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Just got a list of quick and easy improvements for snow biomes to improve them. Also too, a list of hopes I have for the future of snow biomes.
FYI, snow biomes include Tundra (Big and white), Taiga (Spruce Trees), and a few intermediate biomes as well.
Here goes:
1: Remove generation of flowers/grass.
Just makes things look nicer and more realistic. Super easy too for Mojang. Adds the idea of a "challenge biome" as well.
2: Change Oak Trees generating in Tundra into Spruce Trees.
Adds realism and better "feel" to the biome, and is so, so very easy.
These two are really simple, I think Mojang just hasn't seen the interest to fix them yet. They'd make me a lot happier with snow biomes.
Now for some flights of fancy into the mystical realm of "What if..."
1: Have snow generate under tree leaves.
Looking at spruce forests kills me a little inside, because they're so damned splotchy. It looks like it snowed a month ago there and the rain has washed a bunch of the snow away. Nobody likes slush. This would be a really cool addition and make snowy forests very nice to look at.
2: AddVillage generation to Tundra biomes.
This'd be a real cool thing. There already are massive flat sections of land in the Tundra biomes, so why not utilize them? This would not be too hard to do, either. They might have to split Tundra and Tundra hills apart as full biomes and add village generation to the former so the villages don't spawn on hillsides, but that;s not too difficult.
If you have any ideas they'd be much appreciated, and I'll edit the good ones into the post. Thanks
I have always wanted something like this to happen to the snow biomes. You have my support. Oh, and did you know that in one of the minecraft 1.0 pre-releases tundras had pine trees. However, this was a "glitch".
Though, if we were going to be realistic, you wouldn't change oak to pine. In fact, you wouldn't have trees at all in a tundra.
Tundra is believed to come from the Finish word "tunturia", which means treeless plain. Most tundras don't support trees, and those who do only can sustain them for a short period of time.
OT here: I like it, though like what Bouncing ball said, there are no trees in the tundra. Also maybe like desert villages we would have Snow villages maybe no farm and instead there are barns with animals while the building material is snow.
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Though, if we were going to be realistic, you wouldn't change oak to pine. In fact, you wouldn't have trees at all in a tundra.
Tundra is believed to come from the Finish word "tunturia", which means treeless plain. Most tundras don't support trees, and those who do only can sustain them for a short period of time.
Good point, I'd be on side with this. Of course this would make it very difficult to survive in, and for balancing/player sanity the size of the average tundra biome would have to be made smaller, 'cause those things stretch on forever sometimes. And maybe there could be a "bush" thing at least, like the 1-log tree/bush thingy in jungles.
If we were to get very realistic, the dirt blocks up to ~10 deep would be much harder to break due to permafrost IRL. (I'm Canadian, I know about this stuff :P).
OT here: I like it, though like what Bouncing ball said, there are no trees in the tundra. Also maybe like desert villages we would have Snow villages maybe no farm and instead there are barns with animals while the building material is snow.
Side note: When realism doesn't affect or enhances gameplay, I'd say it's pretty important.
I dunno about snow as a building material, if you're thinking of igloos those shelters are the equivalent of tents in the arctic/ antarctic. I think the normal stone/wood would probably be OK, since the villages are meant to be permanent dwellings. As for the barns, that's a cool idea but I think it'd be pretty complicated to get the animals to spawn in the barns.
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Just got a list of quick and easy improvements for snow biomes to improve them. Also too, a list of hopes I have for the future of snow biomes.
FYI, snow biomes include Tundra (Big and white), Taiga (Spruce Trees), and a few intermediate biomes as well.
Here goes:
1: Remove generation of flowers/grass.
Just makes things look nicer and more realistic. Super easy too for Mojang. Adds the idea of a "challenge biome" as well.
2: Change Oak Trees generating in Tundra into Spruce Trees.
Adds realism and better "feel" to the biome, and is so, so very easy.
These two are really simple, I think Mojang just hasn't seen the interest to fix them yet. They'd make me a lot happier with snow biomes.
Now for some flights of fancy into the mystical realm of "What if..."
1: Have snow generate under tree leaves.
Looking at spruce forests kills me a little inside, because they're so damned splotchy. It looks like it snowed a month ago there and the rain has washed a bunch of the snow away. Nobody likes slush. This would be a really cool addition and make snowy forests very nice to look at.
2: Add Village generation to Tundra biomes.
This'd be a real cool thing. There already are massive flat sections of land in the Tundra biomes, so why not utilize them? This would not be too hard to do, either. They might have to split Tundra and Tundra hills apart as full biomes and add village generation to the former so the villages don't spawn on hillsides, but that;s not too difficult.
If you have any ideas they'd be much appreciated, and I'll edit the good ones into the post. Thanks
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Retired StaffThough, if we were going to be realistic, you wouldn't change oak to pine. In fact, you wouldn't have trees at all in a tundra.
Tundra is believed to come from the Finish word "tunturia", which means treeless plain. Most tundras don't support trees, and those who do only can sustain them for a short period of time.
OT here: I like it, though like what Bouncing ball said, there are no trees in the tundra. Also maybe like desert villages we would have Snow villages maybe no farm and instead there are barns with animals while the building material is snow.
Good point, I'd be on side with this. Of course this would make it very difficult to survive in, and for balancing/player sanity the size of the average tundra biome would have to be made smaller, 'cause those things stretch on forever sometimes. And maybe there could be a "bush" thing at least, like the 1-log tree/bush thingy in jungles.
If we were to get very realistic, the dirt blocks up to ~10 deep would be much harder to break due to permafrost IRL. (I'm Canadian, I know about this stuff :P).
Side note: When realism doesn't affect or enhances gameplay, I'd say it's pretty important.
I dunno about snow as a building material, if you're thinking of igloos those shelters are the equivalent of tents in the arctic/ antarctic. I think the normal stone/wood would probably be OK, since the villages are meant to be permanent dwellings. As for the barns, that's a cool idea but I think it'd be pretty complicated to get the animals to spawn in the barns.