Pretty disappointing world generations

[vasouv]

I don't know man, I keep spawning in crappy worlds in Magic World v6...

I have way too many islands (even if they're quite big, they're still islands) that consist of a handful of biomes only with EBXL enabled...

Just 20mins ago, I generated 50MB of terrain alone, flying around to check the terrain, only to find a couple of usable locations. So many islands - big and small - and only 4-5 biomes in variation.

Either I'm having extremely TERRIBLE luck or the v5 pack had an older EBXL version that made better terrain. Because I vividly remember some awesome maps I generated there.

I don't know, even in my current map I'm located on a huge island. Don't get me wrong, I like exploring, I don't demand awesome locations right from the start but something seems fishy here...

 

[xSINZx]

My server world Gen also was island based. No land for like 1500m in all directions (REI's minimap) Does Magic World have MystCraft in the Pack? I am using it to expand My Base. Slow going to start with but when you start creating MystCraft Worlds that little Island Gets a whole lot bigger.

 

[Rakankrad]

Here's my current MW v6 world:

I spawned in a fairly small area (big island, but small compared to spawning on a continent. I still made the best of it tho. I had trees and plant life. I made a pick, went down to diamond level asap. As soon as I got a diamond, off I went to twilight forest. Got books from a lich tower and mystcrafted some worlds so that I could have some supplies in an easier fashion (hollow hills are dangerous without armor). Then, since I have a small area to work with, decided to just make myself an underwater bio-dome. Working on it atm but I don't have nearly enough sand to make glass with and not enough energy generation to really run a pulvy full speed.

 

[xSINZx]

A few Tree Farms are a good supply of sand without having to spade it.

Need to go Under water myself at some point. Am thinking a few other Tree farms on the surface of the sea.

 

[Saice]

Before my current world I went through a dozen world gens and kept ending up in the middle of the ocean.

In my current world.... well I'm in the middle of the ocean but I got a volcano. I did spawn in land but once I got mats I moved out and well yeah oceans soooo many oceans.

 

[vasouv]

Yeeeeaaah, Mystcraft is one way of getting new maps, I don't want to rely on it too much though, you never know when other bugs might deem it non-stable, if I move there I might get screwed big time...

I need to get one of those map thingies, that render the generated terrain, to actually see what I'm explored. Or even disable a bunch of snow biomes (not too fond of snow) and the zebra-tree forests to see if that changes anything.

It's not that I'm in a bad shape right now, but once Ars Magica gets included with its world gen stuff, I won't have any of it in my island, I'll either have to resort to Mystcraft or create a new world. Or worst case scenario, sail for god knows how long to find new (is)lands...

Hmmm, tricky situation.

 

[BanzaiBlitz]

Considering the extreme volume of possible seeds you can generate a world with, you appear to simply have unnatural luck involved.

Keep going with either new worlds or out into the distance of a present one. I've also found some stellar locations after starting in the middle of oceans (of which I had a chain of SEVERAL! ). Then a random drop with large biomes netted a village about 100m away from spawn and a lovely vista. Remember how big the world actually is in MC. You might have a sucky spawn but you CAN find a great location in ANY world!

 

[Bluehorazon]

Well even in Vanilla MC oceans are the most common biome.

I normally need to start some world before I find something nice. But I do not think that EXBL changed that much lately, but I'm hoping for the rework and possibly some more config-options. As scott said we might be able to adjust a lot of details in minecraft during world-generation and that might include the amount of ocean generated.

 

[Dackstrus]

I seem to get quite a few waterworlds myself.

I was wondering if EBXL was generating oceans in place of the biomes i had removed.
Can't stand those super tall tree biomes, make me so laggy. So i've modded it down to just the fall time forest.

 

[Lambert2191]

Or even disable a bunch of snow biomes (not too fond of snow).

or disable them all as I did

 

[Saice]

Yeah I disabled all the extra snow and the mega tree Biomes myself.

 

[Golrith]

You are having bad luck. Only once have I had a spawn that started me on an island in the middle of an ocean (said island had no useful resources, not even a blade of long grass).

I would actually love to have a start location which was a series of islands. Dedicate each island to one type of thing, building bridges between them - lovely and a greatly reduced chance of annoying mobs visiting you. hsssst-BOOM

 

[DanteGalileo]

I had a similarly bad world and so what I did was dig straight down to bedrock, mine a few diamonds, harvest enough obsidian for two nether portals, go to the nether and find a fortress, seal off a little area of the fortress and build a new obsidian portal, go through that portal which took me to a very nice area in a forest with desert and snowy biomes within 125m, and built my base there. So now the obsidian portal from my base toes right to my nether fortress base.

 

[Saice]

If I ever do an LP I think I would just take a random seed an go. No mater how bad because in the end a bad spawn would actually be more interesting. Provided you can at lest get some food before you die that is.