Default Feature Generator

Legacy OreSpawn 3 documentation for Minecraft 1.10/1.12. Open the OS3 documentation index or go to the current OreSpawn 4 documentation.

The feature generator named default attempts to mimic, to a degree, standard ore generation by Minecraft. A sample spawn using it, taken from the example included with MMD OreSpawn 3 follows:

		"coal_ore": {
			"retrogen": false,
			"enabled": true,
			"feature": "default",
			"replaces": "default",
			"dimensions": [],
			"biomes": {
				"excludes": []
			},
			"parameters": {
				"size": 25,
				"variation": 12,
				"frequency": 20,
				"minHeight": 0,
				"maxHeight": 128
			},
			"blocks": [
				{
					"name": "minecraft:coal_ore",
					"chance": 100
				}
			]
		},

As can be seen, this spawns coal ore. The parameters are, as follows:

• size - Average size of the spawn, as modified by the variation parameter
• variation - The spawn will be anywhere from size - variation to size + variation
• frequency - How often this spawn will occur. For this generator this can either be an integer (in this case 20) or a floating point value. The integer form says "try to find a starting point this many times", the floating point form is a percentage chance.
• minHeight - The minimum Y-level where a spawn may begin or even exist
• maxHeight - The maximum Y-level where a spawn may begin or exist