-10k z???

[loquid 0]

I recently found TFC and so far am loving the complexity of it all. but one thing that i hate is always spawning in at -10,000 z., and a few times at +/-10,000 x as well. in vanilla i have never spawned this far north or east and west. I understnad that TFC has an equator at 0z as well as poles at +/- 20,000 z, but why does it always spawn me in at -10k z?

also whenever i try to head south (with few exeptions) past -9500 z or so, i run into an ocean that seems to run on forever (i found land once at like -5k adn it was just a huge island with nothing but mountains that went up to like 200+ y) with nothing but small islands here and there. Is this intentional in the world gen or is this an issue that is known and or being worked on?

[Ulfengaard 44]

I imagine it spawns you there for maximum ability to reached the desired climate zone: equidistant from the frozen north or the tropical equatorial regions.

[renadi 258]

Because it's trying to set you in a decent chunk of the whole world, it's the most moderate location, personally I'd prefer completely random spawns, but once TFC's developed more I hope to be able to run a plugin(if I must) to do so.

[Chezzik 22]

In my opinion, the whole "20k from pole to equator" thing is just there to tempt us to add teleporting/fast-travel mods.

[renadi 258]

In my opinion, the whole "20k from pole to equator" thing is just there to tempt us to add teleporting/fast-travel mods.

Hah, I would hope it's there to get us to use more reliable forms of transportation than walking, Though it'd help to have these more reliable forms of transport first.

[Treyflix 277]

I don't know about everybody else, but to me it's really not that far... It takes me little time to get to the equator/pole from spawn..

[Chezzik 22]

By the way, if anyone wants to change the default spawn location on their server (to the equator or pole for example), you can do it pretty easily by loading the world up in mcEdit.

The 5th button from the left is for choosing a new spawn location, IIRC.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

In my opinion, the whole "20k from pole to equator" thing is just there to tempt us to add teleporting/fast-travel mods.

uh... not at all. Don't be lazy.

I don't know about everybody else, but to me it's really not that far... It takes me little time to get to the equator/pole from spawn..

^This guy knows what he's talking about.

[Chezzik 22]

uh... not at all. Don't be lazy.

Well, to be fair, fast travel is already in the game. Laying a rail from pole to pole takes 2500 wrought iron ingots, plus some amount of gold, which is frankly a bit ridiculous. After your build a rail line, the journey from pole to pole will only take 1.5 hours, instead of 4.5. I still can't see making that journey very frequently. There's just nothing of great value along the way.

Adding key objectives at different latitudes could fix the gameplay issues that we're complaining about, but I can't envision what those objectives would be. If the theme of the mod was Ernest Shackleton's Heroic Polar Expedition, then you could hide key items for the journey in caches along the way, but that strays quite far from the current direction of the mod.

I have wandered thousands of meters in version 49/50, and I do love seeing the terrain change, but not enough to focus on it. After playing the mod through several times, I feel comfortable cheating on transportation speed when playing single player.