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Quote from Tom638

• For some reason I can't get the MCedit drag and drop converter to work, as i mentioned above

Drag and drop may be a bit of a misnomer.. I found it worked just fine if you pull DragAndDropConverter.bat (or the included test.bat) into a text editor, then where it says:

@echo off
java SchToTml %1
pause

replace %1 with the local path to your schematic file, so say you make a convertme sub-folder and want to convert JungleSpiderBurrow.schematic - it should look like this:

@echo off
java SchToTml convertme/JungleSpiderBurrow.schematic
pause

to convert multiple at once, just add new lines

@echo off
java SchToTml convertme/JungleSpiderBurrow.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic1.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic2.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic3.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic4.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic5.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic6.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic7.schematic
java SchToTml convertme/AnotherSchematic8.schematic
pause

Save, run, profit.

@AtomicStryker - Any way to config ruins mod to not attempt ruin spawning in non overworld/nether dimensions? Particularly trying to reduce lag (crash) caused by ruins mod loading up a new config for and checking every new pocket world created by dimensional doors. Thanks for all your work upkeeping this mod!

May I Use This Mod In My Mod Pack?

Having a reoccurring crash from ruins, if anyone can shed some light on this for me.

http://pastebin.com/3xhS4QhX

running this on MCPC for 1.5.2

I'm using the 1.5.1 version, and I made one of the giant tree structures my home. The problem is, every time I get out of sight of the place and come back, a new structure spawns either right next to the tree, or partway through it.

Following what someone said earlier on getting it to work beautifully with Biomes of Plenty, but I have encountered a problem.

With the update to 1.6.2, I have Ruins working in vanilla biomes. They do not spawn in the BOP biomes. Typical normal fix, change the resources file, the ruins_log.txt file, and the ruins.txt file to include these new custom biomes.

However, with 1.6.2, I cannot seem to find these files anywhere. No files=no changes, no ruins. I'm very likely just not seeing where they are now, or if there's a new way to integrate these new biomes and I didn't read the memo, but I'd love to get some feedback on what I should do to get them working again.

...Oh.

I was running on the presumption (probably false) that I could replace the Resources folder with all the biomes with a new folder that already had those biomes in them, and the proper ruins attached to each biome. That that would work to save time and effort.

...I should probably just let Ruins load normally with a vanilla Resources folder, then change it afterward, huh?

Could someone help me install the mod with Magic Launcher? like i put it in the /mods folder and i generate a world, and no ruins???? Help me ;(

Quote from MohawkyMagoo

I have seen a couple of causes for this - one is MCDungeons tool - if you run that to generate dungeons in your world, it will kick start ruins spawning again - I've had multiple iterations of the same ruin build at almost the same location - each time I use it. The only way around this is remove the ruins mod from the mod folder before you generate dungeons with MCDungeon, and put it back afterwards.

If Ruins used a seeded RNG for generation this problem would go away, in fact, "regenerating" the world would be an option to rebuild any ruins that were damaged.

What exactly is the benifit of the Birch tree thing covered in ice? I see them spawn alot, and I find them, well, not exciting.

Quote from Riverblank

What exactly is the benifit of the Birch tree thing covered in ice? I see them spawn alot, and I find them, well, not exciting.

I'm not sure what the benefit of the birch tree is, but I do know what the benefits of the template folders are.

In other words, if you don't like a ruin then delete the template.

Quote from AtomicStryker

To get a "static" build i would have to rewrite Ruins to take the World seed and chunk coordinates for a new Random seed each chunk. Ouch, performance.

There are plenty of far more efficient RNG's that you could make for this purpose. All a standard RNG/seed generator does is perform some complex maths and make some really big numbers with things like system time. This is way more complex than we need.

Here is a simple example off the top of my head. When the world is started, create a list with 20 random digits in it, determined by the world seed. Next, perform some operations on the chunk coordinates to get a couple of numbers from 1-20, using modulo 20. Your random number would simply be comprised of the digits from the corresponding elements in that list.

If you use X and Z only, you get a 2 digit number. If you do it with X, Z and X+Z, you get three. Three is enough to simulate 3 decimal probability, which is all you need, assuming that 2 is not enough. If this number is smaller than the "chance per chunk", we will generate a ruin. Finally, use a similar process with some different moduli to determine the other variables (modulus 16 for coordinates and modulus [number of templates] for the ruin template).

Of course, this is by no means complete, it doesn't take a couple of things into account (like the clustering effect), and I'm not saying you have to do it. I'm just pointing out that you don't have to make an entirely new seed per chunk, you really only have to perform about a dozen extra simple maths operations when the chunk is generated.