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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/ChaosBeing on 2024-10-13 03:50:43+00:00.
The Why
Wow, what’s this? a Community Map post that doesn’t have a template for me to copy and paste? It feels so strange, I need blueprints! Oh well, I’ll be remaking all of my blueprints once Space Age releases anyway so I’ll treat this as some early practice. (That said, if you’re only interested in what has changed with the Space Age map you can jump down to The What without missing anything important.)
As I’m sure most of you saw yesterday, u/quchen made this post and it really took off. As I’m sure fewer of you saw in the comments, quchen and I had a quick exchange about combining efforts. They were gracious enough to accept, and as such I’m going to be updating the plan for the upcoming Space Age map.
By the time this thread is posted I will have already changed the October map’s thread to reflect these changes. That said, I have to imagine there’s little reason for most to return to the October thread to see these changes. After considering this, I figured the best course of action was, well, this. A quick update thread laying out what’s going on, especially for anyone showing up a few days from now who missed quchen’s thread.
Well! I think that’s enough preamble now. Let me take this time to welcome everyone who’s only found out about the community map through quchen’s thread yesterday: Hi! I saw a lot of excitement and enthusiasm there, and I’m hoping this whole thing hasn’t been too confusing or off-putting. To everyone who’s been following the community map for a while now, whether that’s only a month, a year, or since 2015 when this whole thing started, thank you. You’re the reason I keep these maps going. What a milestone to be coming up on 10 years of putting these maps out there, with love for the game still going strong! It’s really incredible. Now, on to the details!
The What
If you’ve skipped over the first section, welcome back.
I received quchen’s permission to use their map seed for the upcoming Space Age map! It took me a fair bit of deliberation to decide whether I wanted to change the seed that had already been planned out in advance, but it 1) was certainly seen by far more people than my original map seed, and 2) seems like it had more thought and meaning behind it than my own. (I also happened to find out that my original seed was going to generate a desert so… Yeah. There’s that too.)
There were certainly other things I weighed out, but ultimately I decided to change the upcoming Space Age map’s seed.
That new seed is:
537061636520416765
Other than that, everything’s the same! The October map officially ends the moment Space Age becomes available, and the new map will continue until the end of December, just as planned. October will of course get a Results thread and the Space Age map will get a November-December thread, just as normal, but there’s no reason to wait for either of these to start your Space Age run.
…Huh, what do you know. I can still make one of these threads without a template!
If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them below. Again, a shoutout to my kindred spirit quchen, and I hope you all enjoy the Space Age map - whatever it might be!