Terrain Control
Pictures (top to bottom, left to right):Floating island by LanToaster, Arches by mysource, Extreme Hills by IRSmoh, Island by Piginabag, Alternative Nether by IRSmoh
TerrainControl is an advanced world generator. Through various configuration files it gives the user control over almost every aspect of Minecraft terrain generation, with no knowledge of Java required. It can be used on Bukkit or Forge servers and on singleplayer with Forge. TerrainControl is the successor to the old PhoenixTerrainMod, which was based on the popular BiomeTerrainMod.
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Features
- Control horizontal and vertical noise of terrain generation
- Control terrain height and volatility per biome
- Generating biome maps from images
- Control the size of biomes, islands and continents
- Custom biomes
- Many options for caves, canyons
- Control vanilla structures like mineshafts, strongholds and villages
- Full control of ores, plants, dungeons, ponds and many more
- Custom trees and other objects (BO2 and BO3)
- Block replacement
- Visual settings like custom foliage colors (TerrainControl client required)
...and many more!
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Metrics
As of Terrain Control 2.4.13, the plugin sends some stats to mcstats.org, a service by Hidendra and others. You can view the stats here. Terrain Control won't upload your configs, it will only send your BiomeMode along with some information of your computer. You can toggle it off by setting opt-out to true in the metrics config file. More information is available on this wiki page.
Showcase
Pictures
Videos
Also check out the showcase thread in our forums!
How to use
TerrainControl is more complex than most Bukkit plugins, so it may take a while to get into - but the results are worth it. If you want to create your own world, be sure to check our documentation. If you have done some reading and still have problems using TerrainControl, just post to our forums and we'll try to figure it out.
Tutorials
Installation guide |
TerrainControl Wiki | First steps
TerrainControl Analysis | mysource's tutorial
Tutorial Videos
Useful tools
- TerrainControl User Interface
- BetterBOB for creating BO2-objects
- Notepad ++ for easier editing of config files
- Minutor for viewing generated maps
- Eihort for viewing your generated maps
- WorldBorder for pregenerating your map
- BO3-Tweaks by Elzaar and LanToaster. Command-line application to tweak BO3-objects.
- BO3Tools for ingame creation of BO3-objects
- ClimateChanger for mass-changing biome ids in an existing world
- BiomeEdit.py to edit biomes side by side.
Team
| Active staff | hack to display table correctly |
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| Khoorn | Maintainer, Coding |
| Timethor | Coding |
| Rutger Kok | Coding |
| Burckhart | Support, Documentation |
| Retired staff | |
| Mysource | Support, Documentation |
| Cayorion | Coding |
| Additional Credits | |
| Bucyruss | Creator of the BiomeTerrainMod |
| R-T-B | Creator of PhoenixTerrainMod |
| More contributors on GitHub | |
| Users contributing to the wiki are found here |
Get involved!
Commit code on GitHub | Contribute to the wiki | Share your configuration
Report bugs and request features on GitHub
Downloads
You'll always find the newest approved stable builds here. As of 2.4, the files will work on both Bukkit and Forge servers (without the need of something like MCPC+) and on singleplayer with Forge. Installation instructions can be found here.
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
Development builds at mctcp.com
You can find all user-created world configurations, biomes and custom objects that are currently available here.
Important - please do not post your questions in the comments section below, head to the forums instead! We do not answer questions here as it would only result in chaos. Feel free to use the wall for general comments!
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@Khoorn
I did that and I was still getting them in my below post config.
As massive masses I mean not as tiny islands or shores
In the biome for these I made it "landsize" of like 2 -3 and rarity of like 45 - 60, Yet I seem to be getting all ocean with ice all patchs all over it.
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Posted Dec 4, 2011I seem to have broken something lol, Now I am getting either all of one biome or all ocean with ice patch's
I seriously do not understand the new way the global sizes thing works. I mean rarity, GenerationDepth vs landsize.
Its telling me in GenerationDepth that small biomesize are from smaller landsize but when I do this I get oceans if I decrease rarity I get frozen oceans. I mean I have rarity in some biome at things like 30 as I thought Rarity only controls how frequent it will try and place the biome.
as for the landsize thing in biome configs I have some at 4 6 3 2. Coz the mushroom biome had a low number I figured that it would mean that it was a smaller biome and it rarity was low, I know that in vanilla mushroom biome is rare so Figured I match around same for others I wanted rare,
I have been trying to create a mix of LARGE continents with surrounding islands but I'm not going to well and won't until I get some decent data or info on how to properly control all these new settings.
The Comments in the config are dang vague, I mean I don't think English is the native language used in the comments used to describe them, They need to be explained in depth in the comments and simplified so that non developers who do not understand generation can work it out. That or we need SOLID documentation with images of different effects that will happen when u start using some of the more advanced features.
Like I tried to make "Frozen Plains" and "Frozen Ocean" part a inland of taiga biome basically Is set this up so that "Frozen Plains" would generate as a island of "taiga" and the "frozen ocean" as a shore line but I think that failed hard.
I have a "generation depth" on the global file at 20 and the "landsize" at like 15 I thought this would do what it used to do before if I had "landsize" near max it would have less ocean more land then I could then adjust it in biome to make biomes as islands but this does not seem to be the case and now I have dug a hole I cannot figure out how to get out from.
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@Shaun_das_schaf
Oh O.o... i will fix this.
@Fr0zenFr0g When you create world TC make default config near notch generator..
@PeterA94 Yes i know about this .. First: i cant make configurable biome code with what looks like notch generation with default settings :( Second: weather and swamp lands can be fixed only by client plugin .. Third: I will add mode "With out custom biome generator" in next test version
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@poiNt3D
Delete biomes from NormalBiomes in world config or if you mean mushroom biomes IceBiome and BiomeIsBorder in biomes config (this is all for TC 1.2.1)
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@seanskroht Sorry but this mod cant help you .. due to deleted biomes in 1.8 this need to rewrote huge code for compliant 1.7.3
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Posted Dec 4, 2011Khorn, i have a problem.
The terrain generated by the vanilla generator have little to no similarities compared to TC's generation with default configuration, even though i use the same seed.
Comparison:
http:img593.imageshack.us/img593/9539/mpworld5mnormalnorth.png
Also, the vanilla biome areas seems to affect the TC map regarding weather and also the swamp grasscolour. For example the areas where the vanilla swamps are placed, the colour of the grass in the TC map will be swampy. Same thing goes for rainy and snowy areas. :/
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Posted Dec 4, 2011can some one post a config for a ''normal'' world? i just want to add 2 blomies and add diffrent trees.
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@SimoHaiya
add me in skype: theplayerjooo :) with 3x "o" :)
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@Shaun_das_schaf
Do you have skype? Or teamviewer is cool too
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@SimoHaiya
maybe I could do it with teamviewer?
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@Shaun_das_schaf
Thank you. I'll be waiting for it :) Can you make it as fast as possible? Please.
Thanks again.
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@SimoHaiya
Really? I can do a video if you want :)
and Khoorn... there is a bug: Sometimes trees have water as trunk and not wood... :-/
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Posted Dec 4, 2011Can someone please make me a tutorial (video) for this? I beg it!!! I'll give you one minecraft account if you want, just make me a video tutorial, I'm trying to install this for 2 hours now...
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Posted Dec 4, 2011@seanskroht Did you try TerrainControl with Mode:OnlyBiomes on the top of the config file?
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Posted Dec 4, 2011Khorn, Is there any way not to use some of biomes in generation? Thanks.
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Posted Dec 4, 2011Could anyone give me basic settings for skylands? Thanks
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Posted Dec 3, 2011@Shaun_das_schaf
Thanks for letting me know. PTM173 does exactly what I wanted it to. The only problems is that it hasn't been updated for 1.0.0 yet. I don't need all the customizations of TerrainControl since all I want it for is accurate 1.7.3 terrain generation which TerrainControl is not doing for me. I blame all the variables in the config file for that.
Which leads me to the following questions: Khoorn is it possible to turn off all customizations so that accurate 1.7.3 terrain is generated? Can we also turn off swamp biomes?
Unfortunately if your 1.7.3 terrain generator doesn't match that of the original Minecraft 1.7.3 Server terrain generator then, for me, your plugin is pretty pointless.
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Posted Dec 3, 2011@Khoorn
Thank you kindly
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Visit http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/terrain-control/forum/28205-share-your-bo2-objects/#p8 and download the editor + updates for 1.9 +
@chuiu
Well said , well said, Mind you he can use the already existing bo2 in the old phonexterrain mod I will actually upload these to my bo2 share thread to save a plugin search and download.
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Posted Dec 3, 2011@Khoorn
I pasted the rest of the creation in a thread in TC's forum over here http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/terrain-control/forum/28986-custom-biome-issue/
I updated to TC 1.2.1 and got a different error which is over there as well.
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Posted Dec 3, 2011@Djrowling
Just make a set of custom bo2 files that consist of only tree trunks and make them only spawn in your wasteland biome.