For those of you not familar with the generator, this one makes a desert of sand dunes, with a few hard to find oases with trees. There are giant cliffs and volcanoes, along with some trap-filled dungeons, and deeper down, some ore-filled caves.
I haven't really made any changes to this other than to plug it into my most recent engine, so this should work exactly like the old one, except now it generates a nether version of the map that's identical to the overworld version.
Screenshots (shamelessly copied from my original release ):
To run this generator:
1. Download PrimordialDesertV2.exe from either of the above links
2. Put the .exe somewhere on your system and run it.
3. It will ask you for a world name and a size in chunks. The world it generates will be X by X chunks, where X is the number you give. If you want, you can specify dune parameters too, but you don't need to.
4. Once the generator is done (it will say "press enter to exit") there should be a folder in the same directory as the .exe with the name you gave in step 3.
5. Copy this new folder to %appdata%\.minecraft\saves (or wherever the save files for Minecraft are kept on your system).
6. Run Minecraft and select the world that corresponds with the name you gave to play.
Excellent! I look forward to trying this out - have you seeded plants and ores from the newer minecraft version?
Just had a look - sadly no cacti
Unfortunately it does suffer from occasional wall breaches - I'm assuming the cave system generator for new areas in minecraft is also piercing the walls into the desert.
It's far more difficult since the introduction of hunger to the game.
Excellent! I look forward to trying this out - have you seeded plants and ores from the newer minecraft version?
Just had a look - sadly no cacti
Unfortunately it does suffer from occasional wall breaches - I'm assuming the cave system generator for new areas in minecraft is also piercing the walls into the desert.
It's far more difficult since the introduction of hunger to the game.
There's cacti in the dungeons I think as like a spike pit trap.
Look in the dungeons of the world, specifically for a trap that involves cactus. Take them back to the surface, start a farm.
Also, I've noticed that hunger is a huge problem now as well... Oh well, I'll deal with it. It doesn't help that no passive mobs are spawning on my oasis... but I'm working around that.
Could you post a few pics of the nether version? I'd like to see what it looks like before I go to the trouble to get there. Or answer this question: When you say "Identical to the overworld version", do you mean that it's Exactly the same? Or that it's sort of the same but uses nether blocks?
Edit: Noticed people asking for mac compatibility already, and saw it a lot on other generator threads. I'm currently generating a couple of maps, if you'd like I could try to get them uploaded.
Edit 2: Also (yes, I know I'm putting a lot into this post), could you do something about the biomes in this map? It's kind of annoying to find rain and snow in a giant desert, it doesn't really fit... Just a program to make the whole thing desert would be nice.
These maps are super hostile, Their creator is evil (that's a good thing), And THE CAKE IS A LIE.---I use Map Generators! Bored of normal Minecraft? Try them!
it looks nice and all but i have no cule how to get this woking on minecraft i dont understand the instrouctions givin
You download the .exe, run it, answer the questions that the program gives you and wait for it to finish. Look for the resulting save file in the same place as the .exe, drag the whole thing into your saves folder in .minecraft.
In case you don't know where the .minecraft folder is:
Find the Run program, or the search bar on windows 7, and type %appdata% into it. Look for .minecraft in the window that opens.
This only comes in a .exe, and so does not run on Macs.
If this doesn't help, please post again and say what part you're getting stuck on.
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These maps are super hostile, Their creator is evil (that's a good thing), And THE CAKE IS A LIE.---I use Map Generators! Bored of normal Minecraft? Try them!
Does this also set the biome of the generated chunks to desert? if not, you should counsider adding that...
This is my favorite map generator....Thanks
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Anyone can fly. The secret is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Here is a generated map for those who cant use the .exe
its 128x128 chunks and I set the biome of all those chunks to desert http://www.mediafire...t5y4nr5p4rjc6r6
there is a map render in the zip
edit: just noticed the map is in creative mode and flying above a lava pool...there are toolsyou can use to change it to survival if you want to
This is my favorite generator. I've put tons of time into the worlds generated with it. Have you spoken with Jens or Notch about potentially incorporating it into the main game, or maybe taking inspirations from it? It's seriously way more fun than normal mode, even with hunger mechanics it wasn't really designed for.
It seems like animals are unable to spawn anywhere in the desert or the oasis, i have found several large oasis' and none of them ever had animals spawn in them.
Possibly because the terrain is pregenerated it counts as already populated, and therefore nothing new spawns there. You'd need to go to an unexplored area, therefore outside of the desert.
It just makes the game harder as you are now reliant on spiders for wool and zombies for meat.
Downloads are available here:
SkyDrive:
https://skydrive.liv...ADBbMUvRFFo4nTk
DropBox:
http://dl.dropbox.co...ialDesertV2.exe
For those of you not familar with the generator, this one makes a desert of sand dunes, with a few hard to find oases with trees. There are giant cliffs and volcanoes, along with some trap-filled dungeons, and deeper down, some ore-filled caves.
I haven't really made any changes to this other than to plug it into my most recent engine, so this should work exactly like the old one, except now it generates a nether version of the map that's identical to the overworld version.
Screenshots (shamelessly copied from my original release ):
To run this generator:
1. Download PrimordialDesertV2.exe from either of the above links
2. Put the .exe somewhere on your system and run it.
3. It will ask you for a world name and a size in chunks. The world it generates will be X by X chunks, where X is the number you give. If you want, you can specify dune parameters too, but you don't need to.
4. Once the generator is done (it will say "press enter to exit") there should be a folder in the same directory as the .exe with the name you gave in step 3.
5. Copy this new folder to %appdata%\.minecraft\saves (or wherever the save files for Minecraft are kept on your system).
6. Run Minecraft and select the world that corresponds with the name you gave to play.
I make map generators
I make map generators
Just had a look - sadly no cacti
Unfortunately it does suffer from occasional wall breaches - I'm assuming the cave system generator for new areas in minecraft is also piercing the walls into the desert.
It's far more difficult since the introduction of hunger to the game.
Yeah, the desert would be nice with some cacti.
Let's see how big of a map I can make.. This oughta be fun.
There's cacti in the dungeons I think as like a spike pit trap.
JedystWell, *need* as in I want but it could probably go without
Look in the dungeons of the world, specifically for a trap that involves cactus. Take them back to the surface, start a farm.
Also, I've noticed that hunger is a huge problem now as well... Oh well, I'll deal with it. It doesn't help that no passive mobs are spawning on my oasis... but I'm working around that.
Could you post a few pics of the nether version? I'd like to see what it looks like before I go to the trouble to get there. Or answer this question: When you say "Identical to the overworld version", do you mean that it's Exactly the same? Or that it's sort of the same but uses nether blocks?
Edit: Noticed people asking for mac compatibility already, and saw it a lot on other generator threads. I'm currently generating a couple of maps, if you'd like I could try to get them uploaded.
Edit 2: Also (yes, I know I'm putting a lot into this post), could you do something about the biomes in this map? It's kind of annoying to find rain and snow in a giant desert, it doesn't really fit... Just a program to make the whole thing desert would be nice.
Edit 3: (Yes, I know, I'm writing down too much...), I found a temporary fix for the biomes, it's a mod for 1.2.4 but it works well enough for 1.2.5: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1081146-biomechanger-v006/
Thanks for updating this, it's my favorite of your generators.
You download the .exe, run it, answer the questions that the program gives you and wait for it to finish. Look for the resulting save file in the same place as the .exe, drag the whole thing into your saves folder in .minecraft.
In case you don't know where the .minecraft folder is:
Find the Run program, or the search bar on windows 7, and type %appdata% into it. Look for .minecraft in the window that opens.
This only comes in a .exe, and so does not run on Macs.
If this doesn't help, please post again and say what part you're getting stuck on.
This is my favorite map generator....Thanks
its 128x128 chunks and I set the biome of all those chunks to desert
http://www.mediafire...t5y4nr5p4rjc6r6
there is a map render in the zip
edit: just noticed the map is in creative mode and flying above a lava pool...there are tools you can use to change it to survival if you want to
It just makes the game harder as you are now reliant on spiders for wool and zombies for meat.