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Adding the object permanence that Mojang didn't have to Vanilla biome design
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Natural Philosophy
Natural Philosophy replaces and overhauls Minecraft biome decoration, integrating newer blocks and features into older biomes while keeping some of the essence of Minecraft biome decoration. It extends upon Minecraft's ideas without entirely supplanting or replacing them, while integrating new content and new biome features into a holistic Overworld biome overhaul.
Built around the concept that most Minecraft biome decoration is sparse, empty, and lacking in sub-biome variation, Natural Philosophy aims to accurately represent ecosystems that could have developed in each biome. Rather than following the Minecraft biome philosophy and producing new variations on its lackluster style, or breaking with it entirely and integrating excess hand-built detail, Natural Philosophy aims to thread the needle and provide environments full of subtle detail.
Terrain profile is unchanged from the Minecraft default; Natural Philosophy focuses on adapting biome decoration rather than terrain. For a more natural look, a combination of Deeper Oceans and Continents is suggested to increase ocean depth and make oceans more distinct from standard biomes.
Compatibility Notes
It is not recommended to use Natural Philosophy alongside other mods that add features to or overhaul single or multiple Minecraft biomes, such as Project: Vibrant Journeys, Geophilic, or Biome Makeover. Overlapping content, incompatible replacements, or other issues are likely.
Natural Philosophy does not change biomes from other mods; those mods which are installed alongside it that use Terrablender, Lithostitched, or Biolith will not see their biomes modified, except for several widely-applicable changes to riparian sediment and cliffs. How modded biomes are sorted inside of these features can be controlled via tags in the naturalphilosophy:worldgen/biome/cliffs/ and naturalphilosophy:worldgen/biome/sediment/ folders.
Compatibility with datapacks that modify Minecraft biomes is not guaranteed, and not supported. Datapacks that add new biomes or change terrain should be compatible directly upon install; those that change terrain profile such as Tectonic or Larion are not incompatible but may cause some features to not generate.
Datapacks that modify existing features such as minecraft:flower_plain or minecraft:oak_bees_005 are likely incompatible. Natural Philosophy replaces the vegetation features of most biomes, and only certain features that are commonly modified (minecraft:flower_meadow) are generated unmodified.
Inspirations
Geophilic is similar to Natural Philosophy but hews more closely to the Minecraft decoration style.
Project Vibrant Journeys is focused on adding block-based decoration features.
Stony Cliffs Are Cool adds stone cliffs to steep surfaces on generation.
Simple Snowy Fix adds snow spawning and ice spawning underneath trees.
Other inspirations come from too many biome mods to count. A selected list for some features of note can be found in the notes directory, alongside previous and future plans for the mod.
Simple Snowy Fix and Stony Cliffs are Cool are integrated into Natural Philosophy and need not be included alongside.
Natural Philosophy
Natural Philosophy replaces and overhauls Minecraft biome decoration, integrating newer blocks and features into older biomes while keeping some of the essence of Minecraft biome decoration. It extends upon Minecraft's ideas without entirely supplanting or replacing them, while integrating new content and new biome features into a holistic Overworld biome overhaul.
Built around the concept that most Minecraft biome decoration is sparse, empty, and lacking in sub-biome variation, Natural Philosophy aims to accurately represent ecosystems that could have developed in each biome. Rather than following the Minecraft biome philosophy and producing new variations on its lackluster style, or breaking with it entirely and integrating excess hand-built detail, Natural Philosophy aims to thread the needle and provide environments full of subtle detail.
Terrain profile is unchanged from the Minecraft default; Natural Philosophy focuses on adapting biome decoration rather than terrain. For a more natural look, a combination of Deeper Oceans and Continents is suggested to increase ocean depth and make oceans more distinct from standard biomes.
Compatibility Notes
It is not recommended to use Natural Philosophy alongside other mods that add features to or overhaul single or multiple Minecraft biomes, such as Project: Vibrant Journeys, Geophilic, or Biome Makeover. Overlapping content, incompatible replacements, or other issues are likely.
Natural Philosophy does not change biomes from other mods; those mods which are installed alongside it that use Terrablender, Lithostitched, or Biolith will not see their biomes modified, except for several widely-applicable changes to riparian sediment and cliffs. How modded biomes are sorted inside of these features can be controlled via tags in the naturalphilosophy:worldgen/biome/cliffs/ and naturalphilosophy:worldgen/biome/sediment/ folders.
Compatibility with datapacks that modify Minecraft biomes is not guaranteed, and not supported. Datapacks that add new biomes or change terrain should be compatible directly upon install; those that change terrain profile such as Tectonic or Larion are not incompatible but may cause some features to not generate.
Datapacks that modify existing features such as minecraft:flower_plain or minecraft:oak_bees_005 are likely incompatible. Natural Philosophy replaces the vegetation features of most biomes, and only certain features that are commonly modified (minecraft:flower_meadow) are generated unmodified.
Inspirations
Geophilic is similar to Natural Philosophy but hews more closely to the Minecraft decoration style.
Project Vibrant Journeys is focused on adding block-based decoration features.
Stony Cliffs Are Cool adds stone cliffs to steep surfaces on generation.
Simple Snowy Fix adds snow spawning and ice spawning underneath trees.
Other inspirations come from too many biome mods to count. A selected list for some features of note can be found in the notes directory, alongside previous and future plans for the mod.
Simple Snowy Fix and Stony Cliffs are Cool are integrated into Natural Philosophy and need not be included alongside.
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Badlands Mineshaft An abandoned mineshaft threads through the terracotta and coarse dirt surface of a Wooded Badlands, exposing old rail tracks to the stunted trees that have reclaimed it. -
Bamboo Understory Peering out into the forest of giant bamboo that colonizes the Bamboo Jungle, the understory in front is clear from the shade as orchids grow in the foreground. -
Birch Clearing In the open Birch Forest, a grassy clearing contains several flower patches, including a patch of nearby peony bushes. -
Coral Meadow A meadow of seagrass in the middle of a coral reef in a Warm Ocean. -
Dark Forest A fern-filled clearing in the vegetation-filled Dark Forest. -
Flowering Vista An open Flower Forest flows into some Sunflower Plains before a Cherry Grove on a ridge, with mountain peaks visible in the distance. -
Kelp Forest Looking into the kelp forests dominating Cold Ocean biomes, shared with Oceans, and to a lesser degree, Frozen Oceans. -
Mushroom Fields On an island in the middle of a coral reef, mushrooms have started colonizing the basaltic cliffs and sand. -
Old Growth Taiga Towering trees shade the floor of an Old Growth pine taiga, their roots reaching deep into the soil to anchor their immense height. -
Savanna Grasslands The hot Savanna stretches as far as the eye can see, the only shade other than a copse of acacia trees near the river a few lone trees. -
Snowy Habitation An igloo sits outside of a snowy village, the sparse copses on the snow-blasted plain barely enough to hide it from the weather. -
Sparse Jungle A clearing among the dense vegetation of the Sparse Jungle demonstrates that shorter forests are not often the easiest to traverse with an impenetrable wall of foliage on the other side. -
Swamp Rushbed In the middle of a large swamp, a murky pool is ringed by thriving rushbeds and stands of sugarcane, the wet environs supporting dense growth. -
Cold Meadow An alpine Meadow leads into a Taiga clearing, the trees forming a thicket further down the mountain. -
Windswept Cliffs The short, stout trees of a Windswept Forest hang onto the hardy cliffs of their wind-sculpted home, growing amidst grasses which can tolerate the weather.
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Bamboo Understory Peering out into the forest of giant bamboo that colonizes the Bamboo Jungle, the understory in front is clear from the shade as orchids grow in the foreground. -
Flowering Vista An open Flower Forest flows into some Sunflower Plains before a Cherry Grove on a ridge, with mountain peaks visible in the distance. -
Badlands Mineshaft An abandoned mineshaft threads through the terracotta and coarse dirt surface of a Wooded Badlands, exposing old rail tracks to the stunted trees that have reclaimed it. -
Dark Forest A fern-filled clearing in the vegetation-filled Dark Forest. -
Cold Meadow An alpine Meadow leads into a Taiga clearing, the trees forming a thicket further down the mountain. -
Kelp Forest Looking into the kelp forests dominating Cold Ocean biomes, shared with Oceans, and to a lesser degree, Frozen Oceans. -
Sparse Jungle A clearing among the dense vegetation of the Sparse Jungle demonstrates that shorter forests are not often the easiest to traverse with an impenetrable wall of foliage on the other side. -
Birch Clearing In the open Birch Forest, a grassy clearing contains several flower patches, including a patch of nearby peony bushes. -
Coral Meadow A meadow of seagrass in the middle of a coral reef in a Warm Ocean. -
Windswept Cliffs The short, stout trees of a Windswept Forest hang onto the hardy cliffs of their wind-sculpted home, growing amidst grasses which can tolerate the weather. -
Swamp Rushbed In the middle of a large swamp, a murky pool is ringed by thriving rushbeds and stands of sugarcane, the wet environs supporting dense growth. -
Old Growth Taiga Towering trees shade the floor of an Old Growth pine taiga, their roots reaching deep into the soil to anchor their immense height. -
Savanna Grasslands The hot Savanna stretches as far as the eye can see, the only shade other than a copse of acacia trees near the river a few lone trees. -
Mushroom Fields On an island in the middle of a coral reef, mushrooms have started colonizing the basaltic cliffs and sand. -
Snowy Habitation An igloo sits outside of a snowy village, the sparse copses on the snow-blasted plain barely enough to hide it from the weather.
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