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Where is the permissions document?

Now if I wanted to expand an existing 1.0 world. Could I do that with TC? Info just mentions the older versions.

@thedeadlytao

As I said, it's probably best if you set all other biomes to be islands in the Ocean biome. It's not particularly difficult. Just make sure their BiomeRarity setting is high enough to be pretty common.

And once again, start one variable at a time. The mod seems to be quite antagonistic toward large changes. (You've already seen the LandRarity crap...)

If all else fails, I can mess with it myself and see if I can get the right configs for you. If so I'll host them on dropbox and you can download them.

@mysource: thanks for the insight ;) i understand the motivation behind not giving out every little secret to the plugins possibilities. Given we already have a main world created by vanilla MC 1.2.3 to play on our server and i just use TC to create some special event worlds like "monster apocalypse hell" or checking out schematics - i guess what i learned about TC so far would suffice. nevertheless tinkering and trying new things is part of the fun of this mod ;) Thanks and keep it up.

@mysource:

Looking at the last comment: Wäre es gut wenn jemand seine Ergebnisse des WorldGen irgendwo hochlädt um aufzuzeigen wozu TC fähig ist ? Ich könnte noch ein wenig mit den Variablen herumspielen und dann Bilder dazu posten. Für meine Zwecke habe ich bereits eine recht flache Welt welche nur aus Plains/Beach und Ocean besteht erstellt um darin Objekte mit WorldEdit / MCEdit zu platzieren.

Thanks for the nice plugin ! But some ordered documentation to what all the variables do would be really helpful. Looking at the tutorials: Yes, they are helpful but you have to work your way towards understanding the settings by trial-and-error. Guess that's fine too if there wouldn't be so much problems with subtle changes in the configs leading to massive changes in the generated worlds ;)

@firecombat4

I know what you mean there firecombat4 ... I found them VARY hard to follow and missing info and/or outdated/or names of biomes were changed so that youd go your own way, I dont know if those biome names were old names or what .. anyways ... then the "map from image" came out and those are better put together.. it was nice and all, doing it that way but I didnt want JUST the image size world so I went back to the old biome configuring.

Its very messy and alot of trial and error. I m still trying to figure out what some of the variables do .. i.e. "BiomeVolatility" and certian things like % of biome spawn .. I m new to all this but I m plowing my way trying to get my map going. I m making alot of progress, but then I d make a change and throw off the balance and my map outa wack.. hah ha.. My biome config is very hack....

@cleverUN

My specific problem is just getting an ocean with scattered, singular biomes. It seems any LandRarity value besides 97 creates gigantic oceans. It generates land almost as far apart as I want with LandRarity 97, after setting LandSize to 2; so I have a suspicion that there are already few continents by default, and their size simply causes them to overlap and connect their borders, resulting a world of land. This is good, because I can simply contract land size to create expanses of ocean. However, the land still seems to seed a variety of biomes, and I would like a single kind of biome to crop up in the ocean at a time.

To summarize: I can't make a landmass with only one biome type, and the rarity/size values seem hyper sensative.

Note: I cannot set normal biomes to just one kind. I need a variety of biomes found one at a time, disconnected from eachother

@g_BonE

I'll check it out and get back to you, but yes. I can confirm that nether mobs spawned in the overworld with a setup similar to what you had. It was on a multiplayer server, however. I've never seen any of my custom mob setups work in singleplayer.

@thedeadlytao

I've wished for the same stuff many times. It's possible that you could set the average height low enough that everywhere gets generated as ocean, and then set up island biomes in the ocean, but more likely you'd just get miles and miles of completely unbroken ocean. That seems to be a common problem with this mod. I'm not sure why.

For best results, start from the default config and work one variable at a time. If something breaks and changing the variable back doesn't work, start over completely. I've had to do that a few times already.

This plugin is nothing short of extremely useful. I was just about to attempt to code my own generator to make my terrain without even knowing Java. That would have been a disaster. Then, I found this little miracle. Control over even the more intimate parameters of the terrain generator isn't just powerful, it's flexible and allows me to do whatever I want.

I am certainly going to take full advantage of this to create new worlds for people to experience, instead of the regular old minecraft which we have all mastered long ago.

Suggestion: Perhaps some more detailed info about how Land Rarity, Land Size, Biome Rarity, and Biome Size work. I find that minor tweaks modify my world greatly, and in unexpected directions. I'm not sure how to get biomes to generate similar to islands, but with custom size, custom distance (average, anyway), and the capacity to have islands (by not being islands themselves).

@cleverUN: thanks for the heads up regarding the spawn probability lines, unfortunately the mod seems to rewrite the lines i put in there, deleting all the whitespace after the commata when the world gets loaded. any idea why that happens ? can you confirm that nether mobs can be spawned in regular worlds using that setup ?

@deleted_6846210

Yeah, I did address it to you - and the author of this mod, of course.

About the petrified trees - yeah, I'll probably just make a ticket or something. Thanks anyway.

About the lava - nevermind, you apparently don't know enough about the way Minecraft works to answer my questions. I'll put that in the ticket too.

I use the default texture pack because I get tired of waiting for texture packs to update, and Minecraft doesn't support HD texture packs without mods yet.

I'll post more pictures as I keep working on it. Thanks.

@Snaipe_S

You'd probably have to add an ocelot spawn group to the list at the bottom of the "JungleBiomeConfig.ini" and "JungleHillsBiomeConfig.ini" files. If you need more specifics I can give you the exact line but the spawn groups are pretty self-explanatory.

As to your idea, that's exactly what exists in the biome config. It only seems to work on servers, though, not in the single player version.

@mysource @Khoorn

It seems that with the latest version, Ocelots won't spawn in a jungle-type biome. I haven't found one yet, that is. Are there conditions I must add to my biome to see them spawn ?

I also have an idea regarding that, maybe you could add a list property in the biome config file, which would contain the animals/monsters that are allowed to spawn/must be spawned inside the biome. An empty list would be the default behavior.

@g_BonE

g_BonE: You need a space after each comma and colon. The format is kind of odd like that. __________

On another note, I've been working with TerrainControl quite a lot in the last month or so. It's a powerful tool but can be slightly frustrating at times. (So can your slightly broken English, but that's not important.)

I've made quite a few interesting biome types, such as the following:

Gallery on Flickr

The last few screenshots display a common lighting problem which I hope you can do something about, and also a block update problem (note the lava not flowing).

My friends and I use the custom worlds I create on a private server. One of my friends wants me to create a complete skyworld-type realm, but for now the occasional Rift is ok for me. The Fear biome is a nether type in the overworld, including Blazes, PigZombies and Magma Slimes, while the Stone Biome - which you can see in the second screenshot - spawns far too many Iron Golems. (They never despawn... it's kind of bad.)

Thanks for creating such a powerful tool.

I do have one question - you stated in a ticket that block replacement happens after population, so would it theoretically be possible to have petrified trees by replacing logs and leaves with stone and cobblestone?