This happens to us quite often. I don’t have a specific video or image example right now because I am playing on steam deck and not PC, but often times the bucket, pickaxe, or axe will end up getting spawned WAYYY behind the starting station and we have to run back into the previous levels to find them.
Usually they spawn in view and we can get them and they are within 5-10 tiles back. But a very extreme case just happened in boiler badlands where the bucket spawned totally offscreen probably 20+ tiles back from the station… there was no way for us to get the bucket and the level REQUIRED us to have the bucket in order to get to the end so we ended up dying because of this…
Usually it’s not a big deal because we can just track to the end while our train is on fire. But this time it resulted in us losing our life.
I suggest making the three tiles right next to the first track spot in the newly generated map “safe” and garunteed empty tiles right off the bat and these tiles be dedicated for the pickaxe, axe, and bucket.