World Config Recommendations?

[Caiu]

Hi! im kinda new here (started playing like 2 month ago but because of work reasons didn't have the time to dedicate it until now) and i've been experimenting with world configurations but haven't been able to properly setup a world i liked, which world settings do you use? and which one do you recommend if i'd want the following:
- Big islands and sometimes small ones to make exploring more interesting (kind of like real life, main continent and sometimes islands in between), and if possible lakes an rivers
- Plains and valleys, but sometimes mountains (i would love to have a home in the base of a mountain, for in the future caving through it and making a whole complex inside of it)
i know there are mods for this but i usually like to stick to vanilla for purity reasons(?, but if someone really recommends one i can try it
Pretty much it, thank you ^^, loving this game, has all that as a minecraft player always wished it was

Edited January 23, 2025 by Caiu

[realjosephknapp]

If you want to play the game as it was intended just select the default survival mode.

[Zippy Wonderdust]

The vanilla game has plenty to offer, especially to new players, but if you are determined to tweak stuff (and I'm guilty of this too!) then you could try loading the Rivers mod.  Just remember to set your "landcover" to 70% or less and "landcover scale" to 300% or more.  Also, if you want to be able to swim or paddle against the current, I would suggest you reduce the "riverSpeed" setting in rivers.json to 2.0 or less.

If you feel like changing the landscape even more, try combining this with Tera Prety or Plains and Valleys to get less impassable terrain, or if you want higher hills, deeper oceans, and some truly massive river canyons, combine Rivers with Worldgen Fix and crank your world height setting to 512 or more.  Just be warned that this will significantly slow down your world generation unless you are running a pretty beefy CPU with lots of memory (say, 8 cores/16 threads and at least 16GB RAM) and a fast SSD.

I hope this gives you a few good starting points. 

[Zippy Wonderdust]

Addendum: If you just want to jazz up the landscape a little without loading any mods, try the following world generation settings:

World Height: 320
Landcover: 80%
Landcover Scale: 200%
Upheaval Rate: 50%
Landform Scale: 300%

This should give you a world with some smallish oceans, taller and more frequent mountain ranges, and wider plains.

[Voldemort]

12 hours ago, Zippy Wonderdust said:

Addendum: If you just want to jazz up the landscape a little without loading any mods, try the following world generation settings:

World Height: 320
Landcover: 80%
Landcover Scale: 200%
Upheaval Rate: 50%
Landform Scale: 300%

This should give you a world with some smallish oceans, taller and more frequent mountain ranges, and wider plains.

thats overkill, are you serious?  

[Thorfinn]

I'm always in favor of the defaults, both for getting the experience the devs wanted to create, and because those got the most playtesting. Many of those settings have all kinds of "unintentional" consequences, scare quotes because while they are intentional, unless you have a lot of experience, you won't know the interactions.

[Zippy Wonderdust]

6 hours ago, Adnyeus said:

thats overkill, are you serious?  

I've played on landscapes like this and haven't found it to be a big deal. I suppose one person's "crazy" is another's "adventurous"...

I *did* say, right at the beginning, that the un-tweaked vanilla game has plenty to offer new players.

[Caiu]

On 1/23/2025 at 4:58 PM, Zippy Wonderdust said:

The vanilla game has plenty to offer, especially to new players, but if you are determined to tweak stuff (and I'm guilty of this too!) then you could try loading the Rivers mod.  Just remember to set your "landcover" to 70% or less and "landcover scale" to 300% or more.  Also, if you want to be able to swim or paddle against the current, I would suggest you reduce the "riverSpeed" setting in rivers.json to 2.0 or less.

If you feel like changing the landscape even more, try combining this with Tera Prety or Plains and Valleys to get less impassable terrain, or if you want higher hills, deeper oceans, and some truly massive river canyons, combine Rivers with Worldgen Fix and crank your world height setting to 512 or more.  Just be warned that this will significantly slow down your world generation unless you are running a pretty beefy CPU with lots of memory (say, 8 cores/16 threads and at least 16GB RAM) and a fast SSD.

I hope this gives you a few good starting points. 

Thanks everybody to your suggestions! i'm not really into mods, but i think that the game is missing rivers, is that mod good enough and doesn't ruin the vanilla experience? if so i will use it with those world config recommendations, otherwise i will stick to default

[Zippy Wonderdust]

There's a certain amount of "caveat emptor" involved in altering the wordgen parameters of this game.  You might want to check out this thread before you make your final decision.  If you are interested in experiencing all of the story elements of the game as the authors intended them then you probably want to play on a plain vanilla world with everything at the default settings.  If the story is not important to you, and you are solely interested in the survival/exploration/building aspects, then go ahead and tweak the world generation to your tastes.

Cheers and happy adventuring!