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Fresh Terrain

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Fresh Terrain

By RevSkyMC

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Adds 65 natural-looking fantasy biomes: blossom groves, jungles, badlands, glaciers and volcanic ridges, with matching trees, colors and atmosphere, plus fresher vanilla biomes.

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Description

Fresh Terrain

Fresh Terrain adds 65 fantasy-inspired biomes that still look natural, from blossoming groves and autumn hills to volcanic ridges and glaciers, and gives the vanilla biomes a fresher look.

Features

  • 65 new biomes across four climate zones: warm, hot and dry, cool, and cold.
  • Tree shapes that fit each biome: round, slender, spruce, pine, umbrella acacia, palm, bush, fancy, giant jungle and spruce, dark canopy, and twisted trees, each with matching logs and leaves.
  • Volcanic landscapes: tall dark mountains, small cinder cones with lava-filled craters, basalt and obsidian boulders, lava lakes, and drifting ash.
  • Spectacular mountains: alpine meadows, emerald peaks, granite tors, misty crags, spire mountains, and glacial peaks.
  • Biome-specific colors: every biome has its own grass, foliage, sky, fog, and water colors.
  • Natural atmosphere: ambient particles in selected biomes, such as ash in volcanic lands, spores in fungal forests, and floating lights in fairy woods.
  • Extra detail in every biome: unique flowers, mushrooms, ferns, boulders, and wildlife.
  • Fresher vanilla biomes: more flowers and tall grass, villages that can generate in forests, more rabbits and foxes, and brighter grass and leaf colors.
  • Configurable: turn each part on or off, and scale how often the new biomes appear.
  • Languages: English and Indonesian.

Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.16.5
  • Forge: 36.2.42
  • No other dependencies

New Biomes

65 biomes

Vanilla Biome Improvements

Beyond the new biomes, Fresh Terrain enriches the vanilla overworld. Plains gain more flowers, tall grass, and rabbits. Forests and birch forests gain denser flowers and ferns, can generate plains-style villages, and host more rabbits and foxes. Taigas gain ferns, swamps gain extra flowers, and rivers gain lily pads. Vanilla grass and leaf colors are also made brighter and cleaner.

Configuration

The config file is created at config/freshterrain-common.toml on first launch.

Option Default What it does
biome_modifier.enabled true Master switch for all vanilla biome changes
biome_modifier.extra_vegetation true Adds flowers, tall grass, and ferns to vanilla biomes
biome_modifier.extra_structures true Lets villages generate in forest biomes
biome_modifier.extra_spawns true Adds rabbits and foxes to vanilla biomes
biome_modifier.apply_to_modded_biomes false Applies the vegetation changes to biomes from other mods
biome_modifier.debug_log false Logs every biome that gets modified
new_biomes.enabled true Adds the 65 new biomes to world generation
new_biomes.weight_percent 100 How often new biomes appear: 100 is normal, 0 hides them, up to 500

Lower weight_percent if you want more vanilla terrain, or raise it for a more fantastical world.

Notes

  • Fresh Terrain is an early release. Please report bugs together with your latest.log.
  • New biomes appear only in newly generated chunks, so start a new world to see them all.
  • Cinder cones are small volcanoes, with a base radius of up to about 12 blocks. Large calderas are not included yet.
  • Biomes use vanilla blocks only, so no resource pack is required.