## 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
* Refactors z level trait checking to be less shit (#69334)
* Puts level traits and their associated z into a list and then uses it to make the z level trait procs less shit. They no longer need to loop through every z level to do what they aim to do.
* Also removes get_level from level_trait because it just does the same checks as already done above in the proc.
* Refactors z level trait checking to be less shit
Co-authored-by: Seth Scherer <supernovaa41@gmx.com>
* Remove ZLEVEL_STATION_PRIMARY
* Add Up and Down traits for use by ladders and chasms
* Give map_config creation its own proc
* Combine LoadConfig and ValidateJSON and remove transition_config
* Make space linkage a z-level trait
* Remove ZLEVEL_EMPTY_SPACE
* Update uses of GetFullMapPath
* Handle multi-Z stations and load Lavaland and Reebe at runtime
* Remove unused space maps
* Fix inappropriate z-expansion in map reader, improve logging
* Update comments relating to z-level configuration
* Add Lavaland and Reebe to ALL_MAPS
* Add basic structure of z-level traits
* Restore space transitions and add z-level debug verb
* Restore proper ruin spawning and transit level creation
* Replace station_z_levels and related checks with traits
* Eliminate more uses of ZLEVEL_{STATION_PRIMARY,LAVALAND}
Time-Green