Yeah, that's actually a record minimum. When I developed The One Day Worldbuilder I had about 75 worlds saved up to chose from.

You have obviously put a lot of thought into this map, and I think it's looking good so far.

Watch you don't make the mountains too big, and scale the farmland fill down quite a lot if you can.

@Wyvern - I forgot how many points a snowflake had ;)

This particular symbol is a complete ridge, starting with a mountain and extended into a ridge from one of it's 3 buttresses. I think 3 seems to be the magic number of butresses (or maybe in tight folds only 2 buttresses). All the Himalayan watershed lines join at 3-way nodes. 4 would be rare, I guess. Even Mt Everest only seems to have 3 main butresses. There's probably a really simple geomorphological reason for this, but I can't think why it might be.

Incidentally, I rather like the Nepalese(?) name for Everest - Arkhale. I wonder how it's pronounced.

@Royal Scribe - Thank you :)

This week in live mapping, Ralf will be creating a regional adventuring map using the the Mike Schley overland style. Come along and join in the chat live on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2Vh5oz05Q

Or watch it right here if you prefer*

*There's no live chat on the forum.

All the live mapping sessions are recorded and available on the Profantasy Youtube channel.

Thanks :)

I've adjusted the badland fills. The backgrounds now all match, but I'm a little unsure of the patch colours.

You could group or multipoly them.

It depends what season you see it in.

They're just sheet effects.

It's not too difficult to add a third of your own, though I'm going to stop at 2 for the template or it just gets a bit too heavy to explain everything in what is supposed to be a brief mapping guide.

I think I have most things covered, though not specifically mangrove. There is a swamp fill, and a tropical forest fill, so you could make a mangrove using a patchwork of those two. However, unless your mangrove is the size of a county it won't really register as more than a dot on a world map.

If this is a map for a whole country you probably need an overland mapping style. CC3 comes with a small collection of default styles. If you click the New Map |CC2NEW|button, pick the Overland Maps type and the Decide settings myself option, the Next dialog you get will reveal which overland styles you currently have available.

I've been here for years and have all the overland styles, but if you are only just starting you may only have a one or two. One of them will be the CC3 Mike Schley Overland style, which is one of the most flexible and useful mapping styles we have.

Pick your choice of style and click Next, which will take you to a window where you will have settings you can make, such as for the size of the map you want.

If this is the first map you have made I recommend watching this live mapping video. The sound track is a bit messed up before the start point I have given you a couple of minutes in.