Bee Breeding Trouble with Biomes O Plenty

[Flexico]

I'm trying to breed Rural bees, which need to be bred with Meadows and Diligent bees in a "Plains-like environment." I read a while back that similar BOP biomes will work for this, but I can't get it to work. I've found "Field" and "Grassland" biomes in my world (which look pretty similar to Plains), but can't get any Rural bees even with mutators. I can't find any Plains biomes because they're so rare due to all the BOP biomes (I'm over 13,000 blocks from spawn and still no Plains). Is there some option to enable biome compatibility that I'm missing?

 

[Flexico]

Advice? Anyone?

 

[YX33A]

You managed to ask a question that no one was able to help with? I'm impressed. I guess I'll field this one.
There is a very special bit of Minecraft's Biome logic that is rarely mentioned let alone used; the type flag(s). In this case, we're looking for "plains-like enviroments", meaning we want a biome with simliar tags(if not identical), with humidity and tempeture as close to it as possible as well.

Let see here...

ID,Name,Temperature,Rainfall,Spawn Chance,Min Height,Max Height,Types,Class
1,Plains,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.1,0.3,PLAINS,net.minecraft.world.biome.BiomeGenPlains

Here's our starting point. I omitted ID 0 because it's Oceans.

28,Sublime Shrubland,2.0,2.0,0.1,0.1,2.0,"FOREST, PLAINS, MAGICAL",biomesoplenty.biomes.promisedland.BiomeGenPromisedLandShrub

May not help much. After all, that's in the Promised Land, and thus a bit of a bother to reach right away.

31,Lavender Fields,0.6,0.7,0.1,0.3,0.3,PLAINS,biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenLavenderFields
34,Overgrown Greens,0.8,0.8,0.1,0.3,0.4,"PLAINS, JUNGLE",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenOvergrownGreens
39,Savanna Plateau,1.5,0.1,0.1,0.9,0.9,"PLAINS, HILLS, DESERT",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenSavannaPlateau
40,Forested Field,0.6,0.7,0.1,0.3,0.3,"FOREST, PLAINS",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenFieldForest
45,Thinned Pasture,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.3,0.4,PLAINS,biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenPastureThin
46,Pasture Meadow,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.3,0.4,"FOREST, PLAINS",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenPastureMeadow
48,Thick Shrubland,0.6,0.05,0.1,0.2,0.2,PLAINS,biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenShrublandForest
50,Meadow Forest,0.7,0.7,0.1,0.1,0.3,"FOREST, PLAINS",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenMeadowForest

A bit of a start to look with, eh? Why, look at this:

1,Plains,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.1,0.3,PLAINS,net.minecraft.world.biome.BiomeGenPlain
45,Thinned Pasture,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.3,0.4,PLAINS,biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenPastureThin
46,Pasture Meadow,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.3,0.4,"FOREST, PLAINS",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenPastureMeadow

Very good. Very similar, eh?
But, I did one last search for this and found what I hope is the holy grail for you on this quest.

1,Plains,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.1,0.3,PLAINS,net.minecraft.world.biome.BiomeGenPlain
219,Orchard,0.8,0.4,0.1,0.1,0.3,"FOREST, PLAINS",biomesoplenty.biomes.BiomeGenOrchard

Save for the FOREST tag, it's a perfect match. Hopefully it won't be a problem.
Let me know if this helps! I mean, after you tested this in game.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Few options, witchery can change biome types, use MCedit to trim your world and regen the chunks hoping for a plain or do what I do with biome issues after trying and failing and just cheat it in

 

[madnewmy]

Do you have gendustry? If so, it should be able to bypass those req.

If not, there was a list somewhere of all the BOP biomes tag for forestry, try googling it, the info is out there

 

[rhn]

I'm trying to breed Rural bees, which need to be bred with Meadows and Diligent bees in a "Plains-like environment." I read a while back that similar BOP biomes will work for this, but I can't get it to work. I've found "Field" and "Grassland" biomes in my world (which look pretty similar to Plains), but can't get any Rural bees even with mutators. I can't find any Plains biomes because they're so rare due to all the BOP biomes (I'm over 13,000 blocks from spawn and still no Plains). Is there some option to enable biome compatibility that I'm missing?

Was having the same issue in Monster(ATG+BoP+Highlands) earlier, but eventually managed to find a Plains biome. If not then you can always use Mystcraft to create a world with the biome setup that you desire. Plains should be a fairly common page or you can cheat in the master page books.

 

[Flexico]

Aha! I managed to get it to work in a Lavender Fields biome, and Deciduous Forest worked for the Heroic bees.