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Quote from yoavsnake

You should add normal ocean pic, not only swamp. You know MineCraft really good!

Well, I thought the swamp picture would be enough to depict the problem as the problem with beaches and underwater geology crops up wherever there is a reasonably-sized body of water, but for clarification's sake, I might add an ocean biome example demonstrating the same generation problems when I get the time to do so.

Thanks for your input. If extra information is necessary to clear up any misconceptions or doubts then I will definitely address that.

/signed

that's weird, i hadn't really thought about this (seeing as how my worlds are almost all 1.6-1.7 rendering)

/signed

I agree, no idea why they removed Beaches/Gravel Beaches.

Quote from kiryuu0

I agree, no idea why they removed Beaches/Gravel Beaches.

I think gravel beaches were supposed to be a bug... I'm not sure. Don't quote me on this.

Quote from EMDude

there was a wall of text with pictures here

...or someone could make a mod

/signed

You picked an ugly example of pre 1.8 beaches. There are much better examples. My favorite was when cactus formed on the beach. However that's now impossible. :sad.gif:



Signed all the way....

/Signed

I MCNostalgia'd just to relive the glory days
Do I even want to go back to 1.0.0?

Support!

Edit: or /signed, or w/e shows my support the best...

I've been promoting Improvised Flint Tools here and there, so I'm dismayed to find that gravel beaches have disappeared. Would like to see them returned.

As far as clay, why not make it the base of (certain stretches of) rivers and the shores of lakes, not the edges of oceans and not just in clumps everywhere? I wanted more clay than we previously had, but actually the overabundance is annoying, and you're right, the splotches are weird.

I'd also like to see oases in the desert, instead of just this sudden pools of water for no good reason. Sand next to the ocean is normal; sand next to water in the desert makes me wonder how disgustingly stagnant the water must be.

I was always wondering what was bugging me.
Now I know: no beaches.

I loved the beaches... and now that I think about it, I always built on these spots, because they were awesome locations.



So yes, please bring it back :biggrin.gif:

I do miss the beaches and I've noticed that iron doesn't spawn above sea level anymore....

/agree
I alway's lived on a beach.
> I used MCNostalgia to go back to 1.7 now

/sign

This is part of my reasoning of the mod request in my sig: Everything about water now sucks.

I agree with everything except for the clay disappearing... it is nearly impossible to find clay in 1.8.1, I made like 20 saves in that and could only find one in all of that.

Just a quick reminder that I am still updating the signature list, so if anyone hasn't /signed and they'd like to show their support for this thread, then please do so.

Also, I wanted to share something I found while browsing through the Mods section on the forums. It's a terrain generator mod, not unlike many others you guys may have seen, but this is the only one in my knowledge that adds some semblance of beach generation back in. It also appears to modify the underwater bedding to look like it was prior to 1.8.

I'll be adding the thread link to the OP just in case anybody would like to try it. Find it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/847226-10-biome-mod-v1/

EMDude, this should have been noticed long ago. I think I'm signed already so I think I'll add the banner/signature to my... uh.. signature. Either that or I'll ask someone to make a banner to my own thread about the rest of the terrain in general, but I noticed the beaches being gone first, so yeah.

So what do you think of the rest of the terrain?

Quote from ChaosGuardian

EMDude, this should have been noticed long ago. I think I'm signed already so I think I'll add the banner/signature to my... uh.. signature. Either that or I'll ask someone to make a banner to my own thread about the rest of the terrain in general, but I noticed the beaches being gone first, so yeah.

So what do you think of the rest of the terrain?

Oh, are you asking if you could use one of the banners I've included in the OP in your signature? If you'd like, then you're more than welcome to do so. Of course, if you want to use another banner or use one for your own neat thread, I have no problem with that either.

Umm, my opinion on the rest of the terrain. Nothing comes to mind to prove to me that it is any better than the previous terrain generator. At the very least, I am neutral on features like biome size and swamps (when not involving the terrible transitions). But I do think it was a bit rushed, like many other 1.8/1.9 features, to solve some problems involving the generation with villages and things like that.

But, in any case, my largest issues with it are the beaches and the underwater geology. It is simply horrendous in my opinion and no less an important issue than is lack of topographical variation and biome transitioning.

EDIT: Apparently you did add the banner to your sig, so that's fine. I really like that one line below it.

I support this. I mean, I'm glad that I can find way more clay, but I sure wouldn't mind beaches (and seeds like gargamel in 1.7). I don't even use brick much.