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Alex has made some adjustments to his Alpine algorithm for TextMapper to get better desert terrain – e.g. Australian. Lots of generic rpg maps assume European type things – e.g. cool to cold, whereas Australia is temperature to equatorial, in general.
This one is a nice example https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper/alpine/document?width=52&bottom=3&peaks=7&bumps=2&height=48&steepness=4&peak=10&bump=2&arid=0&climate=desert&type=hex&seed=693329917
This is Australia as known circa 1800 – there is the colony at Port Jackson/Sydney and up the Hawkesbury River to Coal River/Newcastle.
Van Diemen’s Land also had British settlers in 1803. Unfortunately, a Ruby time travel destructive side effect put paid to that. The coastline mapped, but the continent is just a big hexcrawl at this time.
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-703257590
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Gridmapper
This is excellent – so you can create a map by typing, or by code, or via the interface – and save and download in multiple formats. Thanks very much Alex!
Not actually called Australia circa 1830 of course, but for reference.
A few different terrain types I think:
Version with coordinates to come
https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2021/12/happy-needfest-digital-darlene-greyhawk.html
