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161 lines
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# Australia
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A mod for Minetest 0.4.14. Work in progress.
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Created by vlapsley.
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[Discussion on Minetest Forums](https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14412)
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## Inspiration
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The inspiration for this mod is my home country, Australia.
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I've tried to bring the landscape and flora into the game of Minetest.
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Enjoy and think of visiting Australia next time you travel abroad.
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### Biomes
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#### Underground
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Stone. No change from the default game.
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#### Mangroves
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The mangroves of Queensland and Northern Territory. Watch out for crocodiles!
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#### Tasman Sea
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Beautiful sandy beaches. You will find lots of Brown and Giant Kelp.
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#### Great Australian Bight
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Sandstone cliffs and wild ocean.
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#### Indian Ocean
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Sandy beaches and dolphins.
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#### Great Barrier Reef
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The most amazing coral reef off the coast of Queensland.
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#### Timor Sea
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White sand beaches and palm trees.
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#### Jarrah-Karri Forest
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The south-west corner of Western Australia. Forests of Jarrah, Karri and Marri.
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#### Eastern Coasts
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Amazing beaches, the dazzling Illawarra Flame Tree in your garden, and a monstrous Moreton Bay Fig to pick fruit from.
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The east coast of Australia is the perfect place to build your holiday house.
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#### Goldfields-Esperence
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Hot, dry and lots of nothing in the center and south of Western Australia.
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Except gold. Lots of gold.
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#### Arnhem Land
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Tropical wetlands in the Northern Territory.
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#### Gulf of Carpentaria
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Sub-tropical area between Cape York in Queensland and Darwin in the Northern Territory.
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#### Far North Queensland
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You'll find the tropical Daintree rainforest near the coastline and eucalypt forests inland along the Cape York Peninsula.
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#### Pilbara
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One of the hottest parts of Australia is the north-west of Western Australia.
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The rocky, gravel surface is red due to the amount of hematite in the ground.
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You'll find lots of iron ore here. Don't forget to bring plenty of water.
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### Kimberley
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The north-west of Western Australia is where you'll find the odd-shaped Boab Tree.
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Is it the flora or the chance of diamonds that brought you here?
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#### Tasmania
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The island of Tasmania is the most mountainous state in Australia.
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Much of Tasmania is densely forested.
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The Tarkine, located in island's far North West, is the largest temperate rainforest area in Australia.
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In the south you'll find the tallest flowering tree in the world, Eucalyptus Regnans, the Swamp Gum.
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#### Great Dividing Range
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The Great Dividing Range is Australia's most substantial mountain range.
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The range stretches more than 3,500 km (2,175 mi), running the entire length of the eastern coastline.
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#### Victorian Forests
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The cool mountains and southern, central and north-eastern Victoria are dominated by wet eucalypt forests.
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Blue Gum, White Box and Swamp Gum will all tower over you.
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#### Flinders-Lofty
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The Flinders-Lofty bioregion in South Australia has a general pattern of mountain ranges, ridges and wide, flat plains.
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Some of Australia's best wines come from this region.
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#### Murray-Darling Basin
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The Murray–Darling basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia.
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Its name is derived from its two major rivers, the Murray River and the Darling River.
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River Red Gum are know to drop large branches, so watch your head when resting in their shade.
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#### Mulga Lands
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The Mulga Lands are a bioregion of eastern Australia consisting of dry sandy plains scattered with mulga trees.
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#### Central Australia
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Central Australia, the 'Red Centre', is the place where you will find the most famous monolith, Uluru and it is where the heart of the outback beats.
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#### Simpson Desert
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The area is extremely hot and dry. Famous for it's red sand dunes.
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#### Australian Alps
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The highest parts of the Great Dividing Range.
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## To-do list
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* Redo some tree textures, especially wood. Some of them are great, some are awful.
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* Opals in Central Australia biome.
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* Work out way to place some trees and plants along rivers.
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* Salt lakes in Central Australia biome.
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* Adjust tree and plant distribution.
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* Adjust tree size and leaf functions.
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* Add some rocky beaches.
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* Add some river/lake plants, especially to Arnhem land biome.
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* Add terra rossa soil and grape vines in the Flinders-Lofty biome. Red/white wine.
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* Add more logs.
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* Add moss on trees.
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* Palm trees in FNQ and Arnhem land beaches.
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* Add support for survival mod/game.
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* Add support for a mobs mod - Great White Shark, Tiger Shark, Saltwater Crocodile, Brown Snake, Tiger Snake, Emu, Kangaroo.
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## Installation
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### Download
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1. [Download](https://github.com/vlapsley/australia/archive/master.zip) the .zip file
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2. Extract the .zip archive with an archive manager (WinZip, 7-zip, gunzip...)
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3. Rename the directory to *australia* and place it in the `/mods` directory of Minetest.
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### Download using Git
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1. Open the terminal (in Linux) or the Git shell (in Windows), and set the working directory (the *mods* folder) using `cd` - for example `cd /home/vlapsley/.minetest/mods` or `cd C:\Users\vlapsley\minetest-0.4.13\mods`.
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2. Clone (download) Australia: `git clone https://github.com/vlapsley/australia.git`.
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3. Next time, you can automatically update Australia mod with the same `cd` command, and `git pull origin master`.
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## Use
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### Mapgen compatibility
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The Australia mod has been designed specifically for the Valleys mapgen, currently in Minetest 0.4.14.
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It will work with mapgens v5, v7, flat and fractal, but it won't be as visually appealing.
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The rivers and temperature/humidity of the Valleys mapgen play a vital role in getting the feel of the Australia mod just right.
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### Settings
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You can enable/disable biomes by opening the *init.lua* file and changing each biome setting to `1` for enabled or `0` for disabled.
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This will also disable plants, trees and more that are unique to that biome.
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All biomes are enabled by default. Currently, disabling the *Underground* biome will have no effect.
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## Changelog
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### 0.4 (2016-05-24)
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* Added new corals and sea grass.
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* Replaced coral sand with coral stone.
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* Added sunken woodships and submarines with variable "loot".
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* Fixed an issue with the rainforest tree schematic causing Minetest 0.4.14 to crash on startup.
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### 0.3.1 (2016-04-22)
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* Changed ore distribution to use minetest.register_ore function.
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* Added uranium in two biomes if technic_worldgen mod is enabled.
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* Added 4 new corals to the Great Barrier Reef biome.
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* Added Brown and Giant Kelp to some ocean biomes.
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* Changed muddy river water opacity. It's now much harder to see underwater in these rivers.
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* Removed necessity to use voxel manipulator, voxel.lua file.
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* Fixed noairblocks.
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* Fixed a naming issue with some fern textures, credit: Napiophelios.
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### 0.2 (2016-04-13)
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* Added ferns.
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* Fixed muddy water bucket.
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### 0.1 (2016-04-11)
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* 24 biomes
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* 6 new stone nodes, 4 non-stone nodes
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* Dirty river water
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* 48 trees
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* 10 plants
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* 4 corals
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## Credits
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### Code
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* Original tree code adapted from Gael-de-Sailly [GNU GPLv3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html), original source can be found at [](https://github.com/Gael-de-Sailly/valleys_mapgen) and duane-r [BSD license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd_license).
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* Original tree schematic creation code modified by vlapsley and orginal by duane-r [BSD license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd_license).
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* noairblocks.lua : Code modified from Duane Robertson's [valleys_c](https://github.com/duane-r/valleys_c) mod. Original code modified from Perttu Ahola's [noairblocks](https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=4627) mod and released as [LGPL 2.1](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html).
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* Sunken woodship and submarine code modified by vlapsley and original copyright (C) 2011-2012 by celeron55, Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) [GNU Lesser General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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### Sounds
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* [Mangrove mud](http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/16771) copyright (C) 2006 by dobroide, [CC by 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
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### Textures
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* Moss textures by Neuromancer, [WTFPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL).
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* Fern textures by Mossmanikin, [WTFPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL).
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* Giant Kelp textures copyright (C) 2012 by celeron55, Perttu Ahola, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode).
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* Textures from Minetest Game, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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* All other textures by demon_boy [github](https://github.com/vlapsley), Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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