Actually, scratch that Did I mention that Obsidian is under heavy active development and that things can and will change rapidly? Yeah… The Problem Overlaying noise maps to create biomes has a fatal flaw. …

In Pt. 1, I talked about how Selectors can be used to make decisions inside a noise algorithm. There is a lot of decision making done in Obsidian’s overworld generator. One of the most difficult things about recreating Minecraft’s overworld was getting biomes right. There is a many to one…

Before digging in, what is Obsidian Server? Obsidian is an open source software implementation of a Minecraft Server in C# .NET. You can connect to an Obsidian Server using any Minecraft Client (at least, that’s the objective). At the time of writing, only the Java client is supported. I’m one of the project’s developers and my focus…