Gipsy Crusader Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 Hello everyone. I’d like to ask what could be causing this forest dieback. Trees are dying in a large circular area, and the vegetation is degrading as well. Maybe moving close to the hot springs wasn’t the best idea?
Shoom Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 I suspect thunder strikes, do you have the setting on that makes fire spread? You can turn it off by copy-pasting /worldconfig lightningFires false into the chat window and restarting. 1 1
Gipsy Crusader Posted March 4 Author Report Posted March 4 I didn’t notice any lightning striking the trees or anything else nearby. I did see that the acidity of the water dissolves animal carcasses. Could it be that this acidity is affecting the environment through the steam? It wouldn’t surprise me if this was also programmed into the game.
williams_482 Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 Seconding Shoom's take. That really looks like fire damage, and lightning is by far the most plausible cause.
Broccoli Clock Posted March 5 Report Posted March 5 Leaf blocks in the sky? That's a fire, trust me I like playing with lightning strikes spreading fire. The hot springs will have no effect on the foliage nearby, in fact moving near a hot spring would be an interesting test case if you're in a biome that has a harsh winter. I do wish the logic would realise the leaf blocks are left. I don't mind the destruction, to me it's natural, but having to come along and clean up the left over blocks, or that the grass surface doesn't end up scorched in some way, does ruin the immersion a little. If you are looking for a simple solution to this, aside from turning off the lightning (and someone has provided the command line above), is to use the.. /wgen regen <number> where <number> is the number of blocks surrounding the player at the time, try 1 and you'll see the size of a chunk. Make sure you do not do this next to your base, the regen is literally that, it'll regenerate the area back to it's initial seed value. You do this next to the base and it'll be replaced. There are many more formats the wgen command can take, it's pretty powerful.. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/List_of_server_commands/wgen 1
Gipsy Crusader Posted March 5 Author Report Posted March 5 Thanks everyone! Super helpful breakdown — now I know what really roasted my trees. Thanks for the info! I was secretly hoping the game tracked stuff like acidity and heat in the area. Oh well—thanks again for all the replies
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