BetterWorlds

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🌍 BetterWorlds

> Odin raised Midgard from a giant's bones and never once asked anyone where the mountains should go. The jarls have grumbled about it ever since. This time they hold the chisel, and the gods may come and complain.

Draw your world in a browser. Walk into it. Keep shaping it with your friends standing on it.

BetterWorlds is the successor to Better Continents: world generation for Valheim, built as fourteen small plugins and a Studio that runs in your browser. Sketch continents, raise mountain ranges, carve lakes and rivers, steer ocean currents, plot roads and towns, then send the whole design into your game with one click. Make the world as big as you dare: up to 200 km across.

In the game the world stays soft until you call it done. Press F7 and keep going: terrain, biomes, mountains, lakes, rivers, the poles. Trees, rocks and dungeons grow back on the new ground while everyone connected watches it happen.

Everything Better Continents did, and a world you can keep shaping while you stand in it.

| You | It | |---|---| | Pick a radius up to 100 km in the Studio's New World | the world is made that size, and its biomes, lakes, locations and poles stretch to fit | | Paint an alt biome | Dark Meadows, Mushroom or any of the 32, planted where you painted it | | Drop in a compiled town | it is drawn and solid for everyone and costs the server nothing | | Draw a lake, a river or a stream | real water at any height, boats float, streams fall as waterfalls | | Send to Game in the Studio | your design lands in your r2modman, Gale or Thunderstore profile, or on your server, with no folder hunting | | Create a world | it starts in design mode, built from your design | | Hold H, hold O | raises, lowers or smooths the world itself, or paints a biome where you aim | | Finish design | locks the world for play; Resume design opens it again |

🗺️ Maps up to 16k · 📍 Location pins · 🛣️ Roads in the ground · ⛈️ Storms and seasons · 🛰️ Maps download on join · 👥 Shape it live with friends · ⬇️ Load from Game · 🏺 Better Continents worlds keep working · 🕳️ Dungeons that reset

| | If… | Then… | |---|---|---| | 🧪 | you are one of the first players | this release has been built and checked on a test bench, but nobody has played it yet. Treat every new feature as untested in the game, and make your first big world a throwaway. | | 💾 | it is a world you care about | copy the world's .db and .fwl files first. Shaping a world changes it for good. | | 🛑 | you run another world-generation mod | use one per world. Both shape the same terrain, and they have not been tested together. | | 🤝 | you play on a server | install BetterWorlds on the server and on every player, the same version. Update them together. | | 🖥️ | you run a dedicated server | the server makes a new world from your templates by itself. Put every template in place before its first start. | | 🏘️ | a world has a baked town | every player needs the BetterBakes plugin from this package, at the same version, or the server turns them away at the door. | | 🕳️ | a world's dungeon table gives dungeons creatures or chests | every player needs the BetterDungeons plugin from this package, at the same version, or the server turns them away at the door. A world that only resets its dungeons asks nothing. | | 🗺️ | you have Better Continents worlds | keep BetterContinents.dll installed. Those worlds keep running on it, exactly as before. | | 📁 | you want your design in a world that already exists | send it to that world, not to the templates. A world keeps its own copy from the day it was made. Its size, roads, rivers and baked town are the exception: they only go into new worlds. | | 📏 | you want a bigger world | choose its size when you create it. A world keeps that size for good, and a world you already had stays the size it is. Past 65 km from the centre the game's positions are precise to only about 8 mm, and huge worlds have not been tried in play yet. |

Design the whole world before you set foot in it.

| | | |---|---| | 🗺️ Overview map | sketch the land, paint biomes and water, and drop mountains, lakes, rivers, roads, towns, storms and currents on one map | | ⛰️ Ten studios | Mountains · Lakes · Rivers · Oceans · Locations · Routes · Towns · Vegetation · Spawns · Weather, each with presets | | 🖌️ World Painter | sculpt heights and paint biomes and alt biomes by hand | | 🧊 3D preview | fly over the result before you load it | | 🖼️ Real heightmaps | import a 16-bit heightmap or a Better Continents export and design on top of it | | 🚀 Send to Game | one click into r2modman, Gale, Thunderstore, a Steam install or a dedicated server, with backups kept | | ⬇️ Load from Game | bring a world back, in-game edits included, and send it again |