Remember when Minecraft had real oceans? Until 1.6.4, the world was big continents floating in a huge ocean. Since 1.7.2, it's an infinite landmass with elongated lakes. One of the oldest debates in the community — and this mod doesn't pick a side: you get a slider.
✨ What it does
Adds the Continents world type with a Continentalness slider (0–100):
- 🏞 0 — Modern generation, identical to vanilla.
- 🏝 100 — Classic continents: ragged-coast archipelagos in a dominant ocean (~84% water), 1.6.4 style.
- 🌗 Anything in between — hybrid worlds: the higher the value, the bigger the seas.
Every vanilla biome, structure and mechanic works normally. Terrain is built from 100% vanilla density functions — no custom chunk generator — so worlds are stable across mod updates and even safe to open without the mod installed.
🕹 How to use
- Create New World → World Type: Continents
- Click Customize and move the slider
- Create — the value is saved in your world forever
🗺 Bonus: instant world maps
/continents map <value> [radius]
Renders a 1024×1024 biome map of your seed at ANY slider value in ~1 second, without generating a single chunk. Compare generations side by side on the same seed.
❓ FAQ
- Multiplayer? Yes — works on dedicated servers
(
level-type=continents:continentsgenerates at 100). - Existing worlds? The slider applies at world creation only; existing worlds keep their generation.
- Performance? Same as vanilla — it's the vanilla noise generator with different parameters.
- Requires: Fabric Loader ≥ 0.19.3 + Fabric API.
ES — ¿Te acordás de cuando Minecraft tenía océanos de verdad? Un tipo de mundo con
slider de Continentalidad 0–100: 0 = generación moderna idéntica a vanilla, 100 =
continentes clásicos estilo 1.6.4 flotando en un océano enorme, intermedios = mundos
híbridos. Todos los biomas y estructuras vanilla funcionan normal. Incluye
/continents map para renderizar mapas de tu seed en cualquier valor del slider, en
un segundo y sin generar chunks.
💙 Credits
This mod was inspired by Minecraft's Continent Problem by MISTYBUNGLER — a great video on the history of one of the community's oldest debates, which imagined exactly this slider. Go watch it!
