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Darmo

Cave Mineral Formations & Scenery

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I wanted to suggest that caves get some attention in TFC2, from a aesthetics perspective.  The overworld has all these flowers and grass and so forth, which really helps it seem more interesting and alive.  But caves are very sterile, having nothing but ore and stalag*ites.  Assuming that caves don't rampantly collapse, and caving is once again a viable thing, what if there were special cave formations - kind of like plants or crops, in that they are sprite art, not modeled blocks necessarily.  Sprite art would lend itself well to soda straws, cave bacon, boxwork, popcorn, and others.  Then there's certain types of stalagmites that have unique looks, that maybe would work in sprite form, or maybe could have a new model for them.   There could be single-block models that have a depression with water pool on top, which the player can drink from.  Vanilla minecraft has a "Wild Caves" mod, which does this sort of thing, though in my opinion it could be done much, much better.

Some kinds (or even most perhaps) could spawn in groups, not unlike wildflowers.  It would be especially interesting if things like cave bacon could actually create continuous formations, if the conditions were right.  Traveling across ceilings, and/or down walls.  Most if not all sprite formations would not need to respect their host rock, since they're generally formed of minerals distinct in appearance from the host rock anyway.   Though I did see a video in creative mode, which suggested to me that there might be a way to have the sprite basically be a transparency outline which can adopt the texture of different stones for the opaque part?

I know it's not a 'useful' suggestion, but in combination with other underground things (fungi, glowworms, etc) I think it could add hugely to the beauty and life of the caves.

 

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I like this, specially about plants and fungi. A more varied collection of mushrooms would also enrich the underground. water pools would be nice also.

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also, maybe having different types of caves, like some limestone caves with all of those features that you discussed earlier, but also things like lava tubes or even sinkholes for cave entrances could be cool too. Maybe even flooded caves, possibly even flooded lava tubes with lava

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