>Start new game to check the ocean stuff
>Tweak the setting a bit to make it more likely that there is water (intent was to make a world were fjord-like valleys were a thing so I could larp as a dwarven hermit)
>Spawnpoint is a tiny island in the middle of a huge ocean with no land in sight except another island a few hundred blocks south west

Guess I'll be larping as a Maori then.