BigBadBeef Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 Hey all! I've been off since version 1.17. I see there we two major patches, one of which has terrain overhaul and new/replaced animals. I have a lot of time invested on my old world (100+ hours as a matter of fact) and I don't want to just leave it. And while I am confident that the new terrain features will apply to any undiscovered terrain when I go exploring, What I am curious about is - What does it default to? Checking out the official 2 patch videos that the developer released, I can see that new terrain features oceans, mountains and more expressive northern terrain. But how is this generation set when loading an old map? Are those additional features turned off? Are they default? are they reduced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted September 24 Report Share Posted September 24 (edited) Oceans do not appear by default, you need to manually configure the world for them. Ergo, if you load an old world, it won't have those settings, and therefore it won't produce oceans. The terrain features themselves will apply to your world. Think of them as the building blocks the game jumbles together to make a landscape. Some building blocks were removed, some were added, some were changed - the world looks different now. You will notice these changes in new areas you generate. (This also includes the artic glacier features.) As an unsolicited bonus tip: do not update old worlds across multiple major versions in one go. I would recommend for you to, first, make a backup. Then go to 1.18.0, load your world and let it update. Then go to the highest 1.18.x minor version, load the world again. Then go to 1.19.0, load the world again. Then finally to the highest 1.19.x minor version. You don't have to do this, it might work if you skip steps. But this order is the least likely to cause something to break. And since you seem fond of your old world... Edited September 24 by Streetwind 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstrom Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 The terrain generation between old and new chunks can be quite... jarring. incredibly so. Updating from 1.18 to 1.19 can also produce some very impressive terrain borders. Sheer cliff faces of 150+ blocks for instance. For an example here's a screenshot from a youtuber (Rakoona) who only updated from 1.18 to 1.19, let alone 1.17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorfinn Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 On 9/24/2024 at 7:25 PM, Maelstrom said: The terrain generation between old and new chunks can be quite... jarring. incredibly so. You get the same kind of thing if you try to spawn the RA into an old world. Or respawn it, to see what changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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