Sky Archipelago

Smart Structure Placement Update Changes

Structure Placement

• [Added] Small Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Medium Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Large Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Underground Structure Placement Ruleset
  • [Added] Jigsaw support for underground structures
  • [Added] Static structures support for underground structures
• [Added] Sky Structure Placement Ruleset
• [Added] Water Structure Placement Ruleset (experimental)
• [Added] Whitelisting of structures to bypass placement rules and retain no-void spawn ruleset
• [Added] Blacklisting of structures to avoid spawning of the configured structres outright
• [Added] Category override support to force structures into a specific structure category for location placement.
  • [Added] New categories: SKY UNDERGROUND WATER DEFAULT SMALL_GROUND MEDIUM_GROUND LARGE_GROUND (Previous legacy categories will still continue to work, but map towards the new category names)

Configurability

• [Added] Disable Islands spawning over ocean biomes (configurable)
• [Added] Height support when using mods to increase spawning height range up to 2000 blocks
• [Added] Island thickness limiter to prevent excessively large islands from large radius usage

Built-in Presets

• [Added] New Continental Waters Preset to showcase the new height limiters and larger island radius capability.
• [Changed] All Built-in Presets have their structure configurations cleared, as built-in support covers majority of the cases.

Command Changes

• [Added] New export_dedicated command to export a preset currently in use in the format of a dedicated server config file. No more needing to go back into the menu to click the export dedicated button!

Performance

• [Changed] Column caching logic refactored to be more efficient which results in an overall improvement in chunks per second generation. (Depending on mod usage, % can be higher or lower)
• [Changed] Reuse of terrain snapshots to reduce redundant terrain generation work (Primarily impacts jigsaw structures, but also gives slight boost to chunks per second)

Fixes

• [Fixed] Dedicated server using default configuration due to loading order of config files.