Natural Atlas

Natural Atlas

Natural Atlas is a seed preview mod, born as a complementary mod to my other project, Natural Temperature. Due to the growing complexity of the mod and the lack of seed map mods for newer Minecraft versions, creating this mod became a necessity to properly set up Natural Temperature. Even if that's the main reason the mod exists, it can also be used independently to preview a world. Due to its nature, the primary focus of the mod is to display the biome distribution and terrain generation of the overworld, and to stay as performance friendly as possible.

Features

Natural Atlas adds an "Atlas" tab in the world creation screen. Open it and you'll get a preview of the overworld's biome distribution for whatever seed and settings you're using. You can pan around, zoom in and out, scout the map before you hit the "Create World" button. The preview is designed to work best at 1:32 resolution, but you can zoom in and out even further by scrolling with the mouse. It's built to stay as light as possible, you likely won't run into major performance issues, even when you're zoomed way out or dragging the view across huge areas. This also depends on the complexity of your modpack, but it's generally true.

Compatibility

Natural Atlas reads world generation the modern way through vanilla's data driven system. So anything built on top of that should work fine. That covers datapack biomes, data driven biome mods and worldgen mods that hook into vanilla's density functions.

Examples of supported worldgen mods:

• Tectonic
• Lithosphere
• Continents

Examples of supported biome mods:

• Terralith
• Still Life
• All data driven mods / datapacks

Examples of UNSUPPORTED biome mods:

• Biomes O' Plenty
• Nature's Spirit
• Basically any mod that still registers biomes the old school way through internal registries instead of data packs

These mods work differently, which is why they don't show up correctly right now. I'll see if I can support them in the future, but no promises, it might just not be doable with how they're built.