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Really impressive mod. The terrain generation is really nice to look at,and it's immersive.

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The way it is now is more realistic, you won't find a cave entrance like every 500 meters in the real world either.
Lava ponds are extremely rare too in real, usually only found near recently active volcanoes, otherwise completely under ground.

Yeah I absolutely agree, I just felt it loses a little Minecraft magic, if you get where I'm coming from I know the title is "RealisticTG", I just thought it would keep those crazy and unique aspects of MC, but reduce them quite a bit.

Anyway, just my pence. Overall, the world is massively improved and I will be using RTG without fail plus continuing to monitor the thread daily in wait for awesome updates

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In what way should glacier biomes be improved? Can you post an image for reference?
Re: ravines... I'm actually working on biome-specific cave options at the moment, so I'll take a look at why openings aren't happening as frequently and see if I can put some config options in there for openings as well.
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All of that sounds awesome, thanks for the info and feedback

Ok, so I discovered a definite bug last night while trying to test the compatibility with Better Foliage.

An Ocean Temple generated in a very shallow ocean so the top of the temple was just 1 or 2 blocks below the surface, and extremely close to land, actually it was technically "under" the land. Where it generated was so close to land and so shallow, it actually made a huge cut-out in the land. I placed torches all around so you could see it properly. (Screenshot below)

Oh and to update the compatibility issue with Better Foliage. Yes, WhichOnesPink was indeed correct I think. I created a new world, all wood and trees looked normal, until I closed MC. When I loaded back into the world, all trees and wood became invisible. So I disabled the BF rounded wood feature and sure enough, all wood became visible again.

But one other thing I noticed that I really cannot explain, Sand was also invisible and giving an XRay effect with BF and RTG installed. But only while under water, sand on the beach was visible, but if I went under the water, sand became invisible.

Very weird as BF doesn't do anything at all to sand

Are there any plans to make this compatible with The Betweenlands? Right now the druid circles do not spawn. It would be awesome if they were compatible. I want my overworld to look purdy too!

And also - are there any shader packs that work with RTG 1.7.10? They all just give me a white screen.

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Are there any plans to make this compatible with The Betweenlands? Right now the druid circles do not spawn. It would be awesome if they were compatible. I want my overworld to look purdy too!

Update to the latest version, they changed it so druid circles spawn in any biome tagged as "swamp"

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1441135-the-betweenlands-a-dark-hostile-environment-10-04?page=350
(Source)

http://mods.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/243363-angry-pixel-the-betweenlands-mod#t1:other-downloads
(download)

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I see that it was your initial response in the thread I linked, I am fairly certain they are working properly. I will try and grab a screenshot for you. I believe they are more rare in general.

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So I've just been testing cave & ravine openings, and I'm not seeing any issues with them not appearing.

I enabled caves & ravines and set the frequencies to vanilla settings, and there were a 'normal' amount of both caves & ravines breaking through the surface.

For those of you who have been having trouble with cave/ravine openings, can you Pastebin your rtg.cfg and post a link here so I can take a look at your settings? Maybe another config option is interfering with cave/ravine gen somehow?

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Hi Pink, (hope it's ok to call you that).

So this is interesting, something weird happened last night when I tested a new world. I spawned on the beach, looked around me to see what resources I had around me and lo and behold, there was a flippin ravine opening no more than 20 blocks from me haha, and to make it worse, well better, a large cave opening 20 blocks passed that Typical hey.

I swear I'm not imagining it, previously I'd created something like 14-16 new worlds to test things, flown around looking for caves, lava pools and ravines for a dozen plus hours, and I had only seen a couple of caves openings on the surface, but zero lava pools and zero ravines.
The only things that are different with this new world that had a ravine and cave right next to the spawn point, was that I have Ticker's Construct and Biomes O'Plenty installed.
So I'll spend a bit of time testing tonight with and without those mods, especially BO'P to see if somehow they are effecting it.

On a slightly different subject if I may. What was your opinion of my post earlier, with the temple in shallow water and under the ground?? Do you think that might be a BO'P issue as I hadn't had that happen previously.

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Had to increase the spawn rate in the BL configs to find one, but they're definitely generating.

Incidentally, does anyone know if Betweenlands adds any biomes to the Overworld, or are they just found in the BL dimension?

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I'm relatively certain that they're only in the BL dimension. I think that the only Overworld thing added are the Druid circles.

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On a slightly-related note, the next snapshot will include biome-specific cave AND ravine settings. So if you think that the vanilla Jungle biomes should be the only biomes with ravines, or if you want to increase cave frequencies only in warm biomes, then RTG can make it happen.
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That is amazing. RTG+CC is turning into the JAS of Biome customization.

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Had to increase the spawn rate in the BL configs to find one, but they're definitely generating.

Incidentally, does anyone know if Betweenlands adds any biomes to the Overworld, or are they just found in the BL dimension?

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Seed? Coords? Pleaaase? I searched 10000 blocks in all 4 directions with my circle spawn rate set to 3x the default rate (500) and couldn't find a single one. I gave up and spawned in the talisman just so I could play the mod. I am also using Biomes O Plenty so perhaps that is the source of the problem, but I'm not sure why it should be since I still found plenty of vanilla swamps in my world.

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I don't think there's any issue with BoP. The Betweenlands only checks the biome dictionary to see if the current biome is of Type.SWAMP in order to place Druid Circles. Source: WorldGenDruidCircle.java#L36

Druid Circles should also being showing up in these BoP biomes that are added as Type.SWAMP:

• Bayou
• Bog
• Dead Swamp
• Fen
• Fungi Forest
• Grassland
• Lush Swamp
• Marsh
• Moor
• Ominous Woods
• Quagmire
• Silk Glades
• Slude Pit
• Wetland

Nope. I have found a ton of all those biomes even the rare ones, and while they spawn vanilla witch huts no circles.

Only things I have altered -
Biomes O Plenty biome ID's to avoid clashes with Betweenlands and Twilight Forrest
Biome O Plenty biome weights and climates using ClimateControl mod (however I did not think this should be a problem since I still have witch huts spawning?)
The Betweenlands druid circle spawn rate (increased it).

I have not touched anything else. Could it be my version of Forge? I am not using the latest because it won't run some of my other mods.

Quote from Zeno410»

Why not use packed ice? Kristally clear ice looks unrealistic.

Maybe its just me, but I like the current look of the glaciers. they're very cave-y and where the ice meets the rock so you have ice ceilings with rock walls/floors, it's almost perfect

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After looking at the code for Druid Circle generation, we believe there's an unusually low chance for them to generate. It's likely a combination of many factors, but mostly to do with their code (we believe).

Try changing the setting in the Betweenlands config: I:"Frequency of Druid Circles. Higher numbers de-crease rate."=1400
The default is 1400, try lowering it drastically to see if it helps.

I finally got the druid circles to spawn in my BOP/RTG world by setting the frequency to 10. So no they are not incompatible just extremely rare, (I couldn't find one after exploring a good part of a 20 by 20 kilometer square). Even at frequency 10 they are still rare. I had to restart my world because just exploring further in the preexisting world didn't seem to work even after I'd lowered the frequency.

I could be wrong, but I somehow doubt the dev intended to make the circles THAT rare so it may be that RTG somehow makes it harder for these structures to spawn.