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[MOD 0.14] Alien Biomes

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Title: Alien Biomes
Short Description: A collection of additional biomes: Snow, Red Desert, Tundra, Savanna, Scarlet Grassland, Brown Cracked Earth, Frozen Desert, Blue Grasslands / Marsh, Purple Grassland, Golden Grassland... 29 in total. Includes new tree and doodad variants. Most new textures are recolors.
Name: alien-biomes
Factorio Version: 0.14
Mod State: Beta
Dependencies: Base, Water Fix
Author: Earendel
Downloads: Mod Portal
If you need to regenerate terrain after changing your mod setup, use: Regenerate Terrain
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Holy crap, you are a machine! Gives some much needed variation! Would it be possible to make it so ores are allocated to specific biomes? Like Iron in the desert and Coal and Gold in the forest?

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Probably, but I won't be doing that as part of this mod.

The biome placement is based on the existing temperature and humidity noise layers so it should be a case of adding the same settings to the resource. I image that it would make resource availability very erratic though.

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Hey this is pretty neat!

I've been working with Tone on the More Floors mod and was wondering if you would like to have the biome tiles incorporated into the More Floors mod so people can edit the biomes in game.

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Hi Earendel, this mod looks nice and interesting, so I have tried this.
Unfortunately, when I moved across a big blue forest, FPS dropped to 10.
Is it a known issue? Since the trees are just the vanilla ones with tinted colors, I guess it is an issue in the engine? :?

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Mooncat wrote:Hi Earendel, this mod looks nice and interesting, so I have tried this.
Unfortunately, when I moved across a big blue forest, FPS dropped to 10.
Is it a known issue? Since the trees are just the vanilla ones with tinted colors, I guess it is an issue in the engine? :?
That is not a known issue. I have never seen that, in testing the fps never goes below 60. The mod at this point is just recolors and some altered autoplace settings. The only thing I can think of is that some of the doodad densities might be higher if the blue doodads overlap some vanilla doodads.

Did you have other mods installed when you got the fps drop?

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Earendel wrote:
Mooncat wrote:Hi Earendel, this mod looks nice and interesting, so I have tried this.
Unfortunately, when I moved across a big blue forest, FPS dropped to 10.
Is it a known issue? Since the trees are just the vanilla ones with tinted colors, I guess it is an issue in the engine? :?
That is not a known issue. I have never seen that, in testing the fps never goes below 60. The mod at this point is just recolors and some altered autoplace settings. The only thing I can think of is that some of the doodad densities might be higher if the blue doodads overlap some vanilla doodads.

Did you have other mods installed when you got the fps drop?
Yes, I have other mods... but I can't think of any of them that can affect FPS like that, only when I move across the blue forest but not other places... anyway, I will check about the mods. Thanks for the answer. ;)

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Mooncat wrote:
Earendel wrote:
Mooncat wrote:Hi Earendel, this mod looks nice and interesting, so I have tried this.
Unfortunately, when I moved across a big blue forest, FPS dropped to 10.
Is it a known issue? Since the trees are just the vanilla ones with tinted colors, I guess it is an issue in the engine? :?
That is not a known issue. I have never seen that, in testing the fps never goes below 60. The mod at this point is just recolors and some altered autoplace settings. The only thing I can think of is that some of the doodad densities might be higher if the blue doodads overlap some vanilla doodads.

Did you have other mods installed when you got the fps drop?
Yes, I have other mods... but I can't think of any of them that can affect FPS like that, only when I move across the blue forest but not other places... anyway, I will check about the mods. Thanks for the answer. ;)
If you send me the map I can take a look.

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Earendel wrote:
Mooncat wrote:
Earendel wrote:
Mooncat wrote:Hi Earendel, this mod looks nice and interesting, so I have tried this.
Unfortunately, when I moved across a big blue forest, FPS dropped to 10.
Is it a known issue? Since the trees are just the vanilla ones with tinted colors, I guess it is an issue in the engine? :?
That is not a known issue. I have never seen that, in testing the fps never goes below 60. The mod at this point is just recolors and some altered autoplace settings. The only thing I can think of is that some of the doodad densities might be higher if the blue doodads overlap some vanilla doodads.

Did you have other mods installed when you got the fps drop?
Yes, I have other mods... but I can't think of any of them that can affect FPS like that, only when I move across the blue forest but not other places... anyway, I will check about the mods. Thanks for the answer. ;)
If you send me the map I can take a look.
Unfortunately, I can't. I didn't save it because it was just a random test on mod compatibilities. But thanks. :mrgreen:

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Version 0.1.4 now has snow footstep sounds.

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Does it do anything other that Visuals?
Do the various Biomes have any other impact in the game?
(For example Walking speed reduced in Snowy biomes, Purple Forest has double Pollution absorption, etc.)

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BlackHat wrote:Does it do anything other that Visuals?
Do the various Biomes have any other impact in the game?
(For example Walking speed reduced in Snowy biomes, Purple Forest has double Pollution absorption, etc.)
Running speed on all cracked earth and tundra tiles has been increased. Running and vehicle speed on snow is slightly slower than sand, but feels even slower if you go from cracked earth to snow because of the sudden difference.

All of the grasslands and savanna have the same pollution absorption of grass, all the others are a bit lower.

The biggest pollution absorption factor is trees. Tree density overall is less than vanilla so pollution absorption is less. Hot, cold, and dry areas have reduced tree density.

Pollution absorption of water has been increased slightly.

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I am having an issue updating the mod on an existing save (one that has an older version of Alien Biomes). I did not notice any visual seams, but the water from the old seed seems to be placed differently in the new seed, and trees / alien nests seem to form in water. Is there any migration script or similar that would fix this? (Or must I just stay with the old version without the snow footsteps?)

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Wildejackson wrote:I am having an issue updating the mod on an existing save (one that has an older version of Alien Biomes). I did not notice any visual seams, but the water from the old seed seems to be placed differently in the new seed, and trees / alien nests seem to form in water. Is there any migration script or similar that would fix this? (Or must I just stay with the old version without the snow footsteps?)
I'm looking into this now. I can't think of any changes to this mod that would explain what you described, but I just had a thought. I've just fixed a bug with the 'walls-block-spitters' mod where I had accidentally removed the water tile collision from trees, spawners, worms, and biters. That would mean that they can spawn there and would create an effect similar to your description. Do you also have the walls-block-spitters version 0.1.1 installed? If so walls-block-spitters version 0.1.2 fixes the problem.

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Earendel wrote: I'm looking into this now. I can't think of any changes to this mod that would explain what you described, but I just had a thought. I've just fixed a bug with the 'walls-block-spitters' mod where I had accidentally removed the water tile collision from trees, spawners, worms, and biters. That would mean that they can spawn there and would create an effect similar to your description. Do you also have the walls-block-spitters version 0.1.1 installed? If so walls-block-spitters version 0.1.2 fixes the problem.

Yep, turns out it was the spitter's mod that was the culprit. Funny, I added that mod thinking it wouldn't impact worldgen at all, and that the biomes mod would be the one to mess with the generation. Thanks for the fix anyway Earendel!

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Wildejackson wrote:Yep, turns out it was the spitter's mod that was the culprit. Funny, I added that mod thinking it wouldn't impact worldgen at all, and that the biomes mod would be the one to mess with the generation. Thanks for the fix anyway Earendel!
Luckily someone else had recently reported the bug on the other mod, otherwise it would have been extremely confusing.

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Version 0.1.5 has been released.

Added 3 Volcanic Tilesets for the volcanic biome.

All biomes (including vanilla land tiles) now have the missing u and o variants, which means that you don't get the weirdness that can happen in vanilla when you place flooring near a biome transition.

All tiles now have locale strings.

All tiles (including vanilla) now have order strings so they are in a sensible order in the map editor.

The volcanic biome is at the maximum end of the temperature range. If you update on an existing map then some areas of Scarlet Savanna, Red Cracked Earth, or Red Desert might have a sudden transition to the volcanic biome when new chunks are generated.

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Earendel wrote:The volcanic biome is at the maximum end of the temperature range. If you update on an existing map then some areas of Scarlet Savanna, Red Cracked Earth, or Red Desert might have a sudden transition to the volcanic biome when new chunks are generated.
Could be interesting to have volcanic in slightly smaller temperature ranges but on both extreme ends of the spectrum, resulting in high-elevation volcanoes surrounded by snow.

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IronCartographer wrote:
Earendel wrote:The volcanic biome is at the maximum end of the temperature range. If you update on an existing map then some areas of Scarlet Savanna, Red Cracked Earth, or Red Desert might have a sudden transition to the volcanic biome when new chunks are generated.
Could be interesting to have volcanic in slightly smaller temperature ranges but on both extreme ends of the spectrum, resulting in high-elevation volcanoes surrounded by snow.
There is an elevation layer, so I could use that too. It would be difficult to stop trees from growing on it if I do that though, currently the tree types only care about temperature and humidity.

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Congratulation for this mod! It's such a great addition to the game, add variation and nice looking landscape!!! Keep improving! I wonder why it has so few download!!!! Its the one mod that really change your gaming experience with only graphics!

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