World Generation

Check out the Farthest Frontier Official World Generation Guide for basics on world generation.

"Before your people can venture forth into the untamed frontier, you must first generate a world for them to inhabit! When starting a new settlement, you are faced with several options to cater to your desired experience." - Crate Official Game Guide

One of the critical game design elements of Farthest Frontier is not all maps are created equal for resource availability and diversity. Each map generated will change how the player begins and progresses their Settlement. Resources of a particular type are not always guaranteed, and it's encouraged to explore and exploit the land for healthy coffers and villagers.

Basic Settings

Before the player generates a new world, a name, difficulty, and biome need to be selected.

Each respective difficulty setting sets it globally for each of the Advanced Settings below. These are the specific details players begin with in their Storage Cart.

Pioneer	Trailblazer	Vanquisher
12 Villagers Supplies 30 Tools 5 Weapons 4 Bows 150 Arrows 16 months of food 240 Smoked Meat 180 Root Vegetables	12 Villagers Supplies 20 Tools 5 Weapons 3 Bows 100 Arrows 9 months of food 150 Smoked Meat 100 Root Vegetables	10 Villagers Supplies 15 Tools 4 Weapons 3 Bows 80 Arrows 4 months of food 40 Smoked Meat 60 Root Vegetables

Pacifist Mode

This is an optional setting which gives the player the option of a peaceful playstyle by disabling raiders, armies, and aggressive animals.

Advanced Settings

Advanced settings for new world generation

Advanced settings gives the player more granular controls of the difficulty of their world for Resources, Maladies, wildlife, and Raiders.

Map Seed and Size

A map seed is an 11-character hexadecimal hash unique to a world's generation. Clicking the dice randomizes a new map seed based on the current Biome selection.

Seed values shared with other players allows them to generate an identical map with largely identical resource placement, contingent on the map size being the same as the original inputs.

Note: Some map features are not contained in the hash, such as wildlife spawn. Don't expect abundant deer spawns, boars and predator wildlife to remain in the same location when another player imports the hash.

Seed Functions

• Manually entering a seed ignores initial biome selection by the player, defaulting to the seed's biome instead
  • Changing the biome or map size re-rolls the assigned map Seed, any changes should be done before entering a seed value.
• Seeds initially produced from Random biomes retain the same biome combination + terrain configuration at each map size
• Seeds do NOT override map size selection but will produce a consistent biome, terrain and resource output unique to each map size.

Best practice when sharing seed information is to provide the 11-character value, the biome used to generate it, and the map size you generated.

Seed Special Rules

All rules contained below are from wiki-team testing and have not received developer input. Use at your own minor peril.

• The first 6 characters of a seed must contain at least one non-zero value. If all six are Zero, then the seed will be replaced with a randomly rolled seed on map load.
• The first six characters seem to be variables that derive terrain shape but not elevation/water
• The seventh character in a seed controls the biome of the map in question. List of biome types:
  • 0 - "lush" (not yet properly implemented, currently unused as of 0.7.5)
  • 1 - Plains
  • 2 - Lowland Lakes
  • 3 - Alpine Valleys
  • 4 - Arid Highlands
  • 5 - Wasteland (not yet properly implemented, currently unused as of 0.7.5)
  • 6 - Idyllic Valley
  • 7-F - Not valid, redirected to 6
• Characters 8 and 9 appear to drive terrain height - inconsistent results
• Characters 10 and 11 appear to drive terrain depth - inconsistent results

Map Size

The precise size of world maps isn't known, but it is estimated by the developers that large maps are approximately 6,553,600m² (~6.5km² or 2.5mi²).

The wiki team has done additional testing to attempt to quantify map size in-game, numbers provided below are guidance only.

Estimated Map Size (1 square = 5 m²):

• Small: 200x200 squares (1 km² or 0.62mi²)
• Medium: 333x333 squares (2.77 km² or 1.72mi²)
• Large: 460x460 squares (5.34 km² or 3.32mi²)

Extra Resources

The details are explained in the Basic Settings table above and when hovering the mouse pointer over each.

Maladies

• Pioneer: Lowers the chance of disease to spread to other villagers by 60%
• Trailblazer: Lowers the chance of disease to spread to other villagers by 60%
• Vanquisher: Does not lower the chance of diseases to spread

Wildlife

Farthest Frontier has 4 different kinds of wildlife. Deer are timid and pose no threats to player settlements while boar, wolves, and bear are aggressive predators that will attack villagers. This setting allows the player to determine the frequency of which types show up in the world.

Pioneer	Trailblazer	Vanquisher
Deer - Plentiful Boar - Rare Wolves - Rare Bear - Extremely Rare	Deer - Average Boar - Average Wolves - Average Bear - Rare	Deer - Rare Boar - Plentiful Wolves - Plentiful Bear - Average

Raiders

• Pioneer: Raiders occasionally invade, attack, and steal goods
• Trailblazer: Same as Pioneer but the player is extorted by local armies and lords for settling. Payback is demanded or the Settlement will be razed.
• Vanquisher: Elite raiders spawn that are highly aggressive, along with much more extortion and violence.

Terrain and Biomes

Idyllic Valley

Idyllic Valley (introduced in 0.7.5) is the default starting Biome for all new settlement maps. Abundant in wildlife and resources, this map is guaranteed to contain every single resource a player would need to grow their settlement to its greatest heights along with the available land to do so. Recommended for those looking for a creative-friendly map or players that are entirely new to the genre.

Arid Highlands

Arid Highlands are desolate and infertile, hard-difficulty terrains. The environment is harsh and water is scarce, but these challenges can be overcome with thoughtful Farming. The terrain is relatively flat and highly infertile in large patches but highly abundant in resources like Stone, Sand, and Gold. Trees and shrubbery aren't as common and forageable resources are rare, so it is important to get crop fields down as soon as possible to start working the soil for fertility and future crops.

Alpine Valleys

Alpine Valleys are mountainous, medium-difficulty terrains. They are abundant in minerals like Iron Ore, Gold Ore, Coal, and Stone, while resources like fresh water and clay will be difficult to find. The terrain is very uneven and fertility can be sporadic for farming. Players will need to plan accordingly to begin their Settlement and a lot of labor will be required to flatten terrain.

Lowland Lakes

Lowland Lakes are easy-difficulty terrain, falling somewhere between Plains and Alpine Valleys for level ground to build. Wildlife to hunt are common as are trees and freshwater to fish. New players, especially new players to the genre can start here to get a feel for the game mechanics without too many environmental difficulties to overcome.

Plains

Plains are highly fertile and level medium-difficulty terrain. Trees, water, and stone are not as commonly found as Lowland Lakes, but the area is rich with forageable items like greens, and players will find clay and deer abundant.

Random

Entirely random experience of any of the above biomes, but may present variability of terrain/resources uncommon to other maps of the biome type randomly chosen by the engine. (e.g. unusually-mountainous Plains biome)

Map Re-Roll

Using the in-game 're-roll' feature will generate a new map with the same size and selected biome, while retaining all difficulty settings.

If Random was initially chosen as the biome type, it will re-roll a new map within the same biome selected by the engine, though variability uncommon to the normal biome will still be found. (e.g. If the first map received w/ random is a plains with unusually frequent mountains, a re-roll of Random will stick to Plains but may have wildly different terrain features equally-uncommon to the plains biome)