Abyss

THE ABYSS

Explore a massive handcrafted world built around a gigantic vertical abyss.

1,500 BLOCKS DEEP

1,300 BLOCK RADIUS

5,300,000 BLOCKS OF SURFACE AREA

ABOUT THE MAP

The Abyss is a massive handcrafted Minecraft world focused on vertical exploration.

Explore a gigantic abyss filled with forests, caves, settlements, structures and hidden environments as you descend deeper into the world.

With a radius of approximately 1,300 blocks and a vertical depth of 1,500 blocks, the map offers a huge environment designed around exploration.

MAP INFORMATION

Depth: 1,500 blocks

Radius: 1,300 blocks

Width: 2,600 blocks across

Surface Area: over 5.3 million blocks

Minecraft Version: Java Edition 1.21.1

Format: Java World

Gameplay: Survival-friendly

Datapack: Higher Heights Included with the map

Random Tick Speed: 0 (disabled by default)

Dependencies: None

MAP FEATURES

◆ Massive 1,500-block-deep Abyss

◆ Large handcrafted terrain

◆ Huge forests and cave systems

◆ Buried city and other settlements

◆ Structures and hidden locations

◆ Different environments throughout the descent

◆ Nether-inspired area

◆ End-inspired area

◆ Vanilla ores and resources

◆ Designed to support survival progression

SURVIVAL READY

The world has been designed to remain playable as a survival map.

Vanilla ores and essential resources are integrated into the terrain, allowing players to progress through a survival playthrough while exploring the Abyss.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Shaders are not required.

Shaders were used only to create the promotional screenshots.

No external plugins, mods or resource packs are required to use the map.

Random ticks are disabled by default (randomTickSpeed = 0) to preserve custom terrain and decorative elements.

Players can re-enable vanilla random ticks with /gamerule randomTickSpeed 3, but this may cause some custom decorative elements to update or change.

The Higher Heights datapack by ComradeVoid is already included with the world and requires no additional installation.

Higher Heights is distributed under the MIT License.


Note 1 :

If you download the map in a version newer than 1.21.1, you'll need to manually update the base datapack. It is currently set up for 1.21.1, but you simply need to replace the datapack with a version compatible with the newer Minecraft version in order to update the map. ( https://modrinth.com/datapack/higher-heights-datapack/versions ) Make sure to download the datapack, not the mod, from the website. Then replace the old version in the map’s datapacks folder with the new one, and make sure to delete the old datapack completely.

Note 2 :

If you are using The Abyss on a server with Multiverse, make sure the Higher Heights datapack is loaded before importing the world. Keep the datapack inside The_Abyss/datapacks/ and also copy the same file into your server's main/default world datapacks folder. If you use a newer version of Higher Heights, simply replace the datapack in both locations with the same updated version. Restart the server, verify that Higher Heights is enabled with /datapack list enabled, and then import a fresh copy of The Abyss with Multiverse.