#Why won't ice spikes generate in my biome?

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fading shore
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I made a custom configured feature to place ice spikes at "WORLD_SURFACE_WG" instead of on top of water, and assumed that would fix it, but they still do not generate. Any ideas? That is all I changed from vanilla. I am trying to add them to a custom biome in a modded dimension.

📎 lunar_ice_spike.json
karmic shaleBOT
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knotty lava
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Ice spikes are, as far as I'm aware, hardcoded to only spawn on Snow Blocks

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Regardless of what you have in your placed_feature

fading shore
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Oh ok

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Is there a way to get the code for them?

knotty lava
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Hardcoded means no

fading shore
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So I can't make like a configured feature that copies them? I know the configured feature refers to something else

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Like it just says "type:" "minecraft:ice_spike"

knotty lava
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The configured feature doesn't refer to anything else, it's just that that feature type has no configs

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There's a few feature types that are like that

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And unfortunately it means they are not configurable at all. Can't change what their blocks are made of, their shape or size, or in some cases, what their required spawning conditions are

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So no, you can't make something that behaves like them, at least no exactly like them.

You could either forgo that exact shape and create something that gets the same vibe (trees work well, they're like the best feature in the game), or you can make the surface of your biome snow blocks so you can place the ice spikes, and then use a feature to turn the snow blocks into something else (though that can affect chunk generation speed)

fading shore
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Interesting

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Is there a way to make custom shaped features?

knotty lava
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No, we only have access to the features Mojang provides us

fading shore
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I'll probably just do the snow block thing then

knotty lava
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But like I said, trees are really great for unique shapes

fading shore
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But they're always tree shaped, right?

knotty lava
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Cause they have a lot of options for both trunks and leaves. You can make all sorts of things that don't even look like trees

knotty lava
fading shore
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Oh ok, I made a custom tree before but it was just copying the shape of existing trees

knotty lava
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Unfortunately I don't think I do, but yeah. Trees are cool

fading shore
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Oh yeah I guess biome gen datapacks do it all the time

knotty lava
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Again it won't be an exact match, but you should be able to get something that hits the same feeling very easily, and made of the same blocks of course

fading shore
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Ok I'll mess around with trees. Thanks

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It would be cool if they look different from normal spikes anyways