The Settlers II.net Map Generator

A seed will determine the general shape of the land created. Everything else that will be done after seed will be based on what the seed tells. Only a few things will not depend on it (such as random noise or player placement).

Unlike other map generators the seed in this generator is the size of the map. This gives you a lot of potential for creating a great variety of different kinds of maps with the same tool and same generic rules that are applied based on the seed.

• Width: 64 80 96 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240 256 320 (RttR only!) 384 (RttR only!) 448 (RttR only!) 512 (RttR only!) 640 (RttR only!) 768 (RttR only!) 1024 (You're insane!) Height: 64 80 96 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240 256 320 (RttR only!) 384 (RttR only!) 448 (RttR only!) 512 (RttR only!) 640 (RttR only!) 768 (RttR only!) 1024 (You really are!)
• Border Protection: 1/3 1/4 1/5 1/6 1/7 1/8 1/9 1/10 Who needs protection? Determines where starting points are randomized at.
• Starting Points: Smaller amount generates less, but bigger land masses. Less points also give less roughness.
• Minimum landmass ratio%: Cover atleast this much area.

• Fill rates (1 - 999)

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  These control the land expansion when it is randomly expanding. #1 and #2 often control roughness, #3 and #4 can guarantee flat level areas to exist at some parts of the map.

  Tips:
  Super flat: 1, 1, 999, 999, 999, 999 (1 - 30 starting points)
  Mars: 1, 999, 500, 500, 500, 500 (1 - 30 starting points)
  

Height map determines the flatness or roughness of the map. Water is placed on the Base Level, while mountains are determined with their own logic. In the next step you can choose what will actually represent "water" and what will be "land". Mountains are such a hard requirement in the game that you can't directly replace them with another texture.

• Base Level: 0 (generate mountains rather than canyons) 30 (generate mountains and canyons equally) 60 (generate canyons rather than mountains)
• Ground Level: No change 1 2 3 4 5 Extra difference in height to areas dedicated for water, resulting in higher coasts when value is bigger.
• Flatten: No flattening A bit Some Half the height One third of the height One fourth of the height One fifth of the height There will hardly be any height left I like my maps flat Who needs height differences? Unplayable map due to too big height differences? This post-processing will solve that for you.
• Noise: No random noise Very gentle Gentle Weak Noticeable Medium Strong Powerful I dislike flat Make it almost unplayable Use this to get rid of uninteresting totally flat terrain.
• Apply Noise to Water Texture When applying noise, also use it on texture that is set as the "water" texture?

Here you can control the general appearance, feel and playability of the map via textures. You can choose between three different terrains and control representation of general "land" and "water" areas. For instance, you can replace water with lava or prefer savannah over meadows.

• Terrain: Greenland Wasteland Winter World

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• Base Texture: Savannah / Dark Steppe / Taiga Meadow #1 / Pasture #1 / Taiga Tundra Meadow #2 / Pasture #2 / Tundra #1 Meadow #3 / Pasture #3 / Tundra #2 Steppe / Light Steppe / Tundra #3 Flower Meadow / Flower Pasture / Tundra #4 The default habitable and arable texture to use in the ground.
• Water Texture: Water / Moor Snow / Lava + few stones / Few ice floes Swamp / Lava + many stones / Many ice floes Desert #1 / Wasteland #1 / Ice #1 Lava Desert #2 / Wasteland #2 / Ice #2 (ice has buggy edge) Magenta / Dark Red / Black Water / Moor (like lava/swamp/snow, no ships) Lava #2 (Magenta / Dark Red / Black) Lava #3 (Magenta / Dark Red / Black) Lava #4 (Magenta / Dark Red / Black) Mountain Meadow Water (habitable), no RttR support Mountain (habitable), no RttR support Texture that works as flat surface. Some of these textures become more interesting in The Settlers II when using Merri's New Greenland.
• Mountain Generation: Any node surrounded by 6 flag poles Any node with flag pole, surrounded by 6 flag poles Any node with flag pole, surrounded by 5 flag poles or more Any node with flag pole, surrounded by 4 flag poles or more Any node with flag pole, surrounded by 3 flag poles or more This is a simple rule for generating mountains. Desert tiles are preserved.
• Seamless Mode: Off - Support The Settlers II On - Not supported by The Settlers II (crashes game) If not enabled textures are painted around map edges so that making roads around the edges is not possible.

Nothing special here: just set the number of players and the engine attempts to generate as many players as you want.

• Max number of players: No players 1 player 2 players 3 players 4 players 5 players 6 players 7 players 8 players (RttR only!) 9 players (RttR only!) 10 players (RttR only!)
• Player safe zone: Non-existant (15 nodes) Weak (25 nodes) Moderate (35 nodes) Good (50 nodes) Strong (75 nodes) Peaceful (100 nodes) Have you seen the Enemy? (150 nodes) Meeting anyone will take a while… (200 nodes) How close should it be possible for another player to be randomized?

Sorry, no customization options available at this time.

TODO: shortest route to happy jh

1. Generate WLD/SWD file
2. Add support for downloading the file

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TODO: shortest route to playable maps

1. Ability to set textures
2. Set initial base textures (water and mixed meadow)
3. Calculate building sites
4. Determine mountain areas and set mountain textures
5. Add players to random positions
6. Add random forests and granite
7. Add mountain resources and water and fish
8. Calculate other information required by The Settlers II

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TODO: Go open source: GitHub!

Once the TODO list above is complete... we are out of alpha and then good enough for GitHub.

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TODO: Other features

• Add animals
• Add decorative objects
• Support for Wasteland and Winter World textures
• Adjustable texture selection and rules for texture usage
• Harbors
• Know if every player can encounter every other player
• Further texture support: deserts, snow, swamps...
• Intelligent texture, tree and granite placement
• Intelligent resource placement
• Virtual playing: see how easily a player can expand and how easily will get in touch with other players
• Challenge indicator for a player
• Adjustable challenge per player

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