CivcraftImport:Mods/mineral vein

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= Mineral Vein =

Mineral Vein is the mod that Civcraft uses to make ores more scarce.

How It Functions
Mineral Vein first removes the ores from a chunk, then calculates a heightmap for each ore based on the seed for each ore's seed. The ores are then placed wherever their variables match the heightmap.

The Result
The result of the above is significantly less ores being present in the map compared to vanilla minecraft. The ores occur in vein-like nearly flat pancake shaped structures that contain around 750 ore blocks, depending on the ore. Contrary to vanilla, ores do not appear in clusters of 4-10 right next to eachother, but with more space between each oreblock, however they are all roughly at the same height.

How to find
Veins of different types appear at different heights:

Iron, Redstone, Coal are on levels 22-42

Diamonds are on levels 10-20

You have most likely found a vein, if you see only one type of ore or none at all.

Some parts of the world are made of vanilla ore distribution. The -,- quadrant seems to hold more vanilla, and the +,+ more veins.

Discussion/Comments
Please refer to the discussion page.