Sky Rivers and Far Land spawn

[metnavman]

• Revolution3 modpack, version 3.4.4
• Can step to CTM True&&True
• DimensionFlare are using "emotes" that are all positive based on how they read in the mod code. ("gratitude", etc)
• Assumption that Far Lands have been visited before (new biomes, rainbow mountain, Aura Glass, etc)

Unless an undocumented change was implemented, (saw nothing about Far Lands in change log) all information I can find points to the Far Lands beginning past 20k blocks from the Dimension spawn. Short of walking/flying there, the Sky Rivers are what have been implemented to quickly transport players out 10k+ blocks or more.

Upon loading the Dimension, I have a 50/50 chance of 1 or more Rivers being above me at the spawn point. If none are there, I cannot find any in a 3k block circumference around spawn. I dump that Dimension and re-enter after restarting my game. Upon successful spawn of the Rivers, I will enter one.

When the River dumps me out, I am in nothing but blackness at about Y-level 400-500. I will then descend to around 150 and wait. During this time, I will occasionally be investigated by the DimensionFlare mobs, who give off the positive emotes.

No terrain spawns, and the game appears to hang from time to time (music thread reloading included here as a given). Nothing further occurs in-game until I simply save/exit and reload, which starts me back at square one.

• I have continued flying from where a River dumps me out to 20k+ blocks. The same remains. I encounter no further Rivers during this time.
• The only time I successfully found what I assume (see first list) was the Far Lands was when a River dumped me around 16K blocks from spawn and things just kind of popped into existence.
• One failed visit to this sort of area was upon reloading my game from a previous forced shutdown. My character did not return to the spawn of the Dimension, but was instead placed at roughly the location I'd logged out at. The new areas spawned around me, but I was promptly killed by DimensionFlares after attempting to mine nearby stone to check if anything was lagging. (I can only assume I hit one by mistake).

To wit:

• I am experiencing none of the issues found in other posts made here from people playing the Rev3 pack. I've not lost any progression or had issues back in the Overworld while pursuing this.
• Should multiple Rivers be spawning in consecutive branches to transport from spawn out to whatever predetermined distance starts the Far Lands?
• If not, is the River the "entrance" to the Far Lands, and is it simply failing to load upon exiting at whatever distance it's stopped at?

Edit: http://imgur.com/a/bZ9YA

That's directly above a new spawn. 6 of them. Should there be that many?

Edit 2: Seriously...? I've logged out at -12k, 10k for a random error and to test. The first time re-loaded Far Lands biome stuff. The second time has placed me back in a normal Dimension biome, but I'm not ported back to spawn. As the Flares would say: Confusion!

[HellFirePvP]

I suspect you are playing SP Rev3 and not on any dedicated server right? Additionally i would ask you to just travel a "short" distance of like 2k blocks through the stream and move out of it then. Please tell me what you experience after <= 10 minutes after exiting.

Regarding the Lumen Stream spawns: There should always be around 5-6 near 0, 0. An "example" on their spawn pattern: http://i.imgur.com/IWW59tV.png So once a stream ends, you won't find any further outside.

Regarding that they "don't drop you off where the farlands should be": Some streams are shorter than others, sometimes the biomes for the farlands are a few 1000 blocks further out. It's random after all.

The issue that chunks aren't loading when you step out of it is potentially a very compound issue connected to unexpected mod interactions - we are aware of such problems, however we adressed multiple sources of it. It's potentially connected to the question i asked you first (if you're playing singleplayer or on a multiplayer server) since that might give us/me more information about what's going wrong.

From what you report i may or may not know the source for this problem.

[metnavman]

Alrighty:

• I'm playing single-player.
• Fastcraft is installed, version 1.23, but the config for culling is disabled; apparently required to even see the streams. (I removed it completely earlier to test. Nothing of note.)
• Good to know on the streams. Not sure why they don't always spawn, but that's the nature of modded MC with a bunch of mods interacting.

Okay so, the meat of the request:

Exited at ~2300 x/z. Normal fall speed was pretty quickly hindered to minimal. Brought myself down to ~110 y-lvl to see terrain spawn if present. No wisps ever spoke at me, so I definitely wasn't in range of that area. The music cycled a couple times through with no issues, and the game never froze. After 10 minutes, I saved and closed my game, having had no chunks spawn. The biome I was "located" in the entire time was labeled "Swampland".

Edit: Upon closing and reloading the game, I was placed back into the Dimension, reset, but at the same coordinates I left instead of spawn. The area loaded normally, but without me in the shielding block "sanctuary" that typically happens when loading into the Dimension on game start.

Let me know what else you would like me to do. I should be around for a couple more hours, and will be sure to answer quickly!

[HellFirePvP]

Just as a heads-up, i've eventually come up with an idea for a fix. Will think about the implementation for that, uncertain when that is done though; might be in v17?

[ReikaKalseki]

Did anything ever come of this?

[metnavman]

Naw, this was so long ago now, haha. You can close it out. Pretty sure that version of the Rev3 pack is done anyways. It was certainly something interacting incorrectly in that pack. I found workarounds and got through all of CrC's content so it was fine. Hope all is well on your end!

[ReikaKalseki]

If the interaction was with FastCraft - as these sorts of things usually are - it is still a significant priority, as FastCraft is so ubiquitous that any issue present with it might as well be with vanilla.