Some semi-random thoughts on terrain generation

[NiLSPACE]

Really that's it? Why did I set it so high to begin anyway. I feel so stupid now ;(

[xoft]

Don't feel bad, it's actually helped us to catch a bug in the mineshafts generator

Please try again with master and with the FixMineshafts branch, hopefully the fix will work even for your huge values (it does work for me).

[NiLSPACE]

Yes it generates normaly now

[xoft]

The Japanese village is coming along quite nicely:



And sometimes the cultures clash!

[NiLSPACE]

I just found a problem with the flat arab houses:


EDIT:
I changed the boundingbox on the gallery server.

[sphinxc0re]

I'm sorry but I think the terrain generation is still much too smooth. Don't you use simplex noise for terrain generation? Also I think the Japanese village is a good idea, but I think it's a little bit too kitschy and colorful.

[xoft]

The terrain is a 3-octave Perlin noise, there are some adjustments planned but first I'd like to finish the villages.

The Japanese village is a first attempt, now it's time to refine it over and over again until we're happy with it. The colorfulness might also be my texture pack, I'm using green-colored nether bricks, because the default color is too dark for me, I'm slightly shadow-blind.

I'm leaving my dev server online until tomorrow, unless someone crashes it, you can connect and see for yourself: gallery.xoft.cz:3299. Note that the server is in debug mode, so it's slow; it has villages set to generate larger and close to each other.

[xoft]

I like STR's "scarecrows", but I have to tune them down somewhat, this is ridiculous:

[NiLSPACE]

Maybe make them only spawn close to crops?

[xoft]

The miners' village is working well enough. I'm leaving my dev server on overnight, if you want to give it a try; I'll probably take it down tomorrow during the day.
gallery.xoft.cz:3299
There's a village with a mine directly at spawn.