maiden flax
i am making a cave with a large open area held up with pillars, i used the large dripstone feature because of its pleasing shape, but i want it replaced with a different block. it seems to be hardcoded, so i am using the geode trick to replace all the dripstone with bone blocks, but its not replacing all the dripstone like it should. the remaining dripstone seems to follow chunk borders, so i assume thats part of the reason, advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.
jolly groveBOT
i am making a cave with a large open area held up with pillars, i used the large...
tame shell
Well your geode feature probably isn't at max size or is improperly placed within the chunk coordinates.
However, there's actually been some recent discoveries that disks are a far more performant option than geodes, and are slightly easier to set up than geodes because they're inclusive rather than exclusive. The only caveat is that you need 2 disks per subchunk rather than the 1 geode
This discovery is courtesy of Uni, but she's not here
maiden flax
it did not work
it might have also gotten worse
i removed the geodes entirely, but the discs have the same problem.
tame shell
Hm, did you start from the example pack?
maiden flax
Yeah, i copied everything, modified the heights to every eight blocks between -64 and 0, used both the xz0 and xz8 versions, referenced it in the biome, and changed the blocks being replaced.
I know its doing something, because after removing the geode, there should be no bone unless the disks are doing something.
tame shell
Right, hm 🤔
maiden flax
talking with my friend who im making the datapack with, and this was the explanation we settled on as most likely the cause of the problem, how likely do you think this is, and how could we fix it if it is the ultimate cause?
Ive been looking, and ive never seen a pillar with its center replaced. In addition, the dripstone lines always follow the chunk borders. This makes me think that its going chunk by chunk and placing the pillar, then replacing the dripstone. So, when a chunk is finished, then a neighbouring chunk places a pillar that overflows, thats when we get unreplaced dripstone.
tame shell
Ah yes, that's very likely the case
Struggling to come up with a solution though, the trick of course is that the dripstone pillars are so large
It's possible that moving the disks to a much later step may help, but it may just produce the same result
maiden flax
how would we go about moving to a later step?
tame shell
In your biome's feature list? Just move them to a different list entry
maiden flax
like this? (mesogleatic collumn is the large dripstone, pillar/xz0_ect is the discs)
tame shell
That is a later step than the column, yes. Is that where you had them already?
maiden flax
yeah
tame shell
So yeah you can try moving them to an even later step
maiden flax
is it possible to have blank steps, or do i need to find new features to place?
tame shell
It is, yes
tame shell
Yeah it was a bit of a long shot
Well this is new tech to me but of course the geode method was also producing inconsistent results, just less dramatic. You might need to either reduce the size of these columns and/or try to offset them closer to the middle of the chunk rather than using an in_square placement type
maiden flax
Got it, we will give that a shot.
maiden flax
making them smaller and further from the chunk borders worked, thank you.
tame shell
Noice
maiden flax
it loses out on the claustrophobic feel, but thats an aesthetic problem, not a technical one, so unless theres some problem i havent seen, im considering this closed. much appreceated.
tame shell
Bit of a hacky solution but I'm glad it works, and that still looks pretty good 😊
