This is the forest 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, Fields, Pastures, Hills, Mountains, Desert. ( https://www.factionfiles.com/ff.php?action=file&id=8229 ) The original map is huge, so only really works with 15+ players, so I have converted 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 2:24min it switches to day and unlocks the tree house for a new play area.

Changes for version 1.1:
- Big performance improvements.
- LOD's added to all the meshes, so not so much geometry needs to render at once. Also players can lower their character detail settings or LOD scale settings, to improve performance even more if they need it.
- Replaced most of the 22 kHz ambient sounds with higher quality 44 kHz versions.
- Put the new meshes and ambient sounds in a separate vpp so they will also apply to older Catan maps if they are played.
- Added an option for "Low Graphics Mode" that disables all the small decorative meshes everywhere as well as all particle emitters and all dynamic lights, for even more performance if people need it. Switch between low and normal graphics mode any time, by double tapping your use key.
- Added firefly emitters at night to give it even more of a warm summer night vibe.
- Changed the mesh ambient light scale to match SP, for darker night and more contrasty lighting on meshes during the day.
- Tweaked the fire/smoke/spark/waterfall emitters to look a bit better.
- Custom debris for dead trees when they are destroyed.
- Higher life on dead trees so they take a bit more shots before they get destroyed.
- Higher resolution skyboxes.
- Added a layer to the skyboxes to help them blend with the haze a bit better.
- Thicker haze.
- Added a respawn point inside the tree house that gets enabled during the day.
- Prevented all the meshes from exploding on night/day switch, which would temporarily cause a big fps drop.
- Various other small tweaks.


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Notes:
- This map runs about 3x faster and looks best using the new Direct3D 11 renderer in the alpine faction launcher settings, so highly recommended to use that option if you have a dedicated GPU that supports it.
- This map requires Alpine Faction v1.2.2 or newer (https://alpinefaction.com) to run.

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Name	Date Added	Downloads	Quick Links
Settlers of Catan - Forest V1.1 (newest)	04/09/2026	1	[Download] [Install]
Settlers of Catan - Forest	09/12/2025	172	[Download] [Install]

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