Checkpoints for the Endless Forest
Posted by DudeFace on Jan. 18, 2024How many checkpoints are in the endless forest? This question has been bugging me for quite a while now.
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malero on Jan. 18, 2024
There are 64 checkpoints.
I would have thought that since it is an endless forest there would have been an endless number of checkkpoints.
malero on Jan. 20, 2024
@Jennifer When I made it, I didn't think anyone would play enough to reach the end since it resets every week. I also didn't spend the time to make the procedural generator be able to generate small chunks of the forest at any given location, so the whole thing needs to be generated or pulled from a cache every action in the forest. With 64 checkpoints, it only takes a few milliseconds, but it starts to take quite a bit longer at every checkpoint past that since each checkpoint is further away from the last. At some point I will revisit the forest and make it more efficient to generate so it can go on forever and won't be a huge strain on the server. I'd like to add some new locations to the forest too.