Scale stays explicit
At the 1:1 reference scale, a block is a metre. Smaller world presets can trade area for density without changing the core data model.
REAL DATA · REAL SCALE · PLAYABLE WORLD
Earth.
Generated
block by block.
A world generator that turns real elevation, oceans, rivers, climate, land cover and regional data into one continuous Minecraft Earth.
Pre-release development
Real-location validation
1:1 terrain
HMA 8 m
Native Tall
NeoForge 1.21.1
Hydrology reconstruction
Climate & ecology
Verified local lookup
THE IDEA
Not a map pasted onto Minecraft.
A world generated from real data.
EarthGen is designed around the physical structure of Earth: terrain first, then water, climate, surface materials and regional detail. The result should feel like a place, not a heightmap demo.
Better data wins locally
Regional high-resolution DEMs are authoritative only where their real coverage is valid; global sources remain the fallback.
World systems connect
Elevation, rivers, oceans, climate, geology and ecology are not independent decorations — they constrain each other.
ONE PLANET · MANY SYSTEMS
Move through the world.
The data changes with it.
Switch the system below. The visual, data layer and generation logic change together — this is closer to how EarthGen is actually built than a static feature list.
TERRAIN / DEM
DEM / SURFACE
Terrain starts with measured elevation models.
A global DEM provides continuity. Higher-resolution regional sources replace it only inside valid coverage, so detail improves without changing the shape of neighboring terrain arbitrarily.
- Global elevation fallback
- Regional high-resolution authority
- Extreme-height world support
CLIMATE / ECOLOGY
Climate should explain the landscape.
Temperature, precipitation and land-cover data guide biome and surface decisions. The goal is not random biome noise but geographically coherent regions.
- Temperature and precipitation inputs
- Land-cover constraints
- TFC climate and surface adaptation
HYDROLOGY / OCEAN
Water is geometry, not blue paint.
Rivers, lakes, coastlines, surface-water observations and ocean-floor elevation feed a separate hydrology pipeline so water can follow the world instead of cutting through it blindly.
- River and lake networks
- Observed surface-water constraints
- Global bathymetry below sea level
TALL WORLD / STREAMING
Earth does not fit inside vanilla height limits.
EarthGen has a native tall-world path for extreme vertical terrain and a dedicated far-teleport/streaming pipeline so very high or deep locations can remain part of the same world.
- Native experimental tall-world core
- High-altitude rendering validation
- Dedicated long-distance streaming
SCALE LAB
Scale stays explicit.
Nothing is hidden behind a preset.
Choose a preset and EarthGen shows exactly what one Minecraft block represents and how far one real kilometre spans in the generated world.
Selected scale
1:1
1 Minecraft block1 m
1 real kilometre1000 blocks
WHAT CHANGESReal metres represented by each block
WHAT STAYS GROUNDEDCoordinates and real-data source hierarchy
Projection preview
1:1
REAL-WORLD REFERENCE
A
1 real kilometre
B
ONE MINECRAFT BLOCK
1 block = 1 m
RESULT
1 km = 1,000 blocks
The grid grows because each block represents more real terrain.
The numbers are exact; the dense grid is simplified visually at very large block counts.
1,000 blocksDATA STACK
One generated world.
Many real sources underneath.
Select a source to see its role. The public site shows the architecture without exposing internal checkpoints or temporary developer paths.
CURRENT SOURCE ROUTE
ACTIVE · TERRAIN
01Copernicus GLO-30Selected source
→
02Global land elevationVerified and prepared offline
→
03Base terrain fallbackUsed where no finer valid regional DEM exists
OFFLINE PREP → VERIFIED LOCAL LOOKUP AT RUNTIME
Choose the best valid dataset for the location.
Confidence and morphology logic preserve geography while repairing noisy or incomplete detail.
Prepared data is read locally; heavy analysis stays out of chunk workers.
The processed geography becomes one continuous playable Earth-scale world.
IN-GAME / DEVELOPMENT
The world in motion.
Real development captures.
A clean selection of real EarthGen development captures. Open any image full-screen, or expand the gallery for more scenes.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT STACK
Built as a real mod.
Tested in a real stack.
These labels describe the current development environment, not a final support guarantee. Compatibility changes as the core stabilizes.
NeoForge 1.21.1
Primary loader and runtime target.
TerraFirmaCraft
Dedicated climate, surface and world-generation integration is under active development.
Iris + shaders
Current visual test environment.
Distant Horizons
Used while validating enormous view distances and tall terrain.
C2ME
Used in chunk-generation and performance testing.
Sable
Physics integration remains experimental.
Fabric / Forge
The architecture is being kept portable so other loaders and Minecraft versions can be targeted later.
FOLLOW THE BUILD
Follow the build.
Support the project.
Discord carries development updates, screenshots and test results. GitHub will join it when the public repository is ready. Patreon and Ko-fi remain separate ways to support the project directly.
Discord community
GitHubSOON
SUPPORTPatreonSupport continued EarthGen development directly.
SUPPORTKo-fiSupport EarthGen with a one-off contribution.
PRE-RELEASE
No fake download button. A public download appears only when a validated build is ready.
EarthGen Discord
COMMUNITY