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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:

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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:

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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Your Minetest version is outdated.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).

Pinetrees incoming!

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:

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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:

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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)