1X3 ICEBOX | Wilderness Expansion (Now not extremely slow!) (#91920)

## About The Pull Request
Turns the surface z-level of icebox into a 1x3 area, effectively adding
2 wilderness new z-levels surrounding the station

Because it's not always clear to other people what I'm talking about,
this is what I mean with making the surface level a 3x3 z-level

The wilderness z-levels are gridlinked, instead of crosslinked, which
just means the connections are consistent and not randomized. If you
keep going right, you will always end up where you started again,
eventually. This also removes the black border around the surface icebox
z-level (cause you can just go there now)

**Wilderness levels**
I've added some Z-level templates that can be generated. They're
incredibly basic, but all can spawn runes on them as well.
- Snow planes (5x)
- Ice planes (1x)
- Forest planes (1x)
- Mountain planes (1x)

I've also tweaked surface generation quite a bit. It being completely
covered in bones always felt weird, and the intersparsed rocks and
chasms never sat right with me. The default overworldgen is now more
like the Forested trait, but with more sparse trees.

All of this is modular btw. You can increase the amount of z-levels,
make any space z-level be unrandomized gridlinked or add your own
wilderness z-levels (either to your own map or icebox)

## Why It's Good For The Game
Icebox exploration is kind of depressing. We have this unique setting,
but we can't really go anywhere? You can go down and find that one pool,
which is about the peak of exploration of icebox.

Now you can literally explore the entire round and get incredibly lost!
It's also a great opportunity for mappers! (Especially since the
templates I made were made rather quickly as I wasn't sure if this had
merit).

2 extra z-levels isn't a lot, but it'll let us further develop planetary
wilderness z-levels further without impacting load times that much.
Maybe 3x3 icebox can be real in the future, but for now 1x3 icebox will
have to do
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Time-Green
2025-08-15 08:58:58 +02:00
committed by nevimer
parent 06955b48b7
commit a66a60e711
22 changed files with 361851 additions and 33697 deletions
@@ -18,5 +18,4 @@
else // in case a single trait is passed in
SSmapping.z_trait_levels[new_traits] += list(new_z)
set_linkage(new_traits[ZTRAIT_LINKAGE])
@@ -60,39 +60,23 @@
/datum/controller/subsystem/mapping/proc/setup_map_transitions() //listamania
var/list/transition_levels = list()
var/list/cached_z_list = z_list
var/linkage
for(var/datum/space_level/level as anything in cached_z_list)
if (level.linkage == CROSSLINKED)
transition_levels.Add(level)
if(level.linkage != CROSSLINKED && level.linkage != GRIDLINKED)
continue
var/grid_diameter = (length(transition_levels) * 2) + 1
var/list/grid = new /list(grid_diameter ** 2)
transition_levels.Add(level)
var/datum/space_transition_point/point
for(var/x in 1 to grid_diameter)
for(var/y in 1 to grid_diameter)
point = new/datum/space_transition_point(x, y, grid)
grid[CHORDS_TO_1D(x, y, grid_diameter)] = point
for(point as anything in grid)
point.set_neigbours(grid, grid_diameter)
if(!isnull(linkage) && level.linkage != linkage)
// Either you be gridlinked or crosslinked, both is uhhh... a headache
stack_trace("Mixed linkages detected in z-level neighbour transitions!")
continue
linkage = level.linkage
var/center = round(grid_diameter / 2)
point = grid[CHORDS_TO_1D(grid_diameter, center, center)]
grid.Cut()
var/list/transition_pick = transition_levels.Copy()
var/list/possible_points = list()
var/list/used_points = list()
while(transition_pick.len)
var/datum/space_level/level = pick_n_take(transition_pick)
level.xi = point.x
level.yi = point.y
point.spl = level
possible_points |= point.neigbours
used_points |= point
possible_points.Remove(used_points)
level.set_neigbours(used_points)
point = pick(possible_points)
CHECK_TICK
if(linkage == CROSSLINKED)
set_cross_linkages(transition_levels)
else if(linkage == GRIDLINKED)
set_grid_linkages(transition_levels)
// Now that we've handed out neighbors, we're gonna handle an edge case
// Need to check if all our levels have neighbors in all directions
@@ -141,7 +125,7 @@
var/datum/space_level/neighbor = level.neigbours["[dirside]"]
var/zdestination = neighbor.z_value
for(var/turf/open/space/S in turfblock)
for(var/turf/open/S in turfblock)
S.destination_x = x_target || S.x
S.destination_y = y_target || S.y
S.destination_z = zdestination
@@ -162,4 +146,60 @@
var/turf/place = locate(S.destination_x, S.destination_y, zdestination)
S.AddElement(/datum/element/mirage_border, place, mirage_dir, range_cached)
/// Construct linkages randomly to get maze-like space transitions
/// We do this by constructing a very large grid, and placing the levels randomly inside, and then filling out the empty spaces
/datum/controller/subsystem/mapping/proc/set_cross_linkages(list/transition_levels)
var/grid_diameter = (length(transition_levels) * 2) + 1
var/list/grid = new /list(grid_diameter ** 2)
var/datum/space_transition_point/point
for(var/x in 1 to grid_diameter)
for(var/y in 1 to grid_diameter)
point = new /datum/space_transition_point(x, y, grid)
grid[CHORDS_TO_1D(x, y, grid_diameter)] = point
for(point as anything in grid)
point.set_neigbours(grid, grid_diameter)
var/center = round(grid_diameter / 2)
point = grid[CHORDS_TO_1D(grid_diameter, center, center)]
grid.Cut()
var/list/transition_pick = transition_levels.Copy()
var/list/possible_points = list()
var/list/used_points = list()
while(transition_pick.len)
var/datum/space_level/level = pick_n_take(transition_pick)
level.xi = point.x
level.yi = point.y
point.spl = level
possible_points |= point.neigbours
used_points |= point
possible_points.Remove(used_points)
level.set_neigbours(used_points)
point = pick(possible_points)
CHECK_TICK
/// Connect the z-levels in a non-randomized grid
/datum/controller/subsystem/mapping/proc/set_grid_linkages(list/transition_levels)
var/grid_diameter = ceil(sqrt(length(transition_levels)))
var/list/grid = new /list(grid_diameter ** 2)
// Construct an imaginary grid with the right neighbours etc for our grid
var/datum/space_transition_point/point
for(var/x in 1 to grid_diameter)
for(var/y in 1 to grid_diameter)
point = new /datum/space_transition_point(x, y, grid)
grid[CHORDS_TO_1D(x, y, grid_diameter)] = point
// Translate the grid we made to the z-levels
var/list/used_points = list()
for(var/i in 1 to transition_levels.len)
var/datum/space_level/level = transition_levels[i]
point = grid[i]
level.xi = point.x
level.yi = point.y
point.spl = level
used_points += point //this used_points list is kinda lame, you can remove it if you can find out what the slice function in byond is
level.set_neigbours(used_points)
#undef CHORDS_TO_1D