🏝️ Floating Islands - Bring Back the Classic World Generation!

Floating Islands is a mod that restores the beloved floating island terrain generation that was removed from Minecraft in version 1.18. Explore a brand new dimension filled with majestic islands floating in the void, just like the old days!

🌟 Features

🏔️ Classic Floating Islands Dimension

• A completely new dimension filled with naturally generated floating islands
• Terrain generation inspired by the classic floating islands that existed before the Caves & Cliffs update
• Each island is unique, with varied terrain, caves, and resources
• Perfect for survival challenges, creative building, or exploration

🌀 Custom Portal System

• Build your portal just like a Nether portal, but using Stone blocks instead of Obsidian
• Light it with a Flint & Steel — the familiar experience you already know
• Portal behavior is identical to vanilla Nether portals:
  • Stand in the portal and wait for the teleportation timer
  • Survival mode: 80 ticks (4 seconds) cooldown
  • Creative mode: 1 tick cooldown
  • Respects the playersNetherPortalDefaultDelay and playersNetherPortalCreativeDelay game rules
• Beautiful blue portal texture

🔗 Smart Portal Linking

• Portals are automatically linked in pairs — entering a portal always takes you back to the same portal you came from
• Portal links are saved persistently and survive server restarts
• If a linked portal is destroyed, a new one will be automatically created when you teleport
• The mod searches for existing portals within 128 blocks before creating a new one — no duplicate portals!

🐄 Entity Support

• Not just players! All entities can pass through the portal:
  • Mobs, animals, and hostile creatures
  • Items, minecarts, boats
  • Any entity that can enter a vanilla Nether portal

🌍 Coordinate Scaling

• Uses a 10:1 coordinate scale between the Overworld and the Floating Islands dimension (same as the Nether)
• Travel 10 blocks in the Overworld = arrive 1 block away in the Floating Islands
• This makes it easy to find your way back home

🎨 Custom Visual Effects

• blue portal texture using vanilla rendering with custom color tinting
• Portal blocks emit light (level 11) to illuminate the area around them

🌐 Multi-Language Support

The mod includes translations for 6 languages:

• 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
• 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
• 🇬🇧 English
• 🇯🇵 Japanese (日本語)
• 🇷🇺 Russian (Русский)
• 🇫🇷 French (Français)

📖 How to Use

Building a Portal

1. Gather Stone blocks (at least 10 for a minimum 2×3 portal)
2. Build a rectangular frame — just like a Nether portal but with Stone
3. Use a Flint & Steel on any stone block adjacent to the air inside the frame
4. The portal will ignite and activate!

Entering the Portal

• Simply walk into the portal and wait
• In Survival mode, you'll need to stand still for 4 seconds
• In Creative mode, teleportation is nearly instant
• You'll be transported to the Floating Islands dimension!

Returning Home

• Build another portal in the Floating Islands dimension, or
• Step back into the same portal you arrived through — it works both ways!

🔧 Technical Details

💡 Tips

• Bring building materials — the Floating Islands dimension is scattered with floating terrain, so bridging between islands is essential
• Mark your portals — while portal links are persistent, it's easy to lose track of which portal goes where
• Coordinate scaling works both ways — if you build a portal at X=100, Z=100 in the Overworld, you'll arrive at approximately X=10, Z=10 in the Floating Islands
• Portals auto-generate — if you enter a portal and there's no matching portal on the other side, one will be created for you automatically
• Existing portals are reused — the mod searches within 128 blocks for existing portals before creating new ones, so you won't end up with dozens of portals cluttering the landscape

🤝 Credits

• Inspired by Minecraft's classic floating island terrain generation (Beta 1.8 - 1.17)

⚠️ Compatibility

• Compatible with most Fabric mods
• Requires Fabric API and Fabric Loader
• Server-side: The mod works on servers — only the server needs the mod installed for portal teleportation to function

📝 License

This mod is provided as-is. Feel free to use it in modpacks with credit.

Enjoy exploring the Floating Islands! 🏝️✨