James103
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4 years ago If the lower layers of the Earth are modeled, then it's only fair if the upper layers of the Earth are modeled too. The same setting or a different setting would change the temperature of the Earth based on the altitude, gradually reduce the drag from ÷1.02 to ÷1.00 (per tick) and introduce a transition that fades out the Overworld skybox for a space-themed one as you go from ~10 km to ~100 km above sea level.
If Galacticraft or Advanced Rocketry is installed, as you go higher, your atmospheric oxygen levels will drop meaning you will start suffocating (especially past 10 km above sea level), your temperatures will fall and rise according to accepted values for the temperature of Earth's atmosphere by elevation (including biome/weather changes), and you will start getting more radiation in space (especially between 1,000 and 12,000 km and 13,000 and 60,000 km above sea level).
I would like if there was an option for world generation which, if switched on, would result in the mod simulating Earth's layers in the underground generation, again at a 1:1 scale. Basically, it would put in a mantle, an outer core, and an inner core at the appropriate depths and containing the appropriate resources.
The depth / thickness of the crust would be determined from datasets where possible, else the base of the crust is assumed to be at around 35 km below sea level.
The crust would go from surface until some predetermined point below sea level (varies depending on location), all of which would just be standard Overworld generation. The mantle would be standard Nether generation until 2,890 km below sea level, but there would be increased amounts of lava and magma blocks and little to no large caverns. The outer core would be pure lava plus some iron deposits, which would run until 5,150 km below sea level. The inner core would be mostly iron with some gold and lava, which would run until 6,370 km below sea level. Finally, at 6,370 km below sea level is a bedrock layer due to it being at the center of the Earth.
Each transition would be tens of kilometers thick, except for the crust transition which would only be a few kilometers thick and the bedrock layer which is just a flat sheet.