Fan-made maps?

[76561199216083369]

Hello.
I love this game. But after a couple of years of playing it's becoming pretty boring to explore the same areas again and again.
Is there a support for custom player-made maps coming?
It would really refresh the survival mode.

[Paph]

Like these?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901570789

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Paph:

Like these?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901570789

I think they are asking if there are plans for a map editor in the game when we get modding support, not about maps for existing regions.

It's possible (anything is possible), but I am not sure how probable it is. There are a ton of third party mods out there already, and the only ones that deal with maps in the game are for creating your charcoal map (cartography). I haven't seen any mods that actually use a map editor to create a totally new region (but I haven't looked at very single mod out there, either, so I may have missed it if it exists.).

Having a map editor for the game is something I would enjoy messing around with- there is a lot of open land on the island that we don;t see and can't reach right now. Some good spots to create new regions that fit into available spaces. But not knowing exactly what tool they are using, and what plans they have for unused space on the island for a possible sequel- would new regions added by HL break custom maps made by players if the dev's new region overlaps the player-made region?

A map editor and player-made custom maps is something many of us have been asking about and asking for, for years.

quick edit-

Originally posted by bladerunner97:

More like this I guess.
https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/41073-mod-region-forgotten-plateau/

How the heck did I miss that on the online forums? O_O

[Sito]

There is a Hinterland forum that discusses mods. One guy there is advertising a 3 region map he is working on. It looks really good.

https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/40861-the-long-development-dev-log-november-2021-modded-custom-regions/

[Sito]

Originally posted by JayXL:

Originally posted by Sito:

There is a Hinterland forum that discusses mods. One guy there is advertising a 3 region map he is working on. It looks really good.

https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/40861-the-long-development-dev-log-november-2021-modded-custom-regions/

WOW :winter2019surprisedsnowman:

This looks extremely promising.

Yeah. I watch that forum for when he will announce the release. Glad that Hinterland has opened up a bit about mods. I look forward to exploring although I doubt anything could be as good as what HL produces but after 4000+ hours of play I'm getting a bit bored.

[Kaiusername]

Originally posted by Sito:

Originally posted by JayXL:

WOW :winter2019surprisedsnowman:

This looks extremely promising.

Yeah. I watch that forum for when he will announce the release. Glad that Hinterland has opened up a bit about mods. I look forward to exploring although I doubt anything could be as good as what HL produces but after 4000+ hours of play I'm getting a bit bored.

Sorry for knocking on a dead thread, but I have to say I certainly hope Mountain Pass lives up to your expectations. Our goal is to try and be 'as hinterland-like' as possible, I feel like we have achieved that, but I will leave that up to you to decide.

See you in MP soon.

[Sito]

Originally posted by Kaiusername:

Originally posted by Sito:

Yeah. I watch that forum for when he will announce the release. Glad that Hinterland has opened up a bit about mods. I look forward to exploring although I doubt anything could be as good as what HL produces but after 4000+ hours of play I'm getting a bit bored.

Sorry for knocking on a dead thread, but I have to say I certainly hope Mountain Pass lives up to your expectations. Our goal is to try and be 'as hinterland-like' as possible, I feel like we have achieved that, but I will leave that up to you to decide.

See you in MP soon. :rabbitTLD:

I will be right on it as soon as it drops. Looking forward to it!

[I'll be the one]

Originally posted by bladerunner97:

More like this I guess.
https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/41073-mod-region-forgotten-plateau/

That is a good map!

[Kaiusername]

Originally posted by micah6vs8:

Originally posted by Sito:

There is a Hinterland forum that discusses mods. One guy there is advertising a 3 region map he is working on. It looks really good.

https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/40861-the-long-development-dev-log-november-2021-modded-custom-regions/

This looks very promising.

I appreciate the creative vision and work that went into making TLD, but it is long past time to open it up and release the creativity of the fans.

Instead how about the devs work on the bugs, ect.. It feels like no one is minding the basics and the game functionality is deteriorating.

I think Raph is hesitant to really 'open up' to modding in fear of people royally messing with his game. If I was in his shoes I would feel the exact same way honestly. We all know what modders are capable of doing when given full control of things... for good or for worse.

I am hoping that our region mods are vanilla enough - as well as respectable enough - that people will take them seriously and most of all; enjoy it.

We do have a teaser trailer also if you would like to take a deeper look. It is attached to our latest DevLog.

Link: https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/41434-the-long-development-2022-devlog-thread-custom-modded-regions/?do=findComment&comment=236873

[nautofon]

Looks cool. Will this be multi-platform or Windows only?

[RabbitRidge]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/discussions/6/3275815186877078024/#c3275815186874752347

https://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/discussions/0/2958292387833412451/?ctp=2#c2958292387840321363

[Sito]

Originally posted by Kaiusername:

Originally posted by micah6vs8:

This looks very promising.

I appreciate the creative vision and work that went into making TLD, but it is long past time to open it up and release the creativity of the fans.

Instead how about the devs work on the bugs, ect.. It feels like no one is minding the basics and the game functionality is deteriorating.

I think Raph is hesitant to really 'open up' to modding in fear of people royally messing with his game. If I was in his shoes I would feel the exact same way honestly. We all know what modders are capable of doing when given full control of things... for good or for worse.

I am hoping that our region mods are vanilla enough - as well as respectable enough - that people will take them seriously and most of all; enjoy it.

We do have a teaser trailer also if you would like to take a deeper look. It is attached to our latest DevLog. :rabbitTLD:

Link: https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/41434-the-long-development-2022-devlog-thread-custom-modded-regions/?do=findComment&comment=236873

I am with you on this. Hinterland is open as long as you are respectful of their IP and don't break their game.
All the mods I have looked at are very respectful and dont mess with the gameplay or introduce bugs, that I could find anyway.
I hope the next update from HL does not ruin all that you have done to develop your regions.
I look forward to when you drop them!

[RabbitRidge]

I suspect the next major update will change everything whenever it finally occurs, likely in association with the final episode.

[Kaiusername]

Originally posted by Sito:

Originally posted by Kaiusername:

I think Raph is hesitant to really 'open up' to modding in fear of people royally messing with his game. If I was in his shoes I would feel the exact same way honestly. We all know what modders are capable of doing when given full control of things... for good or for worse.

I am hoping that our region mods are vanilla enough - as well as respectable enough - that people will take them seriously and most of all; enjoy it.

We do have a teaser trailer also if you would like to take a deeper look. It is attached to our latest DevLog.

Link: https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/41434-the-long-development-2022-devlog-thread-custom-modded-regions/?do=findComment&comment=236873

I am with you on this. Hinterland is open as long as you are respectful of their IP and don't break their game.
All the mods I have looked at are very respectful and dont mess with the gameplay or introduce bugs, that I could find anyway.
I hope the next update from HL does not ruin all that you have done to develop your regions.
I look forward to when you drop them!

I have the pleasure of working with one of the best TLD modders and no matter what Hinterland do - he will find a way to make it work.

Even so, I would assume Ep5 is still at least a year away, so we got some time.

[Sito]

HL says they plan to release something for survival in a few months. Hopefully that wont break anything. I am curious about modding assuming that TLD is written in .NET but not enough to spend any time on it.
Since they have split survival and wintermute Ep5 should not be any problem.