Part 3 deals with Getting this thing back into the game So we have created our new lands, put some stuff on there. If you have used nitrogen, you are basically done with editing and can skip to Prepare the server. Manual edits will have to be adjusted in an extra step: convert the heightmapContinue reading Messing with the World (of 7dtd)! Part 3 of 3

Part 2 is dealing with adding Stuff to the existing map I’ll be using GIMP for this, as it’s free to Download. So sorry to all you Photoshop artists ^^ You’ll have to kinda reconstruct the steps for yourself. Can’t afford the ridiculous Photoshop pricing policy for private folk. So let’s start up gimp, openContinue reading Messing with the World (of 7dtd)! Part 2 of 3

Part 1 deals with getting the Geography: So lets get the current worldfile, shall we? Download dtm.raw from your current games world folder. It contains the heightmap information for the entire map, all mountains and stuff. Stored in a simple RAW format almost no tool can easily read, so lets put it into something moreContinue reading Messing with the World (of 7dtd)! Part 1 of 3

Introduction: This is a multi-part log of my efforts to to add an entirely new Island to a so far unused portion of our currently running long term map. The map has been up for over 700 game days now, all is explored. But we want more – And if possible, without deleting the rest.Continue reading Messing with the World (of 7dtd)!