Error when choosing cabin or LMOE as starting location

[system]

There’s a random chance that upon choosing a new game with said locations (and after having confirmed your character creation), the screen goes black with the following message:
DEBUG: Could not find starting overmap terrain cabin
followed by
DEBUG: Could not find starting place for character
after that, you start the game either in an open field or inside a forest.

I started a new game 20 times in each location, and the above error resulted 6 times when choosing the cabin. It is less frequent with LMOE (only 2) but still happens since they usually spawn close to forests as well.

[deadmerits]

What city size are you using? Sometimes even with the default 4 it can still not have a suitable location that you selected available.

[system]

Yes, I am using 4 as city size.
However, I always spawned in the middle of nowhere, with no town in sight. Only once I managed to see 4 houses at the egde of the overmap, but that’s it.

[KA101]

It’s not uncommon to have a rare structure not generate on the starting overmap; known issue with random mapgen. This is an issue but a comparatively minor one, and if I had to fix it NOW I’d remove the option to start in an LMOE or cabin.

[ramesesniblet]

It’s not just restricted to LMOE or cabin, sometimes as mall start, or even cop/firefighter start. Generating new worlds until a valid spawn happens isn’t such a big deal, but it would be nice if worlds had a way of creating at least one of these locations, rather than removing them or ignoring the problem.

For those suffering the same problem: use the save template option and generate a few worlds until it works.

[vache]

A solution might be to change the minimum occurrences in overmap_specials.json to require at least one cabin/LMOE. These occurrences were pulled from the initial specials implementation and are not really balanced against the set of specials that exist now.

[Snaaty]

Personally, I’d like to see a change in mapgen (no idea how to that, sigh) that makes it more likely for towns to have 1 of every building rather than 4 gun shops or so.

Random generation is good, but it also leads to sometimes really strange town layouts, imo. If there was some mechanism that checked if certain real-life “common” buildings like fire stations, doctor’s office, are not at all there in your big town, to place one of them instead of the eleventh grocery store.