*Defensibility on 123456789 assumes you build on the high plateau. Start with or 42 if you’re new. Graduate to 9001 or 271828 for beauty. And when you’re ready to prove yourself, try 0 – if you survive, you’ve mastered Kingdoms and Castles .
In Kingdoms and Castles , the procedural generation of your island world is governed by a simple numeric seed . Change the seed, and you change everything: the shape of the land, the distribution of stone and iron, the size of forests, the course of rivers, and even the attack angles of Viking and dragon raids.