Sparse Structures for Minecraft

Review Sparse Structures

Frequency of the Game Location and Structure Spawn

Which locations do you visit most often? For example, some players prefer to keep going to the city of the Endermen, the flying islands, the infernal fortress, and the treasure caves. Some players are happy to find an outpost of bandits or a village of civilians. All users have their own values and favorite structures, but the vanilla world of Minecraft is far from perfect, so often there are a lot of locations of one type, and very few of others, although there should be more according to statistics. Have you ever faced such a situation? So, today we’ll offer you a versatile tool that allows you to fine-tune the frequency of structure generation in the game.

The Sparse Structures mod is developed to fine-tune the spawn frequency of various locations and structures in the game. That is, you’ll be able to choose which dungeons appear more often and which less often, depending on your specific needs and goals. Such a system allows you to configure the map in detail and make it perfect so that it is optimally balanced. For example, do bastions appear too often? Would you like to see fewer black stones? Not a problem, because Sparse Structures allows you to set a certain chance of spawn in a couple of clicks. The most important thing is that this add-on is versatile and fits all types of structures in the vanilla version of Minecraft!

Most likely, there are certain points that you don’t like about the generated map and would like to chang. So, everything related to the structure generation and their frequency can be changed using the Space Structures mod. Are you not satisfied with the too rare outlaw outposts? We’ll fix it! Do you want fewer treasure caves? No problem! Here, many new opportunities open up for the player, because he becomes the «wizard» of the map, which he’s playing on. At the same time, the mod has a minimal effect on performance, so don’t worry that Minecraft will slow down or FPS will decrease. However, a lot depends on your settings. For example, if you set up too frequent generation of huge structures, such as mansions, they will give higher load on the map and your PC than in the vanilla version.

The entire process takes place in a separate configuration file, which is pre-created when installing the mod. It is called sparsestructures.json and is located in the config section. Here, you’ll find several important parameters that you will have to work with:

· The customSpreadFactors item – here, you set the spawn frequency specifically for each dungeon and structure in Minecraft. Next to each of them, you can set your own values to point-change some specific locations in the game and increase their spawn or, vice versa, decrease it.

· The spreadFactor item – here, you select the spawn frequency for all or each structure by setting a certain value. By default, the system sets the value equal to 2 (this means that they spawn 2 times less often than in the vanilla version). If you need it more often, then you need to set less, and you can even use values separated by dots, for example, 0.1 and so on. Accordingly, if you divide 2 by 0.1, then the structure will split 20 times more often compared to the default settings.

The Space Structures tool is great for creating large-scale and well-balanced maps, for example, for completing or preparing saves for a specific server, where you need to reduce or enlarge some dungeons. As a result, the player adjusts their values for each structure and then transfers the mod together with the configuration file to the server to save all the parameters and settings. Thanks to these add-ons, you’ll be able to adjust the spawn of locations on the map as you need, which opens up many opportunities for the player. Here are some possible applications for you:

· Increased spawn for bastions. There are few of them in the vanilla version of the game, so, often the resources from these structures become very expensive in the in-game market, and bastions are the first to be explored after the wipe. Make them more frequent in terms of generation and please the players.;

· Reduce the generation of challenge chambers. Do you want to make new content more interesting in the game? Most likely, not all players have tried out the challenge chambers yet, and a lot of them will want to walk through such locations, so we reduce the number of structures and encourage players to explore the game world.;

· Create passage maps. For example, you can build a huge number of temples in the jungle to hide important artifacts, and then arrange a real competition between users on the server.

As you can see, there are many development options, and the Space Structures modification helps a lot with any case, so you can customize the spawn frequency for different items. We recommend that you try to play with this add-on and write which structure generation you have reduced or increased! It will be interesting to see your results.