This is the field biome from mine and Phasmomancer's RFU8 Settlers of Catan map, extracted and converted into a stand-alone map. The theme for RFU8 was board games so we made a map based on the 6 biomes of Catan - Forests (Wood), Fields (Wheat), Pastures (Wool), Hills (Brick), Mountains (Ore), Desert (Robber). ( https://www.factionfiles.com/ff.php?action=file&id=8229 ) The original map is huge, so only really works with 15+ players, so I'm slowly going through and converting each biome into its own map, which will work much better for smaller player counts.

The map has a day and night. It starts out as night and after about 2:16min it switches to day and unlocks the Cabin and Outhouse for new play areas.

Changes from original:
- Built the inside of the cabin.
- Built an outhouse.
- Added some bushes to the top area.
- Top area opened up for gameplay.
- Expanded all the wheat covered sections for more places to hide.
- Added 2 more wheat piles and 1 more boulder for more cover.
- Carts no longer breakable so they can be used for cover.
- More respawn points.
- More items.
- Added a campfire and benches to the beach. At night the fire is lit with logs and during the day it is just ash with a little bit of smoke.
- Added cave-ins to the end of all the tunnels, to give a logical reason why players can no longer travel between biomes.
- Skyboxes instead of sky meshes, so the edge of the sky feels further away and ocean looks bigger. However, now the skies won't be blended with the haze.
- Higher resolution skybox textures.
- Darkened ambient light and shadows about 25%.
- Higher quality music.
- New night music track.
- Music doesn't loop anymore.
- Higher lightmap resolution.
- Covered up some of RED's bad shadow calculation, on the ground behind the house, with fake shadows.
- Unlit the bundles of wheat in the house shadow.
- Made the haze a little thicker.

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Notes:
- This is not a high performance map due to all the vegetation meshes. At night I get lows around 160fps and daytime lows around 190fps, and that's without any other players.
- This map requires Alpine Faction v1.1 or newer (https://alpinefaction.com) to run.

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Bugs:

- If you have your music volume setting turned all the way down before loading the map, the intro track wont play, even if you turn the setting back up after loading the map. It needs to have some volume prior to loading for the intro music to work.

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Name	Date Added	Downloads	Quick Links
Settlers of Catan - Field (newest)	09/18/2025	1	[Download] [Install]