Tags:

Worldgen

Author:

Onions

Side:

Both

Created:

Jul 1st at 3:22 AM

Last modified:

Aug 11th at 9:11 PM

Downloads:

362

Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.5, potentially outdated):
terrafirmastory_0.8.5.zip  1-click install

Required Dependencies:

Advanced Geology: https://mods.vintagestory.at/advancedgeology

Does what it say on the tin, ports the general worldgen from TFC to vintage story. Continents, geologic provinces, TFC style layering, rivers, volcanos, karsts, various beach types, and more are all included. It's pretty much a carbon copy. So much so that I'm not even going to bother documenting what's in the mod. You can literally go read the TFC field guide and other documentation. The TFC geologic province system controls which rocks can spawn where, so if you are looking for a particular rock/ore, you definitely want to make sure you are checking the right geologic provinces.

Rock Layers Configuration

{
  "bottom": ["rock-gneiss", "rock-schist", "rock-diorite", "rock-granite", "rock-gabbro"],

  "layers": [
    { "id": "felsic",       "rocks": [ { "rock": "rock-granite", "next": "bottom" } ] },
    { "id": "intermediate", "rocks": [ { "rock": "rock-diorite", "next": "bottom" } ] },
    { "id": "mafic",        "rocks": [ { "rock": "rock-gabbro",  "next": "bottom" } ] },

    { "id": "igneous_extrusive", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-rhyolite", "next": "felsic" },
        { "rock": "rock-andesite", "next": "intermediate" },
        { "rock": "rock-dacite",   "next": "intermediate" },
        { "rock": "rock-basalt",   "next": "mafic" }
    ] },

    { "id": "igneous_extrusive_x2", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-rhyolite", "next": "igneous_extrusive" },
        { "rock": "rock-andesite", "next": "igneous_extrusive" },
        { "rock": "rock-dacite",   "next": "igneous_extrusive" },
        { "rock": "rock-basalt",   "next": "igneous_extrusive" }
    ] },

    { "id": "igneous_intrusive", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-granite", "next": "felsic" },
        { "rock": "rock-diorite", "next": "intermediate" },
        { "rock": "rock-gabbro",  "next": "mafic" }
    ] },

    { "id": "high_grade", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-schist", "next": "bottom" },
        { "rock": "rock-gneiss", "next": "bottom" }
    ] },

    { "id": "low_grade", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-phyllite", "next": "high_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-slate",    "next": "high_grade" }
    ] },

    { "id": "quartzite", "rocks": [ { "rock": "rock-quartzite", "next": "bottom" } ] },

    { "id": "sedimentary", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-shale",        "next": "low_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-claystone",    "next": "low_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-conglomerate", "next": "low_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-limestone",    "next": "sedimentary" },
        { "rock": "rock-dolomite",     "next": "sedimentary" },
        { "rock": "rock-chalk",        "next": "sedimentary" },
        { "rock": "rock-chert",        "next": "quartzite" }
    ] },

    { "id": "uplift", "rocks": [
        { "rock": "rock-slate",       "next": "high_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-phyllite",    "next": "high_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-schist",      "next": "high_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-gneiss",      "next": "high_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-whitemarble", "next": "bottom" },
        { "rock": "rock-quartzite",   "next": "bottom" },
        { "rock": "rock-diorite",     "next": "low_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-granite",     "next": "low_grade" },
        { "rock": "rock-gabbro",      "next": "low_grade" }
    ] }
  ],

  "ocean_floor": ["igneous_extrusive"],
  "land":        ["sedimentary", "sedimentary", "sedimentary", "igneous_extrusive"],
  "volcanic":    ["igneous_extrusive", "igneous_extrusive_x2", "igneous_intrusive"],
  "uplift":      ["uplift", "uplift", "uplift", "sedimentary"]
}

Rock layers are a succession graph. For example, in "land" areas, the top layer is picked first. If it selects shale, then the next layer down will be "low_grade" metamorphic rocks. Then, the next rock will be "high_grade" metamorphic suck as gneiss. The succession respects rock chemistry aka grade. Felsic rocks on top lead into felsic rocks underneath. Limestone and other carbonates will select another sedimentary layer, so you will typically have chert, shale, etc underneath carbonates. In vanilla TFC, you always get marble under carbonates, but I thought this would make marble way too easy to get, and its not realistic anyhow. Marble only spawns in uplift zones. Other than that, its exactly like vanilla TFC.

If you want to add other rocks to this mod, then all you need to do is json patch your rocks into the arrays in the rocklayers.json.

This mod is intended to be played with 384-tall worlds, although it's playable on stock 256. Mountains and volcanos are sometimes cut off on 256.

• VS/modded oregen is unchanged.
• TFC and minecraft-style caves were not ported. Vanilla VS caves generate normally.
• VS vegetation and surface block generation logic are mostly stock.
• Climate-by-latitude is stock VS, but the east-west rain banding from TFC is in.
• Marble makes up entire rock layers in geological uplift zones. Pink and green marble appear as veins in the white marble layer.
• Rivers are made of rapids blocks and I made them flow but it does look weird, especially when the rivers pass through a lake. At least your waterwheels work.
• Every mod compatible with AG is compatible with this mod. Mods that simply add ores are compatible out of the box.
• Worldgen mods such as terra prety, rivers mod, etc are not compatible and never will be due to the nature of the mod.
• Hot springs don't generate but will in the future.

Where do I find bauxite?

I had to write this logic myself since TFC doesn't generate bauxite. Luckily, however, TFC does generate karst biomes and structures. In real life, bauxite is found in depressions and sinkholes in karst areas, and the same is true here. You'll find patches of bauxite under topological bowls and depressions in wet karst areas. You might have to travel a couple thousand blocks east from 0,0 (toward the wet areas) in order to see these, because karsts don't really generate in dry areas. Karst also requires a carbonate rock to generate. So look for wet, low lying areas of dolomite, limestone, or chalk.

The mod spawned me in the ocean!

VS basically hardlocks spawn at 0,0, but you can adjust the respawn radius and that will give the spawner more room to place you on a continent. This however makes new players on a server for example all spawn in a much larger area. I recommend generating worlds until you get a continent at 0,0, or, if you are a server admin, you can simply find a continent and set the server spawn there. The east-west rainfall distribution is slightly biased so that 0,0 is wetter than the middle value, but in VS terms its borderline dry. You probably want to go east for a good spawn.

LICENSE:
This mod is licensed under the European Union Public Licence V. 1.2.
It is an architectural clone of elements of TerraFirmaCraft for Minecraft 1.21.x.