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Wondrous Nature

Adds additional natural wonders. Currently adds Mount Everest, Salar de Uyuni, and Giant's Causeway.

The mod adds new natural wonders and is designed to work "out of the box" -- so in addition to adding the wonders, it adds civilopedia entries and adjusts the natural wonder placement function called by map scripts so that these natural wonders will appear in random maps just as if they were in the base game. The new natural wonders have full graphical support, both in 2D and 3D, and so should appear correctly in both regular and strategic view and have icons in all the appropriate sizes to appear correctly in the "Natural Wonder Found!" message box, the reminder circles on the right, the civilopedia, etc. The one exception is that it does not have graphics support for the Map Editor (the mod does work in the map editor, but the new natural wonders have the same red checkerboard graphics as Bison and Cocoa do in the editor).

New natural wonder statistics:
Mt. Everest: only appears surrounded by mountains; 4 faith, 4 culture, 4 gold, 2 happiness
Salar de Uyuni: only appears in flat plains or desert, away from water or vegetation (such as forests, jungles, marshes); 1 production, 2 gold, 3 culture, 1 science
Giant's Causeway: only appears on water adjacent to land; 2 faith, 2 culture, 2 science

The mod is compatible with most map scripts (exceptions would be mapscripts that change the natural wonder placement algorithm) and with most non-DLL mods (exceptions are mods that change AssignStartingPlots.lua or NaturalWonderPopup.lua (possibly) or the aforementioned DLL mods (definitely)). Unfortunately it is not possible to add natural wonders with 3D graphics different from Mt. Fuji without modifying the DLL, which makes this mod incompatible with any other DLL mod (such as Community Patch). That said, the changes to the code for the DLL are minimal, and I have instructions for what modifications are indeed on a CivFanatics forum thread (see below) if you want to make the mod compatible with another DLL mod manually.

Additional details and discussion, mostly about the behind-the-scenes details of the mod, can be found on the CivFanatics forum: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=14419466