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Kittychanley

Bad Spawn Points

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I'm currently trying out a few fixes for bad spawn points such as spawning inside of a tree, or at the bottom of the ocean.

 

Please post any and all seeds you have that spawn players in such situations. Note: This is not a topic for seeds considered "bad" because of a lack of materials. I'm just looking for seeds that essentially make it impossible for players to leave the spawn area without dying of fall damage or drowning.

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Would spawning underwater count even if you can surface? I have gotten a few where I was a long way from any land before and relatively near the ocean floor...

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If it's the latest version of TFC and you spawn underwater in a spot that has no land in sight, then yes that would count.

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When body temperature is added, spawning at the bottom of the sea could be a death trap

 

I'm not sure how spawning in a tree would count (except in hardcore), unless TFC removed the 20 block variance in respawning at the spawn point, in which case implementing a spawn radius could prevent that

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I'm guessing you've never spawned at the top of an acacia forest? Even with the 20 block variance you pretty much always spawn in the tree, and trying to get down you die of fall damage.

 

Unfortunately I no longer have the world seed that I experienced that in.

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Well kitty I will get to seed busting to see if I can get you a few then! I will disable all the other mods too just in case they are influencing anything. Who knows, maybe I will find a real gem of a seed!

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I have been seed busting all day and have only found these two seeds Kitty. One was not a bad spawn point but it actually crashed my game.

Bad Seeds

2411486809862782029

triggers game crash

6894595891353453974

treetop spawn (non fatal I lost about 1/4 health. I figured that spawning on a tree should be the same cause all the time)

-7584882269630403906

Top of a tree next to a ravine

-1255341030899943590

Top of a tree, fall damage 226

I have cycled through roughly 125 generated worlds thus far and still haven't found a seed that kills me yet. I am gathering a nice collection of seeds for the seed forum though, so that is nice :) I will be composing each seed as their own post as soon as I get bored with seed busting lol :)

Just thought I would add that the current terrain generation methods seem very rock solid minus the occasional floating islands which I'm sure are super hard to get rid of anyway.

Feel free to send me other debugging or generation type tasks if you want, I am happy to act as a live beta tester for you if you want testing or simulation done.

Edited by Balthizarlucien
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What I don't get is why the existance of bad seeds is a problem

 

What is so wrong about

 

1.) Seed generated

2.) Players see seed is a deathtrap

3.) Players exit game and try again

 

Using Balthizarlucien's data, 121/125 seeds are fine (96.8%)

 

This doesn't sound like a problem

Edited by Palisight
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Because those seeds are a sign of bad programming. It's a bug, and we want to fix it.

 

The situation you described is much more like

 

1.) Seed Generated

2.) Players see seed is a deathtrap

3.) Players blame developers and want us to fix our game

4.) Player exits game.

 

On the rare chance that said player in the above scenario managed to get a bad seed on their very first try of TFC, there's a good chance we just lost them as a player, and they won't try another world.

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Could you please post a pastebin of the crash report you got when generating 2411486809862782029 ? It doesn't crash for me.

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Could you please post a pastebin of the crash report you got when generating 2411486809862782029 ? It doesn't crash for me.

I was seed busting from a work computer running windows 7 I will see if I get the same crash here at home. If I do I will definitely give you the crash log. I will also send the crash log from my work machine when I get back there Friday just in case.
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