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Tracking: Worldgen Work

Hello! Welcome to the big worldgen tracking issue.

Current status

We're currently in the process of transitioning the game to a new site system, named 'site2'. This new system is being developed in parallel within the codebase alongside the existing system (i.e: not on a feature branch) and is currently implemented as a sort of plug-in of the old system (see world/src/site/mod.rs#SiteKind::Refactor).

How to contribute

Are you looking to get involved in Veloren development? World generation is a great place to start! If you're interested in looking into one of the tasks on this list, message me, @zesterer, or any of the other core devs on Discord. If you're not comfortable with using Discord, you're also welcome to post on our Matrix channel, in this issue, on /r/veloren.

You don't need to be a Rust expert, you don't need to have prior experience with procedural generation, and you don't need to be an expert in Veloren's code to get started.

Useful Resources

Work that needs doing

Update this list as more things appear!

  • Transition to site2
    • Get economics working with site2 sites (fixed in !3141 (merged))
    • Convert existing sites to site2
      • Dungeons (fixed in !2499 (merged))
      • Towns
        • Add crafting sprites to workshops (fixed in !3174 (merged))
        • Add farms to towns
        • Add alchemy building and cooking building to house cauldron/cooking pot
      • Giant trees (fixed in !3136 (merged))
        • Add enemy spawning on giant trees (fixed in !3344 (merged))
        • Add radius interpolation (fixed in !3267 (merged))
        • Add snow (could be applied to everything in site2 automatically?)
      • Castles
    • Inhabitants
      • Spawn rtsim merchants and civilians in towns
      • Investigate spawning entities in sites by creating them when the chunks load (as we do now) vs using rtsim
  • General site2 things
    • New sites
      • Sea chapel
      • Gnarling village
      • Adlet structures
      • Sahagin structures
      • Haniwa structures
      • Myrmidon structures
      • Cultist structures
    • Investigate possibility of recursive plots (buildings in giant trees, houses within castle keeps, etc.)
    • Towns
      • Add taverns
      • Add shops
      • Add markets
      • Add boundary wall generation (should mark anything outside boundary as a hazard)
      • Add sign sprites (use SpriteCfg to add custom text) that mark roads, buildings, etc.
      • Add guard towers and barracks
      • Add farms
      • Add windmills
  • Create rtsim2
    • Define rtsim data model (see here for design ideas)
    • Get rtsim persistence working
    • Reimplement existing rtsim mechanics into rtsim2
      • Bandits
      • Travellers
    • Implement resource depletion tracking
    • Interaction
      • Allow NPCs to perform actions when not simulated
      • Allow NPCs to receive information from main game
      • Simulate actions for simulated NPCs
    • NPC roles
      • Implement unique behaviours for roles
    • Move site generation to rtsim2
    • History simulation
      • Site creation
      • Site development over time (new buildings, goals, etc. as economy & faction control changes)
      • Simulate population growth & migration
      • Establishing new sites over time as economies grow
      • Move economics to rtsim2
      • Simulate factions & diplomacy
    • Natural simulation
      • Simulate plant growth in rtsim2
      • Simulate animation populations in rtsim2, integrate with entity spawning
    • Weather
      • Move weather simulation to rtsim2
    • Factions and reputation
      • Add factions to the world
      • Track faction/actor disposition toward other factions/actors
      • Allow factions to trigger world events
    • Quests
      • Allow NPCs to remember quest state
      • Grow the trade system into a more general interaction system
      • Derive quest objectives from world state (needs/wants, diplomacy, etc.)
  • New Rocks
    • Arches
    • Lionrocks
Edited by Isse