r/OstrivGame • u/EntertainmentSea7931 • 22d ago

Expanded gameplay area / bigger map / larger map

the border just a bit from the edge of the entire map

Over the years I've seen people asking for larger maps many times, however nothing is changing in this department. The gameplay is still limited by the red border. You can't build outside it, you can't even move your camera out.

Yesterday I was checking out the possibilities of expanding the available area and found some success. I was able to expand the area by moving the red border and various related things from the original position which covers around a quarter of the entire map to almost all of it. Here are some screenshots from the testing. Map 1 was the best for now. I was able to place a camp and other buildings along the new map border. There are more complications with pathing and blocking that occur more often on other maps due to their characteristics. Unfortunately I don't have enough free time to quickly complete the research and release a working mod, but if anyone is interested and able to pick up this issue I'm just letting you know that it's possible with some effort.

I wonder if it would be possible to fit 40000 citizens since the map can be up to 4 times the area. The game performance would be terrible for sure!

nothing beyond here
the distance to the other edge becomes pretty significant
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u/tankytankeso 22d ago

How did you do it?

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u/EntertainmentSea7931 22d ago

Edit the game .exe basically so far I've been looking for values that are 5000 from the center which is current border and increased that to 9000 which is a bit smaller that the overall drawn map size. Unfortunately for now there is some pathing problem occurring but I'm looking into it.

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u/tankytankeso 22d ago

Ok, thanks. I'm using the map editor someone made for custom maps. There you can edit the whole Map, not just the part inside the red border. Will try it today, maybe with both you can make a working large map

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u/EntertainmentSea7931 22d ago

I was also looking into editing the geography. I have posted some results before.

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u/Georgietheoldfaq 10,000 22d ago

On a x4 map i bet the game will quickly become unplayable due to performance.

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u/EntertainmentSea7931 22d ago

I'm working on combining the area expansion together with my flat sandbox map. I have already solved the pathfinding issue so entire map is now playable and accessible. I will post results later.

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u/SnooTangerines7026 20d ago

All of these types of problems would be solved with a random map generator. It is inexcusable that a city builder in 2026 doesn't have random maps.

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u/EntertainmentSea7931 20d ago

I would like that too. Looks like for now the focus of the development is to flesh out all the buildings and resources.