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SuikaCraft is nearing reopening, so I am making a series of shorts to focus on some main features of the server.
In this first one, we see the cycles of the seasons that make every day you log on a new experience from the last. Whether it be the summer sunshine, the autumn fog, the winter snow, or the spring rain, each season has its own delights and challenges.
Next we will see the biomes, spawn shops, and more!
A few screenshots from the vanilla snapshot server!
Included are the town hall, railway tunnel, spawn farms, pastures, and stables, and Mal’s house.
Meanwhile, updating the Spigot server to 1.9 is pestered by daily crashing and holds on some plugins updating. Sometimes, vanilla survival is just the best way to play Minecraft.
Having some fun with BetterFoliage and Optifine shaders. Unfortunately, the two are not both working with any one build of Forge right now...
New enchantments!
We will be adding EnchantmentAPI and their EnchantmentPack to SuikaCraft, creating a range of enchantments to make combat greatly diverse on top of the changes already in place with 1.9.
Read about the various enchantments here.
How the landscape will be different.
So, biomes asides, there are a few ways we will address making the landscape more accessible to building, easier to chop down trees, make saplings less confusing, and enhance the overall look.
For one, the shrubland will have less gymnosperms and be more akin to shrubs instead of small larches and pines. Those trees will be more noticeable in high alpine settings. Instead, it will be much more open, having better vistas of nearby forests.
Oak forests will be much less dense, allowing for easier tree chopping and navigation. The largest trees are reserved for rare subbiomes such as the old growth forest and dark forest (the latter being a slightly more fairytail version of the former).
Redwood forests are currently aimed at becoming all acacia leaves/wood, as to make it easier to get the wanted tree from a sapling. In fact, all trees are going to a more basic setup for the same reasons. The only seeming randomness will be shrub-type trees, which are smaller, and provide variety without causing stress from having them spawn.
And furthermore, the scale of the trees to the landscape is greatened because of all of this. Even if the same generation were to stay, the biomes would seem bigger still. Regardless, larger biomes will be a goal, which will require some substantial overhaul to balance it all out again. But it should be worth it.
These changes are of course giving up some of the aesthetic potential of the custom landscape to provide better gameplay. And, as an additional perk, this all should allow for fire spread to be enabled without wiping out the entire map.
SuikaCraft is coming to 1.9!
With plans to overhaul the terrain to be more accessible to building and a big focus on creating trees that can be completely felled, work has begun to bring SuikaCraft to 1.9.
As of right now, the server is in development phase, so anything you see is subject to change/deletion. The timeframe until grand opening will depend on the development of our terrain generation plugin, but work on the biomes isn’t going to be halted just because it is still in development.
If you have any suggestions for biome features or plugins, shoot me a message here or on Steam.
If you came on the server during the month of August...
...you may have noticed that the shopkeepers were running all about. That’s been fixed. As well as I’ve put farm animals back in the spawn, and added a horse stables.
I haven’t paid much attention to the Spigot server recently as the snapshots have been the centre of attention. I know only a handful of people have been on since the plugin broke, but I still apologise if your experience was hindered.
Having said that, the resource pack (Isabella II continuation, if you haven’t realised that yet) is being constantly updated whenever the snapshots add new stuff, no more than a few days later (although usually on that same day, I’ve been good about it).
Hope you’re all enjoying your time on Minecraft!
-yurisuika
New additions to the resource pack, and some GUI changes to go with the snapshots.
Get it from https://github.com/yurisuika/SuikaCraft.
