Archbishop
It's Saturday, and as you know it's new biome day on the new map.
Today's biome is something that was just barrrrely hinted at on the first thread when Elz showed a picture of a baby lava lake.
So, without further ado, I present one of my personal favorite biomes. The Lavalands.
Scolding heat, rending flesh, blistering rocks. The dry and hot obsidian scorch the landscape. The Earth herself pushes through the rock in many places of the lavalands.
Extreme heat and dangerous pitfalls await those who are desperate enough to scout out these lands. It would take someone with tremendous amounts of courage and endurance to survive here.
Billowing smoke and clouds of ash cover nearly every solid surface. Lava vents and valleys cut through the tortured landscape. Nothing lives here...
...Or does it.
The occasional foliage and green spots can be found in the extremely fertile volcanic soils here.
A place near and dear to my heart, a cliff jutting out overlooking the lavalands, filled with rich soil and clean air.
Where lava meets water, stone is common. Rain eventually fills all the calderas and lava pits around here. Those areas with water are among the oldest areas of the Lavalands.
Some areas that have cooled down even see occasional ice deposits gather around them. The sheer black of the obsidian foils the white of the ice nicely here.
As water and time take their effect, lichens break down the volcanic stones and turn them into rich soils, upon which grasses may grow. (Props to anyone that can name this process).
One of the largest volcanoes on the new map is immensely big. Size-wise it's larger than the one near Scourge, but the caldera itself is smaller. A treacherous climb for any would-be adventurer.
The second-largest volcano in this new world is a newer and younger volcano. Much taller than the shield volcano posted above, this cone volcano is extremely active, as can be seen by the large amounts of lava surrounding its base.
Today's biome is something that was just barrrrely hinted at on the first thread when Elz showed a picture of a baby lava lake.
So, without further ado, I present one of my personal favorite biomes. The Lavalands.
Scolding heat, rending flesh, blistering rocks. The dry and hot obsidian scorch the landscape. The Earth herself pushes through the rock in many places of the lavalands.
Extreme heat and dangerous pitfalls await those who are desperate enough to scout out these lands. It would take someone with tremendous amounts of courage and endurance to survive here.
Billowing smoke and clouds of ash cover nearly every solid surface. Lava vents and valleys cut through the tortured landscape. Nothing lives here...
...Or does it.
The occasional foliage and green spots can be found in the extremely fertile volcanic soils here.
A place near and dear to my heart, a cliff jutting out overlooking the lavalands, filled with rich soil and clean air.
Where lava meets water, stone is common. Rain eventually fills all the calderas and lava pits around here. Those areas with water are among the oldest areas of the Lavalands.
Some areas that have cooled down even see occasional ice deposits gather around them. The sheer black of the obsidian foils the white of the ice nicely here.
As water and time take their effect, lichens break down the volcanic stones and turn them into rich soils, upon which grasses may grow. (Props to anyone that can name this process).
One of the largest volcanoes on the new map is immensely big. Size-wise it's larger than the one near Scourge, but the caldera itself is smaller. A treacherous climb for any would-be adventurer.
The second-largest volcano in this new world is a newer and younger volcano. Much taller than the shield volcano posted above, this cone volcano is extremely active, as can be seen by the large amounts of lava surrounding its base.
