New, ‘vanilla+’ forest for you.

I have to say, this is very underrated - comparing to vanilla and wilderlands forest I find this the best of the no new tree solutions (to be frank, I get scared the new tree mods will have to update and mess a bunch of blocks up, which seems to have happened for wildcraft players)

It's the best of them because while wilderland forest does make them more open, this mod makes forest more open AND increases tree variety per area. Forests are much less monoculture and more interesting without being a mess; trees themselves look better too. My only critque are the large fields of bushy areas - something nice is that said areas generally stay out the deep forest but I still find myself wishing for less; I don't think they're any worse than vanilla but I'm so biased against them I was hoping they'd nearly disappear and stay the forest edges only. Some user configurability through configlib would also be appreciated if it's possible.

Edit: On the bush fields, it's not so much their existence, but the density. Checking with the climate command, it's 50%+ shrub areas I dislike, so I think if they were limited to 75% shrub max I think they would be a bit more navigatble without losing out on too much densitiy.

Hi!

I've made a brief test with Wildcraft Trees mod, it seems like they're compatible. I see trees from Wildcraft appearing in the world. I think they will have the 'old' variants and shapes in the worst case, but even like that, the forests are easier to traverse, I think I only got stuck once in 10 minutes of deliberately running through forests.

The pesky biirch bushes also seem more reasonable with your mod, there are some but they are more like rare and denser groups. I think it's more natural and definitely easier to play.

Thans for this mod, I really like it!

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RNM

Новый мир рекомендуется, но мод можно устанавливать и в старый мир. Модифицированная генерация будет только в новых чанках, созданных после установки мода. Между старыми чанками и новыми может быть заметная ровна линия "есть лес/нет леса" или что-то в этом роде, это некрасиво, не но критично.

скажите мир новый нужен или нет ?

Pafnutiy Thanks for the explaination - Your mod does seem (I was not highly rigorous in checking) to conflict with Floral Zones, but not in the way I was expecting; it was like your mod wasn't applied somehow. Found lots of small birch bushes and forests foliage still generated fairly low. I did end up swapping to wilderlands, but next time I'm not using floral zones, I'll try this mod instead. TYSM!

SageOceiros

The thing is, what this mod does is closer to overwriting the generation file, rather than adding new lines to it. So if the floral zone patches are applied before my patch overwrites everything in the file, it should probably overwrite the added floral zone trees as well.
I don't actually know exactly how the patch system works in such cases, so maybe everything will work.
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Also, if you only need to remove low foliage but don't need new tree shapes, you could try Wilderlands Forests, as far as I know it's made for exactly that purpose.
Or you can create your own mod. The branchStart line is responsible for the minimum branch height of the tree. You will need to set the value to about 0.3-0.5. Usually this should be enough. Either way, you can create a tree with the /wgen tree [tree code] command to see what happens and you don't even have to reboot the world for the changes to take effect.

There's also a tutorial on trees: wiki.vintagestory.at/Modding:Trees

Oh, awesome! I'll have to give this a go. I was looking into tree generation earlier to try increase minimum 'branch' height, but it was very technical. Very cool to see this so soon after!

Question; I'm just quickly checking what/how your mod works, and how the Floral Zone mods work. AFAIK, if floral zones add 'unique' flora via add or addmerge, unless one attempts to adjust vanilla trees, would there be a conflict? Going to test shortly anyways.