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TerrainControl

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.

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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

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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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_ForgeUser6846210
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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@LihPeu

Hi,
I´ve read Your posting in the forum too...;-)
The custom height settings You took as an example, would work high in the sky ... You´ve just changed it at the wrong end ;-) ... and even in the wrong direction too.
Negativ means LESS material will build up !
If You want extend the chance that more material will build up, use positive values (...,50.0,100.0,500.0,2500.0,.... f.i.)
(Works for producing floating landmass f.i., if used at the right side = up in direction 256, of the custom height row)

But this is not Your best solution anyway.
If You see any bedrock at Your ocean floor, You are definitely to low in the ocean height values. (oceanBiomeConfig.ini)
That means at Your water level of 34, change the height in Ocean biome to about -1.9 or -1.8 if using level 8, to get back some sand or other blocks above bedrock.

This should give You the possibility back, to change the ocean blocks (surface + ground BlockIDs) to what ever You will see as surface and ground blocks.
Try surface blockID 12 (sand) and ground blockID 82 (clay) in oceanBiomeConfig.ini

If You have set volatility to about + 0.2, You will get more ups and downs regarding the bottom of the Ocean biome and may use block exchange too, if You want even more different blockIDs at ocean floor.
You may set bedrock to flat too to get a cleaner looking ocean floor too.

But never ever change the bedrock blockID to sand or gravel.
Hit just one sand block and it will start to break down Your floor right to "Nirvana" ... and may crash Your server very fast by producing extrem load by exponetial loosing more and more sand blocks.

I think, I should extend the Tutorial in this direction too a little more ;-)

Best regard
mysource

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
hey, as a feature request could you add a "default" biome, so if you don't want to go through and edit the terrain part of every biome individually you can just set a default which can be turned on or off?

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
Hey there,

Can anyone help me understand how i could cover my bedrock on the ocean floor with sand and clay? i made a post about my attempts here on the forum.

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/terrain-control/forum/34145-how-to-choose-your-sea-bed/#p1

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks for the plugin, it makes minecraft fun and different to explore!

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@ledhead900

It's not client side

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@ZoRkCreativeCrafts

Hi,
thanks for promoting my tutorial ;-)
You are right, reading it (the old one first and after this, the new one) would save many questions made again by some of the last posters.

You are partially right with some of the Infos given, but some things are a little different...f.i. the huge caves are not made by "cave size"... and the settings needed for cave worlds are now moved to each biomeConfig.

@ ALL:
So, how to get worlds this style ?
I`ve told it a hundred times before ... READ THE TUTORIAL.
It´s this easy...
But some like to choose always the hard way, seems they love asking and asking and refuse reading.

@ Sambhur:
All I told above and:
This are 4 different worlds (Your 4 image links).
Nothing less and nothing more ;-)
The rest ...see signature.

Bye for now,
mysource

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@Sambhur

No, this pictures contains BO2s Objects and are made with customs settings, like huge cave size, or extrem volatility.

You should watch the tutorials and BO2s page from mysource.

To add custom trees, you can also use a bo2s object editor, or build them IG, saving as schematics with worldedit, and convert to BO2s with a python script (You can find it on google).

I think it's impossible to have a world containing all this custom biomes at the same time, without using MC edit for pasting different custom worlds together.

You can also try to generate a part of your world with WorldBorder, then, modify the Terrain Control settings, generate next part, ect. But you will have to smooth hugly generations borders with world edit.

Because for exemple the huges caves in the third screen are created by maxing cave "size". And this setting is only available for globalworldconfig, not for each biome's settings files. So it will incidence on all this world's biome.

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@mysource

I want a world where I can find these biomes: http://i.imgur.com/V567j.jpg http://i.imgur.com/neBNC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VE5Gjh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mslw4h.jpg (The pictures are from the top)

Nothing less and nothing more. What biomes should I use? Also this is a great plugin.

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@godgodgodgo

I'm having a similar issue

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@deleted_6846210

Excellent, I was holding off working on my wiki until you added to your main tutorial. Now I have something to move over. I will work on this when I get more time.

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
I want a world with all the pictures from the top. Is it just the default config then?

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
@ ALL:
Tutorial is nearly finshed now:
TUTORIAL

Enjoy ;-)

Criticism, constructiv hints, suggestions or even telling me mistakes (also regarding my english text...) I`ve posibly made, please write an Email (no PM, no Posting please) to:
swia@gmx.de

.... and never forget to read first the "old" Tutorial (Link in signature) too....the new is constructive to this.

Best regard
mysource

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Posted Mar 19, 2012
i may have a major problem using TC v2.1.5 ...

While creating a new world (using seed 123), TC generate only a huge ocean. if i fly trought this ocean using F3, i can see biome change (taiga, exteme hills, and all others) but i only see a enless ocean with few mushroom island (and no mushroom biome associated so no giant mushroom or cow on it) ...

my settings are normal/normal (with 7 bits height) i've just added a RainForest biome, stolen to mysource (i guess...)

what i've been missing ?

[edit] even trying with random seed, and let TC generate default config files, and it act the same way : endless ocean [edit2] ; seems to work now ... but i've nto change anything (beside seeds obviously, as i test with random seeds .. god damn generator .... o_O

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
@godgodgodgo

Log out and log back in, will probably fix this as its client sided think.

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
Definitly best plugin ever, thank you!!!

Just a question, isn't there a problem with Ocelots spawning in latest versions?

Some of my custom biomes:

SCREENSHOTS

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
So all I want to do is adjust the rarity of diamond to make it about 5x rarer than it is now. Will everything else in the world generate normally as if I didn't have any world-generator installed?

Also, the biomes in the picture look nice, wouldn't hurt to have the one with the lava falls and tall trees. :-)

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
I've found a bug with the jungle biomes, in some places trees aren't generated properly. Screenshots: http://i40.tinypic.com/2u9oowh.png http://i44.tinypic.com/spul9x.png

A similar thing happens with snow biomes where snow isn't generated.

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
@mazejaker

check under the replaceblocks setting in the individual biome settings files.

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#1598 Posted Mar 18, 2012

Hi,
I modified some biomes and I got some difficulties with the Sugar cane.
I did the configuration to get more sugar cane, but In the map I had no sugar cane.
How Can I fix It ?

This is my Biome Ressource Queue config :

UnderGroundLake(25,60,2,5,0,50)
Dungeon(8,100,0,128)
Ore(DIRT,32,20,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(GRAVEL,32,10,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(CLAY,32,1,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(COAL_ORE,16,20,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(IRON_ORE,16,20,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(GOLD_ORE,8,2,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(REDSTONE_ORE,7,8,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(DIAMOND_ORE,7,1,100,0,128,STONE)
Ore(LAPIS_ORE,7,1,100,0,128,STONE)
UnderWaterOre(SAND,7,4,100,DIRT,GRASS)
UnderWaterOre(CLAY,4,1,100,DIRT,CLAY)
CustomObject()
Tree(10,JungleTree,40,Forest,10,Tree,10,Taiga1,10)
Plant(RED_ROSE,4,100,0,128,GRASS,DIRT,SOIL)
Plant(YELLOW_FLOWER,4,100,0,128,GRASS,DIRT,SOIL)
Plant(BROWN_MUSHROOM,4,100,0,128,GRASS,DIRT,SOIL)
Plant(RED_MUSHROOM,4,100,0,128,GRASS,DIRT,SOIL)
Reed(SUGAR_CANE_BLOCK,100,100,0,250,GRASS,DIRT,SAND)
Plant(MELON_BLOCK,4,100,0,128,GRASS,DIRT,SOIL)
Grass(LONG_GRASS,1,25,100,GRASS,DIRT)
Plant(PUMPKIN,1,3,0,128,GRASS)
Vines(50,100,64,128)
Liquid(WATER,20,100,8,128,STONE)
Liquid(LAVA,10,100,8,128,STONE)

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
is it possible to use this Plugin to remove all Grass blocks?? Or change all grass blocks into dirt? (Making a wasteland map for my friends)

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Posted Mar 18, 2012
@Khoorn,

will you fix the canyons?

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Project ID

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Created

Oct 27, 2011
Last Released File

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Total Downloads

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