Talk:Seed (level generation)

As of yet, there are a few theorys as to how these things work. I am somewhat new to wikis, so I probably shpuldnt have dumped a theory in the page. Shall we post them here? Lugnut1206 22:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I have double checked that the same seed results in the same map. The spawn is different though, otherwise the seed is pretty much pointless.Lordhazzard 22:46, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_seed

The seed number is used by the random number generator to make a sequence of "random" numbers to generate a "random" map. So using the same seed number should always generate the same map. I think the first random number generator took the middle four digits of a six-digit number and squared it to get the next number (or something like that).--PurpleKiwi 22:51, 22 February 2011 (UTC)