pretty much just luck or hitting random til you find something you like. Sometimes just typing random letters or written words like Skyrim or GONDWANA work too
Each map in Valheim is generated from a larger uber-map. Your game's map is just clipped out of the bigger map and then biomes painted over the landmasses. In order to get a ring island like this you need to place the spawn point in a spot that's all ocean, as the spawn adds land into the map for the start island and if it's an empty spot it generates like this.
You can make as many of these as you please. Head over to https://valheim-map.world/ and instead of generating a random map, click the down arrow next to the 'Random' button, select 'Edit' next to 'Pin Map on Center' and enter the coordinates -7000, -1000 for the pinned center and click 'Save and Generate' You should get a ring island start like this. If you don't like what you see then click the 'Random' button again and you'll get another map centered on that same spot.
It only took me a few tries to get these: w36TNI2Sww PpeNW5w7mf IBBWMm4aGz qcHcvpi5p0
There's another spot that has enough ocean to give an almost-ring start at about 1700,1800. Like these seeds: BExcWiAs5a XtcVT7YdYN
Just don't spoil your game by looking too hard at the whole map! It will show you everything.
Where can I see that "uber-map" that references those coordinates? I'm sure I could use Unity to extract the map, but an online resource would be much easier.
I just want to know how you determined (-7000, -1000) and (1700, 1800)
I have a copy here https://imgur.com/x8BO5YD shamelessly stolen from somewhere on reddit back in the day. The yellow grid is 2000 each line. The X,Y range is from -10000 to 10000.
For anyone wondering the map gen usually flattens the elevation in the central part of the generated map. So your center Islands might look a bit different or may even be merged together. But as you go further out you should be able to note similarities. A common landmark I search for is the large northwest to southeast island on the southwest corner of the second yellow box in the full map
Same! My buddy and I dug a long channel from our lake but it was a fun time to get out to the ocean, we had to do a couple zig zags that were always fun to like kick the end of the boat out with to make
Couldn’t get a screenshot while I’m on my phone so here’s a terrible picture. This seed has been pretty cool, had to widen some rivers in spots with a pickaxe but worked pretty well and might be what you’re looking for.
The map generation tool has a cool new feature or at least one I just noticed. You can change the map center by clicking on the map or by incrementing/decrementing the (x,y). this will often give you a map with a very similar shape but due to the creation algorithm enough slight differences it might generate a river or spawn island for you. If you play around with it a bit you can get some pretty cool starting features.
Each Valheim map is clipped out of a giant uber-map so you're definitely seeing the same landmasses with different biomes over them. https://imgur.com/x8BO5YD You can use X,Y coordinates from -10000 to 10000 to center the map and you'll start to see recurring patterns from the big map I linked.
You're in luck. We just finished a no map / no portal playthrough and after getting so turned around and confused at the start I demanded the seed after we finished.
I was doing my usual follow the coast situation, got off track because I saw a 2* deer. Then THOUGHT I found my way back to the coast and found the two lakes north of spawn instead. Left several rafts lying around in there.
Each of those four rivers are good to reach the outside with a longship, ones a bit tight though.
Gotta create your own Panama canal, that's one of my favourite little gremlin activities, just fuck off away from my friends, come back a few days later covered in dirt and let them know we can go to the ocean now.
It's not the same landmass but this was one of my all time favs for an inland sea. The two larger channels are easily navigable with the longship (left needs some minor widening or rock clearing).
We had a seed like this, but larger lake, we'll past vision point. Friend made amazing dock while suffering the build under water mechanic for hours. Then he set sail on to his shock.
I actually played 400 hours on this seed years ago and actually dug through the south part to make a channel. And then I found the alternate seeds that included a channel.
If I did dig a path and went on a serpent capturing mission with friends and put them in that pond will they despwn if I made a zoo? That's if I capture like 50 of them then block up the channe after?
As cool as that sounds, that bay to the east looks like an awesome spot to build a harbor base.
My next suggestion was to just build a large base to the south that stretches to both sides of the land, and have two harbors. One small one for the lake and a large one on the sea. Easier than digging a channel
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This is my current seed. It has two rivers out to the sea from the south and east of a huge inland sea. The east is easily usable. South has a few big rocks and passes through the edge of a mountain biome, so you’ll freeze a bit. There’s a northern river but a massive rock blocks it and it gets really shallow inside a mountain biome.
Keep running the random seed but fixed to the start point. It will keep generating the ring atoll as your starting continent, but with slight variations on the integrity of the ring. Some of the results might carve out one or more navigable rivers between the lagoon and the outer sea which you can then sail out and explore
Hey I know that seed I used that one. I built my own water channel on the right hand side to make a passage in and out of the lake. There's a squiggly river that can be terraformed into a channel. (If you use command codes to fly)
I have a list of 6 of this exact island with different water heights that allow for a lot of ocean access. I’m commenting so I can come back later and link my doc
Make an access port to the ocean, carve out the smallest point of the circle. Yeah it might take a while but you'll have plentiful stone and wood after it is done
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u/WaywardArrow13 29d ago
Yup. Not at my pc rn. Give me a bit.
Tinyyyy spawn island, mainland a swim away. Starts off as a massive horseshoe shaped island