In Hamlet compatible save, Survival/Adventure mode terrain is no longer properly separated by "rivers"

Yep this applies to SW, islands frequently merge together and sometimes will even have coral reefs merged into the island itself similarly to a mangrove.

I had a particularly bad case of this in Adventure Mode the other day with The Game is Afoot. The center area merged with one of the side peninsulas and completely negated the need to pass through the dangerous bridges to reach the Things.

Archipelago was also a bit misshapen in another Hamlet-compatible game, especially where two of the islands merged.

And here's a Two Worlds that was really just one world with a hole in the middle, although it's a less comprehensive screenshot:

backup_log.txt log.txt

Edited February 1, 2023 by CameoAppearance

I actually managed to fix this, it's just a small change to forest_map.lua. I'll paste the changes when I get home. It causes issues for Hamlet worlds though, @DiogoW perhaps there's a way to use separate forest_map parameters for Hamlet worlds to avoid problems?

UPDATE: It's this line

--WorldSim:SeparateIslands()

Removing the two dashes at the beginning makes RoG worlds generate like normal. Here's a Hamlet compatible world I created after applying the change. You can see the "rivers" generated between near the rocky and savanna biomes (Sorry for the log, CTRL-L won't close it for some reason):

Thanks for finding the problem for me 

Changed Status to Fixed

11 minutes ago, DiogoW said:

Thanks for finding the problem for me 

Changed Status to Fixed

I'd probably look into it a little bit further, my method is more of a band-aid than a long-term solution. RoG worlds generate properly, but Hamlet worlds have issues when I use this. I'll upload a screenshot to show you what I mean.

I made sure that Hamlet's worlds weren't affected by the fix.

@DiogoW This is what happens to Hamlet worlds when I use the above method. RoG/vanilla worlds end up looking a lot better, but Hamlet worlds get split up into several tiny islands that are too small to be useful. Here's a screenshot:

 

1 minute ago, DiogoW said:

I made sure that Hamlet's worlds weren't affected by the fix.

Ahh, I see. Should be fine then!

On 2/7/2023 at 3:10 PM, SpoonyBardIV said:

@DiogoW This is what happens to Hamlet worlds when I use the above method. RoG/vanilla worlds end up looking a lot better, but Hamlet worlds get split up into several tiny islands that are too small to be useful. Here's a screenshot:

 

Ahh, I see. Should be fine then!

Dang, that's a lot of wormholes. It's like Archipelago 2 in here.