I genned a world just earlier with a massive ocean. flew across it for a LONG time, came across a grassland island, then the ocean kept on going. might plug the seed in to a survival mode game and take a single sapling and find the island..
I really like these big oceans. I spawned on an island and the first thing I did was build a boat and I just cruised around for half a MC day until reaching a desert.
You know what would be cool? Have the genned world loop back on itself.. become an actual globe.. I mean, having it the size of the earth is still HUGE. Each block is what, 1 meter cubed? That would still be a huge world in game terms.
This way, you could have far more.. important boundries to continents and what not. Though, having an in-game ocean the literal size of the pacific.. or even the atlantic? Kinda massive. Just kinda. I mean.. our little wooden boats.. not ready for that kind of journey.
You don't spawn on an "ocean map." Several cartographs show there is far more land biomes than oceans biomes in each seed but you just had the luck of ending up on the deserted island that happens to be directly in the center of all the connected oceans. All Mojang needs to do is alter the spawn code to restrict ocean biomes as a spawn location. Spawn on the mainland instead and we'll walk to the ocean if we want to.
I know it's not an ocean map. I was just calling it that because it was a lot of ocean biomes all next to each other with no other biome breaking the monotony.
So... what you are saying is that if I spawn on a GIANT landmass with biome after biome after biome, only broken up by rivers and the occasional small "swamp lake", that at some point it will end and be lots of ocean biomes and no land?
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It's only annoying when you start on an island with no trees...
A single Tree can be the start of a whole island kingdom :biggrin.gif:
Fah, just enter a ravine, find a mineshaft, dig up the wooden supports!
One really nice thing about the islands is that it's pretty simple to make your main one hostile-mob proof. No animals, though. I wonder if there will be a way to 'introduce' animal populations, once animals are persistent. I guess you can use eggs to spawn chickens, but the only way I can think of for the other animals involves giant over-ocean railways, which...how unsightly!
So... what you are saying is that if I spawn on a GIANT landmass with biome after biome after biome, only broken up by rivers and the occasional small "swamp lake", that at some point it will end and be lots of ocean biomes and no land?
Ya I'm assuming theres a point where theres nothing but oceans for miles after seeing this carto on reddit.
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Places the seed and swims away slowly.
Fascinating ocean seeds. Feels very lonely but you could create some amazing things here. I hope these expansive ocean biomes are here to stay.
For the above, keeping swimming south (in the direction of the setting sun) and you'll eventually hit a forest continent that transitions to swamp and desert.
The seed BEST SEED EVER (all caps) puts you in an ocean world, with a few small to moderate sized islands around that we've been able to explore to far. One of them (which we moved to from our original tiny spawn island) has an abandoned mine underground that goes on so long we haven't been able to find the end yet.
The only naturally-occurring tree we found was on the tiny spawn island, but since it dropped saplings we've since been able to grow an entire forest's worth of trees, and still have many saplings in storage. We farm wheat, and fish, for food, and we've recently started farming melons from seeds we found in the old mine.
I'm currently in the middle of construction of a small fortress, complete with lookout tower that surveys the entire island and surrounding seas. I'll probably begin work on the boat docks inside the naturally-occurring bay that exists on that island.
One thing I think is strange, though, is that there are never any neutral mobs. We haven't seen a single cow, chicken, or pig on any island the entire time we've been playing here. Anyone know why that is?
Anyone know why neutral mobs (cows, chickens, sheep, pigs) don't spawn in these ocean biomes? Is that intentional? I suppose it would be more realistic, since it would be difficult for those types of animals to get out that fan into the ocean...
But it does make life out there more difficult, especially because without chickens, you can't make arrows. You can only scrounge what the skeletons drop.
Anyone know why neutral mobs (cows, chickens, sheep, pigs) don't spawn in these ocean biomes? Is that intentional?
Animals only spawn on grass although it seems they spawn in water if it's only 1 block deep and the bottom is grass. If you do have grass available, you can even take advantage of this by creating animal farms underground by leading the grass growth down into it (which takes a ludicrous amount of time, but it's possible).
Animals only spawn on grass although it seems they spawn in water if it's only 1 block deep and the bottom is grass. If you do have grass available, you can even take advantage of this by creating animal farms underground by leading the grass growth down into it (which takes a ludicrous amount of time, but it's possible).
Three's plenty of grass on the island I currently inhabit, and yet they never spawn. Is that because the island is too small? Should I leave and come back?
Three's plenty of grass on the island I currently inhabit, and yet they never spawn. Is that because the island is too small? Should I leave and come back?
It's possible the little islands count as part of the ocean biome (which would make sense since an individual biome is supposed to be massive and the islands are tiny) and it wouldn't make sense for mobs to be able to spawn on an ocean biome.
7000 LONG.
(At no point was it more than 2,500 wide tho)
Its was pretty epic, :biggrin.gif:
Lots of little lit up places underwater where the lava light glitch happened though... :sad.gif:
This way, you could have far more.. important boundries to continents and what not. Though, having an in-game ocean the literal size of the pacific.. or even the atlantic? Kinda massive. Just kinda. I mean.. our little wooden boats.. not ready for that kind of journey.
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I know it's not an ocean map. I was just calling it that because it was a lot of ocean biomes all next to each other with no other biome breaking the monotony.
So... what you are saying is that if I spawn on a GIANT landmass with biome after biome after biome, only broken up by rivers and the occasional small "swamp lake", that at some point it will end and be lots of ocean biomes and no land?
"Looks like another poorly thought out grammatically slaughtered rant." - Phar
Fah, just enter a ravine, find a mineshaft, dig up the wooden supports!
One really nice thing about the islands is that it's pretty simple to make your main one hostile-mob proof. No animals, though. I wonder if there will be a way to 'introduce' animal populations, once animals are persistent. I guess you can use eggs to spawn chickens, but the only way I can think of for the other animals involves giant over-ocean railways, which...how unsightly!
Ya I'm assuming theres a point where theres nothing but oceans for miles after seeing this carto on reddit.
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Fascinating ocean seeds. Feels very lonely but you could create some amazing things here. I hope these expansive ocean biomes are here to stay.
For the above, keeping swimming south (in the direction of the setting sun) and you'll eventually hit a forest continent that transitions to swamp and desert.
Challenge accepted Notch.
The only naturally-occurring tree we found was on the tiny spawn island, but since it dropped saplings we've since been able to grow an entire forest's worth of trees, and still have many saplings in storage. We farm wheat, and fish, for food, and we've recently started farming melons from seeds we found in the old mine.
I'm currently in the middle of construction of a small fortress, complete with lookout tower that surveys the entire island and surrounding seas. I'll probably begin work on the boat docks inside the naturally-occurring bay that exists on that island.
One thing I think is strange, though, is that there are never any neutral mobs. We haven't seen a single cow, chicken, or pig on any island the entire time we've been playing here. Anyone know why that is?
But it does make life out there more difficult, especially because without chickens, you can't make arrows. You can only scrounge what the skeletons drop.
Animals only spawn on grass although it seems they spawn in water if it's only 1 block deep and the bottom is grass. If you do have grass available, you can even take advantage of this by creating animal farms underground by leading the grass growth down into it (which takes a ludicrous amount of time, but it's possible).
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Three's plenty of grass on the island I currently inhabit, and yet they never spawn. Is that because the island is too small? Should I leave and come back?
This sounds like potential for an epic journey movie on YouTube. You just need your Wilson now.
It's possible the little islands count as part of the ocean biome (which would make sense since an individual biome is supposed to be massive and the islands are tiny) and it wouldn't make sense for mobs to be able to spawn on an ocean biome.