okay,, sorry

ollie says

cub says

ollie says

and you can maybe figure out how to implement them if you want

thats the whole point of this

smh how am i supposed to help u if i dont know your process for making games

i used terraria as a basal context although this can apply to anything if you can explain the application

you dont need to know my "process" you just have to know how to apply your ideas, thats the hard part which is why i made this thread

ideas are easy making them work is not

i dub this concept the tunnel snakes method

cub says

ollie says

and you can maybe figure out how to implement them if you want

thats the whole point of this

smh how am i supposed to help u if i dont know your process for making games
like i said, animated objects, collider areas changing. i dont know much programming for games, so i probably cant help i guess

i illustrated worm tunnel collapse



so the green blocks are "tunnel roofs," which can graphically represent the shaky roof of dynamic tunnels but more importantly signify to the program that these blocks should "fall" gradually in accordance with nearby "tunnel roofs" such that if there are fewer than like 3 blocks of tunnel roofs within the vicinity of the current one, it's designated as a "corner" and falls each "collapse" tick

so in the poorly drawn picture you can see the blocks begin to fill in at the corner and effectively travel inward until the tunnel completely fills back in

Christopherzilla says

Giant sandworms that periodically and drastically change the underground environment with their movements.

im scribbling this down for desert worlds that would be really neat and like the trail could just fall back into place over time (generating sand/dirt blocks by "falling" without actually depleting above ground)

sl0nderman says

What if meteors crashed into the world and left a crater but you could also collect the bits of meteorite left.

but riddle me this how does the land fill over the crater again

there's only so long until meteors stop falling or the world resembles rihanna

ollie says

and you can maybe figure out how to implement them if you want

thats the whole point of this

Christopherzilla says

Giant sandworms that periodically and drastically change the underground environment with their movements.

BeetleJuice flashback.. pls

What if meteors crashed into the world and left a crater but you could also collect the bits of meteorite left.

Giant sandworms that periodically and drastically change the underground environment with their movements.

I wanted to give you an answer but I don't play terraria. Just growtopia.

mm i dont know, i havent worked with pixels. but there are just some ideas and you can maybe figure out how to implement them if you want. my only knowledge is rpgmaker. above the tile you can add more objects, and you can add extra rocks there, or anything that you want to be changeable. im not sure what you mean honestly
even with the tile you can make different tilesets to have the effect of, for example, smoother rocks or sinkholes.

(i was also thinking that the "smoothing down" thing would be an animation; i guess i wrote the list with animated objects in mind)

but how do you make it happen

and what do you mean sharp rocks smoothing down
in the framework of a tilebased grid there are no sharp rocks and i dont know what other framework you could be working under

so you want to make it as if time is running faster than reality, and you can actually see the change in the terrain? like shifting tectonic plates, sprouting plants/forming gems ect? or if it's magic, the world just has kind of mind of its own? thats pretty cool
i'd say just animate every object to have sprouting/decaying frames, and let them spawn randomly. here's some ideas:

- sinkholes. causes: erosion from derooting plants/trees, removing groundwater.
- wildfires. natural ones are good. after a while, secondary succession begins, and a new forest grows again.
- plants and moss growing near sources of water, even if you create those sources yourself.
- volcano eruptions. could be deadly, but spawns beautiful minerals. oh! there's also a bunch of different types of volcanoes and types of eruptions, you might want to look into that, too.
- frost weathering. water seeps into rocks and when they freeze during winter, cracks in the rocks form. moss can grow out of these cracks as the ice thaws.
- glaciers. self-explanatory-- they move and reveal freshly weathered rock in their wake, freezing the land wherever they go.
- water flow weathering rocks. if you create a waterfall or river, the sharp rocks in the river's path will eventually smooth down.
-fungi. fungi are really cool, theres all shapes and colors and sizes; you can have them sprouting randomly, revealing new paths for a brief while.

that's all i have for now
(also might steal this idea in the future lmao)

i prefer gameplay

Games today lack a magic erosion engine

im not talking realistic im talking f**king magic

Games today lack a realistic erosion engine

and chests and stuff would like spawn and despawn as the ground beneath them shifts which would happen over the course of a long time but basically revisiting areas would always yield something new after a while

i drew this in ms paint you might think im high but this is an illustration of terrain "shifting" over time