Map Generation Query

[Bobins]

Has Map generation been altered at all within Ashlands?

The reason I ask the above, is that I've just returned to Valheim to play the new update; As with all updates, I like to start Fresh... with a fresh character and a Random seed...

My starting Island seems HUGE compared to prior versions (with multiple playthroughs on each update since launch).

I'm just curious if this is a Map generation tweak that's causing all starter islands to be Alot larger than before, or if I've just landed on a "Funky" random map seed.

Has anyone else noticed a Much larger central/starting island within Ashlands?

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197962921089/screenshot/2474244209777742071/

[esbenmf]

Probably just coincidence. What has changed is mostly around ashlands and deep north where adjacent biomes have submerged.

[Mharr]

The update has forced the creation of some new ocean channels but the overall shape of the underlying islands and mountains is unchanged. Huge starting island seeds have always been a thing.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

yeah our groups original server when plains was the final biomes had a huge starting island.

[jonnin]

ive seen starter islands where you could walk from spawn point all the way to the ashlands (before the update) or deep north (before update), at most swimming a modest river or small gap to do so. I haven't seen a starter so small its just meadows (no forest) and too small to survive/succeed, most are a goodly sized chunk with at least forest on it.

But its all random. The new maps (ashlands) seems to ensure a wide gap between ashlands and normal biomes and from what we saw of the warnings etc they did this by lowering the terrain below sea level in a band across the world (north too?). Otherwise its more or less the same old things.

[Mharr]

Well, it's not *that* random. The terrain generation math they're using effectively cuts a circle out of a larger predetermined heightmap so if you spot a familiar island or mountain you can know the whole layout from there.

Rivers and biomes are fully random tho.