Ok, since the upate i have generated well over 20 maps and walked 10+ minutes in each one just to find flat ground and rolling hills and maybe the occasional mountain. Before the update i used to generate amazing maps with cool arched mountains and other crazy things. I would even cartograph the map when i was done walking just to see if i missed something, but nope...just flatland and rolling hills. The generator has lost it's epicness.
It still generates epic stuff for me. One time I found these amazing overhangs with waterfalls and it was so dark under them that creepers started spawning.
I just genned a massive desert mountain range that has a sheer drop to an 'ocean' I can't see the other side of and on the other side of the desert mountains is a rain forest with two or three massive trees that have grown on top of each other next to two valley lakes.
Well after making this thread I took a deep breath and generated a new map. It started out flat and stayed that way for a while, but then i see something.... A really nice valley! took long enough. Seriously spent more time finding a good map than looking at the new updates.
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Orange is what i finally found. Far right is where i started. Look how flat that is :sleep.gif:
I just genned a massive desert mountain range that has a sheer drop to an 'ocean' I can't see the other side of and on the other side of the desert mountains is a rain forest with two or three massive trees that have grown on top of each other next to two valley lakes.
So yes, it is less epic.
You genned Israel??
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The first map I generated after the update is the single most epic map I've had to date. I spawned in the middle of a huge sprawling desert that's located in a kind of stone bowl that get's undercut on all sides. Beyond that it's surrounded by some really fantastical shaped mountain ranges with tons of overhangs, waterfalls and giant pillar-shaped landmasses.
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The first map I generated after the update is the single most epic map I've had to date. I spawned in the middle of a huge sprawling desert that's located in a kind of stone bowl that get's undercut on all sides. Beyond that it's surrounded by some really fantastical shaped mountain ranges with tons of overhangs, waterfalls and giant pillar-shaped landmasses.
Wish I could see this =/
Sounds sweet.
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To be honest I was kinda finding the same thing myself.
Every time I genned a world before the update I would find something cool within a minute or so of the spawn.
Now with the 20 or so maps I've been through i've found nothing but boring hills, maybe the occasional interesting formation but nothing really cool or worth building in.
Hm, perhaps this is nocebo? Either you're expecting something super amazing, and it didn't live up to your expectations, so, while still being more interesting than your previous maps, you interpreted it as bland/boring. Other possibility is adaptation level phenomenon. You've played the game so much that your standards for "place worth building in" have raised to be much higher than when you first started playing. I know I've had this occur. You then wander aimlessly thinking the map is boring, when it's just as interesting. You just don't see it as such.
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Mine are less epicer to D: he has to make them less epic for better transitions through biomes and for biomes not to look coo coo (a magical biome could fix this :biggrin.gif:)
The first map I generated after the update is the single most epic map I've had to date. I spawned in the middle of a huge sprawling desert that's located in a kind of stone bowl that get's undercut on all sides. Beyond that it's surrounded by some really fantastical shaped mountain ranges with tons of overhangs, waterfalls and giant pillar-shaped landmasses.
Do you still have the map? I'd like to see that. (Or at least the seed for the map)
The first map I generated after the update is the single most epic map I've had to date. I spawned in the middle of a huge sprawling desert that's located in a kind of stone bowl that get's undercut on all sides. Beyond that it's surrounded by some really fantastical shaped mountain ranges with tons of overhangs, waterfalls and giant pillar-shaped landmasses.
Do you still have the map? I'd like to see that. (Or at least the seed for the map)
I'm getting some screenshots now. How do you see the seed?
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Did it ever occur to any of you that this is a good thing? Not every chunk should be 'epic'. I think it's good that there is a great deal of 'mundane' terrain. Notch should obviously continue to tweak and improve the terrain generator, but having less epic is definitely a good thing. It means when you finally do come across an epic formation, it's even better.
I don't know about you guys but I got kind of tired of having these huge arching mountains and formations with every single map. Clean rolling hills are nice for a change.
I have been experiencing the exact opposite. My main map is a mostly flat map with a few hills and its about 32 mb. Once the update came out, I walked farther to have more map generated and I found some crazy mountains with overhanging stone. I think you got unlucky? :/
Some sand is spawned without gravity effecting it. If you destroy a block of the "floating" sand, it will fall. It has been known this can happen for a while.
Has anyone noticed this?
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I really want a cool map for the update.
So yes, it is less epic.
Then again, I made one SMP world and it was a quite awesome rain forest like biome.
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Orange is what i finally found. Far right is where i started. Look how flat that is :sleep.gif:
Oh, also ran into a magical floating tree.
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Wish I could see this =/
Sounds sweet.
Hm, perhaps this is nocebo? Either you're expecting something super amazing, and it didn't live up to your expectations, so, while still being more interesting than your previous maps, you interpreted it as bland/boring. Other possibility is adaptation level phenomenon. You've played the game so much that your standards for "place worth building in" have raised to be much higher than when you first started playing. I know I've had this occur. You then wander aimlessly thinking the map is boring, when it's just as interesting. You just don't see it as such.
Do you still have the map? I'd like to see that. (Or at least the seed for the map)
I'm getting some screenshots now. How do you see the seed?
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I don't know about you guys but I got kind of tired of having these huge arching mountains and formations with every single map. Clean rolling hills are nice for a change.
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I saved a copy of the map that granted this so if I can find a seed, I will happily evaluate it for whoever wants it.
The images in question are right by the starting point. There's also above ground lava, at least a little bit.
Edit: Sorry, huge images bad.
Is that......floating sand?
Some sand is spawned without gravity effecting it. If you destroy a block of the "floating" sand, it will fall. It has been known this can happen for a while.
Nice find, at least...