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All "How to install?????????????????????" questions will be ignored. Read the OP.

Release policy has changed! The numbered versions have been eliminated in favor of "special" daily versions. They will usually match the unstable dailies, but if I add a potentially bugged feature, stable version will not update until that feature is known to work.

SSP
OldDays/NBXlite
Spawn human

SSPC

Source code of the latest versions
Source code of the previous versions
Latest code on github

Old versions

Daily builds:
Before you ask any questions, read this FAQ:

Quote from CliffracerX

I'm planning on making a mod that does some of what Olddays does in Forge, because Forge is better then base-class modding.

Remember that the most important part is SSP. Start with implementing it with Forge.

Ok.
Updated the OP to link to stable dailies. The unstable ones remain unchanged.
I have backed up the old OP, so, if something goes wrong, I can always restore it.

Quote from Exalm »

The numbered versions have been eliminated in favor of "special" daily versions. They will usually match the unstable dailies, but if I add a potentially bugged feature, stable version will not update until that feature is known to work.

Also updated instructions. If they are unclear, I would like to see suggestions on how to improve them.

The only problem now are changelogs. The ones used for daily versions are very uninformative, one might as well look into the latest commits section on Github.

Quote from Stefsarch7

I switched through the generators in-game (indev/alpha, beta, release) and when I hit escape with the release version selected it crashed:
-snip-

I suspect this was the same crash, and is fixed as well.

Also, an idea. Currently everyone uses daily versions anyway, so what about making them the only versions? The stable release is very outdated anyway. If I make dailies "official", I would not have to bother with releasing stuff, and nobody would ask about daily installation.

Edit: Ah, that thing with SSP /group, when 314rft has lost his castle. And the Floating Beta experiment... I have forgotten about that. So the dailies are really unstable.
Well, maybe I mark some particular daily version (that is known to be free of critical bugs) as the stable one? This can be done on my side and does not require OP editing.

I afraid that it block put my Dropbox account because of high traffic, like it happened back in 1.2.4 time, if anyone remembers. But something has to be done.


Since I can follow the thread again (kinda), I'm most probably back on track.

BTW, the version with floating Beta gen still exists. I had saved it before it was removed by the daily.sh script.

Quote from TXF

Hmm.. I seem to have an issue. The mod has been working fine, no issues at all. But now all of the sudden, it refuses to save my world. It'll save the inventory and time of day, but not the world changes.

Entire Console Log:
<log>

Obviously the "The save is being accessed from another location, aborting" is something. Any help?

I don't have anything else open that is doing anything with Minecraft. Nothing else that uses java is open. I've closed things and tried again, and it's still doing it.

Seems to be an SSP bug.
When did it start to happen?

Quote from CreativeNinja456

This may count as a "how do I install????????????????"
question, but if you have seen me on other posts, then you know
that I use magic launcher. I compressed the contense of the folder
and put the zip file in my mods folder. It said "OK" but it did not show up
on my minecraft title screen. I used forge mod loader, so I did technically
have modloader. can you guys help me? this mod is the best I have seen.
rediscovered mod gets old after a while. not in minecraft is outdated and
buggy. This looks awesome!

FML is not ModLoader.
MagicLauncher is not supported. If you can get it to work, good for you, but I can't help if it doesn't, other than telling you to try with default launcher.

Quote from Newlight

To be honest,where is Exalm?

I'm here.

Quote from Kedlub

Help me, my minecraft crashed how to fix it?
My crash report is:

<log>

There is a quirk with the mod: your log is very generic: it may mean anything because of one bad hack I had to do in SSP.
Can you post the log from the launcher instead? The actual exception would be before this one.

Quote from 314rft

Please, DON'T say that! This mod CAN'T DIE!!!!!!

To be honest, it can. And it has been since 1.3. I just can't develop SUCH large codebase. I think you remember how quickly I developed it in 1.2.*, and how I updated it in few hours, not even days. This is impossible now because of SSP.

Quote from 314rft

But the reason this mod is dying is that Forge is literally taking over the forums, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up one morning and Minecraft is now called Forgecraft.

Well, this is pretty much a "global" mod, so it isn't really meant to be used with forge mods. However, if anybody before 1.3 would tell me that NBXlite that was created specifically to improve compatibility would become what it is now, I would not believe, honestly.

Quote from subway5411

nvm i was doing somthing wrong =(
but can u make it FORGE compatible or can u try? and ps IT WORKS!!!

It will not be forge-compatible.

Quote from subway5411

i got this when i installed it


java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: atv.invokeModMethod(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;(Ljava/lang/Class;(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
at bgl.<init>(RenderManager.java:96)
at bgl.<clinit>(RenderManager.java:12)
at atv.O(SourceFile:343)
at atv.d(SourceFile:599)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)

SSP.

Quote from TheMcGuider

You guys already got a awesome new terrain generation and massive mountains which reach the sky, new biomes, better biome generation and new tress. What exactly more do you want? 1.7 have already everything that old beta had and more.
EDIT: Yeah forgot about the new flowers and colorful blocks in the world.

Good sand beaches? Gravel beaches? Varied caves density? Large trees in forests? Varied tree density? Better biome transitions? Real height variation instead of M biomes that just spam few mountains?

All of that was in Beta, and I can continue the list.

Quote from TheMcGuider

You guys seriously want too much, i'm already satisfied with the new generation system.

Is having what already _was_ in the game too much?

Similar question: is asking Mozilla Foundation to restore freshly-removed features in UX branch (Like addon bar, custom toolbars etc) too much?

Quote from RobertFrans

The fundament for the new terrain is now builded, so in the next updates it is possible to improve things, without constantly causing chunk borders.

What exactly was done? I haven't looked in the 1.7 code since 13w36a.

One should also always take in mind that the beta versions generated the world in a total different manner then the current versions. In the beta world, biomes were decided by the seed and not by the generator itselve.

And they still are. The terrain gets changed to conform biomes, not opposite.

That's why biomes were not that restrictive and why heigh variation could be generated independent from biomes.

It still can be done with very little code changes.

So if the terrain would change, the biomes would not fit anymore. Just try to load an old beta world in the current version and you will see that very clear. Snowing in the desert, snow golems dying in parts of the tundra, that kind of stuff.

And if you will load Beta 1.8 world in 1.0, or 1.0 world in 1.1, that will happen too.

In beta, Mojang could hardly add new biomes and so change the world, without really breaking old worlds.

If they didn't do it, it doesn't mean that it could not be done. But yes, they never changed biomes in Alpha 1.2.0–Beta 1.7.3 period. And still managed to improve terrain in almost every version. Without breaking seeds.

I'm quite sure that that is the reason why Mojang made the current generator biome based. It has its limits indeed, but it does not break worlds if there are more biomes or other fundamental features added in the generator.

Proof that it doesn't?

It gives now only some chunk borders.

Just like before. And, do you know that pre-1.8 system didn't give chunk borders in this case? You could add a biome, and only sometimes see harsh borders to that biome on the edge of old explored area, other biomes would not move, and now they would.

Worlds don't have to break after every update of the terrain.

Third time you say this. Proof?

Structures are easier to implement, because Mojang can choose biomes for them.

They could, and did since Beta 1.8.

Biomes themselves can thus also have more biome specific features.

They could always do.

So... Waiting for a proof that you can add biomes without breaking seeds.

This mod is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied.

This mod is no longer under development.

Features

- Sorts the creative menu items and blocks into different categories. Includes blocks not normally available in creative mode, all potions and extra spawner eggs
- Create custom lists to include your own categories and items from mods!
- Keyword search through items
- Create custom keywords for the search bar, allowing you to make your own shortcuts and include items from mods in the search results

- View normal inventory as well as the creative menu!
- Displays item IDs in hover box

- Control all enchantments! - Add any level enchantment to any item!
- Disable delay when destroying blocks (optional) - Super fast digging!

- Rewind, fast-forward and lock time!
- Lock light levels on a multiplayer server (locally)
- Toggle your gamemode
- Toggle rain/snow

- Change mob spawner type (single player)
- Change painting type (single player)
- Change reach distance (single player)
- Toggle thunderstorms (single player)

- Change villager attributes (single player)
- Change ocelot attributes (single player)

Default keys

Open the MoreCreative menu with the C key.

Uses your normal inventory key to access player inventory, use the R key to access the creative items list.

Lock/unlock time with the L key, rewind time with F6 and fast-forward time with F7.
Locking time allows you to view your creations under any light level even if you're playing in a multiplayer server!

Change enchantments on your currently held item with the F key.

Toggle your gamemode between creative and survival using the M key.

Toggle rain/snow using the F4 key.

Toggle thunderstorms using the Y key.

Right click on a monster spawner while in single player to open a mob selection menu to choose what that mob spawner should spawn. Not possible to change mob spawners while in multiplayer.

Right click on a painting while in single player to open a painting selection menu to choose painting you want. Not possible to change paintings while in multiplayer.

Search using the search box by first clicking inside the area of the search box, click outside the search box or select an item to leave item selection.

Right click on ocelots while in single player to change what texture they are using and whether they are an adult or a child.

Default keys summary:

MoreCreative menu C

Normal inventory E
Creative item list R

Enchanting menu F

Lock time L
Rewind tme F6
Fast-forward time F7

Toggle gamemode M
Toggle rain/snow F4
Toggle thunderstorm Y

Change mob spawner Right click on mob spawner
Change painting Right click on painting
Use search box Click inside search box

Change villager Right click on villager
Change ocelot Right click on ocelot

To change default keys, use the in-game configuration menu!

Compatible with OptiFine and MCPatcher!

Download:
MoreCreative 2.5 - Minecraft 1.2.5

Important: If you are upgrading from a version of MoreCreative below 2.1 and have a configuration file, custom lists or custom search terms, MOVE those files and folders into .minecraft/MoreCreative/

1.3.2 Mod Preview:
MoreCreative Preview 2012-09-07 1202 - Minecraft 1.3.2

Old versions:

A reply saying thanks if you like the mod is more than appreciated as it helps me continue development

Instructions:
Copy all files and folders from the .zip file into your minecraft.jar file in the .minecraft/bin folder.

To create custom lists/categories, first create a folder in your .minecraft/MoreCreative/ directory called "customlists". Inside this folder, you will make a new text file (.txt) for each new category you wish to create. The name of the text file should be an item id followed by a full stop (period) and then the name for that category, eg: 1.Stone List.txt

Inside this text file, list out each item you want to have in that category using a new line for each new item. If you wish to include a damage value for a certain item, put the damage value after a colon like "17:2".

Example:

To create custom search terms, first create a folder in your .minecraft/MoreCreative/ directory called "customsearchterms". Inside this folder, you will make a new text file (.txt) for each new category you wish to create. The name of the text file does not matter (can be anything).

Inside this text file, list out each item you want to create search terms for using a new line for each new item. If the item does not have a damage value or you do not know of one, use the number 0. The format for each line should be as follows:
itemid, damagevalue, search terms

Example:

To change keys/options for MoreCreative, use the in-game menu by pressing C! (default key)

Old configuration instructions for versions of MoreCreative below 2.1:

Outdated videos, wanting new, high quality videos!

With thanks to daheefman for sorting the categories for me!
Idea/working towards: [Updated request] Creative Mode: This is what I want

Planned updates:
Create/edit custom categories/lists with a GUI
Create/edit custom search terms with a GUI
More suggestions welcome...

Suggestions/feedback appreciated

Changelog:

Licence/Permissions
You cannot reuse content from this mod in other packs
You cannot re-distribute this content
You can write reviews with screenshots
You can make videos using this content

Quote from Fiti99

just a question, is there's an old version of this mod fot beta 1.8.1 or 1.0? i would love to play beta 1.8.1 but with old gen

You would have to use the original No Biomes X for beta 1.8.

Part 2

Most of us remember the Adventure Update (and if you don't, part of it was Beta 1.8 and the other was Release 1.0). The updates were supposed to give us reasons to explore, and images of 1.8 showed beautiful landscapes inhabited by villages and sinister dungeons filled with evil creatures and untold fortunes.

What we got was a predictable terrain generator that ended up killing most of the reasons to explore rather than giving us more reasons to explore, and a couple of dungeons that only had mediocre loot and only featured one new mob. The strongholds were clearly unfinished at the time, with the only good loot being the walls of the strongholds themselves; the rooms of the strongholds were usually quite similar (though better off than mineshafts) making every stronghold feel very similar and the unique mob was weak and easy to kill. The mineshafts were better off, but the mineshafts almost always looked the same, the loot was mediocre (except for melon seeds which were great at the time, but now that we can buy melons they're mediocre as well) and the unique mob is incredibly dangerous compared to the stronghold's mob, making them generally a waste of time to explore if you didn't already have melon seeds. Villages were nearly worthless when 1.8 was released and only gained value when a chest was added to the blacksmith and when villagers could trade with you. To top it off, the promised generator was not like the pictures that were shown, and was incredibly predictable. The seeds section that once showed unique and epic landscapes such as Glacier's mountains and 404's hidden cave now showed "epic mountains" consisting of an Extreme Hills (EH) biome and a bunch of loot and structures around the spawn.

I will not deny that the structures are interesting and that the biomes can produce cool formations. However, the biomes are always very similar to other biomes of another type (one forest is nearly identical to another forest) and every biome is flat except for EH and X-hills (the technical biomes that attempt to replace true height variation; the game refers to them as "foresthills" and "deserthills" and whatnot). The structures suffer from similar problems; jungle temples and forest temples always have the same traps, mineshafts have very little variation in the rooms, caves are always endless, and strongholds have only a couple of room types.

This thread aims to fix the predictability problems with the terrain. In the future, I will make a thread that fixes the problems with structures.

To try to appease everyone's tastes, there are a few worldtypes you can choose from (LargeBiomes is removed; you'll see why later).

Fantasy World

Where the biomes and terrain are (mostly) independent of each other.

To create the ideal world, the generator will go through a couple of steps in the beginning.

The Base World

Simply put, the generator generates a world similar to the 1.4.7 worlds; it generates a landscape consisting of 8 identical debug biomes (they are completely flat and are at the sea level) and an "ocean" biome that is similar to the current one, but slightly different; the ocean floor gently slopes downwards to an area roughly 50 blocks below the surface.

Biomes

The world generates temperature and rainfall values, similar to the 1.7.3 worlds but using a slightly modified biome grid (yes, it is ugly as hell). Rather than just temperature and rainfall, there is soil quality (suggested by a supporter) which allows for a wider variety of biomes. Temperature, Rainfall, and SQ all have values ranging from 0 to 100 which are used for biome placement. Since I cannot make a 3D graph, you will have to make do with these five crappy graphs instead:












There are a couple of changes to the grid I have made (they are pretty obvious):

-Jungles generate at very high rainfall and temperature levels, replacing part of Rainforests on mediocre soil quality. On the higher soil qualities, jungles replace rainforests.
-Woods is removed and wildly changes based on the SQ. On low, it is a temperate steppe. On mediocre, it is a shrubland. Above that, it is a mixed forest.
-Deserts vary a lot, once again. On low, it is a wasteland. On mediocre, it is a badland. On medium and above, it is a sand desert.
-Forests are pretty constant for the most part, but on very high SQ they become redwood forests.
-Savannas on low SQ are tropical steppes instead.
-On low and mediocre SQs, tundras are ice deserts instead.
-Grass deserts are replaced by plains on medium, high, and very high SQs.
-On mediocre SQ and below, swamps become marshes.
-The rainier part of taigas are replaced with pine forests, unless the SQ is low (in which case it is just a taiga).

Because biomes were very small pre-1.8, the Temperature and Rainfall values now increase and decrease at two times the previous rate. Biomes will not spawn in the ocean.

Do not that the affects of soil quality (such as Sequoia rarity, or tree density) scale a little more smoothly than just based on the classification of the soil quality. For an example, a forest with a SQ of 25 will have a lower tree density than a forest with a SQ of 50, even though they are both classified as having a mediocre soil quality.

Despite what the graphs say, marshes, rainforests, and seasonal forests are capable of containing kapok trees (jungle trees) at any soil quality, but if the soil quality isn't very high the chance is very low (especially at the lower SQs). A similar thing occurs for pine forests (including taigas that fit in the same range), forests, and mixed forests (and shrublands/temperate steppes as well) with sequoias, though once again the chance is very rare outside of the highest soil qualities.

There are two technical biomes: River (and Frozenriver; both of which do not have an effect on the grass color) and Coast (which also does not affect the grass color. The Coast biome appears on the edge of the shoreline in the water as well as on the land. The length of the coast varies, ranging from 0 blocks to 100 and changing all along the coast. If there is 0 blocks on land, there will be 0 blocks in the water; if there are 100 on land, there will be 100 in the ocean and so on. Coasts will also take on a different name called "tropical coast" if the temperature there is over 66 (where a desert can form), which acts as if it were a different biome, and it will become a Frozen Coast at roughly 33 and under.

Oceans follow a similar formula; if the temperature is over 66, the ocean is a Tropical Ocean. If it is under 33, it will be a Frozen Ocean.

(To those who care: I am using the temperature biome system over the current one because it makes the transitions between biome to biome a lot smoother. To those who think there wasn't enough diversity between 1.7.3 biomes: don't worry, that will be changed.)

Ground

Grass, sand, and snow are generated. Beaches are generated as well, next to oceans; both sand, gravel, and dirt (aka no beach) will generate. Clay generates at and around oceans, in 1.7.3-style patches, but at a higher frequency.

Mountains

Mountains are generated, similarly to 1.7.3, but only on non-Ocean biomes.

Mountains are more common in Jungles, Rainforests, Badlands, Taiga, and Tundra (but flatlands still exist).
Mountains are less common in Plains, Savannas, both of the Steppes and Swamps/Marshes. Mountains still exist there, though.

Additionally, in "coast" biomes, the terrain is smoothed out (including mountains, if they are present). This will create a flat coastal plain in areas with a big coast while keeping cliffs and overhangs along the edge of the ocean if the coast is small.

Biome Characteristics

The characteristics of the biomes generate; trees, tall grass, and whatnot. The characteristics of each biome are below.

This includes rivers and their generation. Rivers can have either a dirt bed or a gravel bed. Rivers generate at areas of high elevation as a block of water (similar to water flows/falls) and actually begin as a thin stream of source blocks embedded in the ground. They gradually get bigger, and form a bigger river if one river intersects with another. Rivers can split if a mountain gets in the way, and they can erode away a canyon if they spawn on high ground (of course, only during world creation).

To add more variation, a biome will not always have the same characteristics. There is a % chance of a certain characteristic occurring (e.g. 3 types of trees in that forest) and that specific biome will have that characteristic if it is chosen. I use jungles as an example for this, but overall it'll affect things mentioned there plus (at times) the density and rarity of the future flowers or possibly tree color.


Ores &amp; Caves

Ores and caves generate. Emerald ore spawns underneath mountains, regardless of biome.

Springs also spawn (at a heavily reduced rate) as well as the blocks of water and lava that form waterfalls and lava flows.

Cave generation is the same as in 1.7.3. There will no longer be caves everywhere you go (the density will vary).

Structures

Structures generate.

-Biome-respective temples generate in their biomes (more on those in a later thread; the current temples fall under this and receive an overhaul).
- Villages prefer to spawn in tropical and temperate coasts, forests, pine forests, plains, and savannas. They are not found often in deserts, tundras, swamps, jungles, and rain forests. They receive a somewhat unique look based on the biome (more on that in a later thread).
-The current strongholds are given an overhaul, and spawn in a ring like they do now. A second ring spawns another 1000 blocks away, containing six strongholds rather than 3. There is another 2000 blocks from the first, containing 9 strongholds. The trend continues. (As a side note, each End Portal leads to a completely separate End dimension, allowing for you to fight the Enderdragon multiple times... but for each time you kill him, he gets stronger. More on that in a later thread.)
-Abandoned mineshafts follow the same spawning method as villages.

And then the world is fully generated (say something if I left something out).

Realistic

Where the terrain forms the biomes.

The realistic terrain generator aims to create a realistic world. For those who like realism.

Do note that the last 8 layers (besides Layer 1 which is still bedrock) are replaced with a layer of lava.

Like the Fantasy generator, this generator also goes through a step-by-step process.

Tectonic Plates Placement

Since tectonic plates are the foundation of real-world terrain, naturally this step would come first.

This basically generates several large (roughly the size of a 1.8 continent) biome-shaped areas. These are the tectonic plates of the world.

Tectonic Plates Simulation

The tectonic plates will all move in random directions and form realistic continents, mountain ranges, sea floors, et cetera. This will form the world's oceans and continents. Any area that contains water is now an ocean biome.

Caves

Yes, caves will form right here and now. Rather than the 1.7.3 cave generator, a Realistic generator cave will immediately form a small central area, usually flooded with lava or water. These will branch out with tunnels that gradually grow smaller. There are a couple of tunnels by default, and when a cave generates it will roll several random dice rolls (or numbers) to determine whether it gets slightly bigger (the main cavern and existing branches will be bigger and longer when it actually generates and it adds a few extra branches to the caves). This will create caverns and caves of various sizes. Due to the nature of how these caves will generate, the bigger ones will be rarer.

If a cavern intersects with ocean water, it will not generate. This is only for the cavern; the caves can intersect just fine.

(For future reference: I refer to the large center area as a cavern. The branches are caves and are NOT caverns.)

Soil Quality

Soil quality now partially generates. It tends to create high soil quality in flat areas, and low soil quality in mountainous areas.

Volcanic Activity

Yes! In the Realistic generator, you will get volcanoes. Because volcanoes are awesome, and they form awesome islands, and there's lava, and lava is awesome.

First, volcanoes will form occasionally on plate boundaries, over lava-filled caverns (if there is no plate boundary over the lava-filled cavern, it will not generate). When they do (it isn't guaranteed), they form a "magma pipe", a pipe of obsidian reaching from the surface to the lava cavern. It will overwrite other cave(rn)s and whatnot.

Tall, steep volcanoes known as "composite volcanoes" will form if they spawn over a particularly large cavern that is flooded with lava. These volcanoes are so tall that they stretch over Y=128.

A crater-like depression in the ground is another volcano that can form and is known as a caldera. This will occur if the magma pipe from the cavern (it doesn't need to be as big as the one for a composite volcano) intersects with another cavern, either dry or filled with water.

A shield volcano will form where a composite volcano can form, but only when the lava cavern intersects with Layer 8 or below where the magma sea is. It is essentially a very wide composite volcano with a smoother slope that doesn't generate above layer 128.

A cinder volcano can form if a composite volcano cannot. It is essentially a smaller version of a composite volcano.

In addition, "hot spots" will occur (a large-scale "noise" similar to temperature or rainfall in the Fantasy generator). If the noise value is sufficiently high enough, cinder volcanoes can generate there.


Volcanoes of every sort increase the soil quality of the surrounding land.

Poles and Equators

This is where equators and poles and whatnot are generated. By default, the poles and equators are 50k blocks apart (there are multiple), though you can configure the distance as a terrain slider. This sets a basic definition of temperature. (Biomes still follow the same placement as before, but the temperature and somesuch is defined by the poles.)

Atolls/Sea Classification

Yep, those things. They generate in shallow areas in the tropical seas.

Also, at this point, any sea with a temperature above 66 is classified as a tropical ocean. 66-33 is a temperate ocean, and 33-0 is a polar ocean.

Ocean Currents

Basically, imagine if oceans had rivers. These "rivers" move around continents and somesuch if they pass, but otherwise they flow freely. They all form a loop (because they're currents). Later on, these will influence the temperature of an area, but they do nothing yet. These currents are not visible, by the way, they are only a technical thing.

Rain-Shadow Effect and Air Masses

Air masses are simulated. Air mass "origins" are placed in tropic and polar areas, and move towards polar and tropic areas respectively. If these simulated air masses hit another air mass, they change paths and form around eachother; when this occurs, the rainfall around the point of collision will increase. If no collisions occur in an area, the rainfall will generally be low.

If an air mass hits a mountain, it will move around the mountain and increase the rainfall around the area of impact. There will be a dead zone on the other side, which will decrease the rainfall there.

An air mass will take in to account where it formed. If it formed in an ocean, it raises the rainfall of the areas it passes through and increases rainfall more in collisions.

Erosion and Rivers

Now that we've got rainfall, we can generate erosion and, more importantly, rivers. Areas with more rainfall will erode the soil away and make the terrain a little smoother (though you will never encounter this erosion in actual gameplay). In addition, if this simulated rainfall collects enough in one area, it will form the start of a river. From there, it creates... well, a river. These rivers behave pretty similarly to the Fantasy rivers, though these will follow the easiest path of flow.

Coastal and Ocean Current Temperature Calculations

Remember those ocean currents? Yeah, they influence temperature. These currents will significantly increase the temperature and rainfall of the surrounding area. In addition, oceans will also slightly increase rainfall and temperature in the surrounding area.

Glaciers

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Glacier "spawns" will generate in mountains and polar regions. The "spawn" will move (like the airmass simulation) until it travels a great enough distance and melts. The areas it was in will have a lower height. If the spawn is in a polar ocean, it will just generate an iceberg there instead.

Structures

Yep, finally.

And that's it! One earthlike world, just for you. Though perhaps it could use more biomes.

Repetitive

Where the biomes form the terrain.

The repetitive/predictable generator is the same as the current one, but with more biomes added (rainforest, overhauled swamp, pine forest, seasonal forest, savanna, shrubland, and grass desert). For those who prefer the current generator, and for Creative builds that want to use sliders to customize their world. (It would probably act more like the BWG generator, since that has better underwater bedding.)

Compatibility

Compatibility is the current worldgenerator, and it cannot be accessed normally. Old worlds default to this generator. When you open it, you have an option to switch to one of the other worldtypes, or to stick with Compatibility (you can change it later in the options menu).

Terrain Sliders

There will be terrain sliders... or at least, a form of it. The three main world generators will have different options for customization. Since I favor variation over sliders, I won't go that in-depth with it.

For the Fantasy world generator, all you can customize is the biome size. You can either increase the biome size up to 16 times the normal amount, or decrease it to up to 1/16th of the normal amount. (It's less restrictive than large biomes.)

You can modify some more things for the Realistic world generator. You can modify the size of the tectonic plates, the frequency of glaciers, the distance between the poles (or equators), how much of an impact the rain-shadow effect has on rainfall, and how much of an impact oceans (and currents) have on the temperature.

Any variable that is kept constant can be altered in the Repetitive world generator. The main intention of sliders is to give you the world you want, anyway, and chances are you don't want the silly thing known as "variation" to get in the way of that.

These are some of the suggestions from viewers that I liked:

Quote from danix111

It just hit me. Why should we restrict ourselves to old, noise-based temperature system when we can use layers?

What I thought of was having a layer that generates values from 0 to 100, and then gets stretched using fractal zoom. Several instances could generate temperature, rainfall and drainage.

This would have two advantages:
- Pseudo-random number generator employed by layers gives uniformly distributed numbers, meaning it would be possible to come across all biomes with equal chance, like now (well... except Ice Plains, they look more technical).
- It gives large biomes while retaining proper placement, with no need for tinkering with values too much.

Credits to EyeOfTheDaev for the idea of soil quality.

Thoughts?

new biomes = new temples = more exploration everybody!

Quote from BrettPhil

tried too many items with this and it crashed:

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// I Blame hate Dinnerbone Obama PRISM

Time: 8/3/13 3:01 PM
Description: Initializing game

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: BaseMod
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at ats.loadMods(Minecraft.java:3203)
at ats.O(Minecraft.java:417)
at ats.d(Minecraft.java:760)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: BaseMod
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 16 more


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Stacktrace:
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at ats.loadMods(Minecraft.java:3203)
at ats.O(Minecraft.java:417)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at ats.d(Minecraft.java:760)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.6.2
Operating System: Windows 7 (amd64) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 1027329976 bytes (979 MB) / 1560346624 bytes (1488 MB) up to 11453267968 bytes (10922 MB)
JVM Flags: 2 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx12G
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: mod_OldDays, IScrollingGui, GuiOldDaysBase, ...[nbxlite.RenderGlobal2, RenderGhast2, RenderSheep2, ...], [nbxlite.blocks.BlockGear, BlockLeaves2, BlockTallGrass2, ...], [nbxlite.format.SaveConverterMcRegion], [nbxlite.indev.McLevelImporter], [nbxlite.mapgens.OldWorldGenTrees, OldWorldGenHugeTrees, OldWorldGenForest, ...], [nbxlite.oldbiomes.OldBiomeGenBase, OldBiomeGenRainforest, OldBiomeGenSwamp, ...], [nbxlite.spawners.SpawnListEntryBeta], [ssp.GuiIngameMenuSP, WorldSSP, EntityPlayerSP2, ...]
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
Launched Version: Old days
LWJGL: 2.9.0
OpenGL: GeForce GT 520/PCIe/SSE2 GL version 4.3.0, NVIDIA Corporation
Is Modded: Definitely; Client brand changed to 'SSP 3.1 for 1.6.2; OldDays 4.1; SpawnHuman r2; SSPC 3.3.1'
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Pack: faithful.zip
Current Language: English (US)
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

I know you wont do anything about it but just confirming that TMI for 1.6.2 doesn't work

Heh, OldDays modify the player Inventory or the Inventory Renderer? If it does, TMI will be incompatible.
Edit: What? TMI / OldDays it's looking for "BaseMod.class"?! Try to install ModLoader -> TMI -> OldDays or ModLoader -> OldDays -> TMI

it's obsolete because it's not near as cool, heh.

Quote from BrettPhil

I know this is kinda random but why do I occasionally find slime balls on the surface just sitting there

Drowned slimes.