New Years Server Launch Party!

Hey guys, Vechs here! What you doing for New Years? No plans? 

Then join my wife and I and other friends as we livestream the launch of Super Docile - Neskaron on Server #2!  If you want to play on the server, be sure you have the 5 dollar Patron tier, or subscribe to me on Twitch (you can use the Amazon Prime thingy with Twitch to sub for "free" if that helps)

What is Neskaron? Well, while waiting on requests from Patrons to trickle in as I messaged them for their Vexelvania patron rewards, I wasn't idle -- I was making a half-gen map for us to play on, named Neskaron.

What is half-gen? It's a term I just invented to describe the type of map Neskaron is.  I make the terrain.  I make the height map.  I control where the biomes go.  Then, I flag the world to repopulate and let my modpack inject ores, dynamic trees, dungeons, and other things.  Then, I give it another pass and hand-place generated assets, such as manually ordering the generation of a town or roguelike dungeon.  These towns and dungeons are randomly generated, but I decided where they would generate.

Then, I fly around the map and try to fix various things I think look odd, while totally missing things here and there. :)

... and then I added an older but kinda-updated Super Hostile map buried somewhere secret.

So, the map is half-generated.  Half-gen!  I can make such a map in about a week, rather than the months it takes to make the hand-crafted, carefully laid out dungeons of a normal Super Hostile map.  The fact that it takes exponentially longer to make a building than it does to make a mountain range may not be obvious to most, but that is indeed the case with mapping.

To promote my gaming servers, I'll be hosting Neskaron on Server #2, and then a few weeks after the server launch, I will release Neskaron for free to the public for general use!