Weltengenerator

Der Weltengenerator ist eine Anzahl von Einstellungen die definieren wie die Spielwelt von Factorio aussehen wird wenn sie generiert wird. Diese Einstellngen können die Spielmechanik drastisch verändern. Neue Spieler wird empfohlen mit den Standardeinstellungen zu spielen bevor sie Anpassungen vornehmen.

Funktion

Weltenegenerator wählbaren mit Voreinstellungen.

Eine technische Erklärung wie der Weltengenerator die Spielwelt generiert, ist ein Algorithmus der auf dem "Perlin Noise" basiert. Kurz Zusammengefasst kann man sich das Ergebnis dieses Algorithmus wie Wellen auf der offenen See vorstellen.

Alles über einem gewissen Level definiert die Existenz (oder Nichtexistenz) einer Eigenschaft eines Terrains. Der Spieler sollte auch wissen, dass nicht die gesamte Karte beim Spielstart generiert wird. Es werden nur die sichtbaren Bereiche generiert, alles andere wird erst generiert wenn der Spieler die Welt erkundet. Siehe weiter unten für die technischen Details

Das folgende Bild zeigt ein Beispiel wie der Weltengenerator eine neue Karte generiert.

Weltengenerator mit Standardeinstellungen und Kartenseed 123456789

Konfiguration

Nachfolgend sind die möglichen Konfigurationseinstellungen aufgelistet und erklärt.

Grundeinstellungen

Voreinstellungen

Für Voreinstellungen siehe Voreinstellungen

Friedvoll-Modus

The Enemies don't begin fights, only responding if the player hits them. This can be also switched on during the game- look into Console commands.

Wiederholung aktivieren

Kartenbreite und -höhe

If the player limits the width and/or height they may generate maps with finite resources and area. This is recommended for multiplayer servers running on weaker machines or players seeking extra challenge. Another option is to make the world infinite in only one axis, this is commonly referred to as a ribbon world.

Karten-Generierungsseed

This is the starting value for the random number generator that Factorio uses for generating the world. Know that 'random number' is really a misnomer in Factorio and on computers in general, as they aren't really random, instead being calculated with complicated algorithms that require a seed as starting value (For more detail, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_seed).

So even with the same map-exchange string but a different seed maps can change dramatically, or appear very similar. It's up to chance. In order to get a true copy of a world, giving the map-exchange string and allowing the string to fill out the seed is important.

Zeichenkette zum Kartenaustausch

A string generally looks like so:

>>>AAALABAABgADAwYAAAAEAAAAY29hbAMDAgoAAABjb3BwZXItb3Jl
AwMCCQAAAGNydWRlLW9pbAMDAgoAAABlbmVteS1iYXNlAwMCCAAAAGl
yb24tb3JlAwMCBQAAAHN0b25lAwMCORcrDUQ7AACMCwAAAAAAAAAAAA
ADAFR8w0Q=<<<

It is a string of good length that begins with >>> and ends with <<<. Many facilities exist within the community for sharing exchange strings. The map exchange string can be used in the map-generator: there is an extra field where the player can paste this string into. On windows computers, this may be done by selecting a string, right-clicking or pressing Control + C, then put it into the string field for the world generator with Control + V.

If you wish to retrieve the map-exchange string from your world:

In the Load Game dialog select the game whose string you want, then click the Map Exchange String button in the lower left corner. When the string pops up, highlight it with your mouse and press Control-C to copy it. (Command-C on Mac.) You can now paste it in the map generator to create a copy of that world, or send it to a friend.

For a technical description of the map exchange string, see Map Exchange String Format.

Ressourceneinstellungen

Häufigkeit

This is not, how frequent ore, coal, oil etc. is, instead determining the number of individual deposits the player will encounter.

This defines the wavelength of the wave-generators used by the Perlin Noise algorithm above, but not the total size of all the waves. This means that frequency doesn't modify the amount of resources on a tile, instead modifying the area of each deposit and the number of deposits. Additionally, changing frequency doesn't affect the average amount of resources in a limited map, only their distribution.

If resource frequency is increased, each of the deposits is smaller and has less resources in total (because it covers less area) and deposits are very common. If resource frequency is decreased, the deposits are larger but more rare. This also causes enemy bases to appear more often using the same distribution rules as ores - however, this can lead to rapid enemy expansion due to the much higher number of nest clusters.

Gröβe

This defines the size of generated ore patches and water through defining "levels." It increases the average diameter of ore patches and lakes, allowing one to adjust the size of both of these.

It's as simple as it seems- Small size would mean small ore patches and water masses, large means large ore patches and water masses. Note that this is effected by frequency, though it is presumably able to increase the total ore and water of the world where frequency simply re-balances it.

Finally, this causes enemy bases to spawn larger, though bases created through the "natural process" of expansion are going to adhere to different rules.

The following table shows how the frequency and size settings affects the generation of ore patches. For more detail, open the images in a new tab.

Generation of iron patches on different frequency and size settings
Frequency \ Size	Very small	Small	Medium	Big	Very big
Very low
Low
Normal
High
Very high

Menge

This defines the actual content of every ore patch and oil field. Resource field richness increases by distance.

Resources in ore patches on different richness settings
Very poor	Poor	Regular	Rich	Very rich
Resources to mine: 22k	Resources to mine: 32k	Resources to mine: 45k	Resources to mine: 64k	Resources to mine: 90k

Linke Spalte

Water: How water is generated on each map.
Copper, Stone, Coal, Crude oil: Resources required to progress in the game. See above for more detailed explanations about each of these changes.
Enemy bases: How many and how large starting bases are. Note that new bases are created over time, making low enemy base counts somewhat less significant.
Starting Area: This is a value defining a special area around the central coordinates of the map which will have different ore frequency, etc, from the rest of the map. Generally, this results in at least one confirmed ore source, always results in a water source, and always removes biter nests from spawning for an area around spawn. The settings of this area usually guarantee better starting conditions, although the player may choose to make this area small to increase the challenge of the game. It is generally a good idea for the player to explore a bit outside this area before they begin to build. While this area will almost always appear very fertile, it's possible that map generation will have made a situation where it is impossible to beat the game, such as missing oil, too many biters to defend, etc.

World generations on different starting area settings
Very small	Small	Medium	Big	Very big

Erweiterte Konfiguration

Umweltverschmutzung

Evolution

Feindliche Ausbreitung

Rezepte/Technologien

Voreinstellungen

Mit der Version 0.15 können neu Voreinstellungen für den Weltengenerator gewählt werden. Diese sind alle unterschiedelich, und verändern die Einstellungen welche sich unter den Reitern Ressourceneinstellungen und Erweiterte Konfiguration befinden. Nachfolgend eine Liste mit allen Voreinstellungen, die Differenzen zur Standardeinstellung sind hervorgehoben.