Expand world

This mod allows adding new biomes and changing most of the world generation.

Always back up your world before making any changes!

Install on all clients and on the server (modding guide).

Usage

See documentation.

See location examples.

See other examples.

Tutorials

• How to make custom biomes: https://youtu.be/TgFhW0MtYyw (33 minutes, created by StonedProphet)

Migration from version 1.23

• If you have used paint in expand_biomes.yaml, then update the values to match the new format.

Migration from version 1.19

• If you have modded creatures spawning in wrong places, regenerate expand_spawns.yaml by removing it or manually set biome: None when missing.

Credits

Thanks for Azumatt for creating the mod icon!

Thanks for blaxxun for creating the server sync!

Thanks for redseiko for the asynchronous minimap generating!

Sources: GitHub

Donations: Buy me a computer

Changelog

• v1.24

  • Adds scale, chance and zdo data to the field objects in the expand_locations.yaml.
  • Adds a new field noBuildDungeon to the expand_locations.yaml (default is false).
  • Adds new fields paint, paintRadius and paintBorder to the expand_locations.yaml.
  • Adds new fields levelRadius and levelBorder to the expand_locations.yaml.
  • Adds a new field objects to the expand_spawns.yaml.
  • Adds blueprint support to the field objects in the expand_locations.yaml.
  • Adds blueprint support to the blueprint files.
  • Adds a new command ew_icons to print available location icons.
  • Changes the format of field paint in the expand_biomes.yaml to match expand_locations.yaml.
  • Changes the field noBuild in the expand_locations.yaml to also accept numbers.
  • Changes the field levelArea in the expand_locations.yaml from number to true/false.
  • Changes the field levelArea in the expand_locations.yaml to also work for non-blueprint locations.
  • Changes the field iconAlways in the expand_locations.yaml to also accept text (to set the icon).
  • Changes the field iconPlaced in the expand_locations.yaml to also accept text (to set the icon).
  • Changes the default no build to not affect dungeons.
  • Removes the Custom Raids biome compatibility (Custom Raids added proper support).
  • Fixes error with the new update.

• v1.23

  • Adds a new field noBuild to the expand_biomes.yaml (default is false).
  • Fixes object swap not working for dungeon doors.
  • Fixes warning message from vanilla location data.
  • Fixes expand_spawns.yaml being affected by "Biome data" setting.
  • Fixes biome names being synced for every server synced mod.
  • Fixes no build not working for blueprints.

• v1.22

  • Fixes error message caused by removed locations.
  • Fixes location blueprints causing terrain issues when overflowing to adjacent zones.

• v1.21

  • Adds a new field scaleUniform to the expand_vegetations.yaml (default is true).
  • Improves mod compatibility.
  • Fixes the vegetation scaling being separate for each axis.

• v1.20

  • Fixes None biome not being saved to the expand_spawns.yaml which caused spawning in every biome (some mods have the default biome as None).

• v1.19

  • Fixes default config generation sometimes failing.

• v1.18

  • Adds data sync for location prefab, exteriorRadius and noBuild fields.
  • Fixes automatic migration for missing exteriorRadius overwriting blueprint and location variant names.
  • Fixes minimap loading error with Marketplace territories.
  • Improves compatiblity with mods adding new vegetation.

• v1.17

  • Adds a new command ew_seeds to output seed information.
  • Adds a new setting seed to set the world seed.
  • Adds preloading for biome names (improves mod compatibility).
  • Adds automatic migration for missing exteriorRadius in expand_locations.yaml.
  • Adds new fields offset and center (for blueprints) to the expand_locations.yaml.
  • Changes console commands to start with ew_.
  • Changes the format of objects, objectData and objectSwap in expand_locations_yaml (automatically migrated).
  • Changes the levelArea field in expand_locations_yaml to be a numeric (for smoothness).
  • Changes the location blueprints to snap to the ground.
  • Increases terrain leveling performance (for blueprints).
  • Increases the default altitude cap from 1000 meters to 10000 meters.
  • Increases the network timeout duration to 10x of the normal.
  • Fixes objects sometimes being duplicated.
  • Fixes purple thunder sky if a custom environment is not set properly.

• v1.56

  • Removes EW Spawns as most modpacks that used this have Spawn That.

• v1.55

  • Adds split mods to the pack.

• v1.54

  • Adds documentation links to the readme.
  • Latest versions to fix problems.

• v1.53

  • Split to pieces and made to a modpack.