World Generation

ED5 can procedurally generate entire continents at the click of a button — or you can manually paint every tile. Most creators use a mix of both: generate a base world, then hand-edit the important areas.

How Generation Works

The generator uses layered noise algorithms to create natural-looking terrain:

1. Elevation — determines water vs land, mountains vs valleys 2. Moisture — wet vs dry areas 3. Temperature — cold vs hot regions 4. Vegetation — tree and plant density 5. Continentalness — island and continent shapes

These layers combine to automatically assign one of 15 biomes to every tile.

Biomes

Each biome defines its own tile sets, ambient lighting, mob spawns, resource nodes, and background audio.

World Configuration

① World name, seed, time speed, and day/night cycle settings② Weather system — weather types with seasonal schedules③ Global generation parameters — elevation, moisture, temperature

Configure which zone new players spawn into, the exact tile coordinates, and manage zone activation — all from the Starter Spawn tab.

Key settings:

• Seed — a number that determines the world layout. Same seed = same world every time
• Noise parameters — control how smooth or chaotic the terrain looks

Deterministic Generation

The same seed always produces the exact same world. This means you can share a world seed and get identical terrain — useful for consistent testing or community sharing.

Resource Node Placement

Resource nodes (trees, ore veins, herb patches, fishing spots) are placed automatically based on biome:

• Required biome — where the node spawns
• Harvest skill + level — what skill is needed to gather
• Loot table — items and quantity ranges
• Respawn timer — how long until regrowth after harvesting

Zone resource spawn rules are authoritative — when a zone has explicit spawn rules, the runtime clears any legacy baked resource nodes and repopulates from the rule pipeline. Zones with no rules keep their baked resources untouched.

Per-State Node Visuals

Resource node definitions can configure independent Full / Half / Depleted visuals using either a sprite asset or a map object definition per state. Full falls back to the default sprite; Half and Depleted inherit Full when unset. Nodes swap visuals in real time as players harvest them down.

License Tier Gating (Studio Web)

On the hosted Studio Web environment, the following map tools require a Studio or Enterprise license tier:

• Generate Zone (procedural chunk generation)
• Add Streaming Zone (attach a streaming child zone)

Lower tiers see these actions disabled with an inline upgrade prompt. Local admin (running on localhost:3002) and Electron installs are unaffected and behave as full-tier.