The biome of biomes, namely a different condition which allows certain biomes to exist. Easy example: The difference between The Nether, and The Main Biome Set. If you're in the 'normal world', you get forests, deserts, oceans. Now, The Nether really just has glowstones, and hellstone, and mud stuff, and lava, and stuff. But what if The Nether had it's own biomes? Is Lava supposed to be the alternate to water? What kind of plant (I'm thinking like deep sea organisms, by the by) would use lava to form? What about a forest of these? Or maybe the mud stuff is a sludge water alternate. What about mud springs? What about mud rivers... oceans... What happens in a part of The Nether where there is no mud or lava? What does a 'dried up', or 'frozen' Nether look like?
Since it's sort of just a template at some point, what other metabiomes could there be? Some people talked about space? What about a moon metabiome, where air is rare, and has flow patterns like water? Does gravity have a variable effectiveness depending on the place? What happens when a cavern is properly sealed, and filled with air? What about pockets of water? And what exists only in open space? What about a Metabiome completely underwater, where light has to come from other sources, and where water can only be stopped by plugging it up fast.
Other metabiomes could be fantastic or absurd. A Metabiome in the clouds, where some spots have floating islands, or floating waterways. A Metabiome where the whole world is a single, living entity, where things move and grow continuously. A Metabiome of glass with mercury rivers. Ethereal metabiomes, where ghost blocks appear in the main world, but are only affected in the ethereal metabiome, and vise-versa.
Once the categorical hierarchy is established, creating new metabiomes could be fairly simple to add (though difficult to tune out, certainly). If the theory mindset of server differences between main world servers portaling to Nether servers is true, then friends could connect their side computer 'servers' together to create entire planar networks of unique worlds and each could have a single metabiome.
Since it's sort of just a template at some point, what other metabiomes could there be? Some people talked about space? What about a moon metabiome, where air is rare, and has flow patterns like water? Does gravity have a variable effectiveness depending on the place? What happens when a cavern is properly sealed, and filled with air? What about pockets of water? And what exists only in open space? What about a Metabiome completely underwater, where light has to come from other sources, and where water can only be stopped by plugging it up fast.
Other metabiomes could be fantastic or absurd. A Metabiome in the clouds, where some spots have floating islands, or floating waterways. A Metabiome where the whole world is a single, living entity, where things move and grow continuously. A Metabiome of glass with mercury rivers. Ethereal metabiomes, where ghost blocks appear in the main world, but are only affected in the ethereal metabiome, and vise-versa.
Once the categorical hierarchy is established, creating new metabiomes could be fairly simple to add (though difficult to tune out, certainly). If the theory mindset of server differences between main world servers portaling to Nether servers is true, then friends could connect their side computer 'servers' together to create entire planar networks of unique worlds and each could have a single metabiome.
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