Hydrological (Overworld Terrain & Biomes) for Minecraft

Review Hydrological (Overworld Terrain & Biomes)

Hydrological radically reworks the familiar world generation, replacing classic vanilla biomes with their enhanced versions featuring more realistic terrain. The mod is currently in beta testing, so some vanilla biomes have not yet been modified. There may also be issues with advanced world configuration.

New Features

The main goal of Hydrological is to generate new biomes with realistic terrain, including the formation of entire separate continents, without the need for additional mods. In addition, the mod changes the familiar ore generation. Gold and copper veins can now be found along the walls of Dripstone caves. Coal and iron deposits appear in the Lush Caves biome. Lava ravines now contain redstone spikes, while Deep Dark caves hold large amounts of lapis lazuli surrounded by dense ice.

Hydrological adds dozens of new tree types that can easily be grown anywhere using saplings. With the exception of the Dark Forest, generated trees never intersect or get stuck inside each other. The mod also introduces modified custom blocks such as leaf piles, dry grass, and mushroom pita. Some blocks will now emit dim light. A fog effect has been added, with density depending on temperature. At night, fireflies will appear around tall grass.

Configuration

The mod is primarily controlled through data packs, allowing almost any changes to be made using datapacks. There is also a client-side version. For servers to function correctly, the “server-side only” configuration must be enabled in the settings, which is disabled by default. This allows vanilla clients to connect to the server without any issues, but the new blocks will disappear. Hydrological allows you to configure the scale of cubic generation. By default, the value is set to 1, and the world generates normally. However, increasing this value causes the terrain to be built from larger cubes and appear more rounded. For example, setting the value to 2 will generate terrain using larger 2x2x2 cubes.

The mod provides very flexible terrain customization, allowing you to influence its scale. Increasing the biome roughness value from 1 to 2 will make the terrain more compact and cozy. Mountains will be closer together, cliffs taller, and beaches narrower. Reducing this parameter to 0.5, on the contrary, will create more open and expansive spaces. Mountain ranges will be farther apart, cliffs flatter, and beaches wider. There is also an option to disable snow collision, making it behave like loose snow. To do this, set the value to true.

Most features such as glowing blocks or fireflies can be configured or completely disabled. Since the mod is compatible with almost all other modifications, including those that also change world generation, it can be used in any modpack.

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