New volcano feature idea discuss

[Volgirian]

Hi folks,

While playing this trully wonderfull game, I noticed that there aren't much geological features other than hot springs, mountains or plateaus. So I was wonderind if there was introduced a brand new geological feature, volcanoes.

Volcanoes would be extremely rare to find, even less common than hot springs althought the hot springs would me much more common to find near volcanoes. They could generate anywhere in world. Depending on the type, they would come in 6 main forms:

Shield Volcano - Volcano with gently sloping sides, these would not be usually explosive in nature and their eruptions would manifested by the discharge of a considerable amount of lava into the surroundings and would be able to produce lava-fountains as well. The resulting lava flows could then reach outlying areas, destroying forests for example

Stratovolcano - These would have relatively steep sides and would look more cone-shaped than shield volcanoes. They would be formed from more viscous, sticky lava that does not flow easily. These volcanoes would always erupt explosively ejecting lava bombs and ash with a chance to spot a pyroclastic flows. The violence of eruptions would often vary but they would be dangerous to the player if not watching the eruption from a safe distance. The resulting ash plume could then cause crop failure, animal death, ashfall or beautiful crimson red sunsets.

Cinder Cone Volcano - These would be very steep-sided but relatively small commonly occuring on the sides of larger volcanoes. The eruptions of these could range from mild to moderately explosive eruptions. Cinder cones would generally have monogenetic eruptions, meaning that they would have a single eruptive episode.

Caldera Volcano - They would appear bowl-shaped, surrounded by steep cliffs, and some filled with lakes. These would be huge and sometimes due to their size even difficult to notice in terrain. some calderas could be explosive able to emit large-volume ash-flow tuffs and form very tall eruptive ash columns. However other calderas would be typical for large eruptions of lava flows.

Lava Dome Volcano - Because they would be made up viscous lava, they will mostly be steep-sided. They typically would have rough brecciated surfaces, and sometimes they have glassy rinds due to quenching of the hot lava once it was erupted onto the surface. Most lava domes would be relatively small with limited volume. But these would pose a significant hazard in their immediate vicinity. Lava Domes could collapse unpredictably and produce explosive eruptions and pyroclastic flows.

Fissure Volcano - These could be found on the ocean floor and less commonly on land. The length of fissures would vary greatly. The small ones could sometimes occur on the sides of larger volcanoes. The eruptions would be large or small always tipical with lava fountains, however there would not be any ash. Instead, they would feed lava flows that can travel great distances similarly as shield volcanoes would do.

It is just an idea, but I believe that it would be epic to experience one of these volcanoes to erupt if they would exist in a game. Plus it would make the underground feel much more alive.

[LiL Snack]

goated idea

[Emily the commoner]

This is a really good idea. There's so much that we could find in volcanoes as well different soil there's all kinds of minerals that would be in there in different building materials. Even if it was more like how a ruin pops up and it's just a special world spawn that would be really cool. I think having a special version of soil that you can only get from volcanoes would help farming because if you read in a lot of areas that have very fertile soil next to volcanoes the plants and stuff are so big and awesome and I guess it has extreme flavor too. My friend and I actually built a volcano by hand in game it was fun

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

Oooh yes, this is something I'd love to see implemented in the base game 

[Emily the commoner]

I would like that there's so much you could do