#What happened to the larger maps?

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pearl steppe
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Lately I only seem to find maps with just 3 to 4 islands on them. I miss finding the maps that had 6 to 8 islands. Any reason the map sizes got slimmed down? Is it another unity conflict?

snow marsh
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I think it has something to do with China. By that they were making the maps that wouldn't kill the servers or something along those lines. They were trying to attract a Chinese audience and the larger maps caused a problem.

pearl steppe
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Well I do miss the days of finding 7 or 8 traders on a map. It was like a one stop shop

velvet obsidian
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I've noticed it too, getting only 3 Ylands in arctic is such a bummer 😔

oblique wren
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Maybe is to balance PC and mobile? I think in mobile you didnt find as many ylands per map as in PC, i think

floral ridge
pearl steppe
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Pretty sure it has nothing to do with mobile players considering the fact that their maps are generated differently and aren't random. Also pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do with the Chinese version (unless the amount of players they can have in multiplayer is different than ours, I mean they have access to the same sorts of computers as the rest of us although they do have severe limits and laws on what can be done). I do remember a while back the reason they couldn't generate larger maps was because of some scripting that kneecapped the devs ability to do so, but then Unity had an update that allowed them to make the larger maps. I am thinking that Unity had another update that limited their programming.

bold river
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I think there is some misunderstanding in what "larger maps" meant back .
Few updates ago we increased the area of map into 55km (tropical and temperate) 66km (arid and far east) and 88km (taiga and polar) - (i think it was 3km3km in 1.5)
Number of ylands is 3-4 (everywhere except temperate and tropical where it is 3-5). Mostly because that ylands were too close and there was no space for underwater biotopes.

pearl steppe
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Ah ok I was referring to maps with more than 4 islands. I miss the days when I could find 6 to 8 islands on a map, but the room for the underwater biotopes makes sense.