- Improved random seed generator to select worlds with a better spread of biomes.
- Fix for worlds generating slightly differently every time even with the same seed.
Maybe the variances currently being experienced will taper off?
And now with these world generation tweaks from the change log you've posted Gonzo, I dont know if I should love this news (as it means my "perfect" seed might be attainable with the improved biome spread) or hate it (because looking for it'll mean another months long seed search) 8) Either wat though, Thank You so much for the change log link becase my PC died many moons ago & my only current way to acceess the web is the amazing power of the 360's internet explorer ..app?! And using it is ....awesome? errrrr....not. no definatly a resounding not
Yeah UpUp_Away I spent 10 months (and looked thru over 350 seeds) after the last big features TU before I had found the closest thing to a perfect seed. It had every single main biome,TWO mooshroom biomes,3 villages,1 jungle & 1 desert temple,massive & barely broken up nether fortress,& I was finding resources in ammounts that were staggering. On one mining trip I found such a profusion of diamonds/redstone/gold etc that after hours of digging out I was honestly losing all enthusiasm so I gave up, hollowed out all the space around the remaing nodes nicknamed it "The Vault" and got the heck out of there. The only thing the seed didnt have was a Witchs Hut. I was planning on it being my survival only/completely legit massive build project for probably the next cpl years,then (even though I left huge sections of unloaded chunks in anticipation of the newest biomes we just got) TU31 dropped and when I checked the "unexplored" areas I got...nothing.Not a single new biome or their added resources. And the hunt began again. lol
I think a lot of people have been looking for an "all encompassing" seed... I'm on the other side of that flip, but it's equally unlikley... still looking for a true "one-tree" survival island seed. This seed is as close as I've seen to having everything in one world. From Fluffy's pictures, the mountain disappearing is a change from Savannah M to just straight Savannah and the other shows an Ice Spike biome to an regular Ice Plains one (with a few spikes)... so, I'm really confident in saying the terrain changes are restricted to the technical biomes swapping out with regular biomes of the same type... as opposed to biomes themselves changing. This may mean that it's not a bug at all. I don't know whether the technical biomes can swap out the same way on the PC, but I think it's likely to be less noticed there since most people just "added on" to their existing world when 1.8 came out rather than regenerating the same seed more than one time.
If the "intended" pattern includes a spawn point shift and a bonus chest contents change at the same time, then those things may not be a bug either. We'll just have to wait to see how 4J responds. For now, on this seed, I would say that if you want the larger Ice spikes and the Savannah M "mountain", don't proceed unless you spawn in the Mega Taiga biome.
@Fluffy - Is it a "good" bug?... depends on one's point of view. If it is a bug and not a stable one, it could ultimately be a "file save" corrupter... and that's never good.
No problem.UpUp_Away 8) I just didnt want the same thing to happen to somebody else. I had already spent quite a few hours getting the large village set up to be mob proofed & ready so i could learn how the new village breeding works before planning the start for my build when it hit me " Okay whered the mountain go? i know there was amountain there!" heh. Then spent an hour looking for the lava stream. heh heh. i think your onto something about the size of the seed string. before settling on this seed I had tried out 54 differnt seeds using ....welll...all sorts of stuff. gibberish, old seeds etc & 71 random seeds and the random seeds with long string always seemed to be the ones that were glitchless. I thought i'd be looking forever (Thisll be my only build for a long time, hence the reason for the "perfect" seed search thru so many seeds etc)
Doing multiple generations of this one to test out bonus chest and technical biome issues I've seen on other seeds. So far, this one is generating a consistent bonus chest for me and consistent technical biomes. The contents are: 1 Stone Pickaxe, 2 Wooden Pickaxes, 2 Pumpkin Seeds, 2 Melon Seeds, 2 Apples, 4 Spruce Saplings, 8 Dark Oak Saplings, 4 Oak Saplings, 3 Oak Planks, a 2 Oak Wood. If any gets anything different in a bonus chest, please let me know.
I already have a mesa seed I'm pretty happy with... but may change over to this one after my experimenting with this seed generation issue is done. Again, nice find!
ETA: Have now done a few generations of this seed (all in survival)... every once in awhile my initial spawn point shifts from the Mega Taiga biome to the Savannah biome (near the one village). This has happened twice now. When this happens, the bonus chest contents also changes. The two bonus chests at this spawn also differed in contents from each other; the bonus chest contents at the Mega Taiga spawn point seem to be always the same (as listed). Otherwise, terrain looks pretty consistent.
Hey 8) Thought i'd give you a heads up about this seed. There are other oddities when it generates beside just the differing spawn point. I had been using it for 4 or 5 days when i noticed them. i set up a creative world to plan/ tinker etc before stating my survival build & when I switched to the planning seed I noticed that an entire mountain,a large chunk of the ice spike field & the sunflowers near the larger of the 2 villages were totally missing from the survival version of the seed. So I kept restarting the world & after about 3 tries it generated with all the missing parts. The glitches happened only when the starting spawn wasnt in the mega taiga. When I got the taiga spawn it matched & was glitch free. I wouldnt even have noticed about the ice spikes/suflowers If the small mountain between the large village& ice spikes hadnt been missing. look for a second slightly smaller mountain/ ex hill inbetween the large villiage & the ice spikes with lava flowing out of the side. that was when the seed formed glitch free for me. Hope this helps if anyone has the generation weirdness i ran into. It s a really nice seed. 8)
Gamertag: Despyre Age: Too Old lol 43 MIC: Yep and it even works about 75% of the time 8) Useful talent: Is having too much time on my hands a talent? Oh wait! I Know! apparently my talent is asking stupid questions. Time Zone: EST
Seriously though. It sounds like your doing something interesting and I really do have alot of time so ,if you need people still, then Id be happy to contribute something and then maybe hang out & check out what you folks are up to. Ive dabbled a little bit in most MC stuff. i.e. Redstone,Minecart Tracks,Farms etc. Not nearly as good as some stuff ive seen ppl do, but i dont build little square shacks either though heh heh
One question though..that bit up there that says "do not build anything NON-obscene or offensive unless approved etc etc" Thats just a typo right? LOL
Hows it going Redstone. I was just taking my first real look around at the forums here when your topic caught my eye. A cpl months ago on youtube I found a lets play series from a guy playing Skyblock on the PC version and I really liked the concept, but I didnt know anyone had a way to do a Skyblock server on the 360. How did you make it work on Xbox? Is it really just like the PC Version because I would definatly be Interested in checking it out. I only caught maybe 6-7 episodes of that Lets play series so I guess I probably didnt see everything Skyblock is about, but what I did see looked like it could be alot of fun. Anyway...send me a msg here if you still want people for it. Or you can find me on XBL too, My Gamertag is the same = Despyre. I do have a mic but it can get a little wonky sometimes. Oh and I dont get bent about dying. Besides....from what I saw of Skyblock it seems like dying might be a wee bit more likely than in regular Survival mode LOL the threat of falling to your doom has to be where the fun comes from in Skyblock Ill bet right? I didnt understand what you said about there being no sand island though?? Is that somethin thats different from PC minecraft or something? Anyway , thats enough babbling from me. heh heh. Just look me up here or on Live if you still need someone. Because Im definatly Interested. 8) TTYL.
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And now with these world generation tweaks from the change log you've posted Gonzo, I dont know if I should love this news (as it means my "perfect" seed might be attainable with the improved biome spread) or hate it (because looking for it'll mean another months long seed search) 8) Either wat though, Thank You so much for the change log link becase my PC died many moons ago & my only current way to acceess the web is the amazing power of the 360's internet explorer ..app?! And using it is ....awesome? errrrr....not. no definatly a resounding not
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Yeah UpUp_Away I spent 10 months (and looked thru over 350 seeds) after the last big features TU before I had found the closest thing to a perfect seed. It had every single main biome,TWO mooshroom biomes,3 villages,1 jungle & 1 desert temple,massive & barely broken up nether fortress,& I was finding resources in ammounts that were staggering. On one mining trip I found such a profusion of diamonds/redstone/gold etc that after hours of digging out I was honestly losing all enthusiasm so I gave up, hollowed out all the space around the remaing nodes nicknamed it "The Vault" and got the heck out of there. The only thing the seed didnt have was a Witchs Hut. I was planning on it being my survival only/completely legit massive build project for probably the next cpl years,then (even though I left huge sections of unloaded chunks in anticipation of the newest biomes we just got) TU31 dropped and when I checked the "unexplored" areas I got...nothing.Not a single new biome or their added resources. And the hunt began again. lol
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Yep. Thats the place mine was glitched as well. Sry about your xbox fluffy. I had one pull the RR of death on me when it was only 2 weeks old 8(.
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No problem.UpUp_Away 8) I just didnt want the same thing to happen to somebody else. I had already spent quite a few hours getting the large village set up to be mob proofed & ready so i could learn how the new village breeding works before planning the start for my build when it hit me " Okay whered the mountain go? i know there was amountain there!" heh. Then spent an hour looking for the lava stream. heh heh. i think your onto something about the size of the seed string. before settling on this seed I had tried out 54 differnt seeds using ....welll...all sorts of stuff. gibberish, old seeds etc & 71 random seeds and the random seeds with long string always seemed to be the ones that were glitchless. I thought i'd be looking forever (Thisll be my only build for a long time, hence the reason for the "perfect" seed search thru so many seeds etc)
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Hey 8) Thought i'd give you a heads up about this seed. There are other oddities when it generates beside just the differing spawn point. I had been using it for 4 or 5 days when i noticed them. i set up a creative world to plan/ tinker etc before stating my survival build & when I switched to the planning seed I noticed that an entire mountain,a large chunk of the ice spike field & the sunflowers near the larger of the 2 villages were totally missing from the survival version of the seed. So I kept restarting the world & after about 3 tries it generated with all the missing parts. The glitches happened only when the starting spawn wasnt in the mega taiga. When I got the taiga spawn it matched & was glitch free. I wouldnt even have noticed about the ice spikes/suflowers If the small mountain between the large village& ice spikes hadnt been missing. look for a second slightly smaller mountain/ ex hill inbetween the large villiage & the ice spikes with lava flowing out of the side. that was when the seed formed glitch free for me. Hope this helps if anyone has the generation weirdness i ran into. It s a really nice seed. 8)
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Age: Too Old lol 43
MIC: Yep and it even works about 75% of the time 8)
Useful talent: Is having too much time on my hands a talent? Oh wait! I Know! apparently my talent is asking stupid questions.
Time Zone: EST
Seriously though. It sounds like your doing something interesting and I really do have alot of time so ,if you need people still, then Id be happy to contribute something and then maybe hang out & check out what you folks are up to. Ive dabbled a little bit in most MC stuff. i.e. Redstone,Minecart Tracks,Farms etc. Not nearly as good as some stuff ive seen ppl do, but i dont build little square shacks either though heh heh
One question though..that bit up there that says "do not build anything NON-obscene or offensive unless approved etc etc" Thats just a typo right? LOL
TTYL 8)
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