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mg - Experimental Mapgen

A custom Lua-mapgen, with biomes, caves, villages, cliffs and ore generation.
Biomes:

• Ocean
• Dry grasslands
• Wet grasslands
• Forest
• Jungle
• Savanna
• Desert
• Tundra
• Taiga
• Beach

To use, enable the mod before playing a world for the first time (do not use it in an already used world).
Github repo: https://github.com/minetest-mods/mg
Screenshots:

very nice!

along with blockmen's wasteland mod, these would all make awesome biomes for the default mapgen (which could use some more biomes) :-)

I get this error:



I run windows and I have a fairly new version of 0.4.7 from minetest github.

I want this so bad!!

PS: +100

philipbenr wrote:I get this error:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all

13:03:09: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: C:\Users\----\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: attempt to call field 'register_on_mapgen_init' (a nil value)
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]:     ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: in main chunk
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: =======END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========

I run windows and I have a fairly new version of 0.4.7 from minetest github.

I want this so bad!!

PS: +100

Your Minetest version is outdated.

I can. This is soooooo awesome. I love this mod, and will use for a long time to come.

Quick Update:

• Wells added to Villages

I also reworked the building spawn code because it was broken

Wow you even created flat areas for villages, i will have to study how you did this.
Good to see you include savanna and a dry grass texture, i just added both to slabrealm mod. Your biome system is similar to the slabrealm one:

Hybrid Dog wrote:↓primitive, but fast, river system↓

Nice, how did you generate it, is it at sea level?

paramat wrote:Wow you even created flat areas for villages, i will have to study how you did this.
Good to see you include savanna and a dry grass texture, i just added both to slabrealm mod. Your biome system is similar to the slabrealm one:

http://i.imgur.com/ZOt7zx0.gif

Hybrid Dog wrote:↓primitive, but fast, river system↓

Nice, how did you generate it, is it at sea level?

The way I look at it, Hybrid Dog, paramat, and Nore could work together.

We already do by reading each others code :)

paramat, I looked at your biome map to create mine ;)
Moreover, I finally fixed the caves (the problem was that coordinates were floating-point). So that means: no more buggy caves and shadows, so caves are near the surface again.

Cool :) I look forward to trying this mapgen in 0.4.8 stable. I realised this must be the flattening and smoothing-of-transition methods you have mentioned before.

Not exactly, but not for from it (the thing I had done was too slow and a bit buggy).

Best pines i've seen, now you can have taiga and tundra biomes and have all 8 biomes.

Now pines generate in taiga biomes, and have snow on the top!

There's a new screenshot in the first post of the snowy pines, they are sooo beautiful, i have a 'thing' for snowy landscapes (and north European black metal of course).

paramat wrote:There's a new screenshot in the first post

I made that screenshot :)

We need builders for the villages:
* the buildings should not be too big
* they should use default materials

Building ideas:
- Forge
- Inn
- Church
- Library
- Several house types
- etc.

New Screenshot in the first post!

New Buildings:
* More houses
* Fountains
* Cotton fields

Nore wrote:We need builders for the villages:

It would be great to have a place to exchange schematics of houses in the new, compact .mts format.

PilzAdam wrote:

philipbenr wrote:I get this error:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all

13:03:09: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: C:\Users\----\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: attempt to call field 'register_on_mapgen_init' (a nil value)
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]:     ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: in main chunk
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: =======END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========

I run windows and I have a fairly new version of 0.4.7 from minetest github.
I want this so bad!!
PS: +100

Your Minetest version is outdated.

Im also having that error but i have the new version of minetest.

aron1263 wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:

philipbenr wrote:I get this error:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all

13:03:09: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: C:\Users\----\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: attempt to call field 'register_on_mapgen_init' (a nil value)
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
13:03:09: ERROR[main]:     ...\Game Data\minetest-0.4.7 - Copy\bin\..\mods\mg\init.lua:4: in main chunk
13:03:09: ERROR[main]: =======END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========

I run windows and I have a fairly new version of 0.4.7 from minetest github.
I want this so bad!!
PS: +100

Your Minetest version is outdated.

Im also having that error but i have the new version of minetest.

You need a newer version of Minetest.
Try my or Fess builds

The villages are now much better: instead of being a bunch of buildings thrown together, there are roads, etc. Moreover, the villages are bigger.

Like this

(Screenshot by BlockMen)
or this

(Screenshot by me)

New Screenshot added to first post.

This is a very well done mapgen that I hope will serve as inspiration for mapgen v7. Brilliance such as this must not be ignored.

You might want to spread caves out more, as they do seem a little crowded down there.

When the player reaches -1000, lava caves could appear here and there and could be lined with obsidian.

When dirt is placed near dry grass, the dirt could turn into dry grass itself (same thing applies if the dirt is placed near desert sand.)

Churches added!
More buildings are coming.


Edit:
Forges and Libraries added

I took Pilzadams build and it worked..

sfan5 wrote:

aron1263 wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:Your Minetest version is outdated.

Im also having that error but i have the new version of minetest.

You need a newer version of Minetest.
Try my or Fess builds

Will underground labyrinths (dungeons) be added to this mapgen, with the bigger ones being below -3000?

Have you seen the mod below?
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=102707#p102707
It has a few interesting ideas.