Casimir wrote:PilzAdam wrote:The mountains get higher the farther you are away from the center of the map:
That is stupid. The (horizontal) mapgen should be independent from where you are. Otherwise the first thing people would do after starting a new map is "/teleport 20000,0,0" just to have the mapgen they want.
There should be a very very large scale perlin noise to do this.
I thought the same when I heard this the first time, but when looking at the landscape I think its a pretty nice idea.
The terrain at the middle of the map looks normal, but when you walk farther away the terrain gets very extreme. You cant really walk or build there. When we would have this extreme terrain in the whole map, nobody could build anything there, when we dont have it then the map is boring.
So generating larger mountains at the edge of the map is a nice compromise.