Oof, it's so beautiful! Thank you for making it available.
There are issues if you are around and would like to look into them.
Hoes don't work on terraria dirts; one can just dig them up, place the default dirt so obtained and hoe that, but it's still an issue;
trees sometimes generate one node up in the air with grass or a flower underneath. I think that is avoided by forcing a node in the schematics? But sometimes there's apparently nothing there, just air?
I didn't sit around to see how saplings behave left to their own devices, but with bonemeal, you can see that some new trees grow off center (the sapling marks a corner of the schematic I think, not the bottom of the trunk), and
yeah, the new tree sometimes has a node of air at the bottom.
the maples are called mapples. Unless that's a feature.
I absolutely adore biospheres. Great encouragement to explore upwards.
There is this issue:
AsyncErr: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'biospheres' in callback on_generated(): C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:405: attempt to compare number with string
stack traceback:
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:405: in function 'place_deco'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:558: in function 'place_all_decos'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:655: in function 'generate_all'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/mapgen.lua:218: in function <C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/mapgen.lua:88>
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\bin\..\builtin\common\register.lua:26: in function <C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\bin\..\builtin\common\register.lua:12>
I get it with the modpack plantlife (mod dryplants specifically) but not other mods which place decorations. What can I do, especially considering my coding skills are tiny?
Another thought. Could they maybe have two or more height settings, for multiple layers? Maybe even layers with their own biome or building material lists?
...and it's pretty (sparkles!), and can be put in all sorts of recipes, and unlike the dreaded kudzu, it doesn't grow upwards to devour the world.
So, I tried to spawn it as a decoration, on stone underground, because why not. And it generated all right but then died quickly before it had a chance to grow. Why? It did fine and colonized the whole cave when placed manually from player's inventory.
Ther are still at least some of the old issues with saplings: tropical trees drop an unknown item instead of a sapling, and autumn tree saplings don't grow.
The darkforest has gone missing in action. I'm guessing you are working off a version of variety which doesn't have it, the way I have only seen a version without terracotta. But seriously, darkforest is THE biome. :)
In a recommendation text file, you recommend that the tropical forest and cypress biome be disabled, but why, and is whatever is wrong with them, temporary? There are also recommendations for changing some heat and humidity points; since it's a fork anyway, why not change the defaults and maybe leave the note about what the old values were? Edit: right, I didn't read the name of the file, now I get it.
It mostly changes the look of the temperate green biomes, for vastly better. This and More Trees together makes minetest game into a different experience.
Mt-mods, if you are around, could you help out with this error which happens if plantlife and biospheres are both on, and a player climbs up high enough for a biosphere to stat generating? The part of plantlife involved seems to by dryplants (checked by turning various plantlife mods on and off individually):
AsyncErr: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'biospheres' in callback on_generated(): C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:405: attempt to compare number with string
stack traceback:
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:405: in function 'place_deco'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:558: in function 'place_all_decos'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/biomegen.lua:655: in function 'generate_all'
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/mapgen.lua:218: in function <C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\mods\biospheres/mapgen.lua:88>
C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\bin\..\builtin\common\register.lua:26: in function <C:\luanti-5.13.0-win64\bin\..\builtin\common\register.lua:12>
I'm not saying that plantlife is in any way to blame, but biospheres doesn't do it with other decoration mods, say, More Trees, so what can be tweaked where or suggested to the author of biospheres maybe? It would be quite acceptable if dryplants simply didn't generate that high up, the way more trees don't grow there. But my coding skils are rudimentary, so I'm asking for help. Thank you.
Wonderful, amazing, super useful. Singleplayer impressions only so far, but it seems you have changed this game forever, congratulations.
Issue. The "center on player" button fails when zoomed in and zooming in messes with being centered. Closing and opening the map doesn't help. You need to zoom out a bit, then center, zoom back in, correct with the scrolling keys. If you teleport far away, the map loses you entirely. Still a very minor issue and I'm guessing it's temporary.
A toggle would be great for whether to display markers, the grid and the current facing-and-posiion marker.
It keeps mapping the surface even if you are deep underground or at the top of the world, or at night. Not really an issue because how often is it going to even matter, just something to be aware of.
The markers could be much clearer when zoomed in, especially the current position marker.
It does need more tiling ability for the default biomes of for mtg, like the savanna I think, but then there are all the biome mods. Ethereal areas are a uniform grey. You do warn about that, but is there a way to contribute to that somehow? Also for biome mods which are no longer downloadable but still in use? Mod Variety comes to mind.
The beetles and the vespa are just too cute, and the motorcycle is very satisfying to ride. You can paint yours! But most of all, THANK YOU for the one-handed mouse-only driving, it makes a huge difference.
It's hard to test in survival, as one has no idea how lucky or unlucky one is in one's search for the elements. I really like that they are not items. Is the jingle played when they spawn, or just when they are around? It plays pretty often even at player spawn, where they should be rare, but they seem pretty well hidden. Is it possible for them to spawn buried? How far from the player is possible? I realize I should just read the code, but uhh.
It's a little disconcerting that the shop lists its rewards with itemstring tooltips instead of description tooltips. Also, and this is more important,
could you add the translation function???
I actually think all the rewards are ugly / visually wrong for Minetest Game, but that's hardly an issue when you can add your own.
It's actually, dare I say it, more fun to use than fluxionary's acaffolding, if a little uglier. Homework: try myscaffolding with flux's texture and sound ;) .
It's a necessary limitation that you can't add to it from the side; it always builds up. That means you need a lot of it, but the recipe is cheap. Mod ropes has a little wooden bridge which foes something similar horizontally.
Easy to steer, pretty head tossing animations and the horseshoes enable very nice speeds. On longer trips on flat (or roads), you can just turn on autoforward, direct the horse with the mouse and forget about the keyboard.
Does the castle now have a teleport trap for the greedy?!? One will be patiently, harmlessly dismantling the pile of gold only to be zapped into rock or an oil pool?
(Not complaining, just very surprised that it happened and would be grateful for a confirmation that the sudden teleport was this mod's doing, and that the cracling sound was there to warn me, and that it gives you less time each time.)
Seriously, all of the structures are fun. The wagon could use actual round wheels, which would make a valuable decoration for one's own builds. Like in Cottages or something.
...but I can't repair a gate that generated broken. In a creative world with the same seed, I surrounded it fully with 48 tier 3 extenders, but the beacon is still off. Replced the beacon, still off. What am I doing wrong?
With minor reservations, a great mod. It's fantastic to be able to dress how you wish, and make your own clothes too, then still put on armor on top of the clothes. The spinning wheel, loom and sewing table are great toys, with nice models and spinning animation. I appreciate that you can power them by hand if you are not into advanced tech.
I'm excited to see if I can convince the spinning machine to accept other kinds of fibre somehow. Guess spinning_machine:recipe_register_input is going to be invisible outside the mod? I can probably make a tweak for our use at home, but maybe it could be public for people with flax, actual spinnable shhep's wool or whatever?
The gripes, as promised (all really small):
Needles can be made from bones, but unless you happen to be running the bonemeal mod already or look at the code, or ask the author (thanks for replying elsewhere), you won't know and there will be no sewing. The readme misleadingly says you can craft needles from... more needles.
Dirty water can be purified with gravel but it's not quite clear how. By emptying the bucket on top of gravel I think?
The forms for the machines are an eye-burning light grey, which is some everness-level sh** to do to innocent people with sfinv.
The forms for the machines could use labels or tooltips, or screenshots.
Only know this mod as the API for Clothing 2, in which role it does a great job.
And this is what SFENCE is replying to:
"Edit: help! No recipe for needles!
The machines need tooltips, or labels, or screenshots. I did get them to work with the readme, but it could be easier. Another small gripe: the light grey forms hurt your eyes if you are on sfinv.
But it all works or at least I haven't run into an issue in five minutes in creative. Production takes quite some time, but I like that, actually. The models and the spinning animation are great. And it's fantastic to be able to dress yourself how you wish, then still put armor on top."
Proud :d of myself for figuring out that the smoker is left-clicked on the hive and the extractor is placed, but still have questions. What can you do wth a wild honeycomb other than eat it, that is, shouldn't it be craftable into honey? And, the beeswax could be used to make Ethereal's candles, but apparently not? Does it have other uses somewhere?
But one wants to be able to place water anyway, for landscaping, and then there is no incentive to use the irrigation devices. They would be more attractive if bucket placement were left alone but water didn't make soil wet, or better, if default node water only had the wetting range of 1 node.
Very satisfying streets. A fine selection of natural resources. The oil is insidious in the dark, surprising. The zinc textures make more sense than in the zinc mod. It does not insist on technic, moreblocks, basic materials or abstruse machines.
Wishlist (but at least some of these are easy to do at home): more viscous oil; tar as even more viscous liquid; asphalt, concrete and sidewalk ramps in 1 x 3 and maybe 1 x 4; (more) uses for nickel, lead, galvanized steel etc. Lump textures more in line with default. Explosions. Some oil well / oil drilling mechanic. Should oil put out torches or burst into flame on contact? But it's already 9.5/10 as it is.
The sounds are hilarious. Building in the air is very useful, but you cn also place them where you stand and climb up in place as with sand. Fun all around.
looks great, has minor problems
Oof, it's so beautiful! Thank you for making it available.
There are issues if you are around and would like to look into them.
Hoes don't work on terraria dirts; one can just dig them up, place the default dirt so obtained and hoe that, but it's still an issue;
trees sometimes generate one node up in the air with grass or a flower underneath. I think that is avoided by forcing a node in the schematics? But sometimes there's apparently nothing there, just air?
I didn't sit around to see how saplings behave left to their own devices, but with bonemeal, you can see that some new trees grow off center (the sapling marks a corner of the schematic I think, not the bottom of the trunk), and
yeah, the new tree sometimes has a node of air at the bottom.
the maples are called mapples. Unless that's a feature.
fantastic
I absolutely adore biospheres. Great encouragement to explore upwards.
There is this issue:
I get it with the modpack plantlife (mod dryplants specifically) but not other mods which place decorations. What can I do, especially considering my coding skills are tiny?
Another thought. Could they maybe have two or more height settings, for multiple layers? Maybe even layers with their own biome or building material lists?
fun
...and it's pretty (sparkles!), and can be put in all sorts of recipes, and unlike the dreaded kudzu, it doesn't grow upwards to devour the world.
So, I tried to spawn it as a decoration, on stone underground, because why not. And it generated all right but then died quickly before it had a chance to grow. Why? It did fine and colonized the whole cave when placed manually from player's inventory.
???
it's great to see Variety again
Ther are still at least some of the old issues with saplings: tropical trees drop an unknown item instead of a sapling, and autumn tree saplings don't grow.
The darkforest has gone missing in action. I'm guessing you are working off a version of variety which doesn't have it, the way I have only seen a version without terracotta. But seriously, darkforest is THE biome. :)
In a recommendation text file, you recommend that the tropical forest and cypress biome be disabled, but why, and is whatever is wrong with them, temporary? There are also recommendations for changing some heat and humidity points; since it's a fork anyway, why not change the defaults and maybe leave the note about what the old values were? Edit: right, I didn't read the name of the file, now I get it.
It's a great biome mod and I missed it!
looks fantastic
It mostly changes the look of the temperate green biomes, for vastly better. This and More Trees together makes minetest game into a different experience.
Mt-mods, if you are around, could you help out with this error which happens if plantlife and biospheres are both on, and a player climbs up high enough for a biosphere to stat generating? The part of plantlife involved seems to by dryplants (checked by turning various plantlife mods on and off individually):
I'm not saying that plantlife is in any way to blame, but biospheres doesn't do it with other decoration mods, say, More Trees, so what can be tweaked where or suggested to the author of biospheres maybe? It would be quite acceptable if dryplants simply didn't generate that high up, the way more trees don't grow there. But my coding skils are rudimentary, so I'm asking for help. Thank you.
Thank you anyway, plantlife is amazing.
this is huge
Wonderful, amazing, super useful. Singleplayer impressions only so far, but it seems you have changed this game forever, congratulations.
Issue. The "center on player" button fails when zoomed in and zooming in messes with being centered. Closing and opening the map doesn't help. You need to zoom out a bit, then center, zoom back in, correct with the scrolling keys. If you teleport far away, the map loses you entirely. Still a very minor issue and I'm guessing it's temporary.
A toggle would be great for whether to display markers, the grid and the current facing-and-posiion marker.
It keeps mapping the surface even if you are deep underground or at the top of the world, or at night. Not really an issue because how often is it going to even matter, just something to be aware of.
The markers could be much clearer when zoomed in, especially the current position marker.
It does need more tiling ability for the default biomes of for mtg, like the savanna I think, but then there are all the biome mods. Ethereal areas are a uniform grey. You do warn about that, but is there a way to contribute to that somehow? Also for biome mods which are no longer downloadable but still in use? Mod Variety comes to mind.
On the whole, I'm floored.
awesome vehicles
The beetles and the vespa are just too cute, and the motorcycle is very satisfying to ride. You can paint yours! But most of all, THANK YOU for the one-handed mouse-only driving, it makes a huge difference.
On Christmas, too! Thank you Santa.
I love the idea
It's hard to test in survival, as one has no idea how lucky or unlucky one is in one's search for the elements. I really like that they are not items. Is the jingle played when they spawn, or just when they are around? It plays pretty often even at player spawn, where they should be rare, but they seem pretty well hidden. Is it possible for them to spawn buried? How far from the player is possible? I realize I should just read the code, but uhh.
It's a little disconcerting that the shop lists its rewards with itemstring tooltips instead of description tooltips. Also, and this is more important,
could you add the translation function???
I actually think all the rewards are ugly / visually wrong for Minetest Game, but that's hardly an issue when you can add your own.
very convenient
It's actually, dare I say it, more fun to use than fluxionary's acaffolding, if a little uglier. Homework: try myscaffolding with flux's texture and sound ;) .
It's a necessary limitation that you can't add to it from the side; it always builds up. That means you need a lot of it, but the recipe is cheap. Mod ropes has a little wooden bridge which foes something similar horizontally.
perfect
Easy to steer, pretty head tossing animations and the horseshoes enable very nice speeds. On longer trips on flat (or roads), you can just turn on autoforward, direct the horse with the mouse and forget about the keyboard.
just one question
Does the castle now have a teleport trap for the greedy?!? One will be patiently, harmlessly dismantling the pile of gold only to be zapped into rock or an oil pool?
(Not complaining, just very surprised that it happened and would be grateful for a confirmation that the sudden teleport was this mod's doing, and that the cracling sound was there to warn me, and that it gives you less time each time.)
Seriously, all of the structures are fun. The wagon could use actual round wheels, which would make a valuable decoration for one's own builds. Like in Cottages or something.
great but...
...but I can't repair a gate that generated broken. In a creative world with the same seed, I surrounded it fully with 48 tier 3 extenders, but the beacon is still off. Replced the beacon, still off. What am I doing wrong?
very cool!
With minor reservations, a great mod. It's fantastic to be able to dress how you wish, and make your own clothes too, then still put on armor on top of the clothes. The spinning wheel, loom and sewing table are great toys, with nice models and spinning animation. I appreciate that you can power them by hand if you are not into advanced tech.
I'm excited to see if I can convince the spinning machine to accept other kinds of fibre somehow. Guess spinning_machine:recipe_register_input is going to be invisible outside the mod? I can probably make a tweak for our use at home, but maybe it could be public for people with flax, actual spinnable shhep's wool or whatever?
The gripes, as promised (all really small):
Needles can be made from bones, but unless you happen to be running the bonemeal mod already or look at the code, or ask the author (thanks for replying elsewhere), you won't know and there will be no sewing. The readme misleadingly says you can craft needles from... more needles.
Dirty water can be purified with gravel but it's not quite clear how. By emptying the bucket on top of gravel I think?
The forms for the machines are an eye-burning light grey, which is some everness-level sh** to do to innocent people with sfinv.
The forms for the machines could use labels or tooltips, or screenshots.
very cool
Only know this mod as the API for Clothing 2, in which role it does a great job.
And this is what SFENCE is replying to:
"Edit: help! No recipe for needles!
The machines need tooltips, or labels, or screenshots. I did get them to work with the readme, but it could be easier. Another small gripe: the light grey forms hurt your eyes if you are on sfinv.
But it all works or at least I haven't run into an issue in five minutes in creative. Production takes quite some time, but I like that, actually. The models and the spinning animation are great. And it's fantastic to be able to dress yourself how you wish, then still put armor on top."
bzzz bzzz!
Proud :d of myself for figuring out that the smoker is left-clicked on the hive and the extractor is placed, but still have questions. What can you do wth a wild honeycomb other than eat it, that is, shouldn't it be craftable into honey? And, the beeswax could be used to make Ethereal's candles, but apparently not? Does it have other uses somewhere?
But!...
But one wants to be able to place water anyway, for landscaping, and then there is no incentive to use the irrigation devices. They would be more attractive if bucket placement were left alone but water didn't make soil wet, or better, if default node water only had the wetting range of 1 node.
nice
A wip version with a carrot and hat would be awesome too. But it;s quite nice and a fine idea.
even better than the description makes it sound
Very satisfying streets. A fine selection of natural resources. The oil is insidious in the dark, surprising. The zinc textures make more sense than in the zinc mod. It does not insist on technic, moreblocks, basic materials or abstruse machines.
Wishlist (but at least some of these are easy to do at home): more viscous oil; tar as even more viscous liquid; asphalt, concrete and sidewalk ramps in 1 x 3 and maybe 1 x 4; (more) uses for nickel, lead, galvanized steel etc. Lump textures more in line with default. Explosions. Some oil well / oil drilling mechanic. Should oil put out torches or burst into flame on contact? But it's already 9.5/10 as it is.
It's great
The sounds are hilarious. Building in the air is very useful, but you cn also place them where you stand and climb up in place as with sand. Fun all around.