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Biome name: Climate: [Polar/Subpolar/Temperate/Subtropical/Tropical] Description: Grass color: Leaf color: Sky color: Weather: [Rain/Snow/None] Images: [URL or upload of reference images]
Biome Name: Crystal Cliffs Climate: Subpolar/Temperate Description: Deepslate or stone cliffsides with amethyst clusters and dripstone growing out of/down from them. Rich in ores. Possible water streams dripping down from over the top of cliffs, collecting into puddles/small lakes at the bottom. If closer to subpolar section of the map, could also include icicle structures growing out of/down from them and the water at the bottom of cliffsides half-frozen. Grass: None Weather: Snow/Rain (dependent on climate)
Biome name: Candy Biome Climate: Polar (Snow will be like icing) Description: Candy corn mountains, gumdrops, cotton candy trees, chocolate paths Weather: Clear
Biome name: Quartz Peaks Climate: Polar Description: A Rocky land with quartz crystals breaking through the stone. not much grass is found because it's a very mountainous region. Trees would be spruce-like in structure. Grass color: Pink Leaf color: Pink Sky color: Light pink Weather: Snow
This biome is inspired by the aesthetics of the Quartz Rank.
Biome name: Amethyst Hills Climate: Tropical Description: Most of this biome is plain, made of blackstone, deepslate and other dark blocks. In the center of the biome there is a giant amethyst geode, cracked open and revealing a jungle growing inside it. Caves beneath this biome would also be lush. Grass color: Dark Purple/Black Leaf color: Hexcode: 0ed1a7 (Near cyan-green) Sky color: Hexcode: c4c6ff (A very light blue) Weather: Rain
This biome is inspired by the aesthetics of the Amethyst Rank
Biome name: Sapphire Shores Climate: Tropical Description: Blue sand covers this beach, and the waters are filled with bluehorn coral as well as sapphire spikes. Trees are palm-tree shaped. Grass color: Teal Leaf color: Teal Sky color: Default blue (or slightly darker) Weather: Rain Example of sand: https://imgur.com/a/CfmPV3I
This biome is inspired by the aesthetics of the Sapphire Rank.
Biome name: Emerald Jungle Climate: Tropical Description: Giant jungle trees and lush bushes cover this place. Giant melons hide in the greenery. It's also rich with emerald crystals poking out of the ground. Grass color: Default jungle green Leaf color: Default jungle leaf green Sky color: Default blue (or slightly greener) Weather: Rain
This biome is inspired by the aesthetics of the Emerald Rank.
Biome name: Wasteland Climate: Hot/Desert Description: A vast barren landscape with traces of toxic nuclear waste, Spilt barrels of waste on the ground, just generally evil. Grass color: Brown/ Wilting Leaf color: Brown/ Wilting Sky color: Greenish Weather: Rainy
Biome name: Topaz Trails Climate: Tropical (Dry? Desert-y?) Description: A Mesa-like biome with deep valleys that vary between wide and narrow. Pools of lava can be found around the land, surrounded by yellow and orange crystals and raw gold. Grass color: Yellow Leaf color: Orange Sky color: Yellow Weather: Clear/None
This biome is inspired by the aesthetics of the Topaz Rank.
Biome name: Ancient Rain-forest
Climate: Tropical
Description: A rain-forest similar to the vanilla jungle biome but with more variety and covered in megaflora
Grass color: Swamp/Dark Forest grass
Leaf color: ^
Sky color: Default Weather: Rain (frequently, if it's possible to tweak that!)
Images: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/645492559073023994/ and https://www.iamag.co/speed-painting-selection-11/denis-loebner-forest-huge-trees/
(This is Ramsmiter, I just couldn't log in)
Biome name: Mycelial Encroachment Climate: Subtropical Description: Landscape similar to Jungle in geography and layout. Ground cover is Mycelium encrusted with glow lichen, soul soil, sculk and sculk veins. Rarely find sculk catalysts/sensors and clusters of amethyst buds. VERY rarely find natural shriekers, calibrated sculk sensors and ripe amethyst clusters. Contains mushroom forests with cherry wood or stripped cherry logs, with caps made of sculk or warped hyphae. End rods, amethyst buds and pearlescent froglights provide lighting. Pools and rivers are sculk-ified with waterlogged sensors, which can be dangerous if near shriekers. Twisting Vines instead of bamboo, in areas richer in Soul Soil. Low bushes made of cherry wood + leaves. Grass color: Mycelium; #6a4864 for grass Leaf color: #ab77a3 Sky color: #052431, like Sculk; or #ab77a3, same as leaves (Water color: #052431, same as sky 1) Weather: Rain Images: Have made some examples in NE of schematic world