Hi, it’s me again. First of all, I just finished Lignumis and I have to say, it’s really a very good moon so thanks for all this work !

The only complaint I have is that the generation of Lignumis is rather boring. The base remains relatively small compared to the huge size of the continent, which makes some technologies like landfill or the use of steam assemblers (other than for steam potions) feel useless.
A simple addition would be to reuse Nauvis generation as it is now, but just change the gen settings. For example, simply setting “water scale” to around 25% works really well. It adds a bit of logistical challenge since the terrain is no longer infinitely flat, and it gives Nauvis a more swampy look, which fits very well with the art direction.

By the way, I’m trying to work on a replacement sprite for the desiccation furnace to fix the pipe graphic. If I manage to get a satisfying result, I can share it with you if you’d like.

Hey. Thanks for the feedback. Are you talking about changing the generation for Lignumis or Nauvis. It's not 100% clear after reading your text. But I get what you mean. The terrain is a little bit too easy on default.

I also agree that the steam assembler doesn't have many uses. At least I added one with the new blue circuit recipe. Currently I don't have more ideas for it.

Having new graphics for the desiccation furnace would be awesome. The only alternatives I found where more looking like a steam furnace but that doesn't really fit since I still wanted it to be based on the stone furnace.

Feel free to contact me on Discord.

Sorry for the lack of clarity, English isn’t my native language, so my messages are sometimes a bit clumsy.

I’m suggesting to change the generation of Lignumis, mainly by giving it a swampy feel with more water patches so that space becomes slightly more of a constraint. This would have two advantages:

1. It would make landfill useful (I honestly never used it on Lignumis despite unlocking it very early)

2. It would encourage players to use steam assemblers more often, especially to save space since they’re twice as fast as burner assemblers.

Since creating a generation system from scratch is long and tedious, I simply suggested reusing the one from Nauvis (which already seems to be the case), but adjusting the generation parameters to obtain a different result. I’m suggesting to reuse Nauvis’ generation, not to modify Nauvis.

I’ll contact you on Discord once I have a satisfying result for the desiccation furnace, i’ll try to keep the style close to the base stone furnace :)

I played around with the water scale a bit and noticed that cliffs get substancially more when reducing the water scale. Playing with the cliffs setting isn't really pleasing. It doesn't seem to work as extected. My motivation to go down the surface generation rabbit hole again is quite low. If someone else is willing to give it a try and provide a pull request, I'd consider adding it.