Another Idea... Aesthetic Cave Crystals

[Unavailableartist 12]

Ok... so I got this idea while trying to figure what Rook wanted with this thread.

Crystal Caverns!!! And yes, they do exist... for any of you who have watched the Blue Planet series on Discovery you'll know what I mean.

here's what I mean...

Ok so that's extreme... lol. The crystals are small in the cave. It has been done before in Thaumcraft... with Vis/Taint cristals... all you have to do is re-texture those crystals to whites/greys/yellows/may be even purples now and again... that don't glow or give light..

Make them a special spawn that isn't common and doesn't happen till deeper in minecraft. And if you mine them you get rocksalt (stone) or quartsite (stone). I think the crystals in this cave are gypsum anyways.

here are the thaumcraft crystals...

now picture that in the grey/white color scheme... it would look very cool.

[Menoch 335]

Go here.... read stuff....

[Unavailableartist 12]

thanks for the insight...

[Rook 8]

"nurr ets emposebles et desnt luk natrel gurhurhue minecraft cavs r bste cavs"

That's not so extreme, it's just a really old and wet cave, lol. I like this suggestion, I want to see more "believable" features in caves, seeing as apparently making the caves believable is completely impossible according to the un-experienced wet-retards spamming my topic with their anal blood.

[killster550 401]

"nurr ets emposebles et desnt luk natrel gurhurhue minecraft cavs r bste cavs"

That's not so extreme, it's just a really old and wet cave, lol. I like this suggestion, I want to see more "believable" features in caves, seeing as apparently making the caves believable is completely impossible according to the un-experienced wet-retards spamming my topic with their anal blood.

*sigh* was this portion neccesary? i hope you realize that ANY valid points you make are ruined with your insults and behavior.

like i said: you make some good arguments, but you ruin every single bit of credit with your remarks, if you didnt have any of those you'd get along perfectly here.

back to topic: i'd like crystals making their ways into caves, but not entire caves made out of crystal, might be over the top (although they do exist)

[abandoned mines 119]

had the exact same idea ages ago but most thought it would be to diffacult to code ...

[Srgnoodles 1,030]

had the exact same idea ages ago but most thought it would be to diffacult to code ...

wait, just read your location,

you live in a bowl?

[Unavailableartist 12]

...Non-sense infinus5... If you really think it fits... all you have to do is ask ;-)

Someone one another thread mentioned that you should mine them to get gems.

---I say how about cave specific minerals... like minerals that only spawn deep in the these caves. After you had to trudge through horrible nasties like skelies, creepers, and endermen.

[Kimbblesrath 503]

wait, just read your location,

you live in a bowl?

Ya...it should be bowels.

[Treyflix 277]

Kimble made a very good point in another thread.

Why not have actually gem crystals -obviously with different grades- like rare (amethyst, garnet, tourmuline), very rare (topaz, opal, beryl), and some of them EXTREMELY rare (rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and emeralds).

Each would have not just a generic crystal shape, but the actual shape and size it really forms in! Gemstones like Opal, Jade, Jasper, and Agate would have to be handled differently though, as their are not actual large "crystals" in the common sense of the word.

Infinus, help me out here! I need deeper geoligy knowledge.

[Unavailableartist 12]

I don't know when gems are going to have a use but technically you would be hard pressed to find any rare gems in caves. As most caves are made of sedimentary rocks, not very many minerals or crystals grow on those.

But TFC has igneous rocks forming stalactites and mites. So anything possible. You could even make them something like sulfur crystal (for gunpowder) or Chalcanthite ( blue copper crystals). Actually Chalcanthite would be a Good crystal because its a salt... And is got a pretty blue color.

The crystals found in this cave are espicifically salts.... Gypsum... It's a variation called selenite. And technically you can't have different minerals growing in Crystals because they ARE the minerals themselves... Not like a rock which is composed of several small crystals or different minerals. So it makes more sense to break random rocks and get several types of gems and mineral while the crystal you see gives off a specific type.

[Treyflix 277]

Yeh... As soon as I posted it I realized how ridiculous it is. I'm actually a rock hound myself with a pretty good knowledge of Geoligy, no freakin clue why I was off my rocker there :|

[Unavailableartist 12]

Me too... I love rocks. Well crystals and minerals. I'm not a good one though the most I've ever found was a few small pieces of pyrite and a Myster crystal next to it....

[Treyflix 277]

I live right next to the Great Lakes so I have a pretty awesome agate collection if i do say sp myself. I love agates! I think my best non agate find was a worn down schist rock with about a half dozen low grade tic tax sized garnet crystals in it. That or the golf ball sized, perfectly smooth and pretty round very deep purple amethyst crystal pebble. I love just going out and looking for rocks and seeing the stories they tell me about the place they come from

[Unavailableartist 12]

I have a lot of specimens. But they were given to me as a gift... But the pyrite (almost microscopic), mystery crystal, and calcite I found from limestone are all I've found myself.

[killster550 401]

create ALL the sapphire-laced jewellery

[abandoned mines 119]

Kimble made a very good point in another thread.

Why not have actually gem crystals -obviously with different grades- like rare (amethyst, garnet, tourmuline), very rare (topaz, opal, beryl), and some of them EXTREMELY rare (rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and emeralds).

Each would have not just a generic crystal shape, but the actual shape and size it really forms in! Gemstones like Opal, Jade, Jasper, and Agate would have to be handled differently though, as their are not actual large "crystals" in the common sense of the word.

Infinus, help me out here! I need deeper geoligy knowledge.

wow its taken me a while to get back to this

to bad we can t actually have crytals and gem stones jutting from the walls of caves, that would rule

perhaps we could have a "pocket" block that drops a gem of a random grade as many gems and crystals do form in this manner

[Bihlbo 29]

The structure of the crystal seems like a sticking point to me. The thing I never liked about Thaumcraft or Xycraft crystals, for instance, is that they are polygons instead of voxel-based objects. I like polygons just fine, but they look like they don't belong.

However, because of TFC's fantastic microblock stuff, crystals could be voxel-based and have a wide variety. They could be connected to the wall at a variety of locations on the block (instead of only ever at the center), with randomly-generated growth patterns. One bright blue crystal looks neat. A room full of blue crystals looks stunning. A room full of identical blue crystals looks as interesting as a room of stone walls. Without variety in their shape, crystals are never going to be anything better than a novelty people stop enjoying after they see a few of them.

On another topic: Do the drip columns already in the game grow at all? I do see that the stalactites drip water from time to time (which is a beautifully nice touch, by the way). If they do grow, crystals could grow as well, in about the same way.