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I've had a bit of free time come my way recently and I decided to use it to tackle the map of my conworld. I'm pretty sure I've gotten loads wrong but I would appreciate any feedback anyone here may have regarding these, especially if there are any glaring mistakes.

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The above link contains the tectonic plates of my conworld as well as how I think the Ocean currents would work, red arrows for warm hot water and blue arrows for cold water

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This link contains my climate map. I believe I've allocated way too much savannah.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Looks fine to me at first glance.

There are a few places where you go straight from Aw to BWh, where you should probably have some BSh in between.
Also, there should probably be some Am between the Af and Aw.
And the Am areas may be a bit too large.

Daistallia wrote:Looks fine to me at first glance.

There are a few places where you go straight from Aw to BWh, where you should probably have some BSh in between.
Also, there should probably be some Am between the Af and Aw.
And the Am areas may be a bit too large.

Thanks for the feedback. I've made some changes based upon it, besides updating the colour key between Monsoon and Steppe so they are easier to tell apart.

I've reduced the amount of Aw, pared back the Am, extended the BWh and added in some BSh where I believe warranted (and assigned it it's own colour). I am much happier with the climate map as it is now.

spiral continent
are those plausible ? [legitimate question, idrk]

sad thing is me being kinda colorblind and bad with colors to boot, and the colors in the map being relatively unintuitive [mountain is yellow? steppe is deep brown?] i can't much comment on climates

I do see, however, that the ekona plate does something weird near the meridian: by the namesake it moves in two different directions without fracturing, which is weird.

Torque wrote:spiral continent
are those plausible ? [legitimate question, idrk]

sad thing is me being kinda colorblind and bad with colors to boot, and the colors in the map being relatively unintuitive [mountain is yellow? steppe is deep brown?] i can't much comment on climates

I do see, however, that the ekona plate does something weird near the meridian: by the namesake it moves in two different directions without fracturing, which is weird.

Yeah I choose weird colours for the climates but for some reason I find them intuitive to read like that.

The arrows on the Ekona plate are a mistake caused by me staying up too late to finish the map and really shouldn't be there.

As for the shapes, well I just find them aethestically pleasing. The spiral shape maybe unlikley but I'd wager it's not impossible, and in conworlding that is good enough for me.

That peninsula on your Arctic continent will not be subtropical, except maybe in the far south, I think- the ice cap is going to be too much of an influence.

You have too much Mediterranean climate, especially in the southern hemisphere. It's not going to reach to 55 or 56 degrees; it will, tops, reach to 41 or 42, and I don't think you'd get the current down there (in the south-western continent) for it to reach beyond 40.

The interior desert in your southwestern continent will be hot, not cold. It's too close to the equator. Your savannah looks to be in the right places.

I'm sure there's else. I ought to do my own map one of these days...

I don't see any arrow indicating the movement of the Ekona plate. There is one at the Imbar plate, and you should be aware of that if you draw several arrows along the width of a polar plate, they will appear point in slightly different directions on the map due to the projection. The Uitair plate and the one to the west of it go in pretty much the same direction, which is unrealistic. Your current are a little unclear, at some places they seem to stop and it's hard to understand where the water goes. An especially weird place is at the northern tip of the eastern continent. Currents go both east and west from that point, so how does water arrive there?

Thankyou Qwynegold and FearfulJesuit for your feedback. It's been much appreciated and I've incorporated as much of it as I felt was prudent. I have redone the Tectonic Map of my Conworld and made further alterations to my climate map as a result.


My Climate Map has also been updated, taking note of a lot recent feedback



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The Southernmost tip of Imbar remains sub-tropical, given it's position I doubt it could be anything but, however I have reduced the area given over to that climate. I've also added in an archipelago to the west of the Minobi Continent which lies on the tectonic fault line between the Shozen and Castibar Plates. These Islands are desert for a specific reason. The absence of this archipelago was an oversight previously, home to a culture I am developing and had planned to include on one of the bigger islands between Anka and Minobi before I realised these islands were completely unsuitable for my intent. Necessity in this case is the mother of invention.

I have also greatly reduced the amount of AM climate on my conworld after realising I had been much too generous.

This Climate map feels fairly final to me, and if it isn't I am getting pretty close. Regardless, if I use Guns, Germs and Steel as a rough guide, it seems the most dynamic area of my conworld for Humanity is going to be the Southern Minobi Continent as well as the Shozen sub-continent and parts of the Reizen sub-continent. (Shozen is the large island mass off the southwest coast, Reizen is the hook shaped mass to the north)

The temperate regions of Imbar and the temperate regions of the sub-continent of Lytar could form a similar area. On a more detailed map I would show there are plenty of small island chains between Imbar and Lytar that were likely used for travel between the two regions (in terms of spreading ideas and long distance trading ala ancient europe and ancient china). The Archipelagos that lie between the four major landmasses could also mean that most major infectious diseases would spread across the world in decades meaning the various inhabitants would have SOME measure of protection between diseases common half a world away.