World Customization needs an update

[0Navis0]

This article covers the world customisation. It is the first of a series of article I work on with the goal to cover different areas of the game. The world customization is one of the best and most powerful tool that Klei has done, although it still lacks lot of settings, it would need an update for adding all the missing settings. I tried to list every settings which are currently missing. Don't hesitate to share or react to it. I made a table for illustrating it that you can find here. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGguRseU0px6k09g4M_kkRHQSBRpSHiC/edit?rtpof=true#gid=1801175964

• Surface
  • World Settings
    • Resource Regrowth
      • Split basic ressources into grass, saplings, berry bushes, and flint.
      • Add mushrooms, and succulent.
    • Creatures
      • Add grass gators.
    • Hostile Creatures
      • Add sea striders.
  • World Generation
    • World
      • Add world seed, chess set pieces, and worm holes.
    • Resources
      • Add banana bushes, bell shells, driftwoods, fig vines, graves, knobbly trees, marbles sculptures and trees, monkeytails, moon rocks, rocks, salt formations, sea bones, spiky trees, succulent, tree trunks.
      • Separate the spiky trees from trees(all).
      • Rename lunar rocks into moon glass, for preventing the confusion with moon rocks.
    • Creatures and Spawners
      • Add fireflies, mandrakes, no-eyed dears, sea strider nests.
• Cave
  • World Settings
    • World
      • Add acid rain.
    • Resource Regrowth
      • Split basic ressources into grass, saplings, berry bushes, and flint.
      • Add mushrooms, and succulent.
    • Hostile Creatures
      • Add grass gators and sea striders.
  • World Generation
    • World
      • Add world seed, pillars, sinkholes, ancient beacons, ancient murals, ancient runes, archive chandeliers.
    • Resource Regrowth
      • Add berry bushes, evergreens, ferns, flint, glow berries, grass, lichen, mushrooms, reeds, saplings, twiggly trees.
      • Separate the spiky trees from trees(all).
      • Separate the stalagmites from boulders.
    • Creatures and Spawners
      • Add lightflier flowers, and tidy hidey-holes.
    • Hostile Creatures
      • Add ancient guard posts, ancient sentrypedes, big tentacles, dangling depth dwellers dens, nightmares lights and ancient obelisks, webbed blue mushtrees.

 

[Horsheen]

Good changes. Even though I don't tweak my worlds, I would appreciate the world generation settings be brought up to speed and kept that way with each new feature added

[slurper gaming]

Could be nice but idk how i fully feel about this idea

[JustAFlower]

It would be even nicer if sometimes they detailed what the option you enabled does, like when you say "more" or "very short" etc... you never know how much it is.

 

[xDarkSoul18x]

I just want an increase set piece option. Playing the original don't starve I was always running into SOMETHING yet still excited about it. DST I do get excited still but it seems like I run into way less of them to the point many biomes just don't be excited to explore.

[Mike23Ua]

This is barely.. and I mean BARELY scratching the surface of what world Gen settings should be able to do. 
if can make the map spawn in branches & loops, I can make the map spawn in a shipwrecked style Archipelago..

Which would actually give more use to boating content, AND since Klei added the Grass Raft (the one you can craft at anytime that doesn’t need prototyping.) you should be able to sail from land mass to land mass.

Theres also several of the games mobs that don’t have toggles for world settings yet, I expected them to come at a later time.. but I believe Klei just forgot about world settings  

[0Navis0]

14 hours ago, xDarkSoul18x said:

I just want an increase set piece option. Playing the original don't starve I was always running into SOMETHING yet still excited about it. DST I do get excited still but it seems like I run into way less of them to the point many biomes just don't be excited to explore.

I agree with you, the main continent is far too big and empty. It would need more plants, structures, and mobs. It would be great if Gorge lights, statues, and structures were brought back and randomly generated into set pieces like marble biomes. But it's another subject which is not covered there.

[cropo]

I always found it weird that they had a setting for player damage taken, but not for mob HP to be ''classic''. 

[slurper gaming]

6 hours ago, Hypsellis said:

I agree with you, the main continent is far too big and empty. It would need more plants, structures, and mobs. It would be great if Gorge lights, statues, and structures were brought back and randomly generated into set pieces like marble biomes. But it's another subject which is not covered there.

Like the idea but how would inf light be fair (then again inf light is too ez anyways) would have to make the gorge stuff not be overly broken

[chirsg]

7 hours ago, Hypsellis said:

I agree with you, the main continent is far too big and empty. It would need more plants, structures, and mobs. It would be great if Gorge lights, statues, and structures were brought back and randomly generated into set pieces like marble biomes. But it's another subject which is not covered there.

I think gorge stuff should be brought into the world on a different island. There's too much work that was done to not have it implemented in the base game. It's a crime. 

[lenship2]

22 hours ago, xDarkSoul18x said:

I just want an increase set piece option. Playing the original don't starve I was always running into SOMETHING yet still excited about it. DST I do get excited still but it seems like I run into way less of them to the point many biomes just don't be excited to explore.

failed survivors option actually does that, though it should be renamed to setpieces

[mima_]

i wish they they can randomize each biome generation .. kinda tired looking at oasis that stuck so far away cus its connected to spider quarry and killer bee biome . those tree if generated together always in same branch .
i kinda want to have biome in random order . maybe oasis stick to pig king ?  to starting biome ? (i found oasis near portal but it cus of looping , not because of connected to branch) 
or maybe portal and starting biome not in so "central of map"