untold root
Hi all, I'm making a custom biome that's more or less a badlands variant.
I wanted to know if there's an easier way to do custom stripe colors other than placing down a ton of predicates for y-level-related rules (such as y_above maybe with absolute values, etc). I'm wanting to not use the pre-existing stripes pattern that the default badlands uses.
If there is a better way, then what would be the best way to go about it?
jaunty spireBOT
Hi all, I'm making a custom biome that's more or less a badlands variant.
I wa...
real cobalt
The most optimal way is to use vegetation patch features that place disk features to replace the terrain. Trying to recreate it with surface rules is generally regarded as a bad idea
However while the vegetation patch method is the recommended method and is the most optimal for performance, I wouldn't call it efficient as far as implementation. It's certainly easier to just use surface rules
untold root
I see, so it's a question of ease of use vs efficiency then 😮
untold root
How would I set a specific layer to be a certain block, actually? I'm having more difficulty than I expected pulling this off, but I'm probably overthinking it.
real cobalt
With what method?
untold root
Ah, I fixed it. I used Y_above but forgot to change the biome 
Edit: Investigating.
Here's the relevant bit of code at the time of writing that's causing issues. Currently only blue terracotta, and not green is not spawning.
untold root
I think I've found the solution. The blocks must be absolute with values that actually plug into the correct, valid y-values that are above the gradient to the world's gradient?
Okay, it's very weird, but I think I've got it working. In order for them to work, the Y-above checks must be in the correct sequence, as in checks below cannot be greater than the previous value.
Yep, that was the issue! 😄 Thanks as always!