Should I still keep waiting for it to eventually come or should I just jump in? Specifically, I hate how terrain now is so jagged and straight. It used to be all curvy and natural...should I keep waiting?
First of all, It's not coming back. So you either don't play for the rest of your life, or learn to adapt to it. Secondly, the "Large biomes" world type is good for getting more varied terrain. Things like forest mountains, and beaches are a lot bigger. Third of all, use mods if you REALLY want to the old terrain back, such as the generation ports mod.
Same here. I've not been to Siberia because I'm waiting for them to rebuild the Berlin wall.
Just wait for the next update, and all the biomes will be shifted around again, and you might log on to find your jungle home now falls in a Tundra biome
They let you have fine to excruciatingly fine control over the Perlin noise used to generate the terrain contours and fractals for biome layout.
Or you could try using your old 1.2.5 jar and using either of these to generate a custom map with massive, broad, rolling hills and winding, gentle coastlines with gravel beaches a la beta 1.2_01.
Or you could use an actual alpha or early Beta version of the game, pre-generate a large map, and drag it through two chunk format changes and three new ores using NBToolkit/OreGen and MinecraftLandGenerator.
Just wait for the next update, and all the biomes will be shifted around again, and you might log on to find your jungle home now falls in a Tundra biome
Except for the fact that, because of the new Anvil world type, that won't happen ever again. Generation could change, sure, but existing biomes and terrain will not shift.
If you're waiting for old terrain to come back, you're going to be waiting a long time. They might introduce a world type for it but it is very highly unlikely.
I'm hoping the OP means Alpha or Beta terrain, because classic is just awful. XD
So many people look at carefully cherry-picked and framed pictures of amazing Alpha/Beta terrain, and then wish to have it back, usually comparing them to very candid and bland pictures of modern terrain.
I learned from my much-hated experiment that if you take pictures of random terrain from random seeds in random versions, most cannot tell the difference between 1.3 and Beta, and then will accuse you of somehow hacking the forum and rigging the poll results.
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I see PLENTY of interesting terrain myself in the current version of the game.
But when I see (and just remember) terrain from before biomes, well..... literally EVERY area was "lumpy, bright green, sparse and overly random trees that never make a forest". Everything was the same bloody color, the "crazy mountains" eventually (quickly, actually) stopped being interesting or neat after you'd seen the 9847528937th one, and so on.
Landscapes produced by the current game do NOT all look the same. Landscapes provided by the OLD version though, rather DO look the same.
Really, if that sorta thing is the reason why you're not playing Minecraft and not enjoying BOATLOADS of new stuff..... then there's no helping you. Find a different game to play.
The problem people have now is that they think the terrain in 1.3.1 is the exact same as beta 1.8. It has improved with every single update, and now is easily better than beta 1.7.3.
Also, jungles.
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I use the FTB modpack, because it's fun, and extremely convenient.
No, there has never, ever been a sandbox game with a story or ending... except Grand Theft Auto... and Saints Row... and Red Dead Redemption... and Crack Down... and Assassins Creed...
Ok, I don't get it. I've been trying to my entire time on these forums, but I just don't have enough experience with terrain before beta 1.8. What makes the old terrain better than the new one?
I think he just means "before biomes", not the actual classic version of the game.
No, read it again. He says he hasn't played in months, so he likely hasn't seen how much better the terrain has gotten since Jeb took over.
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No, there has never, ever been a sandbox game with a story or ending... except Grand Theft Auto... and Saints Row... and Red Dead Redemption... and Crack Down... and Assassins Creed...
Just wait for the next update, and all the biomes will be shifted around again, and you might log on to find your jungle home now falls in a Tundra biome
on-topic: try Wedge Terrain Generator Mod or (for server) Terrain Control plugin if/when they update for 1.3.1
They let you have fine to excruciatingly fine control over the Perlin noise used to generate the terrain contours and fractals for biome layout.
Or you could try using your old 1.2.5 jar and using either of these to generate a custom map with massive, broad, rolling hills and winding, gentle coastlines with gravel beaches a la beta 1.2_01.
Or you could use an actual alpha or early Beta version of the game, pre-generate a large map, and drag it through two chunk format changes and three new ores using NBToolkit/OreGen and MinecraftLandGenerator.
If you're waiting for old terrain to come back, you're going to be waiting a long time. They might introduce a world type for it but it is very highly unlikely.
I'm hoping the OP means Alpha or Beta terrain, because classic is just awful. XD
So many people look at carefully cherry-picked and framed pictures of amazing Alpha/Beta terrain, and then wish to have it back, usually comparing them to very candid and bland pictures of modern terrain.
I learned from my much-hated experiment that if you take pictures of random terrain from random seeds in random versions, most cannot tell the difference between 1.3 and Beta, and then will accuse you of somehow hacking the forum and rigging the poll results.
But when I see (and just remember) terrain from before biomes, well..... literally EVERY area was "lumpy, bright green, sparse and overly random trees that never make a forest". Everything was the same bloody color, the "crazy mountains" eventually (quickly, actually) stopped being interesting or neat after you'd seen the 9847528937th one, and so on.
Landscapes produced by the current game do NOT all look the same. Landscapes provided by the OLD version though, rather DO look the same.
Really, if that sorta thing is the reason why you're not playing Minecraft and not enjoying BOATLOADS of new stuff..... then there's no helping you. Find a different game to play.
Also, jungles.
I think he just means "before biomes", not the actual classic version of the game.
No, read it again. He says he hasn't played in months, so he likely hasn't seen how much better the terrain has gotten since Jeb took over.
Well... In the Map generator pre1.8, you could if you were lucky actually run into terrain like this: