Over several weeks I've seen tons of threads complaining about Biomes. I support a lot of them, biomes need to be changed for the better. But going back, or even similar to before 1.8 is NOT the way to go.
I am in no way a pro programmer, or even have read the Biome code for Minecraft. But I have programmed many games, and I'll tell this.
The way they had it before, didn't allow for a per-biome customization. Not many understand this, but let me explain.
What Notch did, was make is so that each Biome was instead just procedurally generated, and given a biome name (which was 1.7 and prior) But now made it so that each biome has customizable options and traits.
Again, I have NO idea of how or what they're doing, but that is what's going on.
He basically made it, (Notch did) so that Biome making/editing was much much easier. Probably made a 'code-biome' system, at which he just has an area of code that takes care of all biome stuff. (Instead before had it mixed in with terrain gen)
So all in all, stop the complaining and whatnot. As they will change, for the better. Look at the snapshot last week! It's now up to us, the community to suggest what we want per biome!
Let's not go out and say crap like "We want the 1.7 terrain gen" Because we don't, what we want is better! 1.7 HAD IT'S FLAWS. AND SO DOES the NEW generator.
The difference is, with the NEW generator, you can FIX and ALTER and CHANGE it accordingly.
Thanks! :smile.gif:
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Hopefully they can still add an element of randomness. Personally though, I think that if they re-added the old biomes, improved the ocean biomes, (i.e. actually adding some damn content to them) and added new ones (mushroom forests, volcanoes, snow capped mountains, etc) that would vastly improve the terrain gen, and maybe even make it better than the old one. I really miss the element of randomness from the old one though, and I hope they reimplement something like it/just like it.
Hopefully they can still add an element of randomness. Personally though, I think that if they re-added the old biomes, improved the ocean biomes, (i.e. actually adding some damn content to them) and added new ones (mushroom forests, volcanoes, snow capped mountains, etc) that would vastly improve the terrain gen, and maybe even make it better than the old one. I really miss the element of randomness from the old one though, and I hope they reimplement something like it/just like it.
It would be awesome to have all that wouldn't it? Thing is, it's simply not possible to do it in the old system..
That's why they rewrote it, but probably due to deadlines, Notch didn't specifie any particular biomes.
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Best game ever: Ace of Spades FREE FPS minecraft-like game.
I am in no way a pro programmer, or even have read the Biome code for Minecraft. But I have programmed many games, and I'll tell this.
The way they had it before, didn't allow for a per-biome customization. Not many understand this, but let me explain.
What Notch did, was make is so that each Biome was instead just procedurally generated, and given a biome name (which was 1.7 and prior) But now made it so that each biome has customizable options and traits.
Again, I have NO idea of how or what they're doing, but that is what's going on.
He basically made it, (Notch did) so that Biome making/editing was much much easier. Probably made a 'code-biome' system, at which he just has an area of code that takes care of all biome stuff. (Instead before had it mixed in with terrain gen)
So all in all, stop the complaining and whatnot. As they will change, for the better. Look at the snapshot last week! It's now up to us, the community to suggest what we want per biome!
Let's not go out and say crap like "We want the 1.7 terrain gen" Because we don't, what we want is better! 1.7 HAD IT'S FLAWS. AND SO DOES the NEW generator.
The difference is, with the NEW generator, you can FIX and ALTER and CHANGE it accordingly.
Thanks! :smile.gif:
2.well said
3.i much prefered the pre-alpha gen :tongue.gif:
It would be awesome to have all that wouldn't it? Thing is, it's simply not possible to do it in the old system..
That's why they rewrote it, but probably due to deadlines, Notch didn't specifie any particular biomes.