Outback

The Outback is a hot, dry desert biome added by Regions Unexplored. It is a desert variant placed alongside Joshua Desert and Saguaro Desert. It has no precipitation and is rare in Fear Nightfall, covering about 0.21% of the surface land, so most players will reach it only by exploring. Unlike the vanilla desert, it has its own trees, Socotra trees, and its own shrubs.

Description

The Outback is a sand desert with scattered patches of grass on sand. Its ground is sand, and it has the vanilla desert plants (dead bushes, cacti and sugar cane) along with the biome's own plants.

The biome uses custom colours. Grass is tinted #b8ba55, a dry olive-yellow, and foliage is tinted #85ac56, a muted green. The sky is #6eb1ff and the fog is the standard overworld fog colour. Water is the normal overworld blue.

Its trees are Socotra trees, and its shrubs are acacia-type shrubs. The biome also has short grass, steppe grass, desert shrubs on sand and a mallow flower patch. Mallow's suspicious stew gives Mining Fatigue for 4 seconds (see Flower Effects and Suspicious Stew).

Generation

Regions Unexplored places the Outback as a toggled addition to the vanilla desert. It replaces the vanilla desert only where erosion is below 0.15. Its climate is hot (temperature 2) and dry (downfall 0), with no precipitation. Snow golems melt in the biome.

The pack's biome table gives the Outback a share of 0.21% of the surface land and 0.13% of the cave layer at y = -30. The other two desert-type Regions Unexplored biomes, Joshua Desert and Saguaro Desert, are each weighted at 50 by default. The Outback is not in the pack's list of 6x horror-weighted biomes.

Features

• Trees: Socotra trees, placed in a tree group with acacia-type shrubs.
• Shrubs: acacia-type shrubs in a shrub group.
• Plants: mallow patches, short grass, steppe grass, and desert shrubs on sand.
• Cacti: the biome uses the denser cactus setting of the desert base generation, so cacti are more common than in an ordinary desert.
• Ores: the standard overworld ore set, plus pack ore features from other mods in the placed-feature list, such as the infected diamond ore, sulfur ore and mithril ore.
• Villagers: villagers in the Outback use the savanna villager type.

Mobs and structures

The Outback has a large monster spawn list. Spiders, skeletons, creepers, slimes and zombies have the highest weights. The table below also lists many horror mobs from other pack mods, including Dread Hound and Krampus. Hostile mobs spawn in darkness as in any other biome.

The passive spawn list includes sheep, pigs, chickens, cows, armadillos, terracotta golems, wolves, horses and donkeys. The biome adds wolves in packs of four to eight and raises the creature spawn probability to 0.04. Water mobs and cave mobs are listed in the table.

More than 200 structures can generate in the Outback, including desert, badlands and savanna-style structures from several mods. Use the table below to see which ones can appear here.

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (212)

Desert Pyramid, Mineshaft, Mineshaft Mesa, Ruined Portal Desert, Ruined Portal Mountain, Stronghold, Trial Chambers, Village Desert, Village Savanna, Acacia House Medium 1, Acacia House Medium 2, Acacia House Medium 3, Acacia House Small 1, Acacia House Small 2, Red Sand House Medium 1, Red Sand House Small 1, Sand House Medium 1, Sand House Medium 2, Sand House Small 1, Sand House Small 2, Acacia Well 1, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Red Sand Temple Medium 1, Red Sand Temple Small 1, Sand Castle Small 1, Sand Pyramid 1, Sand Underground Castle 1, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Desert, Mineshaft Mesa, Mineshaft Red Desert, Stronghold, Catacombs, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Village Desert Oasis, Village Desert Oasis, Village Desert Oasis, Desert Outpost, Badlands Miner Outpost, Bunker, Desert Ruins, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Evoker Fort, Badlands Pyramid, Desert Shrine, Firewell, Desert Houses, Farmland Field, Hobbit Hole, Wagon, Copper Spire, Meteor, Stone Ore Spikes, Large Temple, Mesoamerican Temple, Small Statue, Small Temple, Stone Tower, Tower Remnant, Well, Fortified Desert Village, Village Mesa Fortified, Village Mesa Fortified, Village Mesa Fortified, Small Desert Grave, Small Desert Graveyard, Small Savanna Grave, Illager Hideout, Village Desert, Village Savanna, Campsite, Fire Camp, Horse Campsite, Mine With Campsite, Barn, Duck, Haystack, Horse Pen, Shed, Wheat Grain Bin, Windmill, Wooden Wheat Farm, Floating Islands, Large Floating Island, Azelea House, Deepslate House, Desert House, Diorite And Deepslate House, House, Lil House, Tall House, Warped House, Small Oak Lantern, Blue Stall, Cart, Cartographer Tower, Large Cart 1, Large Cart 2, Orange Stall, Pink Stall, Red Stall, Castle Ruins, Crystal, Log Ruin, Ruined Beacon, Small Ruin, Statue Ruins, Stone Pillars, Arena, Calcite House, Castle Ruin, Castle Tower, Desert Pyramid, Desert Well, Diorite House, Large Tower, Nether Portal, Small Deepslate House, Small Oak House, Small Tower, White House, Leaf Hollow, Red Sand, Small Pond, Tree 1, Tree 2, Tree 3, Tree 4, Tree 5, Tree 6, Tree 7, Tree 8, Volcano, Diorite Tower, Large Warped Tower, Dead Tree Oak, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Desert Pump, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Desert Well, Rare Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Mound Of Hounds, Village Desert, Village Desert, Village Desert, Village Mesa, Village Mesa, Village Mesa, Village Savanna, Village Savanna, Village Savanna, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Badlands, Pillager Outpost Badlands, Pillager Outpost Desert, Pillager Outpost Desert, Pillager Outpost Mesa, Pillager Outpost Savanna, Pillager Outpost Wooded Badlands, Pillager Outpost, Pillager Outpost, Remnant Big Remnant 2, Remnant Big Remnant 3, Remnant Big Remnant, Remnant Bridge Remnant, Remnant Desert Remnant, Remnant Medium Remnant 2, Remnant Medium Remnant, Remnant Miner Hut, Remnant School Remnant, Rubble Desert, Rubble Mesa, Village Savanna Na, Village Savanna Na, Village Savanna Na, Mirage Outpost, Nomad Outpost, Pillager Lookout, Desert, Tavern Desert, Grave 2 Dling, Village Badlands, Village Wooded Badlands, Mimic Desert, Vindicator Butchers House, Savanna, Road Sign

Tips

• The Outback is open and flat, with little cover. Bring light and a shelter before dark, because hostile mobs spawn here at night.
• Mallow stew gives Mining Fatigue, which is a poor choice before a fight.