Snowcapped UI - jacobsjo/snowcapped GitHub Wiki

This page gives a general overview of the user interface of Snowcapped.

Menu

The menu at the top of the screen includes a list of buttons to:

  • Start a new Project
    • starting from an empty projects
    • starting from the vanilla overworld
  • load a saved configuration
  • save the current configuration to the disk
    • Note that the save file is specific to Snowcapped and should not be confused with the exported Dimension file -> see Exporting
    • On supporting browsers* you can simply click the save button to override the loaded or previously saved file
    • Otherwise, you need to select a file to save to every time
  • save as a new file
  • open the settings

Editor and Sidebar

-> see Snowcapped Grids

Map

The map displays the Biome layout as it is currently specified. Note that areas that have no biome defined are not filled, while these areas would be filled by the closest biome ingame. This is done so that it is easier to tell where each biome is actually defined.

Further, it is possible to:

  • Change the world seed to display
  • Change the y value at which to determine the biomes, moving the slider all the way to the top will instead show the biomes at the surface
  • Toggle hillshading, giving an indication of the terrain the biomes are applied to.

Finally, the 2d input checkbox is only necessary to uncheck when using specific custom density functions that define input that change based on height.

Settings

The settings menu allows you to change some important values:

  • Dimension Name: The id of the dimension to export to.
  • Noise Settings Neme: The id of the noise settings to use. This defines the density functions to use for the map preview and is included in the exported dimension file.
  • Enable Splines-Editor: Legacy option to enable the spline editor (not explained in this wiki).
  • Datapacks: Allows the loading of custom datapacks including custom noise settings, density functions, noises.

Exporting

The dimension edited using Snowcapped can be exported in 2 ways:

  1. Click the "Download as zip" button next to the "Snowcapped Data" datapack in the Settings.
  2. On a supporting browser*: Click the "Insert" button next to a loaded custom folder datapack (not zip), this will insert the dimension file directly into the opened folder.

the exported dimension file can not be imported again, so make sure to also save the Snowcapped file separately

*supporting browsers: Chrome >= 86, Edge >= 86, Opera >= 72, Safari >=15.2, not Firefox