Is Random deterministic between platforms?

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I’m making an online game with a zelda-like dungeon layout. Instead of sending the layout to each player, I thought about sending a randomizer seed and just running the level generator on each client. I did some testing on the machines that I have available, but it’s far from exhaustive proof. Has anyone else done something similar or know for sure if a seeded randomizer will always yield the same set of numbers no matter the system it’s running on?

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I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that’s the entire point of seeds. Otherwise it would be pretty useless in things like Minecraft and Terraria.

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Yes, use a RandomNumberGenerator object to better control what is advancing your RNG state. To a computer, no equation is truly random, RNG is deterministic given the same initial seed.

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