing the point--it destroys whatever it is on the map when you change the terrain. Open a map with buildings, change the terrain, and it destroys all buildings. I want to say, download a castle map and turn it into an artic environment without destroying the content of the map.

Kyde is 100% correct.

I will explain it in simple steps for you to follow.

1- Open the map in question
2- Select the Terrain Menu from the left menu bar
3- Select the fourth tab in the terrain menu (Change Terrain Type)
4- DO NOT change the terrain/biome to Snow. Leave this setting as is.
5- Select the weather drop down and change it from no weather to Snow.
6- Click Change Terrain
7- Enjoy

Two different settings can be set to snow.

The Biome/terrain, which is the setting you are changing, will reset the entire environment except for buildings made with the room generation tool. If a building such as a castle was constructed with objects they will be deleted.

With snow enabled from the weather drop-down, it dusts a layer of snow across the entire existing map without destroying or deleting anything. Snow Weather can be applied to ANY biome or map, allowing you to make any map a winter setting quickly.

Last edited by MACx3D; Mar 3 @ 1:34pm