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.
Rebuilt in blocks.
A world generator that turns elevation, oceans, rivers, climate, land cover and regional detail into one continuous Minecraft Earth.
Pre-release development
Real-location validation
1:1 terrain
HMA 8 m
Hydrology reconstruction
Climate & ecology
Pre-release development
Real-location validation
1:1 terrain
HMA 8 m
THE IDEA
Not a map pasted onto Minecraft.
A world rebuilt from data.
EarthCraft 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 EarthCraft is actually built than a static feature list.
TERRAIN / DEM
DEM / SURFACE
Terrain comes from measured elevation.
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.
EarthCraft 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
One slider.
A completely different Earth.
EarthCraft is built around explicit scale. Move the control to see how many real-world metres one Minecraft block represents in a smaller-world preset.
1 Minecraft block1 m
1 real kilometre1000 blocks
DATA 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.
Choose the best valid dataset for the location.
Terrain, water, climate and surface rules interact.
Runtime generation uses prepared local data, not web requests per chunk.
One continuous Earth-scale world in Minecraft.
IN-GAME / DEVELOPMENT
Different climates.
Different moods.
The gallery now uses several very different scenes instead of repeating one mountain look. Click any image for a full-screen view.
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
Development is public.
The release comes after validation.
Discord is the main place for screenshots, test results, progress updates and release notices while EarthCraft is still in pre-release development.
PRE-RELEASE
No fake download button. When a public build exists, this becomes the real release entry point.
#EarthCraft Discord
COMMUNITY