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Hi everyone.

This is one of my favorite mods, though it looks like there isn't much interest in updating it or developing it further.

As such, I started working on it on my own. I've received the official go-ahead from MightyPork, but if anyone wants to take it over again, I'll gladly hand over the sources to them. :-) I don't guarantee I'll have revisions out the day Minecraft updates, but I'll try to have them out within a month at least, hopefully sooner.

Anyway, so far I haven't tested it much, but I used MightyPork's sources from 1.2.5 as a starting point, so it should function the same way. Hopefully I've caught all the changes that needed to be made to make it work with the Minecraft 1.3+ internal changes. In theory, that also means that it should work server-side as well, but I haven't tested that yet either. (I don know it won't work if the mod isn't installed on the server side.)

If you're interested in this mod, please let me know here.

Thanks.

And a big thank you to MightyPork for making some of the best mods (IMHO) and for turning them over for others to develop when you wanted to stop.

And now: Download [1.4.7a][Forge]MagicWands Updated: March 2, 2013

Please let me know if you have any problems...

*** IMPORTANT *** I forgot to add Emerald, ID 129, to the breaking/mining wands. If you want to leave Emerald ore alone while breaking or surface-mine it, you'll have to add the number 129 to the magicwands.properties file. *** IMPORTANT *** I'll add this as default in the next revision.

Installation instructions:

The usual... First, install Forge. After that you should be able to either put the zip file in your .minecraft/mods folder or import it into your minecraft.jar file, whichever you prefer.

This mod does not change any of the core class files, so, in theory, shouldn't interfere with any other mods. If you get an ID conflict with another mod, it has a properties file (see below) where you can change the item IDs.

Recipes

To use the wands

Other Info

Quote from SicklySIGFRIED

If you replace the jar and generate an old map, then replace the jar, only the chunks that were rendered will be old. Once new terrain is generated, it will have swamps, ravines, ect..

...and jagged edges between the old and new chunks, no strongholds or mines in the old terrain, etc.

I approve of this message.

Though it would be nice if these were configurable options. (e.g. b1.2_01 terrain, no abandoned mines, yes strongholds, yes gravel piles, no large shallow oceans, yes vast and high deserts, etc.)

Are you an Alphabro who always posts on how you miss the good old days of Alpha, and how the game was fun? Or are you a more recent player who just wanted to see what the game looked like before you even knew of Minecraft? Well, you are not alone. Not even close to alone. There are hundreds of thousands of players who think this way.

So ever since Alpha 1.2.0 when the terrain generation was altered (and in my opinion, screwed up), I've wanted the classic Alpha terrain with the current version's features. In December '10, I was happy to see MCNostalgia, as it allowed me to play Alpha 1.1.2_01, which had what was my favorite terrain generator. I loved it, but the loss of current features and the heavy presence of bugs kept me from staying there.

I am requesting a mod that allows for users to change the Minecraft version that it generates terrain from, and that being the only thing that changes; gameplay, items, blocks, ect will all be as of the client's version.

I am fully aware of the mods out there that do this by changing all worlds made to preHalloween Alpha, but the reason I am calling for this mod is for extreme convenience and flexibility.

I propose that the terrain type would be set upon creation of a new world, as shown here:


These are the versions you can choose from

• Alpha 1.1.2_01 (3rd gen Terrain)
• Beta 1.1_02 (4th gen Terrain w/o new trees)
• Beta 1.7.3 (4th gen Terrain w/ new trees)
• Beta 1.8.1 (5th gen Terrain w/o snow biomes)
• Minecraft 1.0 (5th gen Terrain w/ snow biomes)

Now about those other mods I talked about earlier: The best part of this mod would be the fact that you could make a 1.1.2 world, make a house and stuff on that terrain, then make a new world using 1.7.3 terrain without switching out mods/.jars. Another selling point of this mod would be that you can take your first world that was generated with an Alpha client, set the terrain type that corresponds to the version you made your world in, and play the game. Now, any new terrain that you would enter without this mod spawns 1.0.0 5th gen terrain and causes sudden, ugly chunk borders. With this mod, there would be no chunk borders: your 1.0.0 client would make the old terrain for a seamless world. No more backdating .jars to expand your old worlds with the old terrain.

Remember, a built in way to customize which seed a world generates from was added in Beta 1.3, so this mod would allow for 1st through 3rd gen terrain to be made from specific seeds; this is something that backdating your client can't do.

The new terrain just sucks. Once you have seen what a biome looks like, you've seen them all. Forests, swamps, deserts, taigas, grasslands, and tundras are flat as hell. Mountains are cool, but they are very difficult on gameplay as it takes 5 minutes to find a single tree. The underwater terrain is just this hodge-podge of dirt and sand, and looks extremely ugly. Swamps' coloring looks cool when you are in it, but the sudden boundaries of dark to light grass looks retarded.

(Those links are giving you a hint; thousands of people are reaching the same conclusions)

Now, 3rd gen terrain was based on 3D Perlin noise and created these very dynamic and visually appealing terrain. A new world felt new, and you really don't know what you are going to get, compared to now, a biome makes it extraordinarily obvious what the terrain is going to look like. 4th gen terrain lessened the extremity of the terrain, but was still random, and biomes were just an add on and did not affect the terrain as much as they do now.

Take a look at this video that has 3rd gen terrain of Alpha 1.1.2_01. 3rd gen worlds will generate cool terrain like this in almost all times you made a new world.


People who complain that new Minecraft sucks and how Alpha was epic are usually only miss the terrain generator; they played the game for a sense of fantasy and light-hearted gameplay, not this new dark and demanding game that has come of. This mod will be able to shut those people up for good, combining the new version with old terrain, and in combination with a texture pack, can make these guys love playing Minecraft again.


I backdated my client for the fun of it to play some mid Alpha, and after only 6 tries for an epic world, this is what I got. This is why I love Alpha.

If you make the mod and do a good job with the design and promotion, you could later rewrite it to allow custom imput of terrain. Then other mods will use your mod (Similar to what happened with Risugami's ModLoader) which will really push you high into the modding community.

Also refraining from making this mod because you don't actually have backups of the generation code? Well MCNostalgia will allow you to revert your game to these versions and just go from there.

There is a person out there who is walking to the Far Lands (Kurtjmac), and he is stuck with using 1.7.3 because the Far Lands were removed in 1.8. As time goes on, he will be stuck with using this old version while the Minecraft community passes him by, so by making this mod, you will allow him to generate pre1.8 terrain with the newest gameplay aspects, spicing up the videos for more enjoyment on his part, and others'. So please, someone create this mod, after all, Kurt is doing it for charity (and has already raised $11,000!).


Well this topic has about 50,000 views, which is really amazing, but still there are thousands of people who would love this mod but do not know about it. The use of the signature I made really draws people in, like you, to see this topic.

I put it as my signature for a month and regularly posted on the Survival Forum, and brought in 2,000 views. Two weeks later after I allowed others to use the sig, this topic has reached 7,000 views. After a month, we're up to 27,000. Just imagine if another hundred people used this sig for a month.