[Feature] Different Vein Shapes

[77wisher77]

Is your feature request related to a problem? There is only one way of generating veins

Describe the solution you'd like Different patterns of ore spawning such as:

• Centered distribution
  • Like Lapis Lazuli in vanilla, where most of the ore spawns at the center (or maybe a configurable position) and peters out further from that spot. Stopping completely at the min/max heights
• Spheres/Ellipses
  • So we can make boulders, discs, and/or oval shapes of ore spawning. Discs/planes could be great for making layers in the ground simulating things like crusts. While boulders are an aesthetically cool shape which could fit rock themes well
  • Plates/Cylinders is a better way to describe the axial plane idea, round shapes with flat top/bottoms, optional tapering would be nice (possibly consolidates spheres/ellipses/discs into one pattern, just different radius1, radius2, height, true/false tapering).
• Geodes
  • Imperfect ellipse shapes which have a crust (small variations in height/width to give a natural look, also further differentiates it from the above idea)
  • Having a crust makes for some cool encounters, you could for example always surround an ore with lava, or surround ores with obsidian, or surround liquids with solid blocks, creating underground pockets
  • this would require picking a crust material separate to the ore and filler
• Fractal
  • gaps between ores in a fractal like pattern. Similar to normal veins but spread out over a larger area with filler inbetween the ores.
• Other possible ideas are things like trees (pick the trunk/leaves, spawns on top block between min/max height), decorations like plants/blocks in 1x1 that spawn on the top (filler, only if one is found, like grass) block between a height range

Describe alternatives you've considered There's not any alternatives that I have found in 1.16

Additional context here's some screenshots with geodes and discs/planes

Mostly Discs, some are sliced in the walls

Some geodes in this one, some are cut in half

[andrewminer]

I'd add Railcraft's "cloud" to this. Dense core with less and less ore toward the outsides. Plus, the ability to specify some kind of "marker" up above (e.g., a boulder which pieces of the relevant ore, or a certain kind of flower planted in a dense bunch).

[tungstonminer]

I'd add "spouts" to this list. These are pretty much the same thing as the original BuildCraft oil wells. It starts with a geode shape deep underground with a vertical shaft up to the surface. The liquid fills the geode and the shaft, and extends upwards to form a tall spout above ground.

[EwyBoy]

Moving all feature request to discussions: https://github.com/EwyBoy/OreTweaker/discussions/64