FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

This mod creates an infinite dungeon world.
License: WTFPL
Mod dependencies: default
Known bugs:

• Some rooms don't connect properly [fixed; some still don't connect properly]
• Bright light in some areas [fixed] (now there are darkness in some areas)
• Some areas are not generated (happens extremely rarely)
• Memory leaks on some clients (https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/3566)

Planned features:

• Treasure rooms
• Workshops
• Bedrooms (like in dwarf fortress)
• Tombs
• Underground farming plots
• Monsters
• Custom blocks
• Magic
• Mechanisms
• Dining rooms
• Traps
• ... and more stuff from dwarf fortress

WARNING: Watch out for the memory leak, it can be 2GB per minute, so if you want to try the mod, keep your system monitor open to check memory use. Memory leaks on the client side, so it is safe to run a standalone server.

Screenshots:


Git: https://github.com/slemonide/roomgen
Download: https://github.com/slemonide/roomgen/archive/master.zip
Server: slemonide.ddns.net

I have started a creative server with this generator at slemonide.ddns.net. Feel free to try it!

This is a map of a part of the maze

wow, looks great :D

Watch out for the memory leak, it can be 2GB per minute, if you try the mod keep your system monitor open to check memory use.

paramat wrote:Watch out for the memory leak, it can be 2GB per minute, if you try the mod keep your system monitor open to check memory use.

Thank you for reminding. I added a warning to the main post.

A screenshot of one weird bug. During the night time it is dark.. in the tunnels. Darkness seem to ignore the torches.

Update. Now there are less dead ends. All tunnels are now connected.

Wow lovely.
Because you are using singlenode you can now set the 'nolight' flag and remove 'vm:set lighting(day = 0, night = 0)'. This will speed up mapgen because you eliminate the first unnecessary lighting calculation and the resetting of light.

paramat wrote:Wow lovely.
Because you are using singlenode you can now set the 'nolight' flag and remove 'vm:set lighting(day = 0, night = 0)'. This will speed up mapgen because you eliminate the first unnecessary lighting calculation and the resetting of light.

That doesn't really work. And that also that brings spots with abnormal illumination back.

Update. Now there are more stone.

that looks really interesting

I wonder wether you could use the algorithm to build other structures convincingly
The grid structure looks as if it might be usefull to build town like structures.
It would be cool if these blobs of "dungeon-biomes" would be connected by long winding paths, with the odd dead end of course. Maybe a network overlay.

twoelk wrote:that looks really interesting

Thank you.

twoelk wrote:I wonder wether you could use the algorithm to build other structures convincingly

Should be possible. All that has to be modified are schematics for cells and a function that connects these schematics to each other

This would be cool as a mtiplayer map, an underground community!

slemon wrote:Update. Now there are more stone.

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wat is the poor little tunnel lost in the stone

Nice structure.

Looks great!
Did you plan to add a feature for embedding it into another mapgen yet? I would like to see those dungeons as a mod to extend another mapgen, v6, as example.

Krock wrote:Looks great!
Did you plan to add a feature for embedding it into another mapgen yet? I would like to see those dungeons as a mod to extend another mapgen, v6, as example.

I do plan to add such feature, but not yet. It is still too buggy.

EDIT: But you are free to send commits of course.