Not sure if its just me or if this is a very minor bug, but in the game menus clicking on the up or down arrows does not seem to do anything, nor does clicking and dragging the slider. Only scrolling, or touching the up and down arrows on the keys worked for me.
PS. Love the new textures, thanks for overdelivering with the numbers of new textures on release.
yeah saw that. The bug fixing idea makes sense now that I think about it. Cant be easy to detect bugs in multiplayer from in house testing alone.
I kind of hope world generation is released with multiplayer, because I would assume most servers would need to be wiped for the new world generation anyway. Unless the earlier release is more for testing purposes.
Edit: from Reds previous posts I guess multiplayer is coming first. I guess we can make some early test servers to play with friends
Then you need to use the search function. Im reading most of the posts concerning the new version so i know for sure that the islands will have different sizes. Also different distances to each other.
Mate, I am asking red because he is the one who knows what is going on. I have used the search function, he has only mentioned the word Island one time in these forums, and it was the above comment last week (edit: turns out it was case sensitive, there are a couple other mentions of islands in english but it still doesn't answer my question). I don't speak german, but he appears to have discussed islands briefly in german 18 months ago in some comments. I am not sure if those comments are relevant or not still due to the time passed.
If you can point me to where Red has discussed these things that would be greatly appreciated, but otherwise, with all due respect, your unsubstantiated comments and suggestions to use the search function just aren't useful. I have used the search function, and I have also followed the official update posts, and I have not found the answer to my questions, which is why I am politely asking......
From this very thread here, posted by red51 on 31.03.
Sorry for my late response! I'm not sure what you expect from a "Water World"-like gameplay, but oceans and sailing will play a bigger role in the new version compared to the Java version
The world will consist of several big islands (actually huge islands), surrounded by ocean. If you want to explore various biomes, you will have to build a ship and sail to other islands.
Yes that's the post I am referring to, but it does not say anything about different sized islands..... It said big (actually huge). My question was whether it was a more realistic terrain mad up of a variety of island sizes, or if all islands are huge.
Anything that adds variety to the world terrain is a good thing for an immersive world. It quickly becomes apparent that the Java version is largely a small set of predictable reoccurring elements, with relatively few unique traits.
He already wrote that islands will have different sizes. Small to huge. Each island will have at least 1 biome, which can include several sub biomes
Rivers are planned too
Oh excellent, where would I find details on that? I don't see it in this thread.
Love your work red51, I have some questions about the terrain generation.
I love the large Island/continent kind of idea for worlds, it sounds like it will give much more realistic and unique terrain, and also remove those ugly instantaneous biome transitions. Will all islands be a similar size? Or will we get a more realistic world with some variation, some large continent like islands, with some smaller islands just off the coast?
Also have you ever thought about adding rivers to world generation? I feel rivers are a big missing component of our worlds, we have oceans, lakes, mountains, plains, forests etc, I think adding rivers would make a finishing touch to world generation. Rivers are one of the important terrain features for building, as evidenced by the fact pretty much every major city on earth was built on one.
