General Disasters
Overview
General Disasters adds natural disasters to Minecraft! This mod intends to add some dynamic risk to your Minecraft worlds, while generating potential rewards for each destruction created; you may encounter an earthquake that tears through one of you houses, but that earthquake may also expose valuable ores in a newly formed ravine. These natural disasters can be spawned in manually (by command), or spawned in randomly by the world. Currently, there are 3 types of disasters:
Sinkhole
A sinkhole, once spawned, will create a small localised crater that will gradually sink downwards and spread to blocks around it. If the sinkhole sucks in the ground above to a low enough point, a small pool of lava will be exposed at the bottom of the crater. A sinkhole will disfigure the terrain and any buildings it spawns on, although it will leave any inventory contains, such as chests, with their inventories still intact, so you don't have to worry about losing your valuable stored items.
Earthquake
An earthquake is much like the previously covered sinkhole, but instead of forming a large, localised crater, an earthquake will form a ravine-like formation that covers a long stretch of land. Much like the sinkhole, an earthquake will uncover a lake of lava at the base of the formation if it sinks deep enough, and it will leave inventory contains untouched.
Volcano
A volcano is by far the most complex disaster. Once spawned, the disaster will enter a tremors stage, where an initial sinkhole creater is formed, as well as several other terrain disturbances over a long period of time. After the initial tremors stage is passed, the volcano will begin construction, by lifting the terrain below the surface up into the air. Once finished constructing, lava will begin rising to the epicentre of the newly formed mountain, before exploding into a smoke-emitting destructive eruption. While erupting, the volcano will spew out volcanic bombs, which will explode into the terrain around the volcano, leaving behind formations of stone and potentially valuable ores and minerals. The structure of a volcano is completely fluid, meaning you may encounter a very tall and slim composite volcano, or a wide and flat shield type volcano. After several stages of eruption and dormancy over a long period of time, the volcano will become extinct, leaving behind a deep crater with a lava pool, and a large selection of exposed ores!
To spawn in disasters manually, General Disasters provides a "disaster" command with several features, such as spawning disasters and viewing the current spawned instances of disasters. The section below will cover each command and how to use it:
Spawn
This command is used to spawn new instances of disaster occurrences in the world. The format of the command is "disaster spawn [name] [x] [y] [z]". For example, the command
disaster spawn volcano 12 5 25
will spawn a volcano at the block position {x = 12, y = 5, z = 25}. Tab auto completions can be used to auto select the disaster names and spawn locations (pressing tab for the coordinates will automatically enter the players current location into the command).
Occurrences
This command is used to view all the spawned instances of a current disaster. The format of the command is "disaster occurrences [name]". For example, the command
disaster occurrences volcano
will list the block positions of all the spawned volcanoes in the players world.
Skip
This command is used to skip a stage of applicable types of disasters, such as a volcano. The format of this command is "disaster skip [name] [x] [y] [z]". For example, the command:
disaster skip volcano 12 5 25
will skip a stage of the volcano occurrence instance located at the block position {x = 12, y = 5, z = 25}. This command is used because the volcano disaster has multiple stages which you may want to skip, such as the long construction in order to quickly build the volcano to its maximum construction. This command can only be used on select disasters, as not all disasters are multi-staged.
Change log
- Version 1.0
- Mod released.
Notes
Important
If you run General Disasters on a dedicated server, make sure you set "max-tick-time" to -1 in your server.properties file. This is because when spawning in volcanoes manually, their structure generation will stress the server, and the server watchdog will shut down the server if the time of one tick exceeds the limit, which is common and completely normal. Setting this setting to -1 essentially disables the watchdog, which is most likely needed when spawning disasters manually.
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Emm how do I "kill" a disaster?
Im in my survival world in a small island, it is pretty calm. But I noticed that deep in the ocean the floor was sinking (I was looking for my underwater farm of nether wart, it seems that the volcano spawned right under my farm LOL).
I dived down and found lava. I also used the command occurrences to find a nearby volcano and yep, the coordenades coincide. So basically a giant volcano will form right next to my island which sounds really cool but my island small and I have seen how the volcanoes are in a test world. (They are colossal, great job with the mod, they look amazing).
And again... plz help :'c
Welp... it seems i'll have to watch for a new home. x'd
Seems this mod has a bit of a memory leak or something, as I tend to get constant lag spikes when it is installed. I believe this mod needs serious optimization to function smoothly on older computers. This is exacerbated by having Local Weather and Storms by Corosus also installed. At this rate, I was certain either Minecraft or my computer would die.
This mod is compatible with BOP?
Imagine you are in the nether, suddenly your portal was destroyed by a disaster....
i like it
which version do i have to use for this mod
In reply to lolmedinsulejman:
at the moment, 1.12.2
Could you make commands to make them happen?
In reply to r0bl0x_was_b3st:
there's already a command in the mod to spawn disasters
read the description below the volcano pictures
In reply to this_is_stupid123:
i did figure that out but forgot to delete this xd
disaster idea:
the tnt storm event
this disaster would happen every minecraft year.
on occurrence, the sky will get very foggy and grey-ish. gunpowder particles will rain down from the sky.
tnt will start dropping from the sky, being placed onto the ground. if these tnt blocks fall on mobs (including the player), it will hurt them.
creepers will randomly start turning into super-charged creepers that can survive explosions.
the disaster would last for 25 minutes. during the disaster, there is a tpm (tnt per minute) rate that increases every 20 seconds. so, the disaster starts off at 1 tpm, but then increases until it hits 60 tpm at 20 minutes in the disaster. in the last 5 minutes, the player must survive with 60 tpm falling, which is 1 tnt per second.
at the end of the event, random tnt blocks ignite, blowing up the landscape. because of this, the player must break tnt around their build to protect it.
to prevent the disaster from being op, any tnt broken during the disaster will not drop anything.
acid rain
this disaster wouldn't occur by time, but instead would depend on pollution (this has a special config)
pollution would include from least to most:
furnace (every minute of smelting adds 1 pollution)
fire (every 30 seconds of fire burning adds 1 pollution)
explosions (creepers, tnt, volcanic bombs, and explosions from other mods. pollution here depends on severity of explosion)
volcanoes (the smoke they create adds 10 every minute)
once enough pollution has occurred, the acid rain disaster will start to begin
the sky will turn dark grey, and it will start to rain
all of the life in the acid rain's area will start to die (blocks like wood planks will slowly melt, grass will die and turn into dirt, crops and plants will no longer grow, trees will lose all their leaves, mobs and players who are exposed to the acid rain will slowly lose their hp and die, and if the version is 1.13 or higher, all the fish and coral will die)
harder blocks like stone will melt slower to the acid rain, and blocks like obsidian will not melt at all
helmets can protect mobs and the player from the acid rain, but they will lose durability every second and break
i'll add more to this comment as i come up with more disaster ideas
I feel like there should be a super-rare Super Volcano that is 3 times bigger than the normal volcanoes and creates a wall of ash (similar to the movie 2012 Yellowstone volcano scene)
Please make a 1.7.10 version
Wish it was for 1.14.4, I'd use it a ton.
I attempted to spawn a volcano and after the entire ground began shifting upwards the game crashed. This happened twice more. It's either due to my heavy collection of mods making the game unstable or the fact i have a shader active.
just a suggestion, but i think there should be something to the /disaster command: "stop" which will halt the disaster completely
incredible mod for my ultra-difficulty pack, i have some ideas:
tornadoes (that can lift entities and throw them around as well as messing around with terrain, move along a path)
meteor strikes (massive craters, in the center there's a meteor made out of ores surrounded in meteor crust (same hardness as obsidian, smelt to get 1 meteoric iron ingot)
monsoons (a storm that also makes water blocks spawn, intensity gradually increases, can drown entire buildings, lightning are extremely common)
solar eruptions (compasses go crazy, then any exposed redstone (and redstone devices) starts to malfunction, stepping on exposed redstone will deal damage during a solar flare. tnt will detonate immediately after being placed, solar eruptions effect a chunk (or multiple chunks) for 5 - 25 minutes)
gamma ray burst: a glowing blast, affecting the same area as a sinkhole (looks like a giant laser from the sky), killing all life in the area (plants, grass, entities and players)
dimensional distortion event: a rift in space-time appears, the world around it slowly turns into the nether/end, (if possible, change the biome of these areas)
new items:
meteoric iron gear (between iron and diamond, can mine obsidian but twice as slow)
disaster detector (outputs a redstone signal if a disaster is about to happen (signal gets stronger as time progresses, reaches full strength when the disaster hits)
meteor compass (made with meteoric iron) (points to nearest volcano/meteor crater)
solar protector (protects redstone in the chunk it's placed from solar flares)
volcanic generator (place on a volcano to generate large amounts of RF)
rift generator (generates massive amounts of RF from dimensional rifts in it's chunk, slowly shrinking the rift)
solar generator (crafted with a solar protector) (generated a lot of RF from solar eruptions and GRB's)
In reply to lordi_erez:
we don't need tornadoes as the mod "weather, storms & tornadoes" already does that
In reply to this_is_stupid123:
We really do need the "dimensional distortion event: a rift in space-time appears, the world around it slowly turns into the nether/end, (if possible, change the biome of these areas)" though, that would be sick!
In reply to mikejpro1:
yeah, just imagine you're wandering somewhere in your world and then a giant portal appears out of nowhere, then ghasts start flying out of the portal as the ground around the portal starts getting converted to netherrack, rivers nearby changed to lava, etc.