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Erosion Built-In WorldGen

As a world type it could be cool if some form or erosion and dirt deposit's could be built into the game's worlds would be awesome. You are already changing big parts of world-gen it could be a feature turned on or off so the player can decide between more simple or complex terrain. Mountains would be prettier, streams would be more appealing and ravines could be more less ugly.

 

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    Erosion is basically a part of everything they're doing to world generation with the Caves & Cliffs update. Caves in real life entirely form due to erosion caused by water streams like rivers, combined with tectonic motion. Rivers themselves form from mountain valleys and lakes, which are also associated with different forms of erosion. You're really not asking for anything specific here. Erosion does not just add complexity, it is basically how structures like caves form. Besides, world generation as it currently stands for 1.18 is already very dramatic, and gets quite complex when combining all of its individual aspects. Sure, I think it should be a bit more smooth in specific cases, mainly when caves combine with each other or the surface, but that is still being fully worked on according to Henrik Kniberg. Making generation considerably more extreme or complex would be too overboard, and the caves and mountains wouldn't feel balanced compared to the rest of the world generation if they were to be more dramatic than they currently are. There needs to be a limit to generation complexity so that it still fits with the rest of the game, and Mojang has already struck a balance that the majority of the community is satisfied with according to Twitter polls.

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    I mean't to say to add the simulation of rain particals to the height map.