As of snapshot 14W17a (the latest one) Minecraft has some very elaborate and practical custom generation tools. There are dozens of big bukkit plugins and mods that do very similar things. But now inside the basic version of the game we have a ton new options for world generation!
The minecraft forum needs to change to incorporate the change in minecraft. We won't simply be putting in seeds and hoping for the best. Each combination of custom generation tools creates a repeatable new kind of map. The custom worlds create a code that could be copied into topics and shared/discussed.
The new tools work similar to seeds. We already have a seeds discussion section. I propose the 'Seeds' section be changed to "Seeds and vanilla world generation." The section could have subforums for seeds, superflat combinations, and custom generation combinations. I think the new generation tools are more than seeds and need their own home on the forums.
The minecraft forum needs to change to incorporate the change in minecraft. We won't simply be putting in seeds and hoping for the best. Each combination of custom generation tools creates a repeatable new kind of map. The custom worlds create a code that could be copied into topics and shared/discussed.
The new tools work similar to seeds. We already have a seeds discussion section. I propose the 'Seeds' section be changed to "Seeds and vanilla world generation." The section could have subforums for seeds, superflat combinations, and custom generation combinations. I think the new generation tools are more than seeds and need their own home on the forums.
What do we think?
Maybe you could have a whole forum poll or something to pick from a few options the forum admins like?