Quick Question For Developers

Hello,

Quick question for the developers, simply because they're the only ones who would know the answer:

Could you please tell me the two corner points comprising Seavale Reef's treasure spawning bounding box? That is, any two of the corner points forming the area in which treasure spawns.

I've noticed that certain areas of the reef collect far more treasure than others, so I'd like to look over the entire spawnable area to find all of the places where I can go to collect the most treasure quickly.

Many thanks

 

while i don’t know the answer myself i’m pretty sure anyone who’s been around before gavel knows the answer

 

Is it too much to experimentally determine the bounding box on your own? Something along the lines of a binary search on each axis of each corner? That shouldn't take too long.

 

Search it up on YouTube, I think it has the answer

 

Sometimes it's easier to ask if anyone knows the answer, which is very likely.

What do you mean by 'binary search'? A binary search is to find something in a sorted list.

 

Oh, of course, let me check my minecraft server coordinates list...

 

Youtube doesn't have the answer at all, which I expected.

 

I know the boundaries extend slightly beyond the reef area proper, although I haven't tested it. I don't think there are any caverns that extend past the boundaries.

 

Precisely, you could view the coordinates as a list of points in which there are two types of elements: valid spawn points and invalid spawn points. If we assume that the spawning points are contained within a rectange in the overworld, then that means any line crossing through that area will have a distinct position which separates spawning points from non-spawning points, meaning each type of point is grouped together at one end of the line, or "sorted." In other words, you could think of the line of points as a list of the form {0, 0, 0, ... 0, 0, 1, 1, ... 1, 1, 1} where zero is non-spawning and one is spawning.

If we then pick two reasonable points along the x-axis or y-axis (handle each axis on its own for each corner of the rectangular area, assuming it's a rectangle) and either confirm or deny the point as an item spawning point, then we can slowly move closer to or further away from the "center" of the spawning area until we push the boundaries of the rectangle as far out as they go.

 

Well, I'm 99% certain that the spawning area is a cuboid, simply because it's far easier to pick a random point between two corner points in 3D space rather than including other groups of blocks outside of that simple cuboid.

I also don't understand what you're talking about with a line; you're massively overcomplicating it. I'd rather have the exact bounding box, but I'm aware than I can estimate the bounding box by waiting an infinite number of hours on the off chance that an item spawns further out than I've seen before. It's just a case of finding the highest and lowest X, Y and Z values which I've seen items spawn in, which, considering the large spawn area and low spawn rate per block, could take months.

Or, I could write this thread addressed to the developers so they can look at the spawning bounding box in the code and tell me the two 3D coordinates which make up the bounding box.

 

(It could also be a series of spheres since I'm pretty sure command blocks can work with radius parameters for certain things, but yeah, it's probably a cuboid)

 

Any decent server doesn't use command blocks, but rather server plugins which are significantly more powerful and don't require any blocks in the world. It's common for people who have no clue as to how servers implement gameplay to believe it's done using command blocks.

 

Wynncraft does use command blocks for a lot of stuff though (they have like 2 devs so...). But I am 99% sure mob-spawning is plugin-based.