Savanna Slopes

The Savanna Slopes is a hot, dry overworld biome added by Terralith. It is a savanna variant that sits on raised, mountain-type ground, and it is one of the rarest biomes in Fear Nightfall, covering about 0.01% of the land surface. Its monster spawn table is long and includes many mobs from Born in Chaos and other horror mods, so it is a place where a player meets a wide range of hostile creatures at night.

Description

The Savanna Slopes has the standard Terralith savanna palette. The water colour is a standard blue (#3f76e4), the fog is a pale blue (#cde6ff) and the sky is a light blue (#b1d1ff). The biome has a temperature of 1 and a downfall of 0, and it has no precipitation, so it never rains or snows there.

The biome is tagged as a mountain and slope biome, and its placed features include the cliff feature from Stony Cliffs Are Cool, so the ground is broken by cliffs rather than flat savanna. Its ambient mood sound is the standard cave sound, played every 6000 ticks.

Generation

The Savanna Slopes is a hot biome with no rain, and it belongs to Terralith's savanna reference group. Its biome tags include the stronghold-biased tag, which is the vanilla tag that strongholds use to prefer certain biomes. It is not on the pack's list of horror biomes weighted 6×, such as Ashen Savanna. Its low share of land is the main reason it is rare; see the infobox for the exact figure.

Many of its hostile mobs come from Born in Chaos. The pack halves the spawn weights of Born in Chaos mobs so that they take a smaller part of the monster cap, and the weights in the table below reflect the pack's values.

Features

The biome's placed features are the standard savanna set plus a few Terralith and mod additions:

• Trees and plants: savanna trees, baobabs from Terralith, tall grass, savanna grass patches, warm flowers, sugar cane, pumpkin patches, glow lichen, and brown and red mushrooms.
• Terrain and caves: granite grass patches from Terralith, amethyst geodes, lava lakes both underground and at the surface, underwater magma, and spring water and spring lava.
• Dungeons: both the normal and deep monster rooms, so spawners and dungeon loot can appear underground.
• Ores: the vanilla ore set from coal to diamond, plus ore features added by Born in Chaos (black argillite and infected diamond ore) and Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks (mithril ore).

Lava springs and lava lakes can appear close to the surface, so a player who digs or runs across the slopes should check the ground before moving.

Mobs and structures

The monster table is dominated by spiders, skeletons, creepers, slimes and zombies, each with a high weight. Born in Chaos adds a large group of mobs, including Dread Hound, Nightmare, Necromancer and Spiders Mother. The mutant versions of several mobs from Mutant Monsters also spawn here at low weight, including Mutant Creeper, Mutant Skeleton and Mutant Zombie. Passive animals include sheep, pigs, chickens, cows, llamas and wolves, and bats are the ambient mobs. The full spawn list is in the table below.

Many structures can generate here, including Catacombs, Evoker Fort, Firewatch Towers, Clown Caravan, Infernal Pumpkin Patch and Firewell. The full structure list is in the table below.

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (183)

Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Ruined Portal Mountain, Stronghold, Trial Chambers, Village Savanna, Farm, Acacia House Medium 1, Acacia House Medium 2, Acacia House Medium 3, Acacia House Small 1, Acacia House Small 2, Acacia Well 1, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Village Mountain Alpine, Village Mountain Alpine, Village Mountain Alpine, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Acacia, Stronghold, Catacombs, Clown Caravan Savanna, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Bunker, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Well Savana, Evoker Fort, Firewatch Tower Savanna, Firewell, Campsite, Hobbit Hole, Log Shelter, Small House, Tiny House, Wagon, Copper Spire, Stone Ore Spikes, Fountain, Large Temple, Mesoamerican Temple, Small Statue, Small Temple, Stone Tower, Tower Remnant, Well, Small Mountain Grave, Small Savanna Grave, Illager Hideout, Infernal Pumpkin, 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, Diorite And Deepslate House, House, Lil House, Tall House, Warped House, Small Acacia Lantern, 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, Diorite House, Large Tower, Nether Portal, Small Deepslate House, Small Oak House, Small Tower, Spruce Huts, White House, Leaf Hollow, 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, Acacia Log Pile, Acacia Tree, Dead Tree Acacia, Dead Tree Oak, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Acacia Well, Rare Well, Rocky Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Mountain Tower, Village Mountain, Village Mountain, Village Mountain, Village Savanna, Village Savanna, Village Savanna, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Mountain, Pillager Outpost Savanna Plateau, Pillager Outpost Savanna, Pillager Outpost Savanna, Pillager Outpost, Pillager Outpost, 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, Rubble Mesa, Village Savanna Na, Village Savanna Na, Village Savanna Na, Farmer Outpost, Ancient Temple, Pillager Lookout, Tavern Acacia, Grave Tem 187, Village Savanna Plateau, Vindicator Butchers House, Savanna, Road Sign

Tips

• Spiders, skeletons, creepers, slimes and zombies have the highest spawn weights here, so they make up most of the hostile encounters.
• Because the biome is rare, finding it takes a map or a locator; it covers only a small share of the land.
• Watch for lava. Lava lakes and lava springs are part of the biome's terrain, so check the ground before moving across the slopes.