Any way to change where i spawn ?

[Zordiark Darkeater]

Talking about where on the map i START the game.

im sick of forest and takes half a year to walk to the snow biomes from the beginning. also walking there wastes my 1st 1-2 days im playing on 10K maps.

anyway i can change my starting location ?

[CatPerson]

If you're solo/SP you can hit F1, type DM/enter, open the map and use the static map view (upper right hand corner icon) and then ctrl+r-click on a spot on the map to teleport yourself there to check if you like a spot better.

This does "spoil" the city/POI location layout tho since you can see (all) the grids.

If there's a modding type way I'll leave that to someone else since I have no clue. The game likes to spawn you in the forest seemingly 95% of the time (it did in A19 too), although occasionally it apparently does not.

[Scourn]

You can go into your map folder and change the spawn locations in the spawning xml file there. We usually remove all the spawns but 1 in the RWG folder for each map so everyone spawns at the same location when playing and not having to use commands to teleport around to meet. 6-8 spawn locations is kinda dumb.

[CatPerson]

Originally posted by Scourn:

You can go into your map folder and change the spawn locations in the spawning xml file there. We usually remove all the spawns but 1 in the RWG folder for each map so everyone spawns at the same location when playing and not having to use commands to teleport around to meet. 6-8 spawn locations is kinda dumb.

That's handy to know. I've seen up to 13 spawn points on the bigger maps I think. And yeah the one brief period I did a little MP (years ago) everyone spawning in different places was annoying. I recall there was some admin/host command to teleport players directly to themself or something.

Does A20 pick a spawn point on map creation and then (for solo/SP play) stick with that one? Because so far every time, if I start a New Game but use the same RWG map, it starts me in the same spawn point. It used to feel more random, long ago. >.>

[Scourn]

From my limited testing thus far it seems to pick 1 spawn per player then move the next player to another spawn or sometimes the same spawn. I had a annoying map that spawned me 1.9k away from a trader and I kept deleting the map and restarting it only to have it happen again and again. Then my girl logged in and spawned right by the trader I was 1.9k from =/

[Crater Creator]

So the "seed" is a string of characters that seeds what the random world will look like, but the game name is also the 'seed' for lesser randomization, including spawn location. If you start two games on the same world and both games are named "MyGame" (i.e. you started one game, deleted it, and then started a second game with the same game name), you'll first spawn in the same location both times. If you want to spawn somewhere else but still roll the dice rather than mod the location explicitly, type in a different name for the game.

[Scourn]

Originally posted by Crater Creator:

So the "seed" is a string of characters that seeds what the random world will look like, but the game name is also the 'seed' for lesser randomization, including spawn location. If you start two games on the same world and both games are named "MyGame" (i.e. you started one game, deleted it, and then started a second game with the same game name), you'll first spawn in the same location both times. If you want to spawn somewhere else but still roll the dice rather than mod the location explicitly, type in a different name for the game.

That is really great advice Crater Creator. I did not know that renaming the save game would help that.

[CatPerson]

I've started same map using a different save name (I always do) and it still spawned me in the same place.

Albeit I haven't tried it dozens of times. And sometimes I only change one aspect of a save game name, like "Test01, Test02", maybe that's not enough. Or I was just randomly unlucky a few times in a row. :/

Good to know this tidbit tho thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

[Viianixis sixinaiiV]

How do you even read these coordinates and what's the rotation mean? They don't match the game coordinates at all that I can tell... Need some tech assistance on this please.

[Jaeghan]

Originally posted by Sugarfree:

How do you even read these coordinates and what's the rotation mean? They don't match the game coordinates at all that I can tell... Need some tech assistance on this please.

The coordinates are East/West, elevation, North/South. So, for example, 1100, 35, 1200 would be 1100 East by 1200 North at an elevation of 35 (meaning ground level is 35 at that spot).

Negative numbers for East/West indicate West, and negative numbers for North/South indicate South. So, -1100, 35, 1200 would be 1100 West by 1200 North at an elevation of 35.

Does that help?

[Viianixis sixinaiiV]

I figured it out. I'm now a master at creating spawn starting points :)

[Amins]

Also, it should be noted that as far as I'm aware, in the current Alpha you will always spawn in the forest biome. This spawn may be near a border with another biome, but with the change to how difficulty is scaled by biome, it would make sense that you would start in the easiest one.

[Viianixis sixinaiiV]

No - I found out how to edit the spawn/starting points. I can make you spawn anywhere in the map now... On top of the tallest mountain or right in the middle of the ocean :D

[ttv/ShirubaVT]

Originally posted by Sugarfree:

No - I found out how to edit the spawn/starting points. I can make you spawn anywhere in the map now... On top of the tallest mountain or right in the middle of the ocean :D

and u dont want to share it with others?

[Viianixis sixinaiiV]

Originally posted by Nepharyel:

Originally posted by Sugarfree:

No - I found out how to edit the spawn/starting points. I can make you spawn anywhere in the map now... On top of the tallest mountain or right in the middle of the ocean :D

and u dont want to share it with others?

...sorry wasn't sure what I was thinking when I posted that reply awhile back. So the way that I did it - was use an editor like Notepad or Wordpad. Beyond that - I'll have to go back and remember what I did. I stopped playing and cancelled my server after creating my World. It just got too repetitive...

But I remember making a game.
Edit the file that has the spawn points in the folder, copy ALL of them, delete them from the file (%appdata%) and one by one copy them back into the spawn file and see where it lands you. Once you play with the numbers and find out how the coordinates actually work - you can create your own spawn point anywhere in the game...

Kind of general... If I create another World I'll list better details of how to do it exactly step by step...

[Viianixis sixinaiiV]

Okay here it is - your guide:

Okay - so there is a tiny bit of information regarding this across multiple platforms leaving people scratching their heads in confusion and frustration. I know - I've been one of them. I recently (as in: tonight) re-learned how to do this and NOW - I will share it with YOU.

EDITING YOUR SPAWN POINT:
Find THIS path:
C:\Users\(YOUR NAME HERE)\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\GeneratedWorlds\(MAP NAME HERE)
(to find the appdata folder - do a search and enter: %appdata%)
Find THIS file:
spawnpoints

EDIT this file with NOTEPAD (or your preferred editor but keep it simple)
You'll see something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<spawnpoints>
<spawnpoint position="1464.3,37.4,-1464.1" rotation="-7.3,359.2,0.0" />
<spawnpoint position="1480.2,37.4,-1473.9" rotation="-9.3,154.9,0.0" />
<spawnpoint position="1472.7,37.5,-1473.4" rotation="-27.9,48.1,0.0" />
<spawnpoint position="1462.3,37.6,-1477.2" rotation="-27.5,243.1,0.0" />
</spawnpoints>

Now...
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!! Go IN GAME. Go into DM/CM mode. Hit the map button. In the upper right you will see a light switch, hit THAT. Now click the arrows next to it until you get to BIOMES. Scroll out as far as you can. Find your preferred spawn in area. To get there on the map:

Hold the CTRL (I use the left one) and RIGHT CLICK.

You *should* pop right onto that specific point in game that you clicked on in the map.
PRESS F3.

Look at the top box, find the following:
PLAYER
X/Y/Z
ROT

That is the your current location.
Now - for the spawn point, which should be opened in Notepad now. Delete everything so it now looks like THIS:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<spawnpoints>
<spawnpoint position="1464.3,37.4,-1464.1" rotation="-7.3,359.2,0.0" />
</spawnpoints>

Enter the XYZ coords exactly as you see them in the "spawnpoint position"
Enter the ROT coords exactly as you see them in the "rotation"

Save.
Start a new game to test.
You *should* spawn exactly where you want to be according to the newly edited spawnpoint in the file...

I copy and paste that line like 5 times, slightly altering the locations so that if multiple people spawn in - we all spawn in next to each other - not on top of each other.

Hope this helps :)