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River Rafting – Local Water Height Rivers, River Cliffs, Mountain Springs

Rafting in the caves was a high point in the Minecon 1.17 announcement, and it would be cool if this extended to the cliffs half as well. Rivers are currently often randomly non-navigable, but the added local changes in water level could allow river level changes, separated by water flowing around and over a couple rocks as in a cataract, or rapids through a water gap. Larger level changes could have scenic waterfalls, flowing from mountains into canyons or gorges with steep cliffs. (Maybe stone arches over rivers in badlands.) Mountain biomes could also have local spring biomes or structures, perhaps a little water pool of warmth with plants or terraced mineral hot spring flowing into a stream as river sources. The combination of all these elements would occasionally generate epic rafting paths from mountaintops to the sea, or even occasionally through sinkholes and into underground rivers and aquifers. Even if these didn’t always align naturally, they would be a huge improvement to river generation and exploration.

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• February 17, 2021 21:27
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  • February 18, 2021 16:57
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  With the new terrain and cave generation, why not add new river generation too?

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  • February 18, 2021 21:10
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  Flowing water generated over source blocks:

  An alternative method to manage local water height changes, if considering river generation changes generally; compared to rocky rapids a full 8 blocks of flowing water generated over source blocks might look better for slow rivers. This might seem odd as it is difficult to make such as a player, but I expect players rarely modify natural rivers, and might prefer this to rapids in gradual height changes, especially if this made the water level changes navigable up-river.

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  • February 23, 2021 20:18
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  To collect more information on river generation suggestions, there seems to be significant distributed support for updating surface/mountain river generation in a somewhat similar way, sometimes specifically in the caves/cliffs update:

  Improvements to Rivers

  River Biome: river source

  Fix Mountain Rivers or Fix Rivers in General

  Better lakes and rivers

  River World Generation

  Badlands (Canyon rivers)

  Streams and rivers update

  Better river, lakes and waterfalls

  Rivers with varying water levels

  As well as support for river caves:

  Underground Rivers

  And general river update suggestions:

  Remodeled Rivers

  River Deltas

   

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  • February 23, 2021 21:23
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  yeah its really annoying when rivers cut a mountain in half and make you cross a huge gap

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  • August 09, 2021 20:10
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  Hot springs would be a great idea, they would make a better connector between flooded caves and rivers then the awkward gaps in the ground currently used in the bedrock beta. Also, Mountain lakes fed by small creeks would be a Improvement from the gigantic cracks made by rivers.