[mod] Europa (moon of Jupiter) [europa_moon]

[Red_King_Cyclops]

This mod replaces the default Minetest world with Europa, a moon of Jupiter.

A world created with this mod has four layers: ice crust, ocean, rocky mantle, and iron core. The ice crust is the uppermost layer and has ice instead of stone. The ocean is beneath the ice and consists of just water. The rocky mantle is beneath the ocean and contains all the ores from default. The iron core is beneath the rocky mantle and has steel blocks instead of stone.

Like my other mod, saturn_moon, dungeons are now covered with ice.

Unlike saturn_moon, I intend to do more with this mod. There is a large amount of potential content that comes with a setting on Europa, such as alien life forms that live in the ocean of Europa. Currently, this mod is a work in progress. For example, the volcanic vents on the bottom of the ocean have not been fully added yet, there are no aliens yet, and the surface does not yet have the craters.

Screenshots

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Surface (outdated)


Reddish streaks


Ice spikes (slightly outdated)


Cave in the ice crust


Top of the ocean, just beneath the ice


Ocean floor


Cave in the rocky mantle


Cave in the iron core


Ice dungeon


For comparison, here is a picture of the whole moon of Europa (not taken by me).

Dependencies
default

Licence
The code is licenced under LGPL 2.1 and all the textures, except for the Jupiter image, are licenced under CC-BY-SA. The Jupiter image is taken from https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble/46616136772 , which is licenced under CC-BY-2.0. The red rocks texture is a modified version of the gravel image from default.

Repository
https://git.minetest.land/Red_King_Cyclops/europa_moon

Download
https://git.minetest.land/Red_King_Cycl ... master.zip

[Red_King_Cyclops]

I accidentally made this reply.

[Red_King_Cyclops]

(Version 0.1.0 was the initial release)

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Ocean floor (outdated)


Cave in the rocky mantle (outdated)

Version 0.1.1 -- Reddish streaks

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The surface now has reddish streaks. New node: red rocks.

Version 0.1.2 -- The floor is lava

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The ocean floor is now volcanic and there is more lava in the mantle. New node: ocean lava.


Volcanic seafloor


Molten material in a mantle cave

Version 0.1.3 -- Oh no, ice spikes!

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There are now ice spike biomes.


Note: after I posted this image, I found out that the ice spikes were generating underground. To prevent this from happening I made the ice spikes generate on gravel and red rocks and made the ice spike biomes have gravel and red rocks tops.


Up to date picture (ironically, it's now slightly outdated)

Version 0.1.3.1 -- Made ice spikes slightly less packed.

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Before update


After update

Things to do next:

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Create proper volcanic vents (not just random lava blocks on the ocean floor), create craters with meteorite ores, create ice plumes on the surface, make alien water mobs, create lakes in the ice crust, create spaceship wrecks in ice spikes biomes, make a story, and make Europa worlds possible to survive in.

[Red_King_Cyclops]

Sorry, I made another accidental post. This should have been on the top: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22112

Edit (to make use of this reply) 6/24/2019: Updating to 5.0.1 somehow broke the ocean floor.
Second edit: I created a stratum that restored the ocean floor

[Red_King_Cyclops]

I do not know what the aliens would look like, so feel free to say any ideas.

Edit (to make use of this post) 11/2/2019: I realized possibly why there are no real ice caves-- the ice might be treated as a dirt-like node instead of a stone-like node. In other words, default ice is not ground content and thus is not treated as such.