Yosemite Cliffs and Lowlands

The Yosemite Cliffs and Lowlands are two biomes added by Terralith. Yosemite Cliffs is a rocky biome of stone outcrops, calcite and diorite, and small waterfalls. Yosemite Lowlands is a forested neighbour with oak trees, grass-topped stone columns and silk cocoons. Both are rare in Fear Nightfall, each covering about 0.03% and 0.02% of the land surface, so they are easy to miss. They carry a wide mob list that mixes vanilla monsters with horror mobs from the pack's mods, so they are worth knowing before a night-time trip.

Description

Yosemite Cliffs

The cliffs are built from stone, with grass patches laid over the stone surface. These patches are 1 to 5 blocks in radius and carry short grass and tall grass. Blobs of calcite and diorite, each about 45 blocks in size, are set into the stone walls. Water is placed on calcite ledges by the "waterfall" feature, which produces small waterfalls running down the cliff faces. The biome has almost no trees: its only tree-like features are these water columns, so wood must come from elsewhere.

The water colour is #3f76e4, the fog is #c0d8ff and the sky is #7da3ff. Cave and canyon carvers both apply, so the ground is pierced by caves and ravines.

Yosemite Lowlands

The lowlands are a green, forested biome. The grass colour is #598347, the foliage colour is #508231 and the water colour is #3647aa. Grass-topped stone columns from the canyon cliff features stand on cliff faces across the terrain. Trees are mostly oak: about 30% of tree picks are mega oaks, and four spruce and birch variants take about 7.5% of picks each. Flowers, sugar cane, pumpkins, berry bushes, large ferns and mushrooms also grow here. Silk cocoons from Critters and Companions hang from trees and sit on the ground. Andesite disks replace patches of gravel, sand, dirt, grass, calcite and basalt, and small patches of wild potatoes from Farmer's Delight grow on the ground.

Generation

Both biomes use the same climate settings: downfall 0.8 and rain. Yosemite Cliffs has a temperature of 0.375 and Yosemite Lowlands has a temperature of 0.25. Both are placed by the pack's custom biome table, which gives every Terralith biome a weight within its climate cell. Terralith as a whole makes up about 31% of land in a Fear Nightfall world.

Neither biome is on the pack's list of 6x-weighted horror biomes, so they are not especially common at night. Both carry the minecraft:stronghold_biased_to tag, which means strongholds are more likely to be placed beneath them, and both can host a large number of structures: 115 in Yosemite Cliffs and 174 in Yosemite Lowlands.

Features

Both biomes share a long list of ore features. These include the usual vanilla ores for coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis and diamond, along with the granite, diorite, andesite and tuff veins. The pack's mods add more ore to the same list. Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks adds Mithril ore, Butchery adds Sulfur ore, and Born in Chaos adds infected diamond ore in both stone and deepslate. Underground lava lakes, amethyst geodes and monster rooms also generate in both biomes, so dungeons are common underground.

Supplementaries adds cave urns and wild flax to both biomes. Stony Cliffs Are Cool adds its cliff feature to both. Yosemite Lowlands adds the silk cocoons, wild potato patches and gravel and dirt ore that are absent from Yosemite Cliffs.

Mobs and structures

Hostile mobs dominate the monster tables in both biomes. The vanilla monsters spiders, skeletons, creepers and slimes have the highest weight of 100 each, followed by zombies at 95. The horror mobs from the pack include Revenant at weight 25, Slime Golem at 25, Skeleton Creeper at 20, Necromancer at 18, Dread Hound at 7 and Krampus at 1. Yosemite Lowlands adds Crow (weight 20), Honey Golem (weight 6) and Ferret (weight 3) to the creature list, plus several insects in the ambient list.

Yosemite Cliffs has bats as its only ambient mob. Water life is the same in both biomes: the Freshwater Fish, Corpse Fish and Glutton Fish from Born in Chaos, and glow squid in underground water.

Structures that can generate in Yosemite Cliffs include Catacombs and Evoker Fort from Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, the illager hideout, Firewell from Born in Chaos, and mineshafts. Yosemite Lowlands adds the Dark Tower from Born in Chaos and several overworld camps from Formations. The pack's horror structures are placed about 30% closer together than in default spacing, so graveyard and Born in Chaos structures are denser than usual here.

Pack-wide changes also shape these tables. Pack-wide, Born in Chaos spawn weights were halved to limit how much they crowd out vanilla monsters, and its spawns are limited to the Overworld.

Yosemite Cliffs (Terralith)

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (115)

Mineshaft, Ruined Portal Mountain, Stronghold, Trial Chambers, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Stronghold, Catacombs, 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, Evoker Fort, Firewell, Illager Hideout, 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 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, White House, Leaf Hollow, 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, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Rare Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Illager Camp, 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, Rubble Mountain, Warped Greatsword, Road Sign

Yosemite Lowlands (Terralith)

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (174)

Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold, Trial Chambers, Birch House Medium 1, Birch House Medium 2, Birch House Small 1, Birch House Small 2, Oak House Large 1, Oak House Medium 1, Oak House Medium 2, Oak House Small 1, Oak House Small 2, Oak House Small 3, Oak Hut 1, Library Large 1, Library Small 1, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Birch Beehive 1, Birch Tree 1, Oak Tree 1, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Overgrown, Stronghold, Catacombs, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Undead Crypt, Dark Tower Forest, Bunker, Deepslate Camp, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Underground House, Evoker Fort, Mausoleum, Firewell, Campsite, Hobbit Hole, Log Shelter, Small House, Tiny House, Copper Spire, Log Spikes, Meteor, Stone Ore Spikes, Graveyard, Offering, Small Statue, Stone Tower, Tower Remnant, Well, Witch Tower, Medium Graveyard, Illager Hideout, 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 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, White House, Leaf Hollow, 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, Oak Log Pile, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Oak Well, Rare Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Observation Tower Forest, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Flower Forest, Pillager Outpost Taiga, Pillager Outpost, Pillager Outpost, Pyromancer Tower, Remnant Bee Keeper, Remnant Big Remnant 2, Remnant Big Remnant 3, Remnant Big Remnant, Remnant Bridge Remnant, Remnant Graveyard, Remnant Medium Remnant 2, Remnant Medium Remnant, Remnant Miner Hut, Remnant Sawmill, Remnant School Remnant, Remnant Zombie Horse Ranch, Rubble Forest, Rubble Mountain, Sinful Church, Farmer Outpost, Pillager Lookout, Forest, Tavern, Grave Mike And Rory, Village Flower Forest, Road Sign

Tips

• Bring wood before entering Yosemite Cliffs. The only tree-like features are water columns, so logs must come from Yosemite Lowlands or another biome.
• Expect hostile mobs in both biomes at night. Revenants, Necromancers and Dread Hounds are among the horror mobs with the weights listed above, so carry a sword and armour before going out after dark.
• Yosemite Lowlands is the better place to gather materials. It has oak and other trees, sugar cane, pumpkins and berry bushes, while the cliffs do not.