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it is possible to have settings on the start menu that generate the world to an extreme that allows you to start on an island surrounded by water with no resources, no where to be able to go, and nothing able to do. Having the terrain segmentation on normal, the size of lakes (water) vary big and not having a starting area at all makes this a common occurrence when generating a map like this.

here it the map exchange string >>>AAAKAAwAAAADBQYAAAAEAAAAY29hbAEBAAoAAABjb3BwZXItb3Jl
AQEACQAAAGNydWRlLW9pbAEBAAoAAABlbmVteS1iYXNlBQUECAAAAGl
yb24tb3JlAQEABQAAAHN0b25lAQEAv8N1zTYJAAAHYAAA6AMAAOgDAA
AAANM1LJI=<<<

It's a known problem and I'm sure the devs intend to address it.

I've generated maps that had me start on a tiny 1x1 tile of land in a large body of body.

There's not much you can do about it right now except to re-generate the world.

rhetorical: Isn't the map just what you ordered, then?