Some semi-random thoughts on terrain generation

[NiLSPACE]

[xoft]

No, that was not intentional, we should probably mimic Vanilla here as well, which means stopping the clay a few blocks under the sealevel. Those ravines do look cool, though, perhaps we can make them into a separate finisher that would put the clay around some ravines.

[NiLSPACE]

I believe someone ordered a flower generator for the overworld in a certain presentation that was live streamed?

[xoft]

It might need some parameter tweaking, such as the number of blocks that it sets, or the distance between the clumps. Other than that, good job

Here's a Mesa for you.
http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/apvRbv9_700b.jpg

[NiLSPACE]

The generator doesn't work like that. Per chunk it currently only tries to place one clump at most. What I want to figure out first though is a good way to determine what flowers should be placed in what biome. I was thinking of adding an option in the world.ini with some kind of format:

Code:

[Generator]
Flowers=Forest;ForestHills|yellowflower; redflower; bigflower:1, sunflowerplains|bigflower:0

Or something like that. Currently I have a large switch in the code which we obviously don't really want as it's ugly and cannot be configurated.

[NiLSPACE]

"And here you see a rare flower blooming"


I finally had some time to work on this again. As you can see it's now configurable.

[tigerw]

Rare flowers bloom into lapis lazuli blocks?

[NiLSPACE]

No, you can configure what the clumps are ^^

[tigerw]

ohhhh

[xoft]

Following my terrible presentation, I updated the documentation to include the Grown biome generator, along with lots and lots of colorful examples:
https://github.com/cuberite/cuberite/pull/3078