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This mod is a Forge port and a continuation of Cuchaz's Tall Worlds Mod, and also a successor of Robinton's Cubic Chunks mod. This fork of TWM has been in development for over a year, and it's still not ready for a beta release. I decided to created this thread anyway because people asked the same questions over and over again in TWM thread.

More information, and how it works?

The goal is to increase the world height and depth, without making the game too slow. This mod attempts to do that not by making chunks taller (like many earlier attempts), but by making them smaller and stacking them on top of each other, just like what Minecraft already does horizontally.

Minecraft 1.2 together with changed save format got world height increased up to 256 blocks. This was possible without making the game slower by splitting a Chunk into 16x16x16 subsections, just like what cubic chunks does (and in fact the update has been inspired by Robinton's cubic chunks mod). But instead of dynamically loading and unloading them, Minecraft just removed the empty ones which decreases memory usage. This mod dynamically loads and unloads these 16x16x16 sections as player goes up and down.

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What is left to do?

The full list of issues to solve can be found on github. Those marked with "beta release" milestone almost certainly need to be fixed before beta release.

Mod compatibility

Some mods will work, but many mods will break in unpredictable ways. Wile some mods may appear to work, even in 100+ mods modpacks, they are very likely to break when you actually begin to use them.

Plans far into the future

Some of these involve someone else making mod to do that, or just ideas that would be awesome to have but may never actually happen

• Sponge compatibility - SpongeAPI has been designed to be able to work with cubic chunks. The Minecraft implementation however won't work with cubic chunks without compatibility patches. While I was already able to make sponge not crash and actually load a world, nothing else worked (even breaking blocks didn't work). This will almost definitely happen at some point.
• Advanced terrain generation plugins/addons/mods/modules: more realistic terrain generators that make better use of the unlimited world height and depth
• Stacked dimensions - nether below the overworld, the end above it. All as a single cubic chunks dimension with different 3d.
• More realistic lighting system - I do have some ideas but I don't know if it will actually work
• Approximate smooth rendering of faraway terrain - is it even possible in Minecraft

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