Checkerboard forever

Anybody remember Checkerboard world generation?



It's still around, but the newer generation methods broke it. They wouldn't change the dirt and stone to netherrack or endstone, and then nothing would be replaced to make the biomes work right. Oh, and the code to make the biomes work right was embedded in the other dimensions to begin with.



Well, I got the Overworld and End working to my satisfaction. Sadly, it seems everyone realized building on the roof of the Nether is the way to go. I have a sneaking suspicion I'd have to do some serious re-coding to make the structures and plants of the Overworld spawn in the middle of the Nether, where they should be. Still, it's an interesting, stark world - and it give you more possible routes to the roof of the Nether, with things to find there. Up to you if that's good or bad.







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This datapack is marked as incomplete because I hit a wall on the amount of work required to make the Nether work right. I'm not sure I will ever get to tackling that part, and am less optimistic after Craftmine didn't even make it work. Still, it's fun to play on the old Checkerboard sometimes.


While this pack was made with the current version of Minecraft, it should be compatible as far back as the release of the Pale Garden biome.

Previous releases would require the removal of the Pale Garden biome from the list of generated biomes in all three dimensions, and may have to rename the 'structure' nbt folder found in scmsizes to 'structures' in older versions.



This pack overrides a fair bit of the basic world generation, and will conflict with a number of mods that change how the terrain generates. As a quirk of how I got the basalt deltas and eroded badlands to spawn, it may generate those terrain options on top of any structures added to these biomes, potentially burying them and/or burning them down.