¶ 7 Days to Die: KingGen World Map Generator
KingGen is an alternative for the in-game Random World Generator (RWG) on 7 Days to die. Using KingGen, players can create customisable random world for their servers (which you can host, with us!) The tool was released on 31 March 2021 by KingSlayerGM.
¶ Section 1: Generating and Importing your world
¶ Step 1: Installation
1. Download and install the KingGen application for your computer (client-side)
¶ Step 2: Generating a Map
Run the program and then follow the steps below. Further down this page is a more indepth explanation of the configuration options
1. Set your map name (E.g IndifferentBroccoliMap)
2. Set your map seed (Optional)
3. Set your map size
4. Configure the different heightmaps and other advanced settings (Explained below)
5. Press the Generate World button
¶ Step 3: Importing your new world
To upload your newly generated map to your server, you'll need access the file manager
1. Create a GeneratedWorlds folder in .local/share/7DaysToDie
2. Upload your generated map folder (E.g IndifferentBroccoliMap) into the GeneratedWorlds folder
3. Navigate to Basic Server Settings on your server dashboard. Scroll down until you see Game World and set this to Custom Map, then input the name of the map into the box that appears below.
Note: Alternatively, you can set this value in the config file
Home/steamcmd/7D2D/serverconfig.xml
4. Restart your server
¶ Section 2: Additional information
¶ Configuration
Below is some more information about the configuration options that KingGen offers and what they mean.
- World Name: The name of the folder and the name you will see in 7 Days to Die.
- World Size: The size options are 4K, 8K, and 16K. Each map is a square with the dimensions 4096x4096, 8192x8192, and 16384x16384, respectively. The map areas are 16Km2, 64Km2, 256Km2.
- World Seed: The seed determines how the map is randomly generated. You can input a seed or let it generate one for you
- Points of Interest (POI) Placement
- City, town and village generation
- Landscape generation
- World border
- Heightmap imports
¶ Map Preview Legend
- Wilderness (Red)
- Old Residential (Orange)
- New Residential (Yellow)
- Downtown (Green)
- Industrial (Blue)
- Commercial (Pink)
- Old West (Maroon)
- Trader (Cyan)
- Spawn Point (White)
¶ Benefits
KingGen offers numerous benefits over vanilla world generation:
| Size of world | Execution time | RAM usage |
| 4K | 30 seconds | 500 MB |
| 8K | 2 minutes | 1.5 GB |
| 12K | 5 minutes | 3 GB |
| 16K | 10 minutes | 6 GB |
- Beautiful generated worlds, with natural landscapes and large cities
- Fast world generation, including on older machines
- Random biome placement for limited repetition
- Smart biome distribution (e.g. deserts and snow never touch)
- Noise-based, rather than stamp-based. This means no two lakes, mountains, or other features look identical
- Supports advanced customization
¶ Performance
KingGen has fast performance. Below is a summary of execution time and RAM usage for various map sizes: