Originally posted by Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ:

Is there a way to know if you're in a bad seed? Aside from personal preferences, of course.
I've been in 2 worlds right now and one was a big meadow surrounded by big black forest with the altar for the 2nd boss pretty handy.
Now I'm on a huge meadow everywhere with very small patches of black forest that are not big enough to spawn interesting things like dungeons and minerals and the 2nd boss was really really far. Plus sailing is not great because I'm surrounded by lakes and I only found one narrow gulf to exit into the ocean (or I could walk all the way to the shore and make a mini-dock there far away from my base). Oh and I can't find swamps anywhere, just mountains which I can't access due to cold.

So, I guess my question for seasoned players would be... Did I get unlucky? I'm still having lots of fun but I feel like I'm missing out on something. Or is that just the way it's supposed to be? I'm not complaining, for the record, just wondering if trying out other seeds and looking for specific things there would be more fun.

Thanks in advance.

Good/bad in this sense is subjective. You feel you're unlucky while other players may like it for its challenges to venture out from or other reasons.

If you're simply looking for a map with all or most all bosses on one land mass or the like, there are various thread that have discussed that or you can use the wiki's seed list for such.