not a bug:
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I know this isnt a particularly important bug but I though it would report it. I spawned on a random seed and appeared as shown in the screenshot. Map Exchange string - >>>AAAMABkAAAADAwYAAAAEAAAAY29hbAMDAgoAAABjb3BwZXItb3Jl AwMCCQAAAGNydWRlLW9pbAMDAgoAAABlbmVteS1iYXNlAwMCCAAAAGl yb24tb3JlAwMCBQAAAH...

So, I was playing and generated a new map, here's what happened:

https://gyazo.com/93b0a867373aa283363bbdddc92ccf33

I couldn't get off this island. This is pretty minor, but it was a bit akward. :p

not seen the first, I've had the second quite a few times.
Another one I've had a few times is that the "start area" is in the middle of an ocean Biome, so you have an island as big as the start area, completely surrounded by ocean.

It is not intentionally that there are islands. It just happens because the maps are randomly generated. Generating maps without island is problematic, and as this not the main goal of this development stage of the game. There are many other ...

It is not intentionally that there are islands. It just happens because the maps are randomly generated. Generating maps without island is problematic, and as this not the main goal of this development stage of the game. There are many other ...

... AAACj0lIc=<<< I am using the Win64 version. I set starting area to none and spawned on a 1 tile island within aggro range of a biter base. The biters attempt to attack and vanish when the pathfinder cannot find a path to the player.

It is not a bug to start at an isle, it's just unclear how to solve that. A boat? Bridge? Algorithm which guarantee to land on a big enough island? Many options. That's the point. It take a bit time. This is alpha. The solution is to restart yet. I understand, that it doesn't make you happy, ...

... like "we don't have time for fixing this, just generate another world" ended up in the not a bug section already (since being stuck on islands must be a feature) this is very not critical situation, cuz this is happens on world start, not at the center of the game(where you have teleported ...

Congratulations, you won the factorio lottery!

such luck!

So yeah the problem here is obvious since he cant swim ^^

Savegame: best_spawn_ever....zip

Much better idea: this is a planet, right?

I calculated some times ago, that a typical PC can store enough land for a quarter of Luxembourg. What if we "surrounded" the world after that size? I mean: planets are round. If we drive an hour in one direction, we have surrounded the world.

I haven't played this for a while, but I was just thinking about this after messing with the editor today how great it would be to have island maps and having to build bridges to connect everything and get to all the resources.

All of you are right! It is a bug, kinda difficult one to solve, and not very critical one. Later in the development we will probably add some ways to traverse water: wading through shallow water, boats, or bridges (also on the "nice to have" list is a terrain generator that can make river...

I do believe giving player an ability to traverse the water is much more elegant, than adding crutches to the worldgen.

- wooden bridges (allow only player/biter movement)
- stone\steel bridges (allow train/car movement)
- water pumps slowly draining water from lakes.

and so on and so forth.

I don't see any big issue against enabling the player to gain land. Not big amounts, only tile by tile. (*) How would it be to have always a big (or endless?) dirt-resource two tiles away from start? Could not be mined by miners/only the player can use it to dig dirt and put it into water to gain la...

... is because of the fact that they need to add an check interface to search the surroundings of the start location to see if there is a way off the island. Considering that i once started a game, and found out after 24 hours that there is no way off the island (was a huge island) the search radius ...

In my opinion it IS a bug, just not an important one. ^^

Seems, that the player should be able to built a bridge/land from beginning.

known, not a bug.

[0.7.0] Starting in a small island
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