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TheHueKnight

About rocks

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I have a few questions abou how rocks are generated,

 

Can there be three layers of the same rock?

 

Is it possible that we have the same rock type in two layers? like Metamorphic o the top and another one on the middle?

 

if an Igneous Rock is on the top layer, can metamorphic ones spawn at the middle layer?

 

thanks for the attention :)

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Ok, I'm just going to pouring out as much information that I can think about this, and let me know if I missed something.

 

  • There are three stone layers in the world, I shall refer to them as "Bottom" , " Middle" , and "Top".
  • The top layer consists of all stone types: Metamorphic (Met), Sedimentary (Sed) and both Igneous (Ig).
  • The middle layer consists of Met and Ig.
  • The bottom layer consists of only Ig.
  • The three layers have world generation that is completely separate from the other two. Each one is completely independent, and none of its behavior is tied to the generation of the others.
  • This means that when a top layer changes stone types, that does not necessarily mean that the bottom or middle layers are changing stone types at that location too.
  • This also means that the stone type of one layer has absolutely nothing to do with the stone type in the other layers. Each stone layer simply picks one of the available rocks that it can spawn, and spawns it. This means that any combination is possible, such as Basalt in all three layers, or Basalt in the bottom two layers and a Sed on top, or Basalt on the top and bottom, and some Met in the middle.
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Now that's interesting! I always thought the world got divided into zones, and the rock layers were spawned randomly within those zones (Like a bunch of cakes, with three layers). But now I see that one area being rock salt, marble, diorite and another beside it being granite, marble, diorite is not because of a coincidental identical 2nd and 3rd layers, but simply because the 2nd and 3rd layer plates were the same, but the first layer plate had ended (Like 3 differently shaped puzzles placed on top of each other). Way more interesting than my algorithms homework, that's for sure.

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