Idea For The Future

[UNIVERSAL_ACE]

So I was thinking about this after I walked past my brothers room and saw him playing Minecraft,
So I love my current world and iv worked really hard on it and dont want to lose it on an update,
so why minecraft made me think of this? well whenever the game updates and you load a old world it updates all the chunks.
Well i was thinking about maybe all the little places on the map you haven't been, updating and new items droping in cargo pods on places you have.

[Limdood]

which map are you referring to?  the colony map or the world map.  Also, any more detail you can give on your suggestion/vision helps people to accurately troubleshoot, support, or oppose the idea with more concrete reasoning.

[UNIVERSAL_ACE]

The World Map

[jamaicancastle]

The world map is persistent... sort of. When you start a new colony, it asks for a random seed - if you give it the same seed, it will generate the same map. (Sort of: I'm given to understand faction bases are generated separately and use a different seed, which is unfortunate.) You can check your map seed from the world map screen.

Unfortunately, I don't believe that local maps (colonies, quest objectives) are persistent in any meaningful way. Abandoning and regenerating one, I think, resets its random seed.

[BetaSpectre]

The seeds of the world map, and colony map could change with version.

Minecraft did as well. As new updates came out cool old seeds didn't work anymore.

IMO Rimworld is doing fine as is, though there are some mods that just make it better.

[UNIVERSAL_ACE]

yes minecraft did start recycling old seed but if you had a world with that seed still it would update the chunks that were never loaded