World Map: Continents - Worldbuilder’s Log 23

[@TimParaxade]

This has been an amazing series so far, but topography is easily the episode I am anticipating the most!

[@SybilantSquid]

Consider fjords. Look into where and when ice caps recently formed on the planet and apply fjords. If you want to go extra, look for glaciation in the past, and make sea stacks and arches where they used to be. Wear away a bit of the coastline and follow the simulated ocean currents and river mouths to see where sediment gets deposited.

[@sachacendra3187]

He'll probably design details about the topography, the river bassins and the climate before designing Fjords i'd imagine

[@yanickschmid765]

I can’t wait till you make mountains! Rain erosion has a large effect on them. Can’t wait for you to go into extreme detail

[@TWlaz]

I would advise anyone disappointed with the geography arc to remind themselves… spec evo and conlanging will each be much, much longer… not to speak of the environmental and historical entires, among many others

[@hunnyjar8937]

If the people who don't like these are still watching these and go to the comments, they should probably work some stuff out. Away from those of us who actually like this content.

[@Kolateak_]

I love the geography arc The super in-depth GPlates stuff too, but to the end of it before this bit got started, I will say it was starting to be a little bit of a drag imo

[@DominoPivot]

​@@hunnyjar8937 As long as people don't whine and act entitled, I don't think it's wrong to acknowledge some of us are not super into geology but curious enough to see where the project is going. Though, it's probably better to have one of these comments with 80+ thumbs up than a hundred comments of "I can't wait for him to get to part X", which I can understand would be disheartening.

[@hunnyjar8937]

@@DominoPivot I mean yeah, if somebody wants to watch the geography content even though they don't like it (???) I'm fine with that. I'd argue that just the act of taking the time to write a comment saying you don't want this part of the series to get any longer is whining in its most basic. It's different if they hide their restlessness in something like "man I can't wait for the conlanging", but just "you should get to the language stuff faster" is kinda 😬

[@Ninjaananas]

I find it awesome that Artifexian takes his time with this. That's the purpose of the series, after all. I hope he also gives culture, climate and biology this much attention.

[@aharris206]

I know it's still some time away, but I'm getting excited for the conlanging portion :D

[@Titanic_Tuna]

Inland Seas and Great Lakes are always fun to draw, they make for such interesting environmental navigation.

[@TWlaz]

Additionally, are you anticipating on releasing your Tectonics page onto the public worldsmith? Even if it requires more elbow grease on the part of the end user, it would still be tremendously helpful! (As someone who’s gone and made a modded version of the worldsmith already, I’m fine getting messy)

[@Zhoystick]

New Video is the best present for my Birthday!!!🎉🎉🎉 Thank you, Edgar!

[@Moonflight021]

I am so excited for glaciation! imo glaciation produces the prettiest and most interesting landscapes. I live in a former glacial lake and the flat landscape, rich soil, and erratics are iconic!

[@Qfeys]

"The latter has gotten unanimous support..." Huh. I thought most people were in favor of keeping it an island.

[@Diesalot-sc9qz]

It looks a bit weird considering it’s on the front active margins, especially with the flat areas behind it

[@jessehunter362]

This is three weeks old and i'm not sure on the etiquette for this, but i looked it up in the comments section of that video, and you've got 9 comments, 5 replies, and 96 likes on the most liked post in favor of making it a horn, and 5 comments saying that it should remain an island arc, with 79 likes on the most liked post in favor of it. If you categorize them by "horn, compromise position, islands", then it's closer to 4 comments in favor of horn, 6 comments in favor of a compromise position to preserve the bay, and 4 comments in favor of it being an island, with the compromise position to support the bay being most popular. I don't think it's unanimous but it's still a majority supporting some kind of horn.

[@anticksss]

Maybe you could add another large inland sea or lake somewhere in your southern continent or perhaps a lake chain like the great lakes in america? It could be interesting because the great lakes here are so large that they have massive influence on weather in the northeastern united states. They also hold over 80 percent of North America's freshwater supply, and almost a fifth of the total surface freshwater on earth. The area of the great lakes is just about 0.0016 the area of all land on earth, you could take creative liberty and round it to 0.002, and that would shave a little more off of your total area count.

[@Diesalot-sc9qz]

There could be a Great Lakes in the filled in sea of mini Australia

[@Great_Olaf5]

Yeah, I was thinking something similar.

[@diegoscb]

Awesome! I know it probably takes a lot of extra work with editing and other stuff I'm unaware of, but I honestly would've enjoyed watching the part where you add "continental shelf under the island arcs and our little iceland" if you're gonna do it anyway

[@TheTrekkie12]

This is super cool, Edgar! I hope you did some wrist stretching what with working with all the little vertices in there

[@talideon]

It'd be interesting to see a 3D render of the planet, even at this stage, to get a better idea of how it looks. Is that something Gplates can do?

[@anticksss]

I was also thinking that, if we can see the planet as a globe it might give us better insight into what things could be changed around

[@Canada_Goose]

Yes

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

love this series

[@swanstarr1441]

Couldn't you put a couple lakes in the mini australia analogue? Because the area of water it covers looks pretty similar to the lake in the north to me, maybe I'm wrong though.

[@Diesalot-sc9qz]

Might allow that region to have something appealing and interesting for world building

[@GrayderFox]

Ah, man, a ton of effort later, the planet is a real boy. Or I guess girl? Either way, real cool to see it all come together now. :D Eager to get to know this place better.

[@hungvu262]

4:52 northern mountains should be thinner 5:32 could extend shelf to big island, island shape indicates less mountinous backside like sumatra or papua. Southern peninsula's northern half is a bit large, maybe peter it out like the sundas considering it hasn't been subducting the island arc in the south. spur on austrlian continent probably should be curved like antarctic peninsula.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

5:45 looks like a cartoon weasel looking at an acorn in his paw

[@theorixlux]

Do you know if Wikipedia's 29% landmass includes ice shelves, caps, and whatnot? It is technically made-up of a solid where we can find some terrestrial ecosystems. On the other hand, what effect it would have on the percentage would likely vary from year to year; so much so that the percentage could only be useful for meteorological or climate change analysis.

[@LeeTheGoat]

Good video but I suggest you show how the coastlines look without the orogeny colors under it, just the turquoise, cuz it’s really hard to judge with them

[@Terran123rd]

I wonder if the next episode will incorporate the latest update from worldbuildingpasta. Wilbur is such a fun program.

[@volcryndarkstar]

Gotta show the globe projection at the end of each episode, man.

[@DanielCrabbprn]

After a few months of work (I had to restart a few times due to tech issues) I finished my simulation, and moved onto the coastlines, only to discover my continental shelves coverage is about 17 million square kilometers short of Earth's land coverage (Roughly one Russia). I was, like Edgar, aiming for roughly Earth's land coverage. Now I have to decide whether to keep it reduced, go back to the drawing board (yay, more months), or add some land that has no tectonic reason for being there (not what I want at all). Sadness at all three options, if anybody has any advice, I'd love to hear it.

[@boatt_swag]

You could just ignore it. Literally no one but you will care

[@falsevacuum4667]

I've gotta know what you decided mate lol

[@DanielCrabbprn]

​@@falsevacuum4667 I decided to go with the reduced land area. Eventually justifying it as less land area, less areas I need to end up fleshing out with civilizations and cultures.

[@falsevacuum4667]

@@DanielCrabbprn Probably for the best

[@Sabersonic]

Interesting video as always, and I have to say there is a lot of artistic license when it comes to designing the shelves and coasts of the continents. Granted there are two rules of design depending on which fault line and direction the coast is located, but everything else is rather subjective and due to one's tastes. I assume that the rift valleys seen in the continental plate divisions would have some kind of impact on the designs of the coasts or is it already taken into account due to the shape of the modern continents through their tectonic evolution? Still, useful as always. Speaking of useful, I was finally able to find the html and php coding for seeing if a moon can exist around a planet, becomes a ring, or becomes nothing thanks to a particular AI that I'd rather not fully disclose after all these years. Bad news, I am having some issues trying to get the darn thing to even run properly on a webpage without paying for a PHP hosting service. Figures... Guess I'll just make it into an excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded.

[@carginfer2353]

Huehuehue, can't wait for the next part :]

[@PizzaChess69]

One question for building my own system: Is it realistic for one star to host more than one habitable world? Can two or three planets fit inside the habitable zone without the orbits becoming unstable?

[@ValentineTheCat]

Yes, as long as your stars higher than like 0.3SM or something it should be fine. Plus, to be fair, the habitable zone is more of a loose guide, planets don't have to be inside of it to have liquid water on their surface. Not to mention there are other solvents that act closely to water in completely different temperatures, so water isn't necessarily the only possible liquid to power the biochemistry of your organisms.

[@blepblops]

2:04 a classic average vs mean discrepancy

[@MjSchreiber806]

You have the videos in this playlist backwards

[@itisALWAYSR.A.]

re: extra stuff to cut out.... to be honest I think I concur with your decision that this is about it. If I understand things right.... because of projection distortions, trimming away the land round the equator latitudes is more "efficient" at reducing land area than it would be at the poles. As such my gut of doing something with the land mass enveloping the south pole wouldn't change much at all...? Anyways, good job, it's very satisfying to see a world take shape!

[@mysterioussoup3393]

I'm really confused. I opened up the worldsmith in my web browser but it won't let me exit it and the app isn't available in my device. What do I do?

[@shadowsfromolliesgraveyard6577]

Why do passive margins sometimes have narrows shelves & sometimes wide? I tried to do a tonne of research into it but I got a bunch of contradictory & sometimes nosensical answers The only thing that bore out seems to be wide shelves are associated with glacial formations, which is why they're wider near the artic/antartic, but even that I don't have a lot of trust in

[@Diesalot-sc9qz]

Perhaps erosion

[@Jack-we7no]

Hiiiii

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

Fjords and silt deltas are going to change a lot... But I'm late to the comments so...

[@khilorn]

Did some9ne say topology? 👀

[@rickvrieling]

Goodday

[@lionvida9526]

E24?

[@sauschwaenzle420]

Why is there a Hitler duck on thumbnail

[@volcryndarkstar]

Well?... We're waiting.

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

I'm not understanding your pronunciation at 1:22. The automatic translation reads "bought" and "abort" and I think neither of those words are what you are pronouncing.

[@crusatyr1452]

He says "abut". It's not a super common word and I would've said "touch" or "hit". Google defines it as such: "(of an area of land or a building) be next to or have a common boundary with." Hope this helps :)

[@daniel_rossy_explica]

@@crusatyr1452 It helps tremendoulsy. Thanks.