DangWoodchuck Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Because of my impatience, I manually retro-fitted the Against the Grain update in one of my pre-existing worlds before update 205658.How, you ask? There was a console command before update 205658 called "c_retrofitagainstthegrain()" (no longer a command now) that I found within the console commands folder of DST. The command would spawn in the oasis lake, Antlion, and summer sandstorm in the location you input the command. For more backstory: Spoiler I had to do this multiple times in the one desert in my world (via rollbacking) because the oasis lake would keep spawning in undesirable locations, whether it be far too close to the ocean, or even on the ocean itself! Funny thing is, the said undesirable locations it chooses to spawn in are always specified with each time I rollback, depending on where I am standing in the desert. Why is that? When I finally got the oasis lake and the Antlion spawn point to be in the desert a good distance away and out of the ocean, I continue my server until Summer hits. The sandstorm within the desert only surrounds the large vicinity of the Antlion and the oasis lake, and even since update 205658, the sandstorm still doesn't cover the entire desert. I guess I'm lucky I don't have the sandstorm to interfere with my Summer Dragonfly battles? Weird question, but is there a way (via coding, I assume) that I can make the sandstorm reach all corners of the desert? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandvichSpy Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 In my experience i had a world where the Antlion's desert merged together with the Dragonfly desert and only the Antlion's part had the sandstorms. It appears that Dragonfly desert is sandstorm-free. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaotica Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Thank goodness. Would YOU want to suddenly be attacked on all sides from hound mounds you _couldn't even see_--AND be slowed down at the same time? Wow. Now, that's a recipe for insta-death if I've ever heard one. (I already ran into a regularly-scheduled hound attack in the sandstorm. At NIGHT. That was lotsa fun, lemma tell ya! It was pre-finding the oasis, so no goggles of any kind, and I was fighting them by only dimly-seen blue firelight. Would'a been atmospheric as hell if I'd been able to take a picture without dying. : P) So yeah...if your deserts are merged into one, that'd explain it. Apparently the Dragonfly got sole custody of her (half of the) desert (and the lavae) in the divorce, so the Antlion only has dominion over their own desert. ;) ...Notorious Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangWoodchuck Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 38 minutes ago, SandvichSpy said: In my experience i had a world where the Antlion's desert merged together with the Dragonfly desert and only the Antlion's part had the sandstorms. It appears that Dragonfly desert is sandstorm-free. 25 minutes ago, CaptainChaotica said: Thank goodness. Would YOU want to suddenly be attacked on all sides from hound mounds you _couldn't even see_--AND be slowed down at the same time? Wow. Now, that's a recipe for insta-death if I've ever heard one. (I already ran into a regularly-scheduled hound attack in the sandstorm. At NIGHT. That was lotsa fun, lemma tell ya! It was pre-finding the oasis, so no goggles of any kind, and I was fighting them by only dimly-seen blue firelight. Would'a been atmospheric as hell if I'd been able to take a picture without dying. : P) So yeah...if your deserts are merged into one, that'd explain it. Apparently the Dragonfly got sole custody of her (half of the) desert (and the lavae) in the divorce, so the Antlion only has dominion over their own desert. ...Notorious Well, problem is, the desert layout I have in my world is the desert with volt goats, buzzards, and hound mounds, and it does not have the small grassland area that the mini desert it might've merged with would have. It may be dumb reasons, but I like the atmosphere the sandstorm provides. Plus, I find it kinda unfair that I won't suffer as much as others... I guess when I manually added the sandstorm in, it decided to only occupy the area with the volt goats, Antlion, and oasis? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaotica Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Huh. Weird. All I can think of is it's something to do with manually adding it in, and it works somewhat different from normal world-gen? AlTHOUGH, that wouldn't explain why the Dragonfly's desert doesn't have the grassland attached to it...and the Antlion's desert isn't supposed to have volt goats! Even weirder. I'm assuming you're also not seeing the new cacti in the sandstormy area?--unless you spawned them in as well. As far as I can figure out, the game might be a bit confused, 'cos now the one desert has traits of BOTH. (Antlion and oasis...but also volt goats, old cacti and hound mounds). So... OR it could just partly be a fluke of world-generation. Have you _seen_ the "World Gen is Weird" topic? Yikes! ...Notorious Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangWoodchuck Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 20 minutes ago, CaptainChaotica said: Huh. Weird. All I can think of is it's something to do with manually adding it in, and it works somewhat different from normal world-gen? AlTHOUGH, that wouldn't explain why the Dragonfly's desert doesn't have the grassland attached to it...and the Antlion's desert isn't supposed to have volt goats! Even weirder. I'm assuming you're also not seeing the new cacti in the sandstormy area?--unless you spawned them in as well. As far as I can figure out, the game might be a bit confused, 'cos now the one desert has traits of BOTH. (Antlion and oasis...but also volt goats, old cacti and hound mounds). So... OR it could just partly be a fluke of world-generation. Have you _seen_ the "World Gen is Weird" topic? Yikes! ...Notorious Well, I think that when I added the Against the Grain content into the desert, the sandstorm was tricked by the mini savanna biome that main deserts have near volt goats, thinking that that was where the desert ends. Since that's near the end of the desert, two thirds of the desert is sandstorm-free. All the cacti in the whole desert are still barrel cacti, and I took the liberty of making the oasis look more like other oasis's in the game (since I have nothing better to do on a boring Autumn): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=860751097. Guess my one desert is now a hybrid, huh? This is what happens when you take matters into your own hands, folks... Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaotica Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Although, that IS kinda cool in its own way. You have your own entirely unique area, now! (and also, I know I'm not at all an expert in world-gen, commands, how the new content works, etc--I just enjoy trying to figure out the new desert stuff, and weird puzzles. Hee. I DO like to mess around with worldgen myself sometimes...but mainly to randomise the season lengths. Which is _exactly_ the thing that bit me in the butt with the Antlion update*...but I still wouldn't have it any other way. :)) ...Notorious *Summer came WAY too soon, is basically the gist of it. Eek. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer ScottHansen Posted February 11, 2017 Developer Share Posted February 11, 2017 @DangWoodchuck Having the antlion spawner in your world due to you running c_retrofitagainstthegrain() would have caused the automatic retrofitting to fail. The command also only flagged a small area to have the sandstorm, which is why your entire desert is not having the sandstorm. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangWoodchuck Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 59 minutes ago, ScottHansen said: @DangWoodchuck Having the antlion spawner in your world due to you running c_retrofitagainstthegrain() would have caused the automatic retrofitting to fail. The command also only flagged a small area to have the sandstorm, which is why your entire desert is not having the sandstorm. Automatic retrofitting? As in, the update that adds this content to old worlds? My world is still fine, but is there a way I can get the sandstorm to impact the entire desert? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/73956-the-sandstorm-fails-to-cover-all-of-my-only-desert/#findComment-865598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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