Caves

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Caves are locations that can be found around the map. Stones, Ores, and monsters can be found inside. More valuable ores and tougher enemies spawn deeper into the caves.

Work in Progress

I'm trying to understand how those files work in order to get their drop rate and ennemy spawn :

https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/blob/master/world/src/layer/cave.rs

https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/tree/master/assets/common/cave_scatter

Biomes

Currently there are seven cave biomes randomly generated from various parameters and set of rules that define : humidity, temparature, stalatic, depth level and their respective ecosystem.

Depth level low

Mushroom cave 0.05 (z=1)

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The mus

Cave Mushroom (0.15) Mushroom (0.25), Grass blue (1), moonbell (0.01)

truffler, fungome,

Icy cave

panoramic pics

Ice drake, blue oni, wendigo

Dusty cave 0.01 (z=2)

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Dusty cave is the deadliest cave, mostly due to Antlions also several strong monsters that will challenge you if you don't thread carrefuly.

Bones 0.5, stones 1.5, deadbush 1, Ensnaring web 0.5, mud 0.025

Dodarock, cave spider, cave troll, antlion, rat (peacefull)

Mineral cave 0.005 (z=3)

crystal low

Leafy cave 0.05 (z=15)

The Leafy cave is gorgeous and lively. It's difficulty is moderate as long you avoid deadly shot from Maneater. If you exhausted your food stock, it will prove to be very ressourcefull for your mushroom's stick.

fern 0.75, grass, jungle leafy plant 0.5, red grass 0.35, esnaring vines 0.2, leafy plant 0.8, twigs, wood 0.03

holladon, turtle, rootsnapper, axolotl, maneater, batfox, rocksnapper, salamander, asp, swap troll

Barren cave 0.003 (z=14)

One of the rarest and depth biome

welwitchia 0.5, deadbush 1.5, crate 0.005

Lava cave (z=13) 0.001

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Lava cave is the deepest and the rarest cave. Mostly populated with Lava Drake they are less dangerous than other cave due to pathfinding problem. Your only challenge will be the lava pit, don't fall. It's also the most seeked cave

Pyrebloom	Bloodstone	Gold
0,3	0,3	0,15

pyrebloom 0.3, bloodstone 0.3, gold 0.15

lava drake, basilisk, crawler molten, red oni

(with depth black windows, orgre)

Gems & Ores & Chest

0.0025 (z=5)

VeloriteFrag	Amethyst Small	Topaz Small	Diamond Small	Ruby Small	Emerald Small	Sapphire Small
0.3	0.3	0.3	0.04	0.1	0.08	0.08

Velorite	Amethyst	Topaz	Diamond	Ruby	Emerald	Sapphire	None
0.15	0.15	0.15	0.02	0.05	0.04	0.04	10.0

0.01 (z=7)

	Stone	Copper	Tin	Iron	Coal	Cobalt	Silver
Shallow	1.5	1	1	0.5
Middle					0.25	0.1	0.05

Shallow : Stones : 1.5, Copper, Tin, Iron * 0.5,

Middle : Coal : middle * 0.25, Cobalt : middle * 0.1, Silver : middle * 0.05

0,0002 (Z=6)

Chest have a very small chance to appear in cave.

T1	T2	T3	T4	T5
100%	30%	10%	1%	0,3%

DungeonChest0 : 1.0, DungeonChest1 : 0.3, DungeonChest2 : 0.1, DungeonChest3 : 0.03 DungeonChest4 : 0.01, DungeonChest5 : 0.003, None, 1.0