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Ecospherical Expansion

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Ecospherical Expansion is a mod aimed towards recreating biomes with more diversity and aesthetically pleasing scenes. Additionally, this mod adds custom integration with the Large Biomes and Amplified world presets; While also adding 8 new world presets to choose from.

NEWER VERSIONS (1.21+):  This mod will not be updated anymore, it has been replaced by my newer mod https://modrinth.com/mod/hydrological

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NOTE: Versions below 1.20.x do not have world presets. In those versions, this mod simply redoes the vanilla biomes.

Default:

  • Terrain above the surface is the same as vanilla.
  • Caves are now much more open.
  • Oceans now lead into sprawling cave systems.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/BY2cSsn.

Large Biomes:

  • Adds some massive plateaus with smooth surfaces.
  • Biomes are much larger.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/auPn7VT.

Amplified:

  • Biome generation has been altered to make Y63 and below always oceans.
  • World height has been extended to Y512.
  • Terrain has been reworked to add massive variation in style across large distances.
  • There are now small floating islands that generate above the existing terrain.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/4aeR1cD.

Tropospherical:

  • Sparse floating islands.
  • The bottom of the world is entirely submerged in ocean.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/JzkNeLS.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/v3Ijoke.

Stratospherical:

  • Large, multi-layered, dense floating islands.
  • The bottom of the world is an empty void.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/wDZNxVJ.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/O3838aP.

OG Stratospherical:

  • Ridiculously dense floating islands.
  • Insane amounts of verticality.
  • Does not have the floating island rivers. (To stay consistent with the OG mod.)
  • The nether is not affected. (To stay consistent with the OG mod.)

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/7zMgTwJ

Mesospherical:

  • A large, single layer of moderately spaced floating islands.
  • The bottom of the world is an empty void.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/Gp6saJK.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/Xb8Ugg8.

Thermospherical:

  • Two layers of sparse floating islands.
  • Floating islands are made to be more vertically variant.
  • The bottom of the world is an empty void.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/6O1Rizi.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/kI9Jtfk.

Lithospherical:

  • Spawn on a 3x2x3 platform of oak logs with a single torch.
  • One massive cave system comprises the entire world.
  • World height has been lowered to Y128.
  • The nether is also transformed to have a similar appearance, but the height remains the same.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/KT2BnTb.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/RB6bI7c.

Asthenospherical:

  • Spawn on a 3x2x3 platform of oak logs with a single torch.
  • The top of the dimension is one massive ceiling.
  • One layer of small, but dense, floating islands.
  • World height has been lowered to Y128.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/0YlJ6pm.

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/4E5IyMs.

Exospherical:

  • Multiple layers of floating islands.
  • Floating islands have pointy bottoms.
  • The bottom of the world is an empty void.
  • The nether is also transformed in the same way.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/PCzlRHP

Nether Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/PCzlRHP

Community-taken screenshots of each preset can be found in the gallery on this page.

There is also a datapack version of this mod that can be used even in vanilla servers, found here: https://modrinth.com/datapack/ecospherical-expansion-lite. Note: It is missing some features due to the limitations of a datapack.

Compatibility:

  • Biospherical Expansion: Fully compatible. 
  • Terralith: Incompatible.
  • Biomes O' Plenty: Fully compatible.
  • Tectonic: Fully compatible on older tectonic versions, requires datapack which is available to download in the discord.

Attention Server Owners: To use custom presets you must replace "level-type=minecraft\:normal" with "level-type=eco\:thenameoftheworldpreset" in your server properties file.

Discord: https://discord.gg/HHqKa8vTAN This mod may be used in any modpack.

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All Versions

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1.18.2
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  • Prevented grass from generating on podzol, dirt, or mud.
  • Removed paths.
  • Removed underground rivers.
  • Fixed grass not generating under overhangs or other floating islands.
  • Fixed old growth taigas not having grass.
  • Fixed old growth taigas not having grass.
  • Prevented grass from generating on podzol, dirt, or mud.
  • Removed paths.
  • Removed underground rivers.
  • Fixed grass not generating under overhangs or other floating islands.
  • Removed the lithospherical nether.
  • Removed the asthenospherical nether.
  • Removed the lithospherical nether.
  • Removed the asthenospherical nether.
  • Made improvements to mountainous snow and ice generation.
  • Made improvements to mountainous snow and ice generation.
  • Changed the spawn platform for floating island presets to only generate once.
  • Fixed cave biomes not generating in the lithospherical preset.
  • Changed the spawn platform for floating island presets to only generate once.
  • Fixed cave biomes not generating in the lithospherical preset.
  • Fixed the exospherical preset using the tropospherical nether.
  • Fixed the exospherical preset using the tropospherical nether.
  • Added the exospherical world preset.
  • Added the exospherical world preset.
  • Fixed the lithospherical world preset generating oceans at too high of altitudes.
  • Fixed the lithospherical world preset generating oceans at too high of altitudes.
  • Fixed the thermospherical, stratospherical, ogstratospherical, and mesospherical world presets having severely messed up biome placement.
  • Fixed the thermospherical, stratospherical, ogstratospherical, and mesospherical world presets having severely messed up biome placement.
  • Mod is now entirely server-side.
  • Added compatibility with my other mod, Biospherical Expansion.
  • Recreated the Birch Forest biome.
  • Recreated the Old Growth Birch Forest biome.
  • Improved biome generation in most presets.
  • Removed a feature that was unintentionally added to oceans.
  • Recreated birch trees.
  • Fixed branches being placed too high up in some trees.
  • Azalea bushes / trees now use cherry logs instead of oak logs.
  • Removed all custom blocks. (They're now added by Biospherical Expansion)
  • Removed amethyst vine features.
  • Removed amethyst void crystal features.
  • Removed amethyst frosted ice crystals feature.
  • Removed the custom grass color modifications.
  • Stopped the Eroded Badlands biome from generating in the floating island presets to avoid issues with worldgen.
  • Fixed glow berry items generating everywhere and causing lag in dark forests.
  • Added surface variation.
  • Fixed trees having branches in the leaves when they shouldn't.
  • Stopped mountainous rocks from generating overhangs.
  • Stopped ocean rocks from generating overhangs when out of water.
  • Partially fixed grass, flowers, and mushrooms not generating under tree leaves.
  • Optimized grass placement features for faster worldgen and less bald spots.
  • Fixed rocks being unable to generate on powder snow.
  • Removed the previously added extra ores in Deep Dark and Lush Caves biomes.
  • Mod is now entirely server-side.
  • Added compatibility with my other mod, Biospherical Expansion.
  • Recreated the Birch Forest biome.
  • Recreated the Old Growth Birch Forest biome.
  • Improved biome generation in most presets.
  • Removed a feature that was unintentionally added to oceans.
  • Recreated birch trees.
  • Fixed branches being placed too high up in some trees.
  • Azalea bushes / trees now use cherry logs instead of oak logs.
  • Removed all custom blocks. (They're now added by Biospherical Expansion)
  • Removed amethyst vine features.
  • Removed amethyst void crystal features.
  • Removed amethyst frosted ice crystals feature.
  • Removed the custom grass color modifications.
  • Stopped the Eroded Badlands biome from generating in the floating island presets to avoid issues with worldgen.
  • Fixed glow berry items generating everywhere and causing lag in dark forests.
  • Added surface variation.
  • Fixed trees having branches in the leaves when they shouldn't.
  • Stopped mountainous rocks from generating overhangs.
  • Stopped ocean rocks from generating overhangs when out of water.
  • Removed a feature that was generating lots of sand above caves causing lag.
  • Partially fixed grass, flowers, and mushrooms not generating under tree leaves.
  • Optimized grass placement features for faster worldgen and less bald spots.
  • Fixed rocks being unable to generate on powder snow.
  • Removed the previously added extra ores in Deep Dark and Lush Caves biomes.
  • Added the OG Stratospherical world preset.
  • Added a fallback floating island that generates when you spawn in an empty void on any of the floating island presets.
  • Added the OG Stratospherical world preset.
  • Added a fallback floating island that generates when you spawn in an empty void on any of the floating island presets.
  • Removed the bushes added in 2.1.0 from the Frozen River and Floating River biomes as they generated very weirdly.
  • Removed the bushes added in 2.1.0 from the Frozen River and Floating River biomes as they generated very weirdly.
  • Added paths.
  • Added streams.
  • Added compatability with Terrablender for all presets.
  • Added caves to the Amplified preset.
  • Added cave vines hanging beneath the leaves of giant dark oak trees and azalean birch trees.
  • Made the non-frozen river & ocean biomes have more bushes on their shores.
  • Added a bedrock ceiling to the Asthenospherical Nether.
  • Lowered the logical height in the Lithospherical and Asthenospherical world presets to avoid problems with chorus fruit and nether portals.
  • Reduced amount of holes in the Default and Large Biomes world presets' terrain.
  • Improved ice generation in Frozen River biomes.
  • Removed the Floating River biome from Amplified worlds.
  • Fixed Large Biomes, Amplified, Lithospherical, and Asthenospherical world presets sometimes having massive chunks of terrain generate near structures.
  • Fixed spawning on the bedrock ceiling in the Lithospherical and Asthenosherical world presets specifically on Forge.
  • Fixed giant dark oak trees' leaves decaying.
  • Fixed console getting spammed when in a default preset world.
  • Added paths.
  • Added streams.
  • Added compatability with Terrablender for all presets.
  • Added caves to the Amplified preset.
  • Added cave vines hanging beneath the leaves of giant dark oak trees and azalean birch trees.
  • Made the non-frozen river & ocean biomes have more bushes on their shores.
  • Added a bedrock ceiling to the Asthenospherical Nether.
  • Lowered the logical height in the Lithospherical and Asthenospherical world presets to avoid problems with chorus fruit and nether portals.
  • Reduced amount of holes in the Default and Large Biomes world presets' terrain.
  • Improved ice generation in Frozen River biomes.
  • Removed the Floating River biome from Amplified worlds.
  • Fixed Large Biomes, Amplified, Lithospherical, and Asthenospherical world presets sometimes having massive chunks of terrain generate near structures.
  • Fixed spawning on the bedrock ceiling in the Lithospherical and Asthenosherical world presets specifically on Forge.
  • Fixed giant dark oak trees' leaves decaying.
  • Fixed console getting spammed when in a default preset world.
  • Removed Terrablender as a dependency.
  • Recreated every overworld biome in the game.
  • Added support for the Large Biomes world preset.
  • Added support for the Amplified world preset.
  • Added the Thermospherical world preset.
  • Added the Mesospherical world preset.
  • Added the Stratospherical world preset.
  • Added the Tropospherical world preset.
  • Added the Lithospherical world preset.
  • Added the Asthenospherical world preset.
  • Greatly improved the surface builder, especially on cliff-sides.
  • Lush cave vines are now placed much less densely, leading to much better performance.
  • All vanilla overworld biomes now have the same grass and sky colors.
  • Grass colors now have in-biome saturation and brightness variation.
  • Removed all the ambient particles this mod previously added to the overworld biomes.
  • Fixed ice pillars not generating.
  • Fixed Glowing Amethyst and Amethyst Vine blocks not having transparent textures on Fabric.
  • Fixed most cases of "Detected setblock in far chunk" errors.
  • Fixed giant holes generating in the surface of the world.
  • Fixed some biomes having incorrect temperature and downfall values.
  • Fixed mobs spawning incorrectly.
  • Fixed music playing incorrectly.
  • Removed Terrablender as a dependency.
  • Recreated every overworld biome in the game.
  • Added support for the Large Biomes world preset.
  • Added support for the Amplified world preset.
  • Added the Thermospherical world preset.
  • Added the Mesospherical world preset.
  • Added the Stratospherical world preset.
  • Added the Tropospherical world preset.
  • Added the Lithospherical world preset.
  • Added the Asthenospherical world preset.
  • Greatly improved the surface builder, especially on cliff-sides.
  • Lush cave vines are now placed much less densely, leading to much better performance.
  • All vanilla overworld biomes now have the same grass and sky colors.
  • Grass colors now have in-biome saturation and brightness variation.
  • Removed all the ambient particles this mod previously added to the overworld biomes.
  • Fixed ice pillars not generating.
  • Fixed Glowing Amethyst and Amethyst Vine blocks not having transparent textures on Fabric.
  • Fixed most cases of "Detected setblock in far chunk" errors.
  • Fixed giant holes generating in the surface of the world.
  • Fixed some biomes having incorrect temperature and downfall values.
  • Fixed mobs spawning incorrectly.
  • Fixed music playing incorrectly.
  • Fixed the surface builder not being applied (this was only an issue in the fabric port, therefore the forge version will be skipping 1.2.2.)
  • Ported to Fabric.
  • Fixed amethyst vines not being transparent when not using shaders.
  • Updated the lang file to include amethyst vines & glowing amethyst.
  • Caves are now MASSIVE.
  • Oceans now have much less flat sea floors.
  • Recreated the Deep Dark biome.
  • Recreated the Lush Caves biome.
  • Recreated the Dripstone Caves biome.
  • Recreated the Frozen River biome.
  • Recreated the Snowy Beach biome.
  • Recreated the Bamboo Jungle biome.
  • Recreated the Savanna Plateau biome.
  • Recreated the Windswept Savanna biome.
  • Recreated the Windswept Hills biome.
  • Recreated the Windswept Gravelly Hills biome.
  • Recreated the Frozen Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Deep Frozen Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Cold Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Deep Cold Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Deep Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Lukewarm Ocean biome.
  • Recreated the Warm Ocean biome.
  • Cave biomes (Deep Dark, Lush Caves, & Dripstone Caves) now have increased amounts of specific ores. (Dripstone Caves remain unmodified in terms of ores since they already have extra copper ore in vanilla.)
  • Caves now have over 100 new features.
  • Fixed compatability with Biomes O' Plenty.
  • Made mountainous rocks have less holes.
  • Greatly improved the surface builder.
  • Added amethyst vines & glowing amethyst.

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