Org Minecraft Server

**TinCow** · 12-14-2013, 01:06

On closer examination, we do appear to have an large Ice Spike biome at the very edge of the map, half in and half out of the border. Expanding the border would thus net us the rest of that biome and a large mesa biome as well. However, no Mushroom island, which means no mycellium. I suppose we could live with that, and the central spawn area is pretty useful for our purposes, but I'm not really that impressed with the world in general and I'm leaning towards tossing this one out. Here is the map so that the rest of you can see it and share your opinions; the HD portion is still rendering at the time I posted this:
http://orgcraft.org:8123/

**BSmith** · 12-14-2013, 01:41

I tend to agree. It would be nice if we had a decent mesa less at the edge. This one seems to have a ton of plains, hills and forest as well. Even the savannas are not all that well distributed. South of the center is awfully green. The villages are nice though. The one near the spawn looks nice and large and the is another one NW in the desert. Overall this is playable, but you are right that it lacks any real magic.

Could you manually add a mushroom island somewhere?

**TinCow** · 12-14-2013, 02:45

Originally Posted by BSmith

Could you manually add a mushroom island somewhere?

I could, but that's a fair amount of work to salvage a world of dubious quality to begin with. Really, the only thing I like about the current world is the central area.

**BSmith** · 12-14-2013, 02:55

Well, there's your answer then. I'd just go with a new world then.

**Vinitharya** · 12-14-2013, 03:49

Originally Posted by TinCow

I could, but that's a fair amount of work to salvage a world of dubious quality to begin with. Really, the only thing I like about the current world is the central area.

QFT.

Dammit, but we're gonna get started on the right foot.

**TinCow** · 12-14-2013, 04:13

I did some research, and due to the significant increase in the number of biomes that are now possible, it's actually very difficult to find a seed that has all of them within a reasonable radius of 0/0. As such, I've scoured the net in search of some decent seeds people have already discovered to save us the pain and agony of going through this with trial and error. I have come up with a seed that is pretty spectacular. The only downside is that 0/0 is in a desert. However, there is a nice flat area that's suitable for city building relatively close to the center, and the rest of the world is spectacular and has everything we want. So, I'll just move the spawn point towards that flat area and out of the desert. I guarantee we'll be satisfied with this world, so I'm going to get to work on putting it online now. The map I previously posted is now offline. I'll let the world generate overnight and run a fresh map on it tomorrow.

**TinCow** · 12-14-2013, 13:55

For anyone who hadn't noticed, the map of the new (and final) world is visible here:
http://orgcraft.org:8123/
The HD render is still only about halfway done and has several hours left, but you can already see that there's a massive amount of very interesting terrain to play around in. The ironic thing is that, due to the rarity of diverse terrain like this, we probably would not have encountered anything this cool if we had simply cropped our old world and regenerated part of it. I liked our old world, but to be quite honest this terrain puts that one to shame.

I still have some more plugins to install and configure after the map generation is done, but I anticipate that the server will be ready for play by this evening.

**Tamur** · 12-14-2013, 15:19

Very cool to see it, tons of variety. Looking at the map makes me want to go exploring across that mesa out east and into the crazy karst mountains. Looks like a great world!