With a smirk, someone handed me a harmless looking "Glacier Seed". I shrugged dropped it into the ground and my mind was promptly blown. "Now that's a seed!", I exclaimed as I turned to punch the nearest tree. *Pop* a raw log dropped and an idea was born. "Seed Catalog, we must make". Little did I know, while a seed generates the world, it doesn't have a connection to Steve's birth place.
I'm trying to determine whether it makes sense to create a Seed Catalog section on Planet Minecraft. It would allow the community to share seeds, document the world by uploading photos w/ coordinates, vote, comment and even associate projects & servers to the seed. So for example, if you used the seed for your world or server, you could link your projects to that seed. Naturally, the seed doesn't hold our creations but I think it would be interesting to see how different people are inspired by the same natural formations. There's a bunch of other details to work out BUT I need to determine if this idea makes sense and that rests on how random our spawn point really is.
So, how random is our spawn point? Some predict it remains tied to the system clock, yet it seems we are still able to walk to coordinates of known landmarks. With the massive size of a Minecraft world, that should be an unlikely event. Yet, the 404 challenge exists...
TLDR; How random is our spawn point when using the same seed? What is your experience so far? Anyone doing actual studies on this?
I'm trying to determine whether it makes sense to create a Seed Catalog section on Planet Minecraft. It would allow the community to share seeds, document the world by uploading photos w/ coordinates, vote, comment and even associate projects & servers to the seed. So for example, if you used the seed for your world or server, you could link your projects to that seed. Naturally, the seed doesn't hold our creations but I think it would be interesting to see how different people are inspired by the same natural formations. There's a bunch of other details to work out BUT I need to determine if this idea makes sense and that rests on how random our spawn point really is.
So, how random is our spawn point? Some predict it remains tied to the system clock, yet it seems we are still able to walk to coordinates of known landmarks. With the massive size of a Minecraft world, that should be an unlikely event. Yet, the 404 challenge exists...
TLDR; How random is our spawn point when using the same seed? What is your experience so far? Anyone doing actual studies on this?