Showcase Guide

A short guide for filming the mod: a seed with good spots close together, and how to set off eruptions, quakes and storms on cue. Everything here was checked with 0.11.3.

Setting up

• Make a new world in Creative with cheats on. Every mod command needs operator rights.
• World Type: FT's Geology (Tall). It is the default unless Tectonic, TerraBlender, Biomes O' Plenty or BYG is installed; then pick it under World Type.
• Seed: 7043559275810839504 (the seed of the 0.11 trailer). Most places below are the same with or without Terralith; four differ, and the table gives both.
• Distant Horizons is worth having for the mountain shots.
• Handy before filming:
  • /gamerule doDaylightCycle false and /gamerule doWeatherCycle false to hold the light and the sky;
  • /gamerule sendCommandFeedback false to keep command replies out of chat;
  • F1 to hide the interface.

Places in the trailer seed

Spawn is near 1000, -1752. /geology find <place> tp takes you to the nearest one; the search can take up to a minute. Heights can differ by a few blocks between the two setups.

place	command	without Terralith	with Terralith
Everest	/geology find everest tp	summit 4526 859 -1079	same
K2	/geology find k2 tp	summit 5702 822 -8735	same
Matterhorn	/geology find matterhorn tp	summit -816 799 13753 (far)	same
Collision belt	/geology find collision tp	7648 344 -5967	same
Rift valley	/geology find rift tp	1000 63 -2040, next to spawn; water lies along its floor	same
Subduction coast and volcanic arc	/geology find subduction tp	4267 504 771	same
River valley	/geology find valley tp	4443 441 526	same
Swallow hole (a river sinking into a cave)	/geology find swallowhole tp	3655 112 -1734	3806 121 -2070
Sinkhole	/geology find sinkhole tp	3268 128 -1140	same
Oil field	/geology find oil tp	1529 63 -1739, gas cap just under the surface	same
Copper ore body (porphyry, rusty cap)	/geology find porphyry tp	4392 429 147	same
Gold-bearing quartz reef	/geology find reef tp	7532 174 -5453	same
Hot spot	/geology find hotspot tp	13343 80 -6824	1075 66 -2129, near spawn
Large stratovolcano	/geology field strato tp	15200 -15249, active, summit at y 583	15173 -14866, extinct, with a crater lake
Large shield volcano	/geology field shield tp	-4337 14350, active	same
Fissure volcano	/geology field fissure tp	14836 -4603, active	9470 -4722, extinct

A volcanic eruption

A placed volcano normally sleeps 10 to 30 minutes first. For filming, shorten that:

1. With the world closed, open <world>/serverconfig/fts_geology.toml (on NeoForge config/fts_geology.toml) and set:

   volcanoDormantMinTicks = 600
   volcanoDormantMaxTicks = 1200
   volcanoUnrestTicks = 600
   

   Put them back afterwards: 12000, 36000 and 3600.
2. Go to flat, dry ground (not a lake or a rift floor) and wait 30 to 60 seconds for the chunks to load.
3. /geology place strato medium. It builds in a few seconds.
4. Then, in order:
   • within about a minute, unrest: a swarm of small quakes, and a nearby seismograph shows the swarm and sounds its siren;
   • 30 seconds of rumbling and black smoke;
   • 60 seconds of eruption: lava fountains, bombs and ash, with one pyroclastic flow running down from the lowest notch of the crater.

Night shots work best. The active volcanoes in the table erupt on their own schedule; the settings above only shorten their next sleep. Extinct ones never erupt.

A fissure eruption

1. Stand on a dry shoulder of a rift, not on its flooded floor (under water there is steam instead of a lava curtain).
2. /geology fissure here 200, then /geology fissure tp for a good viewpoint.
3. In order: about 10 seconds of unrest; 2 minutes of the ground opening (the floor drops, cracks open, a few hundred small quakes); a 5-minute pause you can skip with /geology fissure next; 3 minutes of lava curtain; then the lava gathers into a few vents and builds small cinder cones.

An earthquake

1. /geology find collision tp, and build something near the fault: a cobblestone house shows the damage well.
2. /geology quake collision 7 where you stand.
3. About 80 blocks from the fault: the P wave warning after about 8 seconds, the S wave at about 11 seconds, strong shaking for about 14 seconds. The ground has moved by 17 seconds and landslides come around 25 seconds. Start the camera 6 to 7 seconds after the command.

Damage depends on what a building is made of and what it stands on (see Earthquakes). quakesBreakBuilds = false keeps the shaking but spares builds.

Geysers, hot springs and gas

• /geology place geyser builds a geyser that erupts at once, for about 2 minutes.
• /geology place hotspring builds a hot spring with its coloured mats.
• A standing gas flame: /geology find oil tp, /geology gas tap to open the gas cap, then light the mouth with flint and steel. It looks best at night.

Weather

• /geology storms spawn 1 400 sets a storm right where you stand.
• For a storm seen from far away, set it about 800 blocks off and film it with Distant Horizons on.
• /weather clear clears the sky again.

See also: Commands and Config, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Weather.