How to use a seed for world generation

[Likely Lost]

as title, have seen people mention it but having a brain fart as to how.

is it only for servers? or can you use a seed when making a new single player world?

thanks in advance

[Likely Lost]

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[strask]

I only know how to do it for servers. Do you have a seed from someone else's game that you want to use in yours, or something like that? I mean what are you trying to accomplish -- maybe there is another workaround.

[Likely Lost]

Originally posted by strask:

Do you have a seed from someone else's game that you want to use in yours, or something like that?

Thank you for your responce.

Yes this is what I was trying to do :)

What I have been doing is making single player worlds in creative mode, looking at the uncovered map and keeping or deleting based on the biomes created. This is fine and I am happy to do this. I just wanted to know if it is *possible* to use a non random seed on a single player world.

Thank you

[strask]

Originally posted by jetpackjumper:

I just wanted to know if it is *possible* to use a non random seed on a single player world.

I think I just thought of a way, but it's kind of labor intensive.

I've seen instructions floating around on the forums here for people to take a single player world and copy it to a server; most of those conversations were from before people figured out how to set the seed on the command line. But the impression I got was that it worked, copying all the save files from one to the other.

You could do it in the reverse. Start up a server instance, using the desired seed on the command line, and then once the map is generated you could shut down the server and copy the files to your single player game?

[Likely Lost]

ooh thank you very clever will give it ago :)

[CyberpunCthulhu]

I wanted to view the full map of my server, so I copied the CubeLight folder from my server and pasted it to local game folder. However after I loaded the world in singleplayer mode, the map I got was completely different from the map I got on my server. Map seed should be the same (I mean the whole folder was copied), but results were somehow different.

Edit:
I've seen some other posts saying that some people got different maps even with the same folders / files. They were all trying to change maps or map seeds.

[strask]

Originally posted by TearOfGalaxy:

I wanted to view the full map of my server, so I copied the CubeLight folder from my server and pasted it to local game folder. However after I loaded the world in singleplayer mode, the map I got was completely different from the map I got on my server. Map seed should be the same (I mean the whole folder was copied), but results were somehow different.

Edit:
I've seen some other posts saying that some people got different maps even with the same folders / files. They were all trying to change maps or map seeds.

Hmmmm ok thanks I guess my method won't work then. Sorry jetpackjumper if I sent you on a fool's errand.

BTW TearOfGalaxy try logging into your server and typing

enablecheats <youradminpassword>
admincheat OpenFogOfWar

This will clear the fog of war to reveal the entire map; only problem is you can't reverse the process.

[Vedren]

You input your seed after you click create character in SP mode. There will be a text field that you can input into ... That is your seed. If you want to share it just write down what you put in there and post that, also you can see it after you click load as in my screen shot.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/vedren/screenshot/915795433268089311

[strask]

Originally posted by Vedren:

You input your seed after you click create character in SP mode. There will be a text field that you can input into ... That is your seed.

Vedren see my comments on your screenshot -- short version is you are only partly right and your method won't work. :(

[CyberpunCthulhu]

Originally posted by strask:

BTW TearOfGalaxy try logging into your server and typing

enablecheats <youradminpassword>
admincheat OpenFogOfWar

This will clear the fog of war to reveal the entire map; only problem is you can't reverse the process.

Thanks. I will try that command later.