# What world settings do you normal play with?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [November 23, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920 "2015-11-23T20:04:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@supernoob0122.inc](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/supernoob0122.inc)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/1 "2015-11-23T20:04:11Z")
what mods/loot settings/starting points/spawn settings/city size do you normally use?
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### Author:  [@rremyroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/rremyroy)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/2 "2015-11-23T20:29:55Z")
Everyone’s got their own preferences. Are my recent ones:
No mods and the following settings
Here is my current game start:
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### Author:  [@Pyrite](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pyrite)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/3 "2015-11-23T23:36:13Z")
I go pretty close to you, but I do 90 day seasons for realism. I also leave random NPCs off and spawn them in when I find a place it looks appropriate for them to be, like Evac Shelter basements and boarded up houses.
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### Author:  [@supernoob0122.inc](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/supernoob0122.inc)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/4 "2015-11-24T14:21:40Z")
[quote=“rremyroy, post:2, topic:10920”]Everyone’s got their own preferences. Are my recent ones:
No mods and the following settings
Here is my current game start:
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What is the monster evolution scaling factor for? I changed the setting several times and i haven’t noted any difference.
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### Author:  [@rremyroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/rremyroy)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/5 "2015-11-24T14:48:40Z")
> [@supernoob0122.inc](#):
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> What is the monster evolution scaling factor for? I changed the setting several times and i haven’t noted any difference.
It determine how fast monster will evolve and get harder with time. Last game I played, I lasted for more than a year but moving anywhere was really hard because many monsters evolved to hulk, acidic, necromancer, master, electric, etc.
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### Author:  [@plaidman](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/plaidman)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/6 "2015-11-24T16:16:06Z")
> [@rremyroy](#):
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> It determine how fast monster will evolve and get harder with time. Last game I played, I lasted for more than a year but moving anywhere was really hard because many monsters evolved to hulk, acidic, necromancer, master, electric, etc.
It should be noted that lower numbers means they evolve faster. Not sure if that’s what you’re going for.
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### Author:  [@woofinator](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/woofinator)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/7 "2015-11-24T16:52:22Z")
I like to play with mundane zombies but with dynamic NPC’s at 3.0 spawn rate, it makes it more about survival with humans and you have to be really careful confronting somebody haha. Died a lot of times from dropping my station to not provoke someone and then picking it back up only to be shotgunned in the face
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### Author:  [@rremyroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/rremyroy)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/8 "2015-11-24T17:51:16Z")
> [@plaidman](#):
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> It should be noted that lower numbers means they evolve faster. Not sure if that’s what you’re going for.
I guess I’m starting a new world 🙂
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### Author:  [@pisskop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pisskop)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/9 "2015-11-24T18:12:48Z")
7 city size, surrounded start, .75 item spawns, 1.2 critter spawn, wanderers, static, summer, 0000, burning building scenerio, 21 day seasons.
the dark lets me slip away, the summertime limits the available food and helps my usually underclothed characters, and the burning building forces me to get out and not turtle.
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### Author:  [@Dampe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dampe)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/10 "2015-11-24T20:00:43Z")
08:00 Spring start.
Items set to 1.0, Monster Spawn set to 1.0, City Size set to 4, NPC spawn rate to 0.25, 91-day seasons.
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### Author:  [@saltmummy626](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saltmummy626)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/11 "2015-11-25T00:50:06Z")
30 day seasons, NPC, wandering NPC, 8 city size, 0.01 item spawn, monster evolution 5.00, spawn rate scaling 5.00
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### Author:  [@IguanaMan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/IguanaMan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/12 "2015-11-25T01:17:25Z")
> [@saltmummy626](#):
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> 0.01 item spawn
Damn, how do you even survive? Or was that meant to be 0.1?
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### Author:  [@pisskop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pisskop)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/13 "2015-11-25T01:37:55Z")
You survive off the zombies you kill.
Zombies drop so much stuff. And since you can only use renewable resources (what zombies all dorp is renewable) you learn what does and doesnt work.
Some starting skill in combat helps, as would an optimized build
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### Author:  [@deknegt](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deknegt)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/14 "2015-11-25T10:30:19Z")
[quote=“rremyroy, post:2, topic:10920”]Everyone’s got their own preferences. Are my recent ones:
No mods and the following settings
Here is my current game start:
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Is that the default fontset? it looks different (better) somehow.
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### Author:  [@rremyroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/rremyroy)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/15 "2015-11-25T16:58:15Z")
> [@deknegt](#):
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> Is that the default fontset? it looks different (better) somehow.
No. It’s a custom one for my taste and somewhat high resolution. It requires the Consolas font which is not free but [you can acquire it freely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas). Here is the content of my fonts.json config file:
```auto
{
"fontblending" : true,
"fontwidth" : 9,
"fontheight" : 18,
"fontsize" : 18,
"typeface" : "Consolas Bold",
"map_fontwidth" : 9,
"map_fontheight" : 18,
"map_fontsize" : 18,
"map_typeface" : "Consolas Bold",
"overmap_fontwidth" : 9,
"overmap_fontheight" : 18,
"overmap_fontsize" : 18,
"overmap_typeface" : "Consolas Bold"
}
```
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### Author:  [@deknegt](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deknegt)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-world-settings-do-you-normal-play-with/10920/16 "2015-11-25T19:59:59Z")
> [@rremyroy](#):
>
> [quote=“deknegt, post:14, topic:10920”]Is that the default fontset? it looks different (better) somehow.
No. It’s a custom one for my taste and somewhat high resolution. It requires the Consolas font which is not free but [you can acquire it freely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas). Here is the content of my fonts.json config file:
`
{
"fontblending" : true,
"fontwidth" : 9,
"fontheight" : 18,
"fontsize" : 18,
"typeface" : "Consolas Bold",
"map_fontwidth" : 9,
"map_fontheight" : 18,
"map_fontsize" : 18,
"map_typeface" : "Consolas Bold",
"overmap_fontwidth" : 9,
"overmap_fontheight" : 18,
"overmap_fontsize" : 18,
"overmap_typeface" : "Consolas Bold"
}
`[/quote]
Cheers mate, I agree that it looks pretty great on higher resolution. Much less aggressive on the eyes and generally just smoother!