Residential Areas
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Hamlets
Hamlets are small municipalities with a few houses. It is characterized as a single center with one to four houses across. These houses should have villagers inside them, with some standard (vanilla-style) loot.
Example of a taiga hamlet
Of course, bad things can happen in real life, so this should be reflected in the Minecraft world as well. Hamlets can be destroyed (for whatever reason) with only some ruins left over.
Example of a ruined taiga hamlet
Biomes
The intention is to have hamlets for most of the biomes, as in real world people are able to settle nearly everywhere. Right now, hamlets are made available for the following biomes:
- badlands
- desert
- plains (including sunflower plains)
- savanna (including savanna plateau)
- snowy plains (called
snowy) - swamp
- taiga
Hamlets in data pack
In my data pack, hamlets can be found through polygame:hamlet_<biome>. Ruined hamlets can be found as polygame:ruined_hamlet_<biome>.
As the hamlets are a center with directly attached houses, most of the hamlets that are placed in the world seem to be presented quite decently. This is because there are no paths that use the terrain_matching projection, so less quirky generation.
Hamlet generation starts from the center (using the centers pool of the appropriate biome).
Villages
Villages are municipalities that are characterized with houses that are spread out. The intention is to have roughly 5 to 10 houses.
Example of a plains village
The intention is that villages too can be in ruins (e.g. when they were pillaged by pillagers). However, it is also possible that villages have some buildings that are in ruins, and other buildings that are being built up (where you can find obvious signs that the building is being created, such as having scaffolding in place and chests with the raw building materials).
Example of a ruined plains village
Biomes
Villages are available in many of the biomes as well, but not in the swamp. The idea here is that the swamp isn’t sufficiently hospitable to host larger residential areas, so villages are limited to the following biomes:
- badlands
- desert
- plains (including sunflower plains)
- savanna (including savanna plateau)
- snowy plains (called
snowy) (not yet implemented) - taiga
Villages in data pack
In my data pack, villages can be found through polygame:village_<biome>. Ruined villages can be found as polygame:ruined_village_<biome>.
The structure of villages is a bit more like the native Minecraft villages, including paths that are using the terrain_matching projection. Hence, it is possible that they generate in a bit more quirky manner.
Village generation starts from the center (using the centers pool of the appropriate biome).
Towns
Town development has not yet started.
A town is more centralized in nature, and could be fortified. Houses are more close to each other. Towns also have the possibility to include:
- Speciality shops (e.g. winery)
- Public warehouses (horreums, storage buildings)
Towns in data pack
The idea is to have a town in a single, large structure (using the maximum 48x48x48 size) and have the buildings generate within this structure.
Cities
City development has not yet started.
A city is a settlement where houses are close or even adjacent to each other.
Cities have specialized buildings, like:
- Speciality shops (e.g. firework shops)
- Cisterns (underground water holding tanks)
- Sewers
Cities in data pack
The idea is to have a town in either a 2x2 grid of larger structures in which the city then generates, or in a 3x3 grid. As there is a generation limit in Minecraft (maximum distance from the center is 128 blocks) I have yet to figure out how this limit is used.