# The Void in Ravines

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-void-in-ravines/28751>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 26, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-void-in-ravines/28751 "2023-05-26T19:43:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![milky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/milky/32/12223_2.png) [@milky](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/milky)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-void-in-ravines/28751/1 "2023-05-26T19:43:42Z")

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Ravines are cool, I like having them turned on in worldgen. They complicate things in an organic way.

When you get all the way to the bottom of them though, there is nothing.

Does anyone know if there’s current JSON functionality for modifying them? Or what their development history is?

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**Author:** ![Minecrafter\_Next\_Gen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/minecrafter_next_gen/32/6504_2.png) [@Minecrafter\_Next\_Gen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Minecrafter_Next_Gen)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-void-in-ravines/28751/2 "2023-05-30T13:01:16Z")

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They were added back in [2020](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/44404) and haven’t been worked on since. That PR should show where all their code is.

If you wanted, you could create a new overmap spawn location and attach a special to it, as to have something spawn in ravines.

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**Author:** ![Cobweb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cobweb/32/12079_2.png) [@Cobweb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cobweb)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-void-in-ravines/28751/3 "2023-08-26T05:31:17Z")

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I’d love to see ravines cut through already generated terrain instead of the current implementation where they spawn as if they’d always been there. They’re geologic features rn, they’d be way cooler as natural disasters.