My first attempt at a Creative Build-Toxic City ruins

http://imgur.com/a/FU0g1

"I think this is the first time I ever attempt something like this. I don't know if this fits the current BOTW theme or new/artificial biome because I don't know if this could be categorized as more of a microdungeon than a biome. This said, I love the toxic ocean planets and looking at those ruins in the background I cannot help but feel a bit wishing there were more to encounter than those occasional scaffold structure and that we could instead discover something like the flooded and half-sunken remnants of these buildings that for now we can only ever see in the horizon of that sky. Being my first attempt at such a thing, it's likely not great, but I wanted to give it a shot nonetheless."

 

I really think something like this would be a great structure/mini-dungeon for toxic ocean planets. It looks pretty good and fits in with the biome quite well. Now if only the toxic ocean planets didn't almost always have acid rain happening.... or did they fix that? I tend to avoid them due to prior experiences with almost un-ending acid rain.

 

They still have a lot of acid rain.
However come 1.0 you can notably craft antidote items that give you a heavy resistance against toxic damages and debuff for a duration of time if recall(the item is already in the nightly anyways)

 

That build is pretty awesome! Definitely looks like something from vanilla game and better
I never could explore toxic ocean plants though... Everything - water, air, rain - just did way too much damage.

 

Looks great, it fits perfectly on that planet.

 

Toxic biomes really need more structures like this. I mean, the background clearly shows structures, so why cant we actually find them?

 

To be fair the challenge probably comes from how big to make "dungeons/microdungeons" that could represent this(at the risks of being too small and/or not representative of the stuff in that background and/or too resources intensive to generate due to the way I heard the game might scan room to identify what can fits as a dungeon versus what cannot) versus trying to figure out a proper worldgen setting that could procedurally generate entire city blocks at the cost of these being judged too disappointingly undetailed.

This said I DO wishes there were such structures(that the game has the likes of Hylotl underwater cities make me feel it wouldn't be impossible to generate an "half sunken city ruins" on a raised ocean bottom that would allow half of the towers and building blocks to rise out of the water) the fact is I don't know what limitations they might be running into.

Like said, it's easy to display these buildings in the background.... but even the hylotl underwater cities do not have to worry about the matter of "floor height" in the water to determine if they should be half-sunken or fully so beause by default they are setup at an "altitude" where they're guaranteed to be fully sunken underwater.... a "flooded, but not fully sunken, toxic ruins" may need something like the underwater equivalent of a mountain rising from the ocean floor to raise them at an "appropriate height" where they could be shown as "half-sunken/half-exposed".

Edit: I know next to nothing from how worlds are generated mind you. So everything I'm saying is based on guesses at beast in the first place.

But ultimately I believe there can be very much a lot of "how much development time resource would this cost to make" VS "how much would it matter in the long run?" at play here that might be best left to mods at this rate.

 

You aren't far off.

I really need to familiarize myself with Tiled...

 

Certainly would like doing the same once I have more time.

If anything, having personal acquaintances(in other studios though) within the game development industry does always makes me wishes toward against making negative assumptions of game developers when it comes to anything that might seem "incomplete".

More often than not, there tend to be very legit reasons why it's so that often make it much less of a clear-cut situation than most expect them to be,

 

I agree. Ive been involved with modding for over 10 years now, starting with The Elder Scrolls. You really do get a sense of just how time consuming game development can be.

 

Antidotes don't seem to protect from acid rain for some reason.

 

Ooops, sorry

Hmm... try to jump in poison water to see how well the antidote work? Ironically it might make it a mean to protect you from the rain(does limit travel on the surface and/or force you to make a roof shelter at least when there).

Antidotes might only work against poison debuffs in the end then... which admitedly still would protect oneself from being poisoned trying to explore Toxic Oceans' depths.

 

Great work, this should totally be added to the base game.

 

This is pretty cool. Have you considered trying to turn this into a biome mod? Or, maybe you could convince sayter to add something like this to his Frackin Universe? (I'm reminded of how the abandoned Wasteland Planets Mod was incorporated into Frackin Universe.)