Hey, im just wondering. I quit Creating Maps due to Update changes. Is it now a good time to start again? Can i fully Invest time this time to keep and share my Islands? Last time i wasted around 8hours for an Island when an Update rolled out to fully ruining my Work :D

Hey we got anybody still alive in here?

sup hanta. good to have someone around that knows what they are doing:)

Hi Hantacore and welcome - one of the first Map Maker found its way back! ;)

Hi guys, veteran here, i just started to play again after a long absence. I'd be happy to contribute in any way :)

welcome aboard UKSharon. check the map editor section in the forums. A pinned topic called how to add a user made custom map is at the top to help you. look forward to seeing your maps:)

Welcome to UKSharon.

thank you for allowing me to join :) if anyone could help me i am wanting a nice large map already made as i dont know how to make them so if there is a nice map seed please also can anyone tell me how i upload that map thank you

Thanks for the invite man :D Im looking forward to make more and more islands ! :)

Welcome to TheOnlyEatav to the group. Happy map making bruh

Cheers mate, will post some new stuff soonish. Got a big project at work tho so might be a while

Welcome to McFarland our newest member. Keep em coming Mac:)

Thanks. Happy to be aboard.

sweet PartyPyrate:)

Hi friends,

let's welcome our new Moderator PartyPyrate! An experienced map maker and long time SD player. Also frequently in the public forums and up to date with the SD builds.

Cheers!

Hi friends,

I am happy to announce that this group is going to be actively supported by our new moderator deesbuffalonutz. He's an active map maker, up to date with SD and frequently in the forums helping others. Let's welcome him!

Cheers and have fun!

Nice to read something from the boss of this group.
All the participants of this group who love this game will definitely not stop creating new islands. I will continue to build new islands and have already made new ones in the reserve.
But the problem is to present these new islands here on Steam.
There is still no workshop for this game.
I had registered in the German SD Forum over 2500 downloads of my custom maps.
Stupidly, this forum does not work anymore. But no matter!
I'm looking for another solution to solve this problem.
Maybe I start a blog or homepage to present new islands until the developers install the workshop on steam.
stay tuned

glad to have you back jefe

Dear friends,

I'd like to report back from my sabbatical break - almost 3 months without steam! :)

But first off, I hope you all had a great start in this new year 2017!

And sorry for my late response. As requested by John, the group is still accessible and I am positively surprised about your continued work on making islands. Thumbs up for your creativity! Of course I won't let anybody down and I love the new islands you have made in the last months. You all are awesome!

Cheers!

Eine Bitte hab ich an Dich:
Schliesse die Gruppe nicht. Lass Dir Zeit damit. Nichts eilt.
Die Mitglieder dieser Gruppe haben alle das selbe erlebt wie Du und ich.
Alles was wir gemacht haben ist kaputt.
Aber- warte doch einfach mal ab, was jetzt und in Zukunft passiert.
Ich bin mir sicher, das der eine oder andere eine Neue Insel in Arbeit hat und sie gerne hier drin zeigen möchte.

Vielleicht bist Du interessiert daran, einem Entwickler zu helfen, der ein ähnliches Spiel wie SD zurzeit entwickelt.
Hier der Link: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/G4GLIP

Bleib lebendig!

Auch ich habe sehr viel Zeit im Map-Editor verbracht und alles was ich gebaut habe ist jetzt zerstört.
Von meinen insgesammt 16 Inseln ist keine mehr brauchbar. Das ist unglaublich schade,
für die Spieler, die diese Inseln nie erforschen konnten.
Leider konnte ich nur vier davon hier drin zeigen. Aber die sind jetzt eben auch kaputt gemacht.
Ich habe im Moment nur noch Eine, die mit der Neusten Version offenbar kompatibel ist.
Die werde ich gerne noch zum Download freigeben. Ich bin mir aber bewusst, das beim nächsten oder übernächsten Update, auch diese Insel wieder unbrauchbar sein wird.
Weil, so wie das Spiel im Moment konzipiert ist, werden grosse und komplexe Inseln in Zukunft nicht mehr sein dürfen.

So wie ich das sehe, legen die Entwickler keinen Wert auf Leveldesign. Sie setzen auf GPU prozedural generierte Inseln.
Was dabei für ein Quatsch rauskommt, hast Du seit der Experimental 0.18 bemerkt.

Danke TouriStarr, für Deine Arbeit in dieser Gruppe.
Ich verstehe Deine Entscheidung sehr gut.
Ich habe mit viel Interesse Deine Arbeit an Neuen Ideen verfolgt.
Ich war auch immer wieder erstaunt, was Du mir für Neue Möglichkeiten gezeigt hast.
Selbst wenn ich nicht immer alles verstanden habe!
Ich sehe, das alle Deine Bemühungen letztendlich vergebens waren.
Nein,halt- nicht alle. Du hast den Entwicklern viele Dinge gezeigt, die nicht funktioniert haben.
Selbst wenn Sie Dir nicht geantwortet haben, war beim einen oder anderen UpDate tatsächlich was geändert worden,
was Du erwähnt hast.
Das sehr viele Stunden Engagement Deinerseits, durch die fortlaufenden UpDates und Hotfix zerstört wurden, ist sehr frustrierend.
Ich denke da an Deine Recherchen bezüglich Heightmaps, oder Deine Idee Inseln zu verbinden.

Dear Map Makers,

I am not planning to support this game any further. I am sorry, but I think it's wasted time to support a direction where our precious work gets destroyed or pointless. I have the very strong impression that the developers don't care at all about our maps and the people who creates them, our support for the community and our feedback and group suggestions, which were never appreciated or acknowledged.

I'd like to thank you all for your fantastic and creative work - I had a really good and productive time with you - and for the support of this group. This group will be closed soon, no further post will be added, but your work will stay here, accessible for all and won't be removed!

Thanks again and stay creative!

i take coconuts with me to a custom map. gather all cocos on the start island and take the fruit.

Ok so the first problem i have is water, to start on an island without coconuts how are most people dealing with that? hide lots of water bottles?

Welcome to the crew deesbuffalonutz and thanks for joining!
You could open a thread in the showcase or custom maps subforum and keep us informed with some previews of your work. Would love to see it! Keep it up! :)

thanks for the invite. i love the map editor. ive got about 45 hrs on the map im working on. so far i have five caves, hidden holes to find loot, a shooting range and a lot of stuff to explore. hope to put it up soon. again thanks touri for the invite.

Hello fellow Map Makers!

The experimental update v0.17 changed the heightmap dimensions!
File specs: 257 x 257 px, 16bit greyscale, raw-file format, no header, ibmpc coding.

Keep it up!

Hello fellow Map Makers!

Please take a look at the v0.16 release notes. There are some changes regarding the visualization of islands which can have a more or less huge impact on the performance.

http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/games/313120/announcements/detail/921373079597188896

Thanks and keep up the fantastic work on your custom islands!

Hey anyone have still map which i created? i mean Utopia? Can anyone reupload it for me?

Thanks for the invite

@ZombieJeep - download works, but you should make a compressed zip file for download.

can someone see if this download link is working ? been working on this Island for a while and need to know if its working so I can share

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2HqDyzXjOoZR3U5bVFqd2RLSFE

Hello fellow map makers!

We are spotting lately some youtube videos with our custom islands.
To give you some help on sharing your creative work, I'd like you to take a look at the Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/) and maybe put your work under this license model to provide yourself and the people who like to use your maps, some save guidelines how to use your work.

A fist example of this terms of use, you can find here: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/sd-map-makers/discussions/1/366298942110581524/

Hey guys, thanks for joining our crew! :-)

Feel free to post your finished work in the download section:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/sd-map-makers/discussions/2/

or show your work in progress in the showcase section and get feedback here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/sd-map-makers/discussions/0/

or just show us some of your creative constructions here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/sd-map-makers/discussions/5/

Thanks and have fun!

Thanks for the invite. I hope to have fun creating.

Hi everybody, thanks for the invitation TouriStarr

Hi fellow Map Makers!
This is an important official update news to keep your custom islands:

1. Right click on Stranded Deep in your Steam library and select "Properties" from the drop down menu.
2. Navigate to the "Local Files" tab and select "Browse Local Files"
3. You will see two folders, "Stranded_Deep_Data" and "Stranded_Deep_x64/86_Data". Stranded_Deep_Data is the new folder.
4. Inside those folders will be a "Data" folder. This folder needs to be copied from the old "Stranded_Deep_x64/86_Data" folder into to the new "Stranded_Deep_Data" folder.

Hi fellow map makers!
Yeah, 'Art Gallery' is nice but not a very specific term. We changed it to 'Creative Constructions - Exhibition of craftsmanship', which suits more the presented content. :-)

Hi fellow map makers!
We have opened a new subforum 'Art Gallery' where you can store and present screenshots of your favorite crazy creative constructions, art works and impressions. Hope you'll like it and support this new section with your content. Thanks!
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/sd-map-makers/discussions/5/

Hi John, welcome to our group! Thanks for joining!
No problem about the language, feel free to ask in german language as well. :-)

Thank you very much!- for the invitation to this group.
I am currently working on three islands and i show you all the result, when I'm happy with it.
I am totally ecstatically about the Map-Editor! The best I have ever seen in a game!
I try to suport this Group.
Sorry my English is poor, normaly I speak German.

Hi Gerd, welcome back! :-) And a big welcome to our new members! :-D
I agree, the v.12 looks very vivid!

Hi Touri,
yes, the v12.0 is really good! I didn't play the game for a while because I didn't like the look. Now it is much better and I am in a good mood to go on with editing islands.

Thank you for the invite!!

Hi fellow map makers!
How does your work look like with the latest update? The v0.12 version has an huge impact on the visuals. Maybe it's time to take a walk on your islands and update some screenshots?
I hope to see some soon! Thanks! :-)

Thanks for the invite. i'll get some screenshots etc and if someone needs help i'll do my best :)

Hello new members and welcome!

We are happy to support your work with this group.

Thanks for joining!

~• { 50 } •~

Our group has reached a milestone!
We are now 50 members!

I'd like to use this occasion to thank you all for your participation,
your fantastic work and the support you are giving to this group!

I encourage everyone to show more of their work in the showcase section,
as this is a source for inspiration to all of us.

Thank you and keep up the awesome work!

New Update :
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/games/313120/announcements/detail/934867612703486930