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Version 0.2.0
Now tunnels have been moved to noisegrid, this mod is currently an experiment (also an example and a mapgen framework) in roads that climb hills and place halfslabs to create walkable and drivable slopes (gradient is limited though). Map in first post.

Another simple test using a single 8x5x8 module. The real challenge will be to create connected internal spaces.

I tried v0.2 which has no lava and noticed the light seemed to be spread properly at generation, can't work out why it works here and not in some of my mods. In v0.2, if the player travels through the caves for a while, then places a torch, there's a huge lagspike (up to 10 sec), i'm thinking perhap...

First test of generative architecture.

This looks good, i'll try it soon. How do you spread the light of the light sources since voxelmanip doesn't do this? i have to either 'nodeupdate(pos)' or if that doesn't work 'remove node' then 'place node'.

Excellent approach to mobs.

Version 0.3.8 Added tunnel network from 'intersecting' mod, now 2 tunnel systems plus the existing fissures. Since this is my cute and pretty mapgen i added a little lux ore in the fissures and tunnels, this can be crafted with glass to make the lights found in road tunnel ceilings. Tree height vari...

Deimos, but then i would pick the sci-fi one. moonrealm mod v0.8.0 shows how to use custom skybox and override light ratio.

indev mapgen will probably be removed or completely changed in the next few months, just so you know.

A player cannot be allowed to fall into ungenerated chunks, because the chunk may be solid, then you end up buried. Minetest mapgen can't keep up with human terminal velocity. I'm not sure it's possible to keep track of how far a player has fallen, or if it is, it may not be worth the extra processi...

Version 0.8.0 This is for Minetest 0.4.9 dev after the custom skybox commit. Auto setting of skybox and light ratio in both singlenode and stacked realm modes. Overridng the light ratio keeps the surface bright independant of server time, essential for the stacked realm mode. The airglow around the ...

Yes good idea, stairs and slabs are registered in the latest version at github, it was easy too.

spootonium, i do intend to use apartment module schematics and stack those, schematics can also 'replace' nodes for each apartment placed, for differing colours, curtains, carpets :) Also considering using perlin noise for more organic shapes. My aim is massive unlimited architecture, so modules wil...

Yes the layers are 640 nodes apart so can be hard to find, i should state the altitude of the first layer centre in the first post, it's at y = 288, then 928 and every 640n above. The first layer can actually occasionally reach ground level, creating a route up. If you prefer them to start higher, s...

Version 0.3.0
Unlimited size layers stacked 640 nodes apart.
No more biomes, nodes imported from original flolands mod.
Tunnels (from intersect mod) replace the previous caves and create access to the large central voids in the larger float islands.

^ That may be code copied from my lazy code that assumes 5x5x5 mapblock chunks. Sometimes i can't be bothered with the extra code. Good to see a mod like this, we need it because indev mapgen may be removed or changed soon, so we need a replacement for the big flat-sided caves. Perhaps fungus biomes...

Good idea, worldwide there are many cute 'sub'-words that are found in city names, as a simple experiment could just randomly select one and add a generated nonsense word before of after it.

No idea, it's mysterious, it works for me in latest 0.4.9dev and 0.4.8 stable. Perhaps there's something broken in 0.4.9 stable, i assume you're using that, it was apparently a slightly broken release. Thanks for the bug report.

http://i.imgur.com/Ll91OGO.png Download https://github.com/paramat/intersecting/archive/master.zip and rename folder to 'intersecting' Code https://github.com/paramat/intersecting intersecting 0.4.0 by paramat For Minetest 0.4.12 and later Depends default Licenses: Code WTFPL, textures CC BY-SA 3.0...

An idea came to me suddenly last night, i realised how to make unlimited tunnels using 2 3D noises. Mapgen v6 tunnels tend to be short and get cut off at chunk borders. By adding a third 3D noise i can create tunnel intersections.

I like the look of those new caves, interesting they were created by 2D noise, i will be looking at your code to see how this is done. Simple, fast generation that creates less realistic, more abstract shapes has appeal and character and is a nice change from highly detailed 3D noise, it is also ver...

I've been experimenting with a size-unlimited version of flolands / indev core floatlands / floatindev

Another tip, HISCAL and LOSCAL are the 'theoretical' vertical scales, the terrain will extend much further, i'm trying SCALs of 128 and getting structures extending 250 nodes from 'flomid'. I'm also trying exponents (HIEXP. LOEXP) of 0.33, creates flatter, wider flanges around the floatland, with sp...

Yes nixz :) that error is because in my own code i have changed the wave noise to 3D noise, the 2D noise makes the wave shape identical on each level, which i don't like visually. Also the cavegen is embarrasingly bad, these days i would use math.abs(3D noise) < TFIS for fissures. Yes when 2 layers ...