Natural Temperature
Natural Temperature is a mod that overhauls the way biomes are placed in the world, creating a layout that more closely resembles Earth’s climate zones with cold biomes in the north and warm biomes in the south.
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
General improvements to world generation, such as bug fixes, aesthetic overhauls, or misc additions.
Introduces lifelike mechanics and detailed enhancements to create a more believable and engaging experience.
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Natural Temperature
Natural Temperature is a mod that overhauls the way biomes are placed in the world, creating a layout that more closely resembles Earth’s climate zones.
Instead of Minecraft’s typical random patchwork of biomes, this mod introduces a structured, configurable, latitude-based biome generation system:
- Polar regions feature icy biomes such as Snowy Tundra and Ice Spikes.
- Cold zones include taigas that aren’t covered in snow.
- Temperate zones contain forests, plains, and seasonal biomes.
- Warm regions are covered by dry biomes such as savannas.
- Tropical regions are dominated by hot biomes like deserts and badlands.
- Equatorial regions are populated by jungles
This creates a more immersive, believable world that mimics Earth's natural climate bands, making exploration feel more organic and meaningful. Whether you're building realistic cities, survival challenges, or just want a more coherent world, this mod brings climate logic to your overworld.
This is an image from 1.0.5 mod version
Features
- Latitude-based biome generation
- Configurable world width in config file
- Full compatibility with vanilla and many modded biomes
- Lightweight and performance-friendly
Configuration
You can open the setting menu pressing the nt button in the main menu or you can go in the config folder where you will find the configuration file for natural-temperature. Here you can change some parameters to customize your world. Remember that the settings are universal between worlds! So if you change the parameters and you open an old world with different ones, new generated chunks will follow the new parameters! Already generated chunks will be fine
Equatorial Distance
The "equatorial_distance" is the distance of the equator from the spawn point (it's also the distance from the north pole). By default it is 50000.0 blocks.
Looping
You can also enable looping of the biomes' distribution after you pass the poles. By default it is set to false, to enable it set "looping_world" to true. This setting is possible in mod versions 1.0.4+.
Modes
Starting from version 1.0.6, you can change the "modes" and choose between default, simplified, and linear. These are generation patterns that determine where biomes will spawn. You can see them in the gallery. Use the parameter "generation_mode" to change mode.
Equator Offset
You can change "equator_offset" to move the equator north and south. Positive values will move the equator north, while negative values will move it south. If you want the equator to be at 0 set this value the same as your equatorial_distance
Randomize Underground
Use "randomize_underground" to randomize the biomes distribution below a y that you can define with "randomize_underground_below_y". You can choose between two type of randomization: random (total randomness) and half_random (some degree of similarity with biomes on the surface)
Multi-dimensions
Use "multidimensional_bands" to enable/disable the banded generation in all the dimensions. It's false by default
Global Temperature Parameters
Use "global_temperature_modifier_percentage" to heat or cool the planet.
Use "global_temperature_mitigation_percentage" to mitigate temperature extremes, making extreme climatic regions smaller and temperate regions larger.
Extra Bands
You can set "extra_bands" to true to enable a wider transition between the desert region and the jungle, this will help if some modded biomes are missing. This will free some space in the map for different biomes to spawn. This setting is available in mod version 1.0.14+ . This works well with "Oh The Biomes We've Gone" mod and a lot of other mods.
Wave Magnification
Since 1.0.15 you can use "wave_magnification" option to amplify the wave of the transition between the climatic bands
Temperature of the zones
Since 1.0.15 you can use "temperature_zone_x" options to customize some of the modes like the Custom Circular mode (mode 3) or Custom Banded mode (mode 5) to shape the world as you like.
Humidity of the zones
"humidity_zone_x" can be used the same as the temperature of the zones
Humidity bands
Since 1.0.18 you can enable humidity bands to add a pattern of humidity (also called vegetation) perpendicular to the temperature pattern; you can use this pattern in simplified and linear modes. You can enable this setting with "enable_humidity_bands" and change the width of the humidity variation with "humidity_bands_width" (this value is one quarter of the distance between two zones of maximum humidity).
Width of the zones
With 1.1.0 the width of the bands of Banded and Custom Banded mode can be adjusted using the "percentage_coverage_zone_x" parameters in the settings
If you are editing the config file directly remember to save and restart minecraft. If you are using the in game gui the setting are are applied immediately
Compatibility
- Compatible with world generation mods (e.g. Tectonic, Lithosphere) – results may vary
- Compatible with the vast majority of mods that add biomes
- Likely not compatible with total conversion mod, but this depends on the mod
Known Issues
- [Solved in mod version 1.0.10] Mods that use TerraBlender, like Biomes O’ Plenty, will likely generate the Nether with bands regardless of the settings.
- [Solved in mod version 1.0.11.1] Mods that use the Blueprint mod will generate the Nether with bands regardless of the settings.
Natural Temperature
Natural Temperature is a mod that overhauls the way biomes are placed in the world, creating a layout that more closely resembles Earth’s climate zones.
Instead of Minecraft’s typical random patchwork of biomes, this mod introduces a structured, configurable, latitude-based biome generation system:
- Polar regions feature icy biomes such as Snowy Tundra and Ice Spikes.
- Cold zones include taigas that aren’t covered in snow.
- Temperate zones contain forests, plains, and seasonal biomes.
- Warm regions are covered by dry biomes such as savannas.
- Tropical regions are dominated by hot biomes like deserts and badlands.
- Equatorial regions are populated by jungles
This creates a more immersive, believable world that mimics Earth's natural climate bands, making exploration feel more organic and meaningful. Whether you're building realistic cities, survival challenges, or just want a more coherent world, this mod brings climate logic to your overworld.
This is an image from 1.0.5 mod version
Features
- Latitude-based biome generation
- Configurable world width in config file
- Full compatibility with vanilla and many modded biomes
- Lightweight and performance-friendly
Configuration
You can open the setting menu pressing the nt button in the main menu or you can go in the config folder where you will find the configuration file for natural-temperature. Here you can change some parameters to customize your world. Remember that the settings are universal between worlds! So if you change the parameters and you open an old world with different ones, new generated chunks will follow the new parameters! Already generated chunks will be fine
Equatorial Distance
The "equatorial_distance" is the distance of the equator from the spawn point (it's also the distance from the north pole). By default it is 50000.0 blocks.
Looping
You can also enable looping of the biomes' distribution after you pass the poles. By default it is set to false, to enable it set "looping_world" to true. This setting is possible in mod versions 1.0.4+.
Modes
Starting from version 1.0.6, you can change the "modes" and choose between default, simplified, and linear. These are generation patterns that determine where biomes will spawn. You can see them in the gallery. Use the parameter "generation_mode" to change mode.
Equator Offset
You can change "equator_offset" to move the equator north and south. Positive values will move the equator north, while negative values will move it south. If you want the equator to be at 0 set this value the same as your equatorial_distance
Randomize Underground
Use "randomize_underground" to randomize the biomes distribution below a y that you can define with "randomize_underground_below_y". You can choose between two type of randomization: random (total randomness) and half_random (some degree of similarity with biomes on the surface)
Multi-dimensions
Use "multidimensional_bands" to enable/disable the banded generation in all the dimensions. It's false by default
Global Temperature Parameters
Use "global_temperature_modifier_percentage" to heat or cool the planet.
Use "global_temperature_mitigation_percentage" to mitigate temperature extremes, making extreme climatic regions smaller and temperate regions larger.
Extra Bands
You can set "extra_bands" to true to enable a wider transition between the desert region and the jungle, this will help if some modded biomes are missing. This will free some space in the map for different biomes to spawn. This setting is available in mod version 1.0.14+ . This works well with "Oh The Biomes We've Gone" mod and a lot of other mods.
Wave Magnification
Since 1.0.15 you can use "wave_magnification" option to amplify the wave of the transition between the climatic bands
Temperature of the zones
Since 1.0.15 you can use "temperature_zone_x" options to customize some of the modes like the Custom Circular mode (mode 3) or Custom Banded mode (mode 5) to shape the world as you like.
Humidity of the zones
"humidity_zone_x" can be used the same as the temperature of the zones
Humidity bands
Since 1.0.18 you can enable humidity bands to add a pattern of humidity (also called vegetation) perpendicular to the temperature pattern; you can use this pattern in simplified and linear modes. You can enable this setting with "enable_humidity_bands" and change the width of the humidity variation with "humidity_bands_width" (this value is one quarter of the distance between two zones of maximum humidity).
Width of the zones
With 1.1.0 the width of the bands of Banded and Custom Banded mode can be adjusted using the "percentage_coverage_zone_x" parameters in the settings
If you are editing the config file directly remember to save and restart minecraft. If you are using the in game gui the setting are are applied immediately
Compatibility
- Compatible with world generation mods (e.g. Tectonic, Lithosphere) – results may vary
- Compatible with the vast majority of mods that add biomes
- Likely not compatible with total conversion mod, but this depends on the mod
Known Issues
- [Solved in mod version 1.0.10] Mods that use TerraBlender, like Biomes O’ Plenty, will likely generate the Nether with bands regardless of the settings.
- [Solved in mod version 1.0.11.1] Mods that use the Blueprint mod will generate the Nether with bands regardless of the settings.
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Default World Generation It's the most realistic of the modes and the more Earth like: 2 Poles, 2 cold regions, 2 temperate regions, 2 savanna regions, 2 desert bands adjacent to 1 big tropical central region. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Simplified World Generation It's the old v. 1.0.4 generation. Similar to default, but it's more light on performance. The difference here are: 1 big central desert region, 2 mixed savanna/jungle bands. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Linear World Generation Like the simplified, but only Cold biomes in the north, hot in the south. THIS MODE CAN'T LOOP. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Custom Circular World Generation A special type of generaion. R = equatorial_distance. Default settings: 1) Temperate zone 2) Random zone + transition 3) Warm zone + transition. Outiside of the radius it's frozen. This mode is customizable in the config file with "temperature_zone_x" -
Circular World Generation It's like the simplified wg but in a circular shape, it uses the same divisions in 4 zones and R like the custom circular mode -
Banded World Generation Mode 5 is customizable, 6 is preset. Modes 5 and 6 are divided in 6 zones. You can customize the width of the zones with the "percentage_coverage" parameters for both. You can also customize the temperature and the humidity of every zone of mode 5
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Default World Generation It's the most realistic of the modes and the more Earth like: 2 Poles, 2 cold regions, 2 temperate regions, 2 savanna regions, 2 desert bands adjacent to 1 big tropical central region. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Simplified World Generation It's the old v. 1.0.4 generation. Similar to default, but it's more light on performance. The difference here are: 1 big central desert region, 2 mixed savanna/jungle bands. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Linear World Generation Like the simplified, but only Cold biomes in the north, hot in the south. THIS MODE CAN'T LOOP. The world is miniaturized in this example to fit in the map -
Custom Circular World Generation A special type of generaion. R = equatorial_distance. Default settings: 1) Temperate zone 2) Random zone + transition 3) Warm zone + transition. Outiside of the radius it's frozen. This mode is customizable in the config file with "temperature_zone_x" -
Circular World Generation It's like the simplified wg but in a circular shape, it uses the same divisions in 4 zones and R like the custom circular mode -
Banded World Generation Mode 5 is customizable, 6 is preset. Modes 5 and 6 are divided in 6 zones. You can customize the width of the zones with the "percentage_coverage" parameters for both. You can also customize the temperature and the humidity of every zone of mode 5 -
Bands of biomes Bands of biomes in a very small world -
The Disc World by Esme This is the map of the Disc World modded server created by Esme, a fan of Natural Temperature mod
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