Sedimentology

Project Moved to Minetest

I am ceasing all Bukkit-related development, and instead focusing on a 100% GPL Voxel game called Minetest. I have ported this plugin over to Minetest, and encourage everyone to switch with me.

This project is *not* dead (on the contrary) but there will be no new releases for Bukkit or any minecraft server mod. No permissions to take over or maintain the current project page on dev.bukkit.org are granted.

For more information, Visit the Minetest Mod releases Forum.

Cheers,

s0f4r.

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Quick links: <Concepts> <Configuration> <Screenshots> <Bugs>

Sedimentology

a bukkit plugin that simulates erosion and sedimentation

Description

This plugin attempts to create processes that are involved in the transport and deposition of sediments:

• water picking up material
• transportation down slopes
• weather influence
• material falling down cliffs
• material decaying/degrading into smaller grained materials
• creating thicker piles of snow, and thawing snow

The plugin doesn't properly recreate real geologic processes, instead it mimics the bahavior of erosion and deposition by rolling a dice for most of the factors involved, and if the roll was succesful, proceed to the next step.

Material hardness and resistance are taken into account – some materials are easier displaced than others. Some materials degrade easier than others. Some materials (sand) have a different angle of repose.

This plugin isn't meant to enhance game play per se, it will operate slowly over time and vegetation will prevent most of it's effects from taking a toll on the landscape in most cases, so it will take a long time in default settings from actually doing anything noticeable. Because dirt naturally gets a grass cover in Minecraft it will be unlikely that this plugin does significant damage to your world. Of course, planting stuff is still advisable if you want to reduce the effects of the plugin further.

From version 8 on and higher, this plugin will create thicker piles of snow, potentially up to several blocks high. Snow accumulation and melt are based on various factors and will create thick snow covers on mountain tops, and thin covers near snow edges or lower down. Daylight and sunshine cause snow melt, and the plugin can even remove all snow cover entirely over time if the parameters are right.

Do you like a more dynamic world? Please check out my Botany plugin too!

Screenshots

Please have a look at the screenshots page here.

Concepts

Please have a look at the in-depth Concepts of Sedimentology page here for more information on the concepts of this plugin.

Configuration

Please have a look at the Configuration page for console commands and configuration options.

Factions / Towny / WorldGuard

These plugins provide ways to protect blocks from being modified, and Sedimentology can interface with them to see if blocks are part of a Faction claim, Towny town, Residence claim etc. If the protection feature is enabled in the config.yml file, and one or more of these plugins are loaded, then Sedimentology will not modify blocks in any region that these plugins have on file. Snow buildup, however, will still take place everywhere, since it's a reversible process that is not destructive.

The testing that I do for these plugins is limited – please report any issues in the bug tracker on github.

Tested are these versions:

• Factions 1.6.9.5
• Factions 2.3.0 with mcore 7.0.1
• Towny 0.84.0.9
• WorldGuard 5.8

Bugs / Code

The project code is hosted on my github page: https:github.com/sofar/Sedimentology.

Please file all bugs and feature requests here: github.com/sofar/Sedimentology/issues/new

Due to the overwhelming number of requests and issues I'm receiving for this plugin I request that everyone please file all issues on the github issue tracker. You can file support requests, errors or crashes, feature requests and report problems with this plugin.

The main page thread can be used for discussion just as it is being used right now, and I have no problems with people discussion issues there, but please take the courtesy of filing an issue for problems you see so I can properly track all reported problems and do not need to scan through the many pages of comments.

For bugs, tips, donations please feel free to contact me: Auke Kok – auke@foo-projects.org