Save custom worldGen settings?

[SongOfRuth]

I've looked around and seen a couple of old-ish posts asking this. Is it possible to "save" a custom worldGen setup?
- by "custom worldGen", I mean the settings one sets when choosing "Customize" on the "Create New World" page/screen

I'm a programmer (that's what we called ourselves years ago, now known as "coder" or the hoy-paloy "software engineer") so I can "json" if someone points me in the right direction(-ish).

Or if there is a mod and I'm just not searching right for it.

I have limited play time available so it's entirely possible what I'm asking exists and I just haven't found it (recently searched for something, varying case and spacing, only to find I neglected to also search for dashes in the place of spaces, oy!)

In the other postings I saw, some wondered "why?".  Short answer is it's faster to serially create worlds looking for a good spawn instead of spawning and then spending time searching the world for a good place. And since I play for entertainment, relaxation, I tend to make the game as easy as possible while still retaining an illusion of challenge - think Exploration but easier and with longer time spans for almost everything (except trees, trees need to grow faster dang it, lol).

[dakko]

I would like that ability too. We do have the ability to copy and paste settings from a previously generated world:

Go to the "Your Worlds" screen as if you would like to select a saved game to play. Select the 'edit' icon for the save of your choice. Within that window is a line for "playstyle" - you want to select 'copy.' Then, within the customize window for creating a new world, simply 'paste' and the playstyle you copied will be applied to the entire window.

If any of the VS Team reads this: please make an easier way to save a custom world gen setup. Having a saved customized seraph would be much appreciated as well. Thanks!

Edited March 29, 2023 by dakko

[SongOfRuth]

Thanks! That's very helpful. Yes, it would be nice if one could save the settings as a custom world type and then select from the dropdown menu.

[Credinus]

10 hours ago, SongOfRuth said:

I've looked around and seen a couple of old-ish posts asking this. Is it possible to "save" a custom worldGen setup?
- by "custom worldGen", I mean the settings one sets when choosing "Customize" on the "Create New World" page/screen

I'm a programmer (that's what we called ourselves years ago, now known as "coder" or the hoy-paloy "software engineer") so I can "json" if someone points me in the right direction(-ish).

Or if there is a mod and I'm just not searching right for it.

I have limited play time available so it's entirely possible what I'm asking exists and I just haven't found it (recently searched for something, varying case and spacing, only to find I neglected to also search for dashes in the place of spaces, oy!)

In the other postings I saw, some wondered "why?".  Short answer is it's faster to serially create worlds looking for a good spawn instead of spawning and then spending time searching the world for a good place. And since I play for entertainment, relaxation, I tend to make the game as easy as possible while still retaining an illusion of challenge - think Exploration but easier and with longer time spans for almost everything (except trees, trees need to grow faster dang it, lol).

You can copy the settings to a clipboard and paste it to a document, and then just paste from clipboard in the settings when generating a new world. This button here will do it for an existing world, and a similar button exists when setting up a new world. To paste it in, just a Ctrl+V will do the trick, no button for that.

[Brady_The]

1 hour ago, eerino said:

isn't working for me

What'd be the Apple equivalent? ⌘-V?

By pressing that copy button, the world options are copied into the clipboard, which means that theoretically the settings can be pasted anywhere. Push the button, switch to a text editor and try to paste.

If that doesn't work, there might be something going wrong in the initial copying to clipboard.

[dakko]

3 hours ago, eerino said:

I copied the playstyle I want to use but I'm stuck on

I don't see an option or area to paste the text and

isn't working for me

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Also might be helpful to know I'm on Mac

Apple Support assures me that Command-C is the keyboard shortcut you would use for Copy, and Command-V is the shortcut for paste. The Command key apparently looks like a 4-leaf clover? You can see for yourself at this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650