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Hey Everyone, for several months now I have been experimenting with with an ancient ruins and underground complex mod, But I honestly haven't really gotten anywhere. I was curious if we could make a modification to the map gen for the kind of things you see in MC, however far larger and grander, Like a massive Ancient castle or ancient temples and such or even down to small wells, cabins, or bunkers etc. some things could be so big they span entire biomes, is this feasible or would it affect performance? thanks! (if not is there anyway I could make Schematic files that are generated into the world with everything else?)

AgentNagel42 wrote:Hey Everyone, for several months now I have been experimenting with with an ancient ruins and underground complex mod, But I honestly haven't really gotten anywhere. I was curious if we could make a modification to the map gen for the kind of things you see in MC, however far larger and grander, Like a massive Ancient castle or ancient temples and such or even down to small wells, cabins, or bunkers etc. some things could be so big they span entire biomes, is this feasible or would it affect performance? thanks! (if not is there anyway I could make Schematic files that are generated into the world with everything else?)

Well, these things sure do sound good.

AgentNagel42 wrote:[...](if not is there anyway I could make Schematic files that are generated into the world with everything else?)

Yes, use the worldedit mod to create schematics.

Here's a method for huge structures https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9896&hilit=catacomb

Hey I threw together some nice schematics, let me know what you think!

maybe paramat manages to make the generated world surface become transformed to a room construct which looks different on every place, people would feed it with given schematics: they're not used directly, they are combined each other and messed up with the room construct surface which may result in an

Ask to sokomine if he can add those ruins, buildings to his villages mod.
Or you can maybe make an addon to it.

As far as l know Sokomine only places schematics and adds roads to the entrances. l didn't know that Sokomine is a he

Thoose ruins could be convertable to schematics arent they ?
( I dont know Sokomine's gender but is that detail important to point it out :D ? )

(Yes, I'm female.)

As to the schematics: They're a bit too few for a biome. I've added the necessary init.lua file so that they can be their own village type. Set mg_villages.FIRST_VILLAGE_TYPE = "ruins" in your mg_villages/config.lua file and create a new world if you want to spawn in one of the ruins-type villages.

ooh nice thanks! I'm gunna keep working on more schematics for larger ruins (maybe a massive castle)

can someone make a script that randomly generates a single schematic instead of an entire village, but maybe partway buried so parts don't awkwardly stick out of the ground in sloped areas? thanks!

:P

you could add some buildings from the Share Your WorldEdit Files! thread. Spawn a dungeonmaster in one of the colloseums offered there and import the resulting ruins ;-P

AgentNagel42 wrote:can someone make a script that randomly generates a single schematic instead of an entire village, but maybe partway buried so parts don't awkwardly stick out of the ground in sloped areas? thanks!

If you only want single houses, and no villages at all, take a look at the ruins mod. It does create ruins already. I'm sure you can extend it if you add further ruins.

Do you mean the ruins mod from wastelands?

And may you add those buildings to your villages mod?
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Hybrid Dog wrote:Do you mean the ruins mod from wastelands?

I think it's part of the wastelands game as well - but it's also a seperate mod. At least I remember having seen it on the forum.

Hybrid Dog wrote:And may you add those buildings to your villages mod?
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That ruins village type certainly could use more diffrent buildings. Getting those from the antique villages mod might be a bit tricky - I don't know if it still runs in a world. If it does, you can run it and save the buildings as .mts files or just recreate them (might be fastest).

Sokomine wrote:

Hybrid Dog wrote:And may you add those buildings to your villages mod?
viewtopic.php?id=557

That ruins village type certainly could use more diffrent buildings. Getting those from the antique villages mod might be a bit tricky - I don't know if it still runs in a world. If it does, you can run it and save the buildings as .mts files or just recreate them (might be fastest).

Could you also add some of my buildings?

btw: l recently added huts to the swamps mod
https://github.com/HybridDog/sumpf/blob ... f/huts.lua

finished

Hybrid Dog wrote:Could you also add some of my buildings?

Sure, they can be added as well. It's just that this ruins village type is getting an excess of watchtowers - and a severe shortage of houses to actually live in. Part of it can be changed by increasing the probability of houses, but that doesn't help against there beeing too few diffrent house types of that kind.

In order to add your (or Ironzongs?) buildings, just drop them in the village_ruins/schems/ folder, rename the watchtower.mts to watchtower2.mts due to duplicate file names, and add those three lines to village_ruins/init.lua:

Hybrid Dog wrote:btw: l recently added huts to the swamps mod
https://github.com/HybridDog/sumpf/blob ... f/huts.lua

I was about to complain about not having found one such hut in a test world when I stumbled upon one. It was well hidden below the tree roof. Quite a big hut, actually, and built out of nice materials and with a very good roof. The house had no entrance.

Sokomine wrote:Sure, they can be added as well.

How about this one?

It's just that this ruins village type is getting an excess of watchtowers - and a severe shortage of houses to actually live in. Part of it can be changed by increasing the probability of houses, but that doesn't help against there beeing too few diffrent house types of that kind.

In order to add your (or Ironzongs?) buildings, just drop them in the village_ruins/schems/ folder, rename the watchtower.mts to watchtower2.mts due to duplicate file names, and add those three lines to village_ruins/init.lua:

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mg_villages.add_building( { scm="wooden_house",   mts_path=path, weight={ruins=1,   single=1}, typ='house',  orients={1}});
mg_villages.add_building( { scm="watchtower_ruin",mts_path=path, weight={ruins=1/8, single=1}, typ='tower',  orients={1}});
mg_villages.add_building( { scm="watchtower2",    mts_path=path, weight={ruins=1/8, single=1}, typ='tower',  orients={1}});


Hybrid Dog wrote:btw: l recently added huts to the swamps mod
https://github.com/HybridDog/sumpf/blob ... f/huts.lua

I was about to complain about not having found one such hut in a test world when I stumbled upon one. It was well hidden below the tree roof. Quite a big hut, actually, and built out of nice materials and with a very good roof. The house had no entrance.

They don't have one yet, l don't know how to put doors there in the right direction without setting param2 for them.