DF2014 Talk:Biome

Characteristics of biomes

The idea is that each Biome has different advantages and problems, however, its really hard to tell what they might be. I think we could use some sort of top level summary cards (like school kids in RL) presenting each biome defining characteristics by someone familiar with world-gen possibly with some nice descriptions of what each game area suppose to represent or notes about difficult of play.

On a related noted something like these two might be of use for the 'Generating a Biome' on top of precipitation table. --Jan (talk) 14:59, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Here is one example of what I mean regarding better differentiating the different gameplay advantages and problems of biomes. In the meantime, lets improve on our presentation of what data we have, here is quick table (from) not if its more uptodate than what we have from this or either is up to date at all, but its a starting point for anyone who want to a little science.

Biome	Terrain Requirments
	Elevation	Rainfall	Drainage	Temperature
Ocean	0-99	N/A	N/A	N/A
Desert	100-299	0-9	?	Non-Freezing
Plains	100-299	0-66	0-66	Non-Freezing
Wetlands	100-299	33-100	0-32	Non-Freezing
Forest	100-299	66-100	66-100	Non-Freezing
Tundra	100-299	N/A	0-66	Freezing
Glacier	100-299	N/A	80?-100	Freezing
Hills	100-299	0-66	0-66	Non-Freezing
Mountains	300-400	N/A	N/A	N/A

(*) Temperature column isn't accurate. I found all the 'non-freezing' with 'freezing' temperature.

Desert	Badlands, rocky wastelands, and sand deserts ??? Trees: None-scarce Other vegetation: None-scarce
Plains	Savanna Trees: Sparse Other vegetation: Moderate Grassland Trees: Sparse Other vegetation: Moderate Shrubland: Trees: Woodland Other vegetation: Moderate
Wetlands	Marsh Trees: Woodland Other vegetation: Moderate Swamp Trees: Heavily Forested Other vegetation: Thick
Forest	Taiga Trees: Heavily Forested Other vegetation: Thick Coniferous forest Trees: Heavily forested Other vegetation: Thick Broadleaf forest Trees: Heavily Forested Other vegetation: Thick
Other	Tundra Trees: None Other vegetation: Scare Mountain Trees: None Other vegetation: Thick-moderate Glacier/Ocean Trees: None Other vegetation: None

--Jan (talk) 02:14, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

RL biome illustrations

Following the suits with collage on this page, I recently stitched a File:Deserts overview.png to illustrate the verity of in-game biomes (sand, rocky, badlands), which may not necessarily align with terminology most people are familiar with. If this is something we want, I noticed that Nasa nasa has already few collages done in consistent manner that can used\adapted ({{PD-USGov}}) by those who are more proficient in this sort of thing than me.--Jan (talk) 17:43, 20 February 2022 (UTC)