Bog

Bog is a cool, rainy overworld biome added by Biomes O' Plenty. It is a wet biome with a dense hostile spawn list, and the pack's other mods place many horror mobs and structures in it. Players visit it for its plants and ores, and for the monsters that spawn there after dark.

Description

The Bog has a temperature of 0.2 and a downfall of 0.5, and it rains rather than snows. Its grass is tinted #a89557, a dry tan, and its foliage is tinted #c67f5b, a warm rust brown. Standing water is tinted #3f76e4. The fog is #c0d8ff and the sky is #7da2ff, so the biome looks paler and cooler than most swamp-type biomes. The vanilla and Biomes O' Plenty biome tags class the Bog as a taiga biome, so it is grouped with the taigas for structure and mob rules.

Generation

The Bog is registered by Biomes O' Plenty as one of its overworld biomes. Fear Nightfall's custom biome table places it by climate, and biomes of the same type sit next to each other, so the Bog borders other biomes with similar climate. The table gives the Bog a surface share of 0.01% of land. The biome has no cave share at y = -30.

The pack's horror weighting gives six times the weight to biomes such as the Dark Forest, Willow Swamp and bayous. The Bog is not on that list, so its share is set by climate alone. The horror structures that it can hold are still placed about 30% closer together than in the default pack.

Features

The Bog has a short list of placed features, and most of its plant life comes from Biomes O' Plenty:

• lake water, and patches of grass, ferns, bushes and reeds placed by Biomes O' Plenty;
• a Biomes O' Plenty bog tree feature;
• willows, swamp flowers, flowering lily pads and selenite geodes from Hexerei;
• wild potatoes and wild rice from Farmer's Delight;
• wild flax and cave urns from Supplementaries.

The Bog has the vanilla overworld ore set, with extra ores from the pack. These include the infected diamond ore and black argillite from Born in Chaos, sulfur ore from Butchery, and mithril ore from Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks.

Mobs and structures

The hostile list is the main feature of the biome. The five highest-weighted monsters are spiders, skeletons, creepers, slimes and zombies, each at a weight of 95 or 100. Below them are many horror mobs, including Ghoul, Revenant, Necromancer, Nightmare and Dread Hound, most at weights between 7 and 25. Krampus has the lowest weight in the list. The weighted tables below list every monster.

The water spawns include the Born in Chaos Corpse Fish. The underground water creature list includes glow squids. The water-ambient list is a large group of fish from several mods, including cave-type species. The land creatures are a pig and a box turtle, and the ambient list has bats, roly-polies, snails and dragonflies.

The Bog's structures include graveyard houses, Hexerei covens, Born in Chaos sites, and the swamp structure collection from Nova Structures. The structure table below shows the full placement list.

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (187)

Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Ruined Portal Swamp, Stronghold, Swamp Hut, Trial Chambers, Spruce House Large 1, Spruce House Medium 1, Spruce House Small 1, Spruce House Small 2, Spruce House Small 3, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Oak, Mineshaft Spruce, Stronghold, Catacombs, Clown Caravan Taiga, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Dark Coven, Undead Crypt, Dark Tower Taiga, Bunker, Deepslate Camp, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Underground House, Village Swamp, Firewatch Tower Swamp, Firewell, Hobbit Hole, Log Shelter, Small House, Tiny House, Wagon, Copper Spire, Meteor, Stone Ore Spikes, Fountain, Small Statue, Tower Remnant, Well, Witch Tower, Village Swamp Fortified, Village Swamp Fortified, Village Swamp Fortified, Dead Tree, Mushroom Grave, Small Grave, Haunted House, Witch Hut, Illager Hideout, Infernal Pumpkin, Mangrove Hut, Campsite, Fire Camp, Horse Campsite, Mine With Campsite, Barn, Duck, Haystack, Horse Pen, Out House, Shed, Wheat Grain Bin, Windmill, Wooden Wheat Farm, Floating Islands, Large Floating Island, Azelea House, Deepslate House, Diorite And Deepslate House, Fox Hut, House, Lil House, Mud Brick House 1, Small Swamp House, Tall House, Warped House, Small Oak Lantern, Small Spruce Lantern, Blue Stall, Cart, Cartographer Tower, Large Cart 1, Large Cart 2, Orange Stall, Pink Stall, Red Stall, Boulder, Castle Ruins, Crystal, Log Ruin, Ruined Beacon, Small Ruin, Statue Ruins, Stone Pillars, Stone Rock, Arena, Calcite House, Castle Ruin, Castle Tower, Diorite House, Large Tower, Nether Portal, Small Deepslate House, Small Oak House, Small Tower, Spruce Huts, White House, Leaf Hollow, Muddy Water Hole, Small Pond, Taiga, Tree 1, Tree 2, Tree 3, Tree 4, Tree 5, Tree 6, Tree 7, Tree 8, Volcano, Diorite Tower, Large Warped Tower, Red Tower, Small Pillager Tower, Dead Tree Oak, Dead Tree Spruce, Spruce Log Pile, Spruce Tree, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Lecturn Garden, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Rare Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Spruce Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Village Swamp, Village Swamp, Village Swamp, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Swamp, Pillager Outpost Swamp, Pyromancer Tower, Remnant Big Remnant 2, Remnant Big Remnant 3, Remnant Big Remnant, Remnant Bridge Remnant, Remnant Medium Remnant 2, Remnant Medium Remnant, Remnant Miner Hut, Remnant School Remnant, Farmer Outpost, Taiga Outpost, Tavern Swamp, Grave Nino 4416, Village Swamp, Toxic Lair, Vindicator Butchers House, Road Sign, Swamp Hut, Village Witch, Witch Hut, Witch Villa

Tips

• Expect a dense hostile spawn at night. The five most common monsters carry weights of 95 to 100, so bring a weapon and light before crossing the biome after dark.
• Corpse Fish spawn in the water, so take care when swimming through the lakes.
• The Bog has the same ore set as the rest of the overworld, including diamond and lapis, so it is a practical place to mine for them.
• Other swamp-type biomes such as Marsh and Wetland share some of the same hostile and structure lists, so the same kinds of threats appear there.