Red Wood Forests?

alpha biomes

You can play with those biomes without problems as far as I know. Biomes uses a Score system so they will be available if they get more score on the tiles.

Hey do you plan on making this mod compatible with the Pokemon mod?

With PokemonRim? Probably not, at least in short-time. Its a very specific mod and actually I'm working on other priorities.

Biomes like moist deciduous forests really miss tree and plant variety

I do not know if "More Vanilla Biomes" plays well with this mod. But I liked their Alpine Meadow and Cloud Forest Biomes. If I could only choose one, it would be Alpine Meadow. Lots of rich soil allowing to build up a stockpile of food before the harsh winters.

Well, they are not "biomes" as it. Alpine meadows after editing actual biomes I will start working on additional biomes based on elevation, so Alpine Meadows will have a representing biome.

That's like how people asked me for a Redwood Forest biome, but Redwood Forest is not a biome, it's biome is Temperate Rainforest. So, something similar will happen here.

I would say the Alpine Meadows is a biome between Boreal Forest, Tundra and grass/shrubland. It would be Alpine Tundra in actuality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra Check the last paragraph under the Flora section.

I'd just hope for some small amount of trees for the wood need.

Hmmm maybe I can do something with that in a future, when adding elevation requirements. At the moment biomes are taking care only the rainfall, temperature and swampiness, as elevation is directly related with temperature (higher elevation, lower temperature).

But I can add new biomes based on that. After releasing the new patch I'm working on (with tons of changes), I will start checking that.

I think making frozen tiles as pumpable as their liquid variant is good idea.

Adding <driesTo> node to the terrain defs will do the work.

IceShallow
<driesTo>Gravel</driesTo>

IceOceanShallow
<driesTo>Gravel</driesTo>

IceMarsh
<driesTo>Soil</driesTo>