Cartographer - kill random spawning?

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Hello,

I've made a map in Cartographer, but when I play it, there are all kinds of random spawns of resources and NPCs. I tried to cleverly place resources and NPCs directly into the map so that it would be more balanced for each faction... Does anyone know if there is a way to turn this off?

For example, I put a fertile land and a gold mine next to each starting point, but when I started the game, it added another fertile land and gold mine right near the starting point, and a farmer NPC started out next to my sovereign as well... Food mania. Do not want that.

Thank you.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm looking for the solution to this as well.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Does anyone know why this is or how to fix it? Is it possible to disable random things on your custom map? If not, then I can design around this limitation, but if possible I'd really like to disable it.

Thank you.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I can't imagine that a fix will be long in coming. It makes the cartography room almost useless if we can't control the most important part of any map.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, it certainly makes it more difficult to plan out a more precise strategy for the players on the map. The map I'm making right now is primarily a multiplayer map, and I want to be able to use resources to loosely guide the player towards where I'd like the mid-late game action to take place. I can still do this with random spawning, but I'd prefer this map in particular to be fundamentally the same every time it is played.