Biomes & Weather

When travelling through the world of Stoneshard, you will explore various areas. Thick forests, peaceful fields, flowing rivers, rocky mountains and more.

Biomes

Biomes are map tiles that always appear with specific features unique to them. Biomes on the Global Map are randomly generated, but follow a certain gradient - the south will be warm steppe, and the north will be cold forests. These tiles can generate with certain features like Lakes or Rivers. Biomes can combine the features of other, adjoining Biomes which will be represented on the corners and sides of the tile.

Currently present biomes are;

Field

Fields are wide open areas with small amounts of bushes. This Biome is a good source of Herbs and berry bushes. The biome can spawn inhabited some Animals - Rabbits, and Birds mostly, sometimes you can encounter here a Forest Viper. Getting ambushed in an open Field can also be potentially deadly.

Forest

Leaf and Pine Forests are currently the most varied Biome. A labyrinth of trees makes for an interesting place to hunt or fight within.

Forests are commonly full of Herbs, various types of Mushrooms and Berries, along with Pine Cones and Acorns (in their respective forest variants) and Sticks.

Forests are home to a wide variety of fauna, and are where the respective animal's hunting grounds will be located.

Passive animals:

• Hedgehogs
• Squirrels
• Foxes
• Deer
• Forest Vipers

Territorial animals:

• Boars
• Wolves
• Moose
• Bears

Steppe

No sticks

Fauna:

• Saiga
• Bison

Coast

Shells

Mountains

Mountains are ragged, impassable tiles, and cannot be entered.

Sea

Sea tiles are linked to coasts and are impassable.

Swamp (in development)

• A development screenshot was shared on Stoneshard Reddit, featuring a Swamp-like Biome.
• An old screenshot from the development version features the players standing in a swamp-like map surrounded by flying bug-type enemies.
• A recent teaser shared via Discord also shows several giant wasp-like hive structures.

Features

Each tile on a map can contain certain features, described below.

Roads

Roads can be randomly pathed through most of the Biome variants, except for the mountains, coasts and the sea. They connect Settlements with each other, their Contract Dungeons and certains Points of Interest. Roads always go through the middle of a tile, and connect to the middle of their respective edges.

There are several road variants:

• Straight roads (only in cardinal directions)
• Curved roads
• T junctions; forks
• X junctions; crossings

Roadside Features

• Roadside Altar
• Abandoned Cart

River Crossings

• Ford - forces the player to get wet, but is shallow enough to not require swimming
• Bridge - allows dry crossing of the river

Lakes

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