I'd love to see how bad instability would become with this many dense ore symbols though 
500 Dense Ores in a Mystcraft Age (Instability Disabled) [DW20]
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*entering 500x Dense Ore Cave World* "Oh my god, look at all the--nevermind."
The first thing I thought when learning Mystcraft was to make a dimension with at least 500 Dense Ores, with instability, and name it Kessel.
Half on topic, what exactly causes instability anyways?
Like if I were to, say, place 500x Dense Ore symbols, then a void symbol, would I still end up with the instability?
I mean, I've made plenty void worlds that gave me instability, so I'm wondering what is it that causes it, if I'm just building it wrong somehow, or if the Void simply has instability always, no matter what.
Like if I were to, say, place 500x Dense Ore symbols, then a void symbol, would I still end up with the instability?
I mean, I've made plenty void worlds that gave me instability, so I'm wondering what is it that causes it, if I'm just building it wrong somehow, or if the Void simply has instability always, no matter what.
There are a few symbols (two or three), that always give instability, dense ores is one of them. Other feature symbols (like villages, caves, ...) give only instability if overused. You also have to choose one of each required symbol type and the correct amount of biomes for your chosen biome controller.
There are a few symbols for directly chosing instability. They are a bit like "choose your poison". Apart from that: If you write instable ages, each source of instability (like no biome controller specified, dense ore used, ...) adds a certain amount of an instability value. When this value has been calculated, instabilities are chosen randomly (with certain constraints), which will then reduce that value, until it becomes low enough (zero?). If you chose a special instability, it will be calculated first, so that value is lower afterwards when the random instabilities begin.
There are a few symbols for directly chosing instability. They are a bit like "choose your poison". Apart from that: If you write instable ages, each source of instability (like no biome controller specified, dense ore used, ...) adds a certain amount of an instability value. When this value has been calculated, instabilities are chosen randomly (with certain constraints), which will then reduce that value, until it becomes low enough (zero?). If you chose a special instability, it will be calculated first, so that value is lower afterwards when the random instabilities begin.
One strategy for creating safe worlds without cheating is to put two or three dense ores with a ton of meteors. The meteors will counteract most of the instability from the dense ores, giving you a relativity safe place to mine. This however, does not scale, and attempting to put more dense ores, regardless of the meteors, will eventually become unusable.
Brings to mind the question...how powerful are meteor strikes in explosion value? Could you reasonably build a reinforced roof of some kind?
Testing was done, they shatter even warded stone and bedrock.
Deep RP2 tunnel bore would probably be immune due to constantly moving, but you could not turn it off or potentially lose it.
If some people don't know, the reason dirt etc. still spawn normally is that the defualt world generator for ores, WorldGenMinable, replaces stone with whatever you choose. This is important when trying to make Nether/End world gen, as you need to remember to change it to replace Netherrack/End Stone
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