Tried to use this mod as usually after coming back to the game. Seems to have become incompatible in some way, couldn't create a new game. Had to disable it.

I had the same problems with getting the same hilly jungles as Egypt over and over and over... again.

All the restarting to get a decent setup gets really tiresome!

unfortunately, this mod hasn't been updated in 3 years, and I don't mod anymore. it's very very likely that it was broken by an update a long time ago.

Strangely, this mod did nothing. I have tried three Terra maps, the last one with climate set to cold, and in the past hour of trying, I have yet to get Peter to spawn in anything other than Jungle. WTF is wrong with my game? I'm about to give up.

IMO Cree should be assigned Camps since that is what makes them work.

can we get a volcano bias?

I've no idea tbh, if it isn't working it can probably be fixed by just updating the compatible version in the mod's code.

Whats broken though? Or is it?

of course, if anybody wants to pick this mod up to try and update it, they're more than welcome to do that. feel free to use my pre-existing work too, and make any changes you wish.

seems like a great concept I hope you let someone pick this up. best of luck.

yeah, sorry but I haven't touched civ in a very long time, I'm no longer able to spend time figuring out how to keep mods working so I'd consider this abandoned. I doubt firaxis would've changed database stuff that would have broken it though, so it's probably possible to get it working in some way.

Idk i dont think its working but possibly for a few

Is this working? abandoned?

try look at mod authors file in steam/workshop/content/289070/?

Can some tell me how to look at start bias' in the game XML? I don't really know how to look around or get into the files to begin with. I would like to learn if someone could message me. For this game and other, also, so I can look at things like terrain or features resources can spawn on, and other things so I can understand how the game was set up. Thanks if you can.

probably yeah, I last updated this before the frontier pass came out. I'll try to gather up the energy to update it some time, but it won't be updated for a while

Just wanted to let you know that the mod doesn't seem to work, any idea why that is? perhaps in need of an update?

lmao then I am a total dummy for thinking I can't use luxuries

You've also already got jade, mercury, etc dished out in your documentation

@Desucrate - You can add any resource to the StartBiasResources table, even luxuries. You just won't have any control over what luxuries spawn on a particular map.

that'd be a good idea actually, but I don't think I have the ability to influence spawn biases next to certain luxuries, iirc it's only strategics and maybe bonus ones

Just for the sake of it, would you consider adding silk, tea, and jade for China as well?

@ LeHolina
Despite what it says, some start biases are still not that strong. I've edited the mod to give stronger tundra and desert bias to civs that should have it, and it works most of the time. Start bias in Civ VI isn't very consistent, especially on a large map where many civs compete for certain terrains.

it's been a very very long time since I looked at the way this mod functions but if steam lets you download it it SHOULD function, but tbf it absolutely might not work

Hello! I wanted to try this mod, but unfortunately, I need DLCs that I dont have. Is there any way to still use this mod?

Hello, seems like it's not working properly :( tested with peter: 10 starts and only 1 with tundra, same with mansa musa, but with no desert. Tried with enormous (ynamp) and standard huge map. Any chance, that you can test it and maybe fix anytime soon?

cool to know it's working, I'll still try to get compatibility done at some point just for the sake of it

@Desucrate It worked after I re-subbed. I probably had some edits that the new version didn't agree with. But you could mark it to get rid of the pop-up warning about incompatible mods.

i'll see if i need to mark compatibility with the latest update when i can

Works for me i assume

I can't start a new game with this mod enabled for some reason. The game doesn't label it as incompatible, but it probably needs an update.

I would expect so, but I'm not 100% sure

God bless you mighty hero

i did it
its updated
all for u blackjack95

plz update the mod

@Marsify
Mali already has tier 2 desert and desert hills according to this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/b8ikgu/start_biases_for_all_civilizations_gs_expansion/

But start biases seem inconsistent in general.

Sorry, I don't currently have any plans to update any of my mods in the foreseeable future, as I've taken an indefinite hiatus on anything that isn't final fantasy XIV. that doesn't mean my mods are guaranteed to not get an update, it's just that right now, I don't know if/when they will.

Any plans for an update? It's very frustrating playing as Mali and not seeing any desert.

Start Biases have always felt like an after thought of your start location though so it's not exactly this mods fault, hope they fix it with the expansion.

I've been restarting as norway for 20 mins so far yet to see tundra i have spawned on Desert Hills twice though..

do you have all the required DLC? even then, I can't believe that this mod would completely crash everything.

this mod crashed my game and restarted my computer. Unsubbed, and now everythingis fine

I'll be working on updating the mod so that you don't need the DLCs for it to function. If you subscribe to this thread I'll post a comment when that'd done, but I'll be busy for a few days.

is it possible to have this mod with out having the dlcs? cause this would be really great to use.

Finally!

Awesome mod. This + faster starting settler make the game feel much more natural locations for civs. thanks!

it really is something that I can't fully control. Even at a start bias of 1, civs will still sometimes spawn in completely different terrain from what they should, it's all up to chance, and it's a complete black box; we don't know what any of the tiers really do besides adding additional chance.

I wish I could make it so civs spawn where they should 100% of the time, but it's impossible, so sometimes germany may be known for those dunes :^(

"Germany is known for its great sand dunes and existing in the middle of nothing." ~ My game before this mod.

thanks