I love the biomes for this mod! There is a lot of variety and a lot of content, maybe too much variety. One thing I don't like about this mod is the bloat. Everness has its own dirt, its own lava, its own glass, and a lot of other things that it maybe should leave to other mods. default has glass and lava and dirt. Why does everness need its own 32 slot chest with a locked varient when chests has the same thing but in a different texture? Why does it need its own wood group? I understand trying to be game agnostic, but it's a bad player experience having two different items that do the same thing, and end up disappointing players when they can't use the everness items the same way as the more conventional items from other mods. While I don't think every everness feature is bloat, like the mineral water, a lot of items don't need to exist. At least, make it so when a mod is enabled, use the mod items instead of the everness defined items. You could keep the everness items as a fallback perhaps?
Another smaller criticism I have is that some biome heat and humidity values are too close to eachother. Theres a program called Amidst for Minetest that lets you visualize a biome voronoi diagram, that you could use to see what I'm talking about. I have a script that generates an Amidst biome file from your ingame biomes, message me if interested. Some biomes are awkwardly close to each other and feel like they're "fighting" for the same spot, but for the most part this is fine. I noticed everness's biome heat and humidity points work surprisingly well with ethereal, for the most part. I'm not sure if the mod author intended this, but I appreciate it.
All said, I do recommend this mod. I would like to see some things improved, but overall this mod is worth having in your world. Thanks for reading.
I love the biomes for this mod! There is a lot of variety and a lot of content, maybe too much variety. One thing I don't like about this mod is the bloat. Everness has its own dirt, its own lava, its own glass, and a lot of other things that it maybe should leave to other mods.
defaulthas glass and lava and dirt. Why does everness need its own 32 slot chest with a locked varient whenchestshas the same thing but in a different texture? Why does it need its own wood group? I understand trying to be game agnostic, but it's a bad player experience having two different items that do the same thing, and end up disappointing players when they can't use the everness items the same way as the more conventional items from other mods. While I don't think every everness feature is bloat, like the mineral water, a lot of items don't need to exist. At least, make it so when a mod is enabled, use the mod items instead of the everness defined items. You could keep the everness items as a fallback perhaps?Another smaller criticism I have is that some biome heat and humidity values are too close to eachother. Theres a program called Amidst for Minetest that lets you visualize a biome voronoi diagram, that you could use to see what I'm talking about. I have a script that generates an Amidst biome file from your ingame biomes, message me if interested. Some biomes are awkwardly close to each other and feel like they're "fighting" for the same spot, but for the most part this is fine. I noticed everness's biome heat and humidity points work surprisingly well with ethereal, for the most part. I'm not sure if the mod author intended this, but I appreciate it.
All said, I do recommend this mod. I would like to see some things improved, but overall this mod is worth having in your world. Thanks for reading.