Tiny Starter Island

[BioFringe]

I started my second playthrough on what turned out to be an island that is about 25% the size of my first playthrough. There are 3 Burial Chamber, 2 Troll Caves, 2 wandering Trolls and about 5 Copper deposits.

Is this a good thing or should I be starting over before getting too deep into the playthrough?

[Samoth]

out of whim i decided to drop in the word 'Seed', since it was there in the field at seed-readerdotcom. And i was bored.
And it is pretty amazing fyi. Anyone touched on this one before? Got some incredible features. Very nicely distributed Meadow biome. Stretches way out to nearly to the outside ring(s). Many great locations, tips of islands, etc. Really good stuff. Eager to look at it in game, tbh.
Just now tried the word 'Santa', weirdly also nice. Grouped islands, large land masses. Lots of land.

[Elidrin]

Personally I like it. Our dedicated server seed generated a super continent for our start, huge spans of meadows, black forest and a mountain range that would give the Rockies a run for their money.

We really didn't need boats other than for some odd reason we had no swamps or plains. All the islands we sail too have little spots of meadow or forest but mostly are swamp/plains. It was a real pain to sail around so we had to make several harbors with ships depending on which way someone was going. Makes moving metals back to main base a chore some days..

Your map is much more ship friendly. Given the choice I like yours better.

[Gladi8er65]

I have a seed that places the player on a VERY tiny meadow island and requires making a raft to even get to mainland... the trader is also on a very tiny island all by himself... I am using this seed for a hardcore playthrough... much harder start than having all the biomes / bosses near the start area.

Seed is

Irongate

[Gladi8er65]

Originally posted by Ildryn:

Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

I have a seed that places the player on a VERY tiny meadow island and requires making a raft to even get to mainland... the trader is also on a very tiny island all by himself... I am using this seed for a hardcore playthrough... much harder start than having all the biomes / bosses near the start area.

Seed is

Irongate

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4 bosses and trader on main island. 20 crypts nearby.
5th boss is just across a river.

Have been playing that seed for weeks actually LOL

[Samoth]

i'm gonna peek at it... HHcLC5acQt
that baby patch of BF just at spawn is truly bizarre. And the strip of Black forest along the meadow coast, utterly lacking any features. Strange, wonder if it's full of 'unguarded' copper nodes, pines groves, blue berry patches, etc? and a 4 pixel strech/patch just southE of spawn. Good stuff, so strange, be cool to see what it actually looks like.
And finally? wow, the super strange inverted mountain zone to the east. Meadow, and BF inside a ring of Alpine... wow
That area would make for a super BA fort..... super... BBAAAAAAA OP train style. within the ring are 2 stone houses, a stone tower, and a crypt. unbelievable. That kinda just made me realize what I may be ACTUALLY looking for. Without having known it.
Thats about the best you could EVER hope to find in-game. In terms of natural protection, for the 'least' labor.... thanks for the epiphany.
this is likely as close to impregnable i think the game has.

[Gladi8er65]

Originally posted by Samoth:

i'm gonna peek at it... HHcLC5acQt
that baby patch of BF just at spawn is truly bizarre. And the strip of Black forest along the meadow coast, utterly lacking any features. Strange, wonder if it's full of 'unguarded' copper nodes, pines groves, blue berry patches, etc?

That seed has been passed around for a while now and considered a "speed seed" since all the biomes and ALMOST all the bosses are walking distance from spawn.

I am currently playing the much harder seed Irongate where everything is very spread out and requires sailing and exploring numerous islands and land masses.

[Samoth]

that particular formation has opened my eyes in a new way tho'' ty ty!
dont recall if I had seen that before. Changes things for me. Only thing off the top of my head that could improve upon this natural positioning, is a river, or canal. Some type of port/water access. The ambitious might drive a canal from around woodhouse10 out to doleman01. The truly ambitious may drive it amidst the tiny mountain arm south into the meadow river valley. a protected, reinforced port causeway. ending in both east and west ocean access. Remarkable, indeed.

[Gladi8er65]

Originally posted by Megahurts:

Seed is...
Irongate

Did you just happen to discover this seed or did you see me post this a while back on one of the seed threads? LOL I discovered / posted it a couple weeks ago, it seems

[Lunacy]

Shoulda seen my starting island. Entirely meadows with a tiny mountain in the center and absolutely nothing of value besides the occasional birch tree's. Thankfully the black forest with eikthyr was like a 1 minute raft ride across an ocean-river.
(Then elder was near the edge of the map next to plains)

[Megahurts]

Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

Did you just happen to discover this seed or did you see me post this a while back on one of the seed threads? LOL I discovered / posted it a couple weeks ago, it seems

Sorry, happened upon it a couple weeks ago myself. Using that world generator site I've looked at dozens and dozens of seeds using random numbers and words, my kids names, sports team names, names of other games I have and sometimes their studio or publisher names.

There's nothing new under the sun as the saying goes.

[Humpenstilzchen]

This one is also really nice: pT7CYDWBqJ

[Samoth]

Stumbled across one of the special maps I had been looking for. It just so happens that the Mountain 'Ring' feature, is somewhat rare. It happens maybe 1-in-20ish? I spent a few hours rolling seeds, in search of a really nice ring fort land-mass. Not yet.

But, one I did find that is ESPECIALLY unique. It has 'the' ring fort land feature. It is all Black Forest. AND it has a TRADER SPAWN INSIDE THE RING!. Quite rare and unique indeed!
It would take some special maneuvering to 'force' the trader to spawn there. But easy enough. You could have a super-fortress, WITH a permanent link to the TRADER, INSIDE your Citadel. Simply remarkable, tbh. I can only imagine how cool this map could be. Just depending some on the actual land features, on the 'virtual ground'.

I have begun to favor the idea of the ring-fort seed have a bit of Plains in the ring. While I don't know the art assets by heart enough to judge if the objects are what I am hoping for. One of the seeds I rolled had a RockHendge3 feature inside the ring, crossing my fingers it's one of the rock pillars!
While the mobs maybe higher tier, the payoff could be one of the enormous rock pillars in the center of the mountain-ring-impregnable-citadel-fortress-island place... :)

[Nyu]

i like the seed if you delete the seed.
so empty seed.

i sadly had to stop cause i died once.

i can really recommend it, i had a blast on it. its not a fast seed.

[Samoth]

Found one for any troll hunters out there, it has the MOST troll Caves I have ever seen, must be 40 in the starter island. (Just counted:38? with 6 more in immediate reach)
Also the starter island is the largest I've ever seen. It is like 4 big land masses tied together. With other very large masses scattered through-out.
Truly, this is a Troll-Hunters dream! not seen anything, anywhere near as populated with Troll Caves as this seed. I'm keeping it for later use.

Further, I just found one for anyone who is foot adventurist. Meaning that essentially no edge or land spot can't be simply walked to, or to swim to each adjoining island. Literally almost no edge, or area unreachable by foot/swim.
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[DeMasked]

The seed that I'm playing on in single player has turned out really nice. Merchant on a nearby island that I swam to - made a raft midway for stamina later on due to taking some damage.

Ton of Black Forest on the initial island with like 3 or so mountains and then to the near east there is a massive swamp with like 12+ crypts and 8 or so surtling spawns. Made a portal in a tower that I took over in the middle of the swamp so I could easily transfer non metals to the nearby black forest where I built my base with forge / kiln.

Currently working on silver.