Just how big is a world in Solace Crafting?
I am happy to participate in Steam's first open-world sale! It's a bit of a loose term for some, and an incomplete story yet when it comes to Solace Crafting, but often new players will ask the question: "What's the furthest someone has gotten?"
Because of Solace Crafting's infinite procedural generation, the game world actually goes out beyond 1,000,000,000 meters. That's one billion meters, or one million kilometers! The Earth for comparison is roughly 40,000km around the equator. So they're definitely not planets we're playing on. In fact that adds up to be over one trillion square kilometers! So don't worry about running out of space to build on the public server I host.
The world actually goes even beyond that, there's no ice shelf at the million kilometer mark, the math just starts to get a little fuzzy, and well, we can tackle that beast some day if we really need to.
With the new map upgrades all of that entirety is previewable and with today's patch to beta, even faster than ever before.
Here we see a section of the map fully zoomed out, so an area of 20x20km. I've got a fully upgraded metal resource scanner placed here at my level 70 base in one of my single player worlds to show the new rare resource generation at work. It ramps up from levels 0 through 30, after which is uses the same math for the rest of the game. You can see there is an uncommon resource per terrain, a rare for roughly every 2x2, and elite for roughly ever 4x4, and a legendary node for every 8x8. Those numbers are generated using noise of course, so it's possible to find them quite near each other, or have a run of a bad luck.
I've also added a new stalk and timber node for underwater resource hunting as well as fixed a couple of bugs that cropped up with the last patch.
Happy gaming!
v 0.7.5.5 2021.05.28
- Rare resources are now spawned 1 per terrain on default settings, resulting in less uncommon resources
- Increased the default spawn rate of rare, elite, and legendary resources
- Added rare stalk and timber nodes to underwater areas
- Fixed resource scanner upgrades in multi-player
- Fixed a ProceduralArea spawning error from last patch
You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.
To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta.
Join us in Discord! Follow development live on Twitch!
Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!
Check out the bug / suggestion tracker
Because of Solace Crafting's infinite procedural generation, the game world actually goes out beyond 1,000,000,000 meters. That's one billion meters, or one million kilometers! The Earth for comparison is roughly 40,000km around the equator. So they're definitely not planets we're playing on. In fact that adds up to be over one trillion square kilometers! So don't worry about running out of space to build on the public server I host.
The world actually goes even beyond that, there's no ice shelf at the million kilometer mark, the math just starts to get a little fuzzy, and well, we can tackle that beast some day if we really need to.
With the new map upgrades all of that entirety is previewable and with today's patch to beta, even faster than ever before.
Here we see a section of the map fully zoomed out, so an area of 20x20km. I've got a fully upgraded metal resource scanner placed here at my level 70 base in one of my single player worlds to show the new rare resource generation at work. It ramps up from levels 0 through 30, after which is uses the same math for the rest of the game. You can see there is an uncommon resource per terrain, a rare for roughly every 2x2, and elite for roughly ever 4x4, and a legendary node for every 8x8. Those numbers are generated using noise of course, so it's possible to find them quite near each other, or have a run of a bad luck.
I've also added a new stalk and timber node for underwater resource hunting as well as fixed a couple of bugs that cropped up with the last patch.
Happy gaming!
v 0.7.5.5 2021.05.28
- Rare resources are now spawned 1 per terrain on default settings, resulting in less uncommon resources
- Increased the default spawn rate of rare, elite, and legendary resources
- Added rare stalk and timber nodes to underwater areas
- Fixed resource scanner upgrades in multi-player
- Fixed a ProceduralArea spawning error from last patch
You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.
To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta.
Join us in Discord! Follow development live on Twitch!
Interested in supporting development of Solace Crafting? Please consider becoming a patron via Patreon!
Check out the bug / suggestion tracker