Add villages, lakes and mountains on surface

[sgdc3]

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[timvisee]

Hello,

This shoulds like a great idea. Generating lots of scary structures on the surface would even enhance this idea. The main problem is though that I currently don't know how to generate structures bigger than a single chunk.

Also, I think it would be a good idea to implement things like this once the 'custom structure' feature has been added. This would also allow server administrators to create custom villages and features. Yes, generating (custom) mountains will be an option too.

Tim Visée

[sgdc3]

Why you can't use schematics to generate structures instead of chunks?

[timvisee]

The problem is that some structures (and schematics) need to be generated on chunks that are not generated yet. This is because some structures are bigger than a single chunk, or are place on the edge of a chunk which causes the edges of the structure to be clipped of (think of the trees being cut in half).

This is something that needs to be fixed in order to make this possible.

Tim Visée

[sgdc3]

You can't force bukkit to generate these chunks?

[timvisee]

Hello,

No, this could lead to infinite chunk generation. Also, generating new chunks while populating another could break the generation process.

Tim Visée