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[Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 13:13
by Shara
This caverealms fork provides the biomes and decorations from the original
caverealms, with several additions and without the overhead of generating caves. The mapgen used will determine the shape and size of individual caves. This lowers the server resources the mod requires, for example CPU and RAM. This also removes the large lava spills created by the original caverealms.
Screenshots:
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- Unnecessary features, including cave generation, removed for better performance.
- Additional decorations (new type of glow worms and fire vines).
- Bricks/stairs/glass added for glow obsidian.
- Giant mushrooms can now be grown from mushroom saplings.
- Underground moss/lichen/algae spreads over cobble.
- Additional features if used with the Ethereal mod.
Compatibility:
As caverealms_lite does not generate its own caves, replacing caverealms with caverealms_lite might result in minor map generation issues. Please report any other issues (such as unknown nodes) by opening an issue on github, and we'll do our best to fix them.
Servers:
caverealms_lite has been tested on, and is used on the Dark Lands Survival and Xanadu servers.
Download: https://github.com/Ezhh/caverealms_lite ... master.zip
Source: https://github.com/Ezhh/caverealms_lite
License: This mod is released under FreeBSD License (Simplified).
Dependencies:
- Required: default, stairs
- Optional: ethereal, mobs
A huge thank you to:
- Zeno - for huge amounts of work helping to make this version of caverealms possible.
- HeroOfTheWinds - for the amazing original caverealms mod.
- tenplus1 - for help and suggestions.
- The players of Dark Lands Survival - for being our test subjects.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 13:34
by rubenwardy
Nice!
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 13:39
by azekill_DIABLO
EPic!
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 17:44
by Andrey01
Nice!!!!
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 05:12
by duane
Looks good. Do you still get fortresses?
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 08:47
by Shara
Hi duane - Those were one of the things we agreed not to keep, (after all, once you have seen one of them, you've really seen all of them), though the DM statues are still there and can now be crafted from hot cobble and glow ore.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 23:58
by roboto
At what depth does caverealms_lite start spawning?
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:47
by Shara
roboto - There are a few different key depths. Caverealms start at -1500 and deep caverealms start at -7000. By default, the DM's Lair is between -14,000 to -16,000. You can find these values in config.lua and adjust if you'd like to.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 03:11
by roboto
Thanks for the info.
I'll look into contributing to this mod sometime.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 19:48
by Heraclitus
Thanks so much for modifying this to avoid unnecessary cave generation.
Quick question: does the modification affect frequency of lava underground? You mention that code was modified to avoid large lava spills, but does the presence of caverealms_lite affect how often you might find lava caves underground in general now?
I ask because I've been testing this in a new world, and I've never encountered a world with seemingly so little lava as I dig deep. (This is also an issue because I'm also including Technic as a mod, and sulfur now has a number of uses, but it spawns near lava.)
It's possible that I'm just unlucky so far with the particular seed, but there really seems to be almost no lava in the deep regions now.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 20:48
by Shara
I don't think it will change the amount of lava, and I can't say I've noticed an unusual amount in my own uses of the mod. With that said, I haven't looked too closely into how lava is added, but there's nothing here done specifically to stop it appearing. I've sadly encountered maps with very little lava myself as well, so it is something that happens from time to time.
The avoidance of large lava spills comes by using the default mapgen and not adding the caverealms as separate caves. When they are separate caves they can cut through mapgen caves, causing lava in those caves to spill into the caverealms ones. So I guess overall we should have the same number of lava sources, but less flowing lava.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 21:03
by EdShouldBeInBed
Came across this while digging, boots me back to main menu (using minetest 0.4.17.1, personal game):
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2018-07-11 16:47:21: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: Lua: finishGenRuntime error from mod 'caverealms' in callback environment_OnGenerated(): ...ard/.minetest/games/edtest/mods/caverealms_lite/init.lua:312: attempt to call method 'stalagmite' (a nil value)
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ERROR[Main]: ...ard/.minetest/games/edtest/mods/caverealms_lite/init.lua:312: in function <...ard/.minetest/games/edtest/mods/caverealms_lite/init.lua:66>
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:420: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:400>
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer leaves game. List of players:
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ACTION[Main]: [playereffects] Server shuts down. Rescuing data into playereffects.mt
2018-07-11 16:47:21: ACTION[Main]: [playereffects] Wrote playereffects data into /home/edward/.minetest/worlds/ICP/playereffects.mt.
First time I've gotten any sort of generation error with caverealms_lite. Thoughts?
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:11
by Shara
Thanks for reporting. I've not been able to duplicate this crash, and haven't had any reports back from the servers using the mod to suggest there might be a problem.
Could I ask if you have adjusted the mod in any way? And if not, was this a one off crash or is it frequent?
The mod is running on at least one 0.4.17.1 server, so I don't think it's about a change in that version.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 02:10
by SaKeL
Nice to see some performance improvements to such a good mod, i will give it a try. Thank you all for the work!
Edit: i forgot that you can have probably only 1 "register_on_generated" fun() registered in 0.4.17 so i might me screwed
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 13:06
by EdShouldBeInBed
Shara wrote:Thanks for reporting. I've not been able to duplicate this crash, and haven't had any reports back from the servers using the mod to suggest there might be a problem.
Could I ask if you have adjusted the mod in any way? And if not, was this a one off crash or is it frequent?
The mod is running on at least one 0.4.17.1 server, so I don't think it's about a change in that version.
Did some testing before answering. The crash kept happening, always on some caverealm generated item. I had not changed the mod in anyway. So I started from no mods and added mods one by one.
Apparently there was some conflict with jordan4ibanez's
Hell mod, also based on Caverealms.
Once Hell was removed everything's fine.
I feel as if I've enacted some sort of parable...
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 22:27
by Shara
EdShouldBeInBed - thanks for confirming. Without trying to untangle the code, I assume they are somehow fighting with each other. Perhaps both will work if you make sure they don't try to seize control of the same depth regions?
SaKeL - I'm not aware of any issue with multiple "register_on_generated"s. There was an issue with multiple gennotify events though (fixed in 5.0). Maybe you were thinking of that?
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 22:35
by SaKeL
Yes i meant that.. thanks :)
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 01:11
by SaKeL
After flying around the caves for 10-15 min i have seen some nice caves and pretty evenly distributed areas of caverealm biomes but then this happened:
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2018-07-25 21:08:14: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: Lua: finishGenOOM error from mod 'caverealms' in callback environment_OnGenerated(): not enough memory
2018-07-25 21:08:14: ERROR[Main]: Current Lua memory usage: 1316 MB
and again:
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2018-07-25 21:16:48: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: Lua: finishGenOOM error from mod 'caverealms' in callback environment_OnGenerated(): not enough memory
2018-07-25 21:16:48: ERROR[Main]: Current Lua memory usage: 1350 MB
and again:
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2018-07-25 21:18:57: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: Lua: finishGenOOM error from mod 'caverealms' in callback environment_OnGenerated(): not enough memory
2018-07-25 21:18:57: ERROR[Main]: Current Lua memory usage: 1803 MB
this was on local server with no players 16GB RAM / Intel® Core™ i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz × 4
Happened few more times, still didn't found the shroom but the caves are looking very nice though.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 01:37
by Stix
@SaKeL this mod won't be added to SurvivalX, will it? D:
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 01:45
by SaKeL
Stix wrote:@SaKeL this mod won't be added to SurvivalX, will it? D:
Well i wanted to test it before i do my decision, everything looked good until the crashes every few min. That's why i keep saying no lua mapgens in Survival X :)
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 13:46
by Shara
SaKeL - tests of my own in single player can't duplicate this. One of my servers also runs the mod and has never had an OOM from it. I've also confirmed Xanadu (which also uses it) hasn't had any OOM issues.
Are you using any other mods that might contribute to OOM issues, and CRL is just pushing MT the last little bit into triggering it? I will admit that I am not really sure what might be happening, beyond not being able to duplicate it.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 15:27
by SaKeL
It might be something else from other mods eve though i dont recall any of them are using OOM but it seems to be definately specific issue to my case i guess.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 16:02
by Shara
Have you checked if it still happens with only CRL active? I'd just like to try and rule out that CRL by itself can do this if possible.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 07:01
by TenPlus1
SaKeL: Can you copy and paste the mods you are using alongside Caverealms_lite.
Re: [Mod] Cave Realms Lite [caverealms_lite]
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 03:04
by SaKeL
* i have created fresh new map with no mods - cannot reproduce
* same fresh new map with all the same mods as before - cannot reproduce
* old map (11 GB compressed) - with all the same mods as before - easy to reproduce
* old map - with all the same mods as before (CRL disabled) - cannot reproduce
i don't get it...
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