Large tracts of nothing...

[tyriael-soban 12]

As the title would state, im finding increasing amounts of just open ocean on a recently generated map, ive travelled due south with a little deviation along the way to explore for land masses - the only ones i have come across have been tiny sandbars with a little dirt topping them for over 5 kilometers now, ive found boulders, but no surface rocks. (ie the ones you break to get nuggets etc) if i travel in a northeasterly direction, the landmass has gone on for 2 km or more (i have not travelled out as far as id like in the week this world has existed, because of a bug in reis minimap causing it to fail to record waypoints they would vanish upon leaving the world.) - and has been littered with deposits of nothing more than saph and tetrahedrite, i have found 1 deposit of bismuth and 1 deposit of cassiterite, but since travelling in a southerly direction from that location i havnt actually got a hit on any underwater ores either.So anyway, my question is; does TFC generate landmasses as a ... continental mass? or am i simply getting really crappy worlds that are mostly ocean and sandbars?

[Kittychanley 1,002]

You're just getting really bad seeds. TFC does indeed generate continental masses, or at least extremely large islands. It is possible however, that you will need to cross oceans and find other large land masses in order to find every ore and mineral in the game.

[Terex 108]

Sounds like bad luck, mate. Generate a few worlds in creative mode and see what you get. If you like the look of one, use the seed for survival mode.

[subwayatrain 1]

In my single player game, I began on a good-sized island with a couple small ones around it. Like you did, I sailed on one direction (North in my case) and found nothing. Then I went south and found a rather large continent. However, I have been able to find a lot of good ore veins, plants, and animals just on the island, so I don't really need to explore the continent very much right now. I wouldn't stress too much, as long as you can find enough basic resources to get your homestead going and can start mining.

[transcengopher 349]

There's always 10-15 kiloblock-wide ocean in the world somewhere, no seed can change that. I remember perfectly clear all the times I went exploring those, semi-fruitlessly boating for in-game weeks.

What you can get - is a bit larger landmass from the start. This comes, from what I can tell, from the fact that default biome for generation is ocean, all the rest is a deviation from default

[EnTro 29]

As reference: a pregenerated map (approx 30000 x 44000) from the crococraft server (map will go live this weekend). You can easily see why the oceans feel so huge:

For an interactive google maps like experience: http://www.crococraft.com/index.php/server-map