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World Ores Gen and Local Ores Gen

In 1.18 we will have a brand new ore distribution, with Ores generating at different heights. But, in real life, the ore are distributed not only in depth, but also in geographical locations: for example, in Europe, the main Iron and Coal mines are located in Center Europe and Northern Europe, but in South and West Europe, there is almost nothing regarding Ores. Or, for example, the majority of rare metals are located in China and Canada, but the rest of the world lacks of them.

I suggest that in 1.18 there should be a value, that may change from region to region, which will be Local Ore Generation 

• -2 would mean, almost total lack
• -1 means really small quantities 
• 0 means normal generation 
• +1 means a bit more than usual 
• +2 means more than usual and certain Ore Vein

Also, this will affect the spawn of Iron and Copper veins.

This would add even more strategy, because we can still obtain Ores with the current distribution in a good amount, but we will get a bit less or a bit more in certain areas.

These areas, won't depend by biomes, but would more likely be areas that are in the world randomly.

This change doesn't apply to Emeralds, Diamonds and Nether Ores, but applies to Gold outside the Badlands biome.

Edit: this change affects every single ore singularity : this means that in an area we can find a lot of coal, but less gold and redstone. Or in an area a big copper veins with a lot of copper outside the veins, but less redstone and lapis

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• September 09, 2021 07:15
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  Where is the strategy to this though? There's no reliable way to actually detect or determine the local ore frequency. Not even through the geographical generation on the surface. This just sounds like completely random luck; it's the opposite of strategy. There is no fun in that. If there is a way to determine whether you're gonna find more or less of certain ores based on surface terrain elevation or roughness, then it would actually involve strategy. But even then, is that really necessary? There are many better approaches to different ore frequencies locally, namely like the approach of more Gold in Badlands. More things like this would definitely be more fun and strategic than just less or more of all ores as a whole in specific areas, even when this areas are determinable.