Anvil-Synergized Terrain-Generation?

[The_Walrus469]

Hey, there's a lot of world-gen questions going on at this board but this is different from the ones I've seen yet. I basically wanted to have a map that took advantage of the full 256-block height of the Anvil world--so that instead of ~64 blocks underground and underwater, ~64 blocks of hills and mountains and air, and 128 blocks of nuthin, you would have a map with maybe 128 blocks of underground and 128 blocks of mountains, hills, and air. It would make for far cooler/more extensive mines, more realistic overworlds, and better resource striation. My question is:

1. Is there a mod or bukkit plugin that does this already? If not,

2. How complex would it be to do it myself? I know just about nothing about modding, but I'm willing to learn. I'm not asking for a tutorial, but on a scale of 1-10 (1 being "increase density of coal deposits" and 10 being "make MC into a turn-based RTS") how hard would this be? What (off the top of your heads) bits would I be changing?

I would appreciate some feedback here.

[Gibbynator]

I'm no expert here, but I'll try to give you a start.

1. Try here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/basic-creating-custom-world-generators-new-api.79066/

2. If you know already how to make a biome/how the world generates (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1030464-125-theinstitutions-advanced-modding-tutorials/ or http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/827181-minecraft-modding-made-easy-40-videos/page__fromsearch__1), it should just mean modifying some base classes/making your own new biomes, whatever seems easier for you.

I can't help any more that this, but I hope it's enough to start. Good luck.

[TJ Jaksa]

You'd have to edit the chunk Chunk class to allow you to pass an array large enough for it. Right now it only accepts an array of the size (16*128*16). Then you'd have to split the array up and place the extra stuff in ExtendedBlockStorage. Or you could use Wedge terrain generator, I heard it supports it.

[okamikk]

You'd have to edit the chunk Chunk class to allow you to pass an array large enough for it. Right now it only accepts an array of the size (16*128*16). Then you'd have to split the array up and place the extra stuff in ExtendedBlockStorage. Or you could use Wedge terrain generator, I heard it supports it.

why dosen't this exist outside of typos?