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The Juice

Nov 2, 2016 @ 4:14pm

seeds = coordinates.

i'll to try explain this the best i can. so here goes:

i put in seed number 68015952. then take a picture of the map, then i did 68015953. i noticed the map shift up by one tile. so what was the center island of 5952 was now directly above (north west) of the center island of 5953. sat here looking puzzled at it... then it clicked. its one HUGE monster map, and what the seed number is is basically coordinates. so with a little exploring,

anyone clever enough to work out exactly how big the total area of islands is? would it be like a 5000 x 5000 area? with a max 10digit seed? would 5555,5555 be dead on center of the entire space? i might just have had too much Fermo-nut Juice and having silly ideas or i might be onto something?

Last edited by The Juice; Nov 2, 2016 @ 4:15pm

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Omen3608

Nov 2, 2016 @ 4:49pm

You are right in a way. The maps are procedurally generated, so it is a giant map as every seed entered from 0 to 99999999, will always give you the exact same result. Just adding/subtracting one to the seed number will in fact shift some islands up, or down, this is not true for every island though.

It really depends on how the island creation algorythm works. Adding one might have that effect on certain rows only, totally changing other rows, it might however break someway along the chain as well. It is impossible to tell without taking a look at the actual math behind it though. ;)

With 10 mio seeds possible, you world map is 50 mio x 50 mio tiles all in all, which makes for 250 mio biomes, of which some landmasses are obviously duplicates of each other. As the island populating alg may work entirely different, you could actually see different flora on these duplicate islands.

The Juice

Nov 2, 2016 @ 5:07pm

Originally posted by Omen3608:
You are right in a way "and then stuff & info - just to shorten the quote as no one really needs to read it twice"

i've had some seeds with duplicate island land masses but very different in plants etc. i think it was 7 or 8 that has like only 3 or 4 different island shapes across the entire map. many duplicates but not with whats on them.