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Reversing Factorio's RNG

255 points · 48 comments · jheitmann

  1. 6yyyyyy · · focus · HN ↗
    Games, especially multiplayer games, should start using CSPRNGs and hash functions for random events. This has in particular been a problem for Minecraft where people can reverse-engineer coordinates from screenshots of natural terrain. Most games don't need so much randomness that performance is an issue.
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