Map Question

[Melidebby]

Is the map like a entire planet?

 

Like when you think of RimWorld you can start in a Temperate area and slowly move North to the North Pole.

 

Is this game the same way now? If I travel North will I eventually reach a snow and ice biome? (North Pole)

[Digitalr]

Yes. Even multiple times.

[Melidebby]

I got a mod that lets me teleport and I've gotten all the way to 361, 153, 155498 i kept teleporting south and I found the hot springs and now I am in the arctic.

 

Because I am now in the arctic am i now close to the edge of the map?

[idiomcritter]

the wiki describes it as:

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Depending on the chosen world generation settings, the game creates different temperature regions in the world. Under "realistic" settings, the game creates a gradient of temperature stretching from a cold "north pole" to a warm "southern equator". These points loop - if a player goes further north than the north pole, the temperature will start increasing again until hitting another "equator", and moving north beyond that will lead to another "pole".

 

[Thorfinn]

A standard world would have "equators" every 200k. A standard world would thus have a pole at about -50k and +150k. I think you have two more poles to go before the end of the world.

If you are a coder, I think it probably has something to do with FFFFF hex being approximately 1 million decimal.

[EDIT]

To be clear, I think that's the case even if you are not a coder.  

Edited November 8 by Thorfinn

[Krougal]

I found the coords are also relative to where you start.

So generating worlds with the same seed but different starting temperatures, I noticed the terrain doesn't change but the climate does. So instead of the map coordinates being fixed and it moving you around, it moves the world around you.

I'm not sure if that makes sense. It's hard to explain.

[Melidebby]

ah i see neat and yea I continued south and i reached brown grass i guess i will keep teleporting until i reach the worlds end lol