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Cannot change desert ground

TehAgent

Refugee
Alright, so Ive been out of modding since like A16 or earlier...but Im in it again.

Im trying to change the desert biome into a tundra. It seems like its basically hard coded, or I need to create an all new biome - which I havent tried yet. I wanted to just get rid of the desert by changing the decorations and blocks but keeping the shale etc.

I tried everything. Replacing the block names in the Biomes file, even copying the snow block and renaming it to terrDesertGround. Nothing allows me to change the actual terrain block. I changed every entry of terrDesrtGround to terrSnow in Biomes.xml, and then also tried to fool the game by changing the block names themselves after that didnt work. All of the decorations change just fine. Its *only* the terrain blocks I cant change. I know I can repaint the map file but I dont want to do that - I wanted to replace one biome with another, not replace one biome with an existing biomes (IE I didnt want the same exact snow biome). Why? It never made sense to me to have a hot desert biome and then a cold snow biome so close, or touching each other at the same elevation. I also wanted much more of a 'blending' of biomes so it wasnt such a hard transition from one to another. I want the world to generate a tundra instead of a desert.

Is this something thats hard coded? Can I even create new biomes in 2.0? I did a lot of world modding in older alphas when we had plains and it all worked fine. Dont remember if I changed terrain blocks but it sounds like something I would do LMAO.
 
I have a few ideas - changing the biome map color in the block and the biomes file to the same color as snow. In theory that would make the PNG map that you can paint generate in the proper color, and bypass that whole painting part. We'll see though.

I also found that there were a lot of wierd things lingering from last time I played this, though the mods werent installed. Thus, I went ahead and uninstalled, cleaned up the files, and am reinstalling the game. I was also having an issue where suddenly my mod wouldnt load, but it worked perfectly fine if I overwrote the config files in the main install (instead of using the Mods folder) I think starting with a fresh slate will help.
 
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