Tectonic Activity & Resource island core idea.

[NovaSolux]

- Resource Island Core -
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So, I had the idea of the resource islands having a randomly generated core in them.
This core would consist of the materials that spawn on the resource island's continent.
Now say, A Kalrosian one would have mostly emerald blocks, iron & coal.
An ascalonian one would have one mostly made of diamonds, gold & iron.
The garaman one would have it made out of mostly gold & diamond.
Now the core is sphere shaped & covered by a 30 block thick layer of lava.
And it's size is 30 blocks in diameter.
And solid.
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- Tectonic Activity & Erosion -
Now, loka has 3 continents. Yet no tectonic activity?
It would be cool to see new continents form, And new islands.
And new mountain ranges etc..
And having the continents move, for example like 5 blocks every irl day.
Would be pretty nice.
Towns would have to prepare for these tectonic activities.
And now, erosion.
Say you blow a huge crater in the land.
Over time, Erosion will happen or it'll turn into a lake.

 

[koi0001]

Massive fan of Erosion idea! I love the idea of how massive once gaps in the land become ruins over time e.g. trees sprouting randomly! On a separate note I don't believe continents moving is something that could happen. I think it'd be cool if resource isles had changes in lava or even events like the forests lighting on fire from eruption.

 

[Mtndew98]

Would moo moo's be safe?

 

[Skuhoo]

The continents would move relative to what? They're all on separate worlds completely disconnected from each other. How would the player actually see any changes to the position of a continent? Would mountains pop up in the middle of nowhere? How would it deal with towns and conquest structures?

I also don't see the erosion idea being at all possible. Erosion is a complex process involving rainfall, wind, glaciers, etc. on a huge scale. Any attempt to mimic it in Minecraft would be insanely confusing to the player without adding much, if any, gameplay. There's also the issue that due to the way regen code works (pulling info from a clean version of each continent), erosion couldn't be affected by players.

 

[Zor95]

It's simple:

 

[RedSkilZZ]

So this is my take:
- Giant OP balls of diamond/emerald/gold/coal blocks
- BTW a thick lava layer wouldn't do much as people can make Fire Res pots
Now what Sku said and more:
- I'm no coder but just based off of a lack of plugins like these on other servers I can see that second idea being very hard to code taking time and focus away from some major gameplay bugs (beacons not thing) and features (conquest 3)
- I can see that second idea making very unhappy people as mountain ranges could just pop up and destroy buildings that took months to make *ahem* the Valentian clock building *ahem*
- Lastly, the hitting blocks could suffocate moo moo's thus killing them, we cant have that happening D:

 

[RayWard54]

DUUUUUUUDE yoU forgot the VOLCANO ERUPTIONS on the resource isles!!!
Or did u?
And I see no effect to having the continents move lol. Like what would the continents moving even do? And also, big fan of erosion idea! I would really like this one lake being automatically filled. The moo moos would be safe in sku's barn. I am not a fan of a new mountain popping up in my town btw.

 

[Mtndew98]

DUUUUUUUDE yoU forgot the VOLCANO ERUPTIONS on the resource isles!!!
Or did u?
And I see no effect to having the continents move lol. Like what would the continents moving even do? And also, big fan of erosion idea! I would really like this one lake being automatically filled. The moo moos would be safe in sku's barn. I am not a fan of a new mountain popping up in my town btw.

Wut.

 

[RayWard54]

Don't u Wut me

 

[Grubul]

I also cant understand a single word from this kid.

 

[koi0001]

so much butt hurt and cold opinions on one thread it's rather beautiful.
The cows wouldn't be safe first of all if they're near the eruption.
Erosion just sounds like it'd allow towns to gain more of an overgrowth than already is in affect. (E.g. blocks like stone being changed to cobblestone perhaps) I'm sure a lot of people would appropriate something like that within the wilds as the only reason I played Loka as a noob was because of the landscape in all honesty.
The idea of continents moving is absolute madness.

On a seperate note I think it'd be cool for new islands or parts of continents to be introduced to the world via eruptions.