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+1.55

+1.6180339887

+1 Can you slip when you walk up hill's? if not that would be cool.

+3.14159... ?

No, +2.71828183... and then 3.14159... ;)

This is the best minetest mod ever (serious). Even better than those I made (serious).
It's hard to capture it in a screenshot, but I tried.

(Here I used a alternated version with kind of fractal noise, but explaining it is going to be a longer text.)

+20

I hope something like this mod will be in default game

This mod is still in it's simplest form, i released it as soon as possible because i know that new Minetest mapgen is coming that might do something similar haha :)

Casimir i love that screenshot ... and interested in your use of fractal noise.

On this map you can not see the hight, but the contour lines the normal mapgen, and the mod produce. Also the new "sand biom" and the hills without trees (both are raised up sea floor), and the bugs (middle thing).
http://ompldr.org/vaDk1eg/landup20130128.png

@ paramat
See here: http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=66580#p66580

Wow. I am speechless. Beautiful mod. +100000000000101010101099999991823.99

Nice map. I want to find a way to avoid those bug plateaus by trying to force the upper chunks to generate before the lower ones. One way is to use the "explore map" mod http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2950 which teleports you around the map to generate chunks. Fly up to y = 120 and look straight up to make sure you are only generating y = 48 and y = 128 chunks, then activate the explore map teleportation.

Is there another way? A way to force higher chunks to generate before surface chunks while exploring as normal on the ground?

It will be possible if that pull request gets merged... https://github.com/celeron55/minetest/pull/446

This mod accomplishes something that I have wanted in Minetest. I like having mountains in maps now! :D Good work!

I found an incompatibility with the snow biomes mod. When landup copies a snow:snow node upwards it is placed above air, the snow:snow "on construct" function doesn't allow this so snow:snow disappears from the landup biome turning alpine biomes into stone biomes. To fix this you can disable 3 lines in the snow biomes mod init.lua file by commenting them:

10/10 this should be added to vanilla.

Minetest doesn't have the pity minecraft 256 blocks limit, so why the same type of landscape is seem on minetest, minetest have the luxury of a 30 km not even earth gets that high.

this wound make some epic valleys

Nice, but useless when ya wanna build - but on PvP, adventure, survival etc. servers - awesome

BZab wrote:Nice, but useless when ya wanna build - but on PvP, adventure, survival etc. servers - awesome

Awesome, yes. But also to build on:
- You already have the lower part for very big buildings
- Tunnels and bridges
- High lakes with dams

Version 0.1.1.
First post has been rewritten with details, new screenshots and a method for generating bug free mountain areas.
Thanks for your replies :)

Wow, never thought my "explore map"-mod could really be useful. :-)

Your mod is great!

Version 0.1.2, see first post.
Thanks Echo :)

Version 0.2.0, details and screenshots in first post.

Version 0.3.0, see end of first post.

Version 0.3.0 is now in a repo at github https://github.com/paramat/landup

This is my first attempt at using github so i may have made errors, however it seems to be there successfully ... :/
Will add my other mods to github soon.

Will the "Land Up", "Canyon", and "Chasm" mod keep running until the world is one giant mountain or canyon/chasm or is there a limiter so there will always be plains and hills to contrast with mountains and canyons/chasms?

These three mods of yours really make the landscape much more interesting! Thanks!

No it's limited. These 3 mods only modify newly generated chunks, once a new chunk has generated and been modified by the mod no more modification will happen after that in that chunk. Each mod is limited to a pattern of loops and curves, even with these 3 mods running the total amount of modified terrain will still be far less than 50%.

paramat wrote:Version 0.3.0 is now in a repo at github https://github.com/paramat/landup

This is my first attempt at using github so i may have made errors, however it seems to be there successfully ... :/
Will add my other mods to github soon.

thank you I will use it now

This is good mod, but there are a few things that bug me:

1.) Most importantly the mountains are way too steep. It takes forever to climb up them and trying to climb down them with damage turned on is suicidal. I think the steepest (near vertical) walls should spaced out more or reserved for only the highest peaks.

2.) There are often huge cube shaped (over 100 meters) long areas carved out of the mountain ranges as if the mod decided to start rendering something else in the middle of it's work. These areas have completely smooth walls with no signs of erosion, dirt, grss, or trees. This detracts from the immersion factor of having a beautiful world to play in.

3.) When the land gets streched upwards it also stretches the ore deposites leading to very long vertical lines of ore.

All of this is happening with version 0.4.5 of minetest on version 0.3.0 of the mod.

Keep up the fine work,


Zedm0n

I have an idea to remove those holes in the mountains: when placing nodes, if the node being placed on is ignore, don't place and add the node to a special list, with its position. Every 10 seconds (or less), you should test for each chunck if it is loaded, and if so, place all the nodes inside the list that are in that chunk. If the server is shut, you should then save the list in a file in the world folder, and restore it when the server is opened again.