QcBiomeDefinition Struct

Member Variable Documentation

double QcBiomeDefinition::baseHeight

Surface height in blocks for land in this biome ("baseHeight").

QString QcBiomeDefinition::beachBlock

Surface block where land meets the sea, on river banks and on the sand banks of a delta ("beach", default surfaceBlock).

bool QcBiomeDefinition::delta

A delta biome (decision E-850): the climate never chooses it; the arms and islands of a river delta take the delta biome of the land biome around them.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::deltaBiome

The delta biome of the deltas in this land biome (decision E-850); empty: the terrain's deltaBiome.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::descriptionKey

Translation key of the handbook's text about it ("<translation>.description" unless set); a missing text leaves only the facts. Server side only.

QList<QcFeaturePlacement> QcBiomeDefinition::features

The features the biome places, with their densities ("features", at most 64).

int QcBiomeDefinition::frozenDepth

Only water at most this many blocks deep freezes (ice along the banks of a cold delta, decision E-850); 0: all water of the biome.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::frozenWaterBlock

Water surface block in cold biomes (e.g. ice); empty keeps water.

double QcBiomeDefinition::heightVariation

Height variation in blocks around baseHeight ("heightVariation", 0 to 120).

QString QcBiomeDefinition::icon

Item the handbook shows for the biome ("icon", default surfaceBlock; decision E-944).

std::optional<quint32> QcBiomeDefinition::mapColour

The biome's colour on the map preview of a new world (decision E-921), 0xRRGGBB; without one the preview spreads hues over the biomes.

QList<QcSpawnWeight> QcBiomeDefinition::monsterWeights

Monster kinds weighted differently here than by their spawn rules (monsters, decision E-838; QcSpawnWeights). Server side only.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::name

Qualified name ("name").

int QcBiomeDefinition::overhang

Overhangs: a 3D noise of this many blocks reshapes the ground around the surface (ledges, arches, overhanging cliffs); 0 keeps plain columns.

double QcBiomeDefinition::rarity

How rare the biome is, in [0, 1] (decision E-821); 0 for an ordinary biome. The world's rarity is 0 almost everywhere and rises to 1 in scattered spots. A biome with a rarity takes part in the climate choice only inside those spots (its weight is scaled by the world's rarity against its own, so it is exactly 0 elsewhere) and there wins where its temperature, humidity and ruggedness fit best (so a temperate rare biome never replaces a desert).

double QcBiomeDefinition::ridges

Share of the variation in [0, 1] that comes from sharp ridges instead of rolling hills.

bool QcBiomeDefinition::river

A river biome (decision E-840): the climate never chooses it; the water of a river channel takes the river biome of the land biome it runs through. Its climate point only sets the weather.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::riverBiome

The river biome of the rivers through this land biome (decision E-840; frozen rivers in cold biomes); empty: the terrain's riverBiome.

double QcBiomeDefinition::ruggedness

Third climate coordinate in [0, 1]: how rugged the land is. The world's ruggedness is low almost everywhere and high along chains, so a biome with a high value forms mountain ranges across all climates. Counts twice as much as temperature and humidity.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::snowBlock

Surface block above snowLine ("snow", required with a snow line).

int QcBiomeDefinition::snowLine

Surface above about this height (a few blocks of jitter) uses snowBlock ("snowLine"; 0 disables).

double QcBiomeDefinition::spread

How far the biome reaches beyond the midpoint to its neighbours in climate space (decision E-824): subtracted from its squared climate distance, so its share grows while its borders stay straight and it keeps the same neighbours; 0 for an ordinary biome.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::steepBlock

Surface block where the ground drops at least steepSlope blocks to a neighbour (rock on cliffs); empty keeps the normal surface.

int QcBiomeDefinition::steepSlope

Drop in blocks to a neighbour from which steepBlock is used ("steepSlope").

QString QcBiomeDefinition::subsurfaceBlock

Block under the surface ("subsurface", default surfaceBlock).

int QcBiomeDefinition::subsurfaceDepth

Blocks of subsurfaceBlock under the surface before stone ("subsurfaceDepth", 0 to 16).

QString QcBiomeDefinition::surfaceBlock

Top block of the land ("surface", required).

QList<QcBlockShare> QcBiomeDefinition::surfacePatches

Patches of other blocks among surfaceBlock on the land of a delta biome (mud and grass on the islands, decision E-850); shares as above. Other biomes ignore them.

int QcBiomeDefinition::terraceHeight

Height of terrace steps in blocks (0: none). Where a slowly changing mask allows it, the land rises in flat steps with cliffs between them.

QString QcBiomeDefinition::translationKey

Translation key of the biome's name ("translation", default biome.<namespace>.<local name>).

QString QcBiomeDefinition::underwaterBlock

Top block of the ground under the sea level ("underwater", default subsurfaceBlock).

QList<QcBlockShare> QcBiomeDefinition::underwaterPatches

Patches of other blocks among underwaterBlock (gravel and clay in river beds, decision E-840); their shares add up to at most 1.

QcVegetationDefinition QcBiomeDefinition::vegetation

Grass and flowers (decision E-814): placed after the listed features, used by bone meal.

bool QcBiomeDefinition::villages

Villages may be built here (decision E-403), in the style that names the biome or else the fallback style. Server side only.