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Asehujiko

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Is sand related to biome?
« on: August 18, 2008, 06:36:06 am »

Since there are parameters that exclusively spawn sand deserts, i wonder if it's possible to enforce sand in other places as well by tinkering with parameters. Is this possible and so yes, how?
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2008, 06:45:42 am »

If you edit the raws and remove all soil types bar sands, then you get sand everywhere, no exceptions.
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2008, 07:11:18 am »

I know that but i'm trying to get a vanilla world with as much useable sand as possible.
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2008, 02:54:39 pm »

Arid biomes, like rocky wasteland, desert and badlands have sand. It's caused by infrequent, but dramatic rainfall leading to rapid erosion, I believe. Oceans too, but basically you are gonna want to look at very arid regions.

So, I believe it has something to do with low drainage and infrequent rainfall on a sedimentary rock layer. Something like that.
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2008, 02:58:45 pm »

Deserts are often found in rain shadows in the real world. Look for a place where you couldn't see the ocean because mountains are in the way. Based on that, it would make sense that an arid landscape with a good supply of mountains would be the best bet.

Then again, you could just turn water all the way down.
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2008, 07:35:07 pm »

just edit all soil types in the raws to be usable for sand.
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Re: Is sand related to biome?
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2008, 05:28:13 am »

I already know that but i was wondereing if there's a certain combination of biomes that's an about 90% failsafe way of getting sand in forests/swamps.
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