Perpetually wishing for more accurate redwoods.

[paladinofrain]

I have no modding experience or coding experience, outside of like an hour of HTML training, and have no idea where to even start with an idea like this, but I have been DYING to see a game like this have accurate redwood trees, or trees in general. I understand that a lot of devs look at them and go "yeah, no" because, I mean, they are HUGE and would likely be considered "broken" normally, but I really need a mod that upscales them to realistic sizes. For reference, if the blocks in VS are a meter cube, then an accurate redwood would be somewhere from 10-25 blocks across, and 60-110 blocks tall. 

I dont know if there is a simple ratio tweak that could make that happen, or if they would need to be completely redesigned, but I know it would create a way more interesting environment. Also, the addition of multiple growth stages, or even just making seedlings take forever and a day to mature, would go a long way to rebalancing them. Just a thought. 
 

[Arisilde]

Trees are defined in json files, in: Vintagestory\assets\survival\worldgen\treegen
This wiki page explains how it works: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Modding:Trees

I think you could technically do it, but I don't think treegen is really suited for this. Sounds like you'd have to define a trunk array for each block of the tree's footprint, which... 
It might be possible to fake it with a custom landform that's made of tree trunk instead of dirt/rock, but that would remove the tree cutting behavior, which tbh for a tree that size would likely be for the best anyway. You'd need to figure out branches though, which would be pretty tricky, but maybe not impossible. Maybe custom defined "trees" with no trunks, just a branch definition. Have them spawn all over the surface? Honestly no idea.

This is likely why you've never seen it done  

[paladinofrain]

@Arisilde That does sound fairly complex, and makes sense for why I haven't seen it done. I wonder if you were able to make the trees like this and have them function like trees, if it would be best to add a new tool to the game specifically for cutting down large trees, such as a felling saw, and maybe another tool for harvesting individual blocks of wood. I will have to play around with some ideas I guess, since I figure I am going to learn how to mod for this. I need to see this done. I need my giant trees.