Great variety and it feels as if a geologist was behind this with the passion for stones that is evident. One caveat though is that it is mostly decorative (but that's a vital part of this game) but at least one of the stones (no spoilers I guess) I've found has a practical use (and highly useful). The problem being that with 88 varieties it is tedious to have to search each new stone found in the recipes and click through a dozen usages to see if it has a unique usage or not.
I tried to make it feel fun to use for building without being useless for survival. Which is crazy hard to do lol. I tried to make sure there was enough color variety first and foremost before worrying about other details. And each stone is real. that's another rule I made for myself. No made up colors or stones. Do you like the glowing stones and the geodes though? Also, spoilers are allowed.
Oh I noticed that they are real stones. I'm no geologist but I did recognize several.
I don't think I've seen the geodes yet. I just started a game of Asuna (and only been playing Luanti/MT since April!) and so far I've seen Slate, Travertine, Fluorite, Pyrite (one huge ball of it ~150, which inspite of it's common name of Fool's Gold I collected entirely ;- ) guess that's a semi-spoiler), Moonstone (wow it looks nice), Amethyst (make great purple tinted windows) and your version of Quartz (different from the one I know from a server where it is used for several crafted items and is not transparent). Forgot a few I'm sure.
stones of families can be dyed to become each other. quartz for instance can become prasiolite, amethyst, rose quartz, smokey quartz, etc with the respective dyes. realistic? no. but some people could be playing on super flat or some mod or other that makes some biomes spawn infrequently, this cutting out stones. also, the author of Asuna is a good friend of mine and did some of the code in this mod.
Great variety and it feels as if a geologist was behind this with the passion for stones that is evident. One caveat though is that it is mostly decorative (but that's a vital part of this game) but at least one of the stones (no spoilers I guess) I've found has a practical use (and highly useful). The problem being that with 88 varieties it is tedious to have to search each new stone found in the recipes and click through a dozen usages to see if it has a unique usage or not.
I tried to make it feel fun to use for building without being useless for survival. Which is crazy hard to do lol. I tried to make sure there was enough color variety first and foremost before worrying about other details. And each stone is real. that's another rule I made for myself. No made up colors or stones. Do you like the glowing stones and the geodes though? Also, spoilers are allowed.
Oh I noticed that they are real stones. I'm no geologist but I did recognize several.
I don't think I've seen the geodes yet. I just started a game of Asuna (and only been playing Luanti/MT since April!) and so far I've seen Slate, Travertine, Fluorite, Pyrite (one huge ball of it ~150, which inspite of it's common name of Fool's Gold I collected entirely ;- ) guess that's a semi-spoiler), Moonstone (wow it looks nice), Amethyst (make great purple tinted windows) and your version of Quartz (different from the one I know from a server where it is used for several crafted items and is not transparent). Forgot a few I'm sure.
stones of families can be dyed to become each other. quartz for instance can become prasiolite, amethyst, rose quartz, smokey quartz, etc with the respective dyes. realistic? no. but some people could be playing on super flat or some mod or other that makes some biomes spawn infrequently, this cutting out stones. also, the author of Asuna is a good friend of mine and did some of the code in this mod.
some stones reuse textures, but I hope it's not too visible.