Island World Generation?

[omegafatality]

Hello VS Friends! I was wondering if anyone has successfully generated a world that's more island hopping, with islands being smaller and able to hold 2 or some traders. I want to be able to set up ports at these islands and do a very sailing oriented playthrough. I use Terra Prety currently for world gen but am of course not opposed to vanilla world gen, whatever would work best! Thank everyone in advance for helping :)

[hstone32]

Well, I know the landcover scale world option basically just raises the sea level, so that only the highest elevation areas are above water. Don't know how modded genegation might coplicate that though. Try setting the scale to low, generating a world, and post a screenshot.

Edited November 4, 2025 by hstone32
said high instead of low

[Professor Dragon]

Check out the examples here, if  you haven't already done so:
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/World_Configuration#World_generation

[Galdor_Mithr]

2 hours ago, hstone32 said:

Well, I know the landcover scale world option basically just raises the sea level, so that only the highest elevation areas are above water. Don't know how modded genegation might coplicate that though. Try setting the scale to low, generating a world, and post a screenshot.

hi mate can you explain the setting i need to input for this as sailing vessels from island to island sounds really cool

[hstone32]

2 hours ago, Galdor_Mithr said:

hi mate can you explain the setting i need to input for this as sailing vessels from island to island sounds really cool

Well you know how to set world config options when creating a new world, yes?

[Galdor_Mithr]

24 minutes ago, hstone32 said:

Well you know how to set world config options when creating a new world, yes?

yes, what numbers do i need to set it too when i start a new world?

[hstone32]

10 minutes ago, Galdor_Mithr said:

yes, what numbers do i need to set it too when i start a new world?

Well the link that @Professor Dragon posted is probably your best reference. It gives a list of different configurations. It seems that setting...

landcover = 10

Landcover scale = 100

upheaval rate = 30

Landform scale = 100

... gives a world populated by sparce islands.

[Galdor_Mithr]

7 hours ago, hstone32 said:

Well the link that @Professor Dragon posted is probably your best reference

nice on iv not been messing with the setting long enough though i just had to put in new values in to land cover and land cover scale to get islands. i start looking at walls of info like that and get pretty confusing. 

Edited November 5, 2025 by Galdor_Mithr

[omegafatality]

Thanks everyone so much, I really appreciate the feedback, I'm gonna give these settings a try!