...Did anyone else miss these world editor tutorials?

In case the files disappear for whatever reason, I've copied the tutorials he included in the descriptions of each world:

Map colour tutorial:
A simple demo of how to change the colour of your worlds.

Key Files:
- info.csv - here the default colour of the world is set (20 is the orange and purple halloween theme. There are 20 colour schemes to choose from, although more are added with each update)
- biomes.csv - this is where you set areas of colours in the map. The larger radius is the blend radius between this colour and the default.

Expansion tutorial:
A simple demo of how to use temples to expand the area of influence.

Key Files:
- influence_areas.csv - this is where you set up the position and size of the influence areas
- templePositions.csv - this is where you set the temples, their cost and timers
- unlocks.csv - to unlock an area of influence you must match the influence area with the temple id

Treasure tutorial:
A simple demo of how to place chests and treasure temples in your worlds.

Key Files:
- rewardChests.csv - this is where you setup the chests and their contents
- templePositions.csv - this is where you set the temples and their rewards.

Progression(LevelUps) tutorial:
A simple demo of how to reward the player for hitting population/farm and mine goals. In this example I unlock the god powers via population milestones, the shrines via field levels and give gems on mining levels.

Key Files:
- populationLevels.csv - this is where you set the reward (Card/Sticker) for reaching a certain number of followers.
- grainLevels.csv - this is where you set the reward (Card/Sticker) for building a certain number of fields.
- oreLevels.csv - this is where you set the reward (Card/Sticker) for building a certain number of mines.
- cardData.csv - to make cards appear in the timeline they must have a type of Advance. You can then change the colour of the card ("Research Type") and the number of stickers required ("Research Needed") to unlock it. You can see a much more detailed example if you make a copy of Homeworld or Weyworld.
- unlocks.csv - the powers and shrines are unlocked by having gained and completed the cards

Notes:
- you can't create you own cards, you can only use existing ones. The visual aspects of the cards (name, image etc) are stored in another file not yet exposed.
- unlocks are shared between worlds, so if you have a late Homeworld save it's likely that the powers will already be unlocked and the timeline empty. If you are making your own world to replace Homeworld/Weyworld this won't be much of an issue, but if you want to make a world to go after Weyworld you might want to give resources instead

Astari/enemy tutorial:
A simple demo of how to set up the Astari in your world

Key Files:
- scripts.lua - creates the Astari settlement
- templePositions.csv - creates the Astari Temple
- influence_areas.csv - sets an Astari influence area that you cannot sculpt in
- unlocks.csv - unlock happiness and festivals. Once the Astari are conquered the influence area switches to yours.

Will have to experiment to see just how much can be done with adjustments to these, but some of it sounds potentially promising, like the LevelUps tutorial.

Edit: Guess this was pre-Astari raids, maybe, because I don't see anything that allows the adjustment of that. Takeover conditions are limited to influence (which I imagine also leaves open wiping them out).

Yeah, I remember its announcement being kind of a sidenote to the BFE, and when I first tried it, it didn't appear to do anything. Which is why I've found some of the recent updates mentioning work on it pretty strange, since as far as I could tell it never really worked to begin with, but then as I've already mentioned, here I find all this and I'm left going, "Wait, this has been here how long?"

On a sorta separate note, Raspofabs, any chance you could maybe explain what's up with the terraingen lua script? Not sure if you worked on it at all, but there's literally no documentation for what to do with it that I've found. It sounds like you could mess with the functions included and get some map generation going if you knew what you're doing, however it's...Well, it's a script file. The comments within explain a little of what some of it does (and the names are somewhat self-explanatory), but it's still about as user-friendly as any unfamiliar code happens to be.

No idea where you'd toss it to get it recognized and work its magic either, so even if you did understand the code, that'd still leave it pretty useless.

Edit: As it stands, I don't really see much use for the world editor, since while the other stuff is there to make some significant changes, arguably the next most preferable thing to change (the map design itself) requires working with the existing limited powers. If you want to build a custom map, you're going to find yourself sculpting it just as you would in the normal game, with all the frustrations that includes (narrow sculpt path, double-click RSI for adding hills/mountains' origin points, etc.).

I'd love to completely overhaul mines/fields to produce stickers or something to see how that works as opposed to chests, maybe even excluding chests entirely (or maybe you could tweak them for random card unlocks?), but I don't feel all that motivated working within the existing tired map. Might still be worth it, I guess, as a small experiment, but I dunno.

Yep, totally missed them.
I wasn't aware we were getting a world editor to begin with.

Not that I could find (sounded like maybe Spiderweb found something like that in the options somewhere?).

Aaah, I found it now. It's incredibly unintuitive. You have to copy an existing world to get access to those tools, because...That makes sense...I guess.

Um...Wow. It's really, really raw. Escape exits the game faster than it ever has in an actual game, and the zoom in is way closer than I'd like.

Very lacking in documentation, but I think they said that would be the case anyway, so not surprised there.

Edit:
Okay, so what I've figured out:
Ctrl+Z=Undo.
Ctrl+Y=Redo.
Space=Zoom way way out.
Copy and paste is extremely finicky, but it works like so, expand the selection square to cover the area you want to copy, then pan over to an empty area and right click. It should paste what was within the selection area, but it may not be all of it. I have no idea why as of yet. For some reason it will copy entities atop the terrain (trees/rocks) but not on the terrain itself (blight).

Edit2:
Hey Spiderweb, were those gem seams the result of random gen, or were you able to figure out how to place those manually? Currently trying to figure out the gem placement option, but it's only producing blight (I hope that's an in-joke with one of the frustrated devs and their thoughts towards gems).

Sorry, that's what I was trying to ask, I didn't mean in the sense of placing each gem stone or something (if that's how you read it). So it looks like anything below 0.40 will paint gems, anything between 0.40-0.79 will paint granite, and anything between 0.82-1.40 will paint blight. Good info to know, thanks for the help in spotting that! I thought I'd tried the scroll wheel there, but I must not have (or must not have messed with it enough).

What do you mean about managing them, by the way? I've noticed that it does seem like new game doesn't seem to work with the Homeworld map and going back to it seems to, for some reason, have some of the statues cards available for unlock (fitter followers/something else) and likes to notify me of new gifts (despite none being unlocked). I've not tested any of this with in-progress maps yet, so I'm not sure what effects that might have on those, but I think something in the way it's been built loses connection with our saves or creates distortions in them, causing some overlapping effects from the other worlds that it shouldn't.

Looking more closely at the save folder now, looks like the game creates multiple saves for each world, but I'm not sure how it's configured to select which to load up outside of some very basic world association stuff (e.g. name or something). I'm also not entirely clear on what the presence files hold that helps in reloading, so it wouldn't shock me if all of these different saves are getting muddled up upon reloading, since the game wasn't exactly built for multiple save slots or anything.

Edit:
By the way, now that I've figured out where the world generator option is, I'm betting that's associated with the terraingen I was asking about earlier. Maybe back that up, toss some different numbers in, and you might see some wildly different landscapes.

Edit2:
My Steam thread compiling a bunch of this info was moved to the BFE subforum, I know probably appropriately, but it feels like a death sentence for it there. =/

Is this not prominent enough?

Impressive! I keep considering dabbling with the editor more seriously, but keep running up against the game's fundamental issues. I could rearrange the timeline and even revise how resources are gained (I think), but I have a hard time figuring out where the fun would emerge. Without an effective way to tweak the Astari, nor any resource sinks, it seems best left to just designing some neat looking worlds.

Edit:
By the way, if you're interested in figuring out how to rework the "background" stuff like timeline/rewards, copy Homeworld and check its files for reference. You can see'em all in a spreadsheet which, I imagine, you can then adjust however you will to affect the custom world itself.

Edit2:
Hmm, not sure if much can be done with it, but I'd suggest giving the script file a look if you copy your homeworld, might be some interesting stuff in there.

*digging through it because why not*

Swamps are apparently placed on the world via scripted god powers. That's an interesting way of doing it, I guess.
Probably irrelevant, but the starting tutorial is called the trail. Just thought that was kind of an interesting coincidence.

Had any luck with that? I tried a few things, but I think the structures might be hardcoded for very specific rewards. At first I tried tweaking the Shrine_BigTreasure to toss up a god power card reward, but got nothing. Looked at the Homeworld files and found an old Shrine_GodPower line and tried it, but I don't think that's remained through the updates (or been implemented yet/at all), as nothing appears.

It might work with other stuff, as I didn't try anything else, but if nothing else, finding those old lines was pretty cool. Seems like at some point they were tossing around the idea of unlocking powers via a similar system to what we were looking into, but never got around to implementing it (which with the construction times we've seen, might have been for the better).