TerraForged's aim is to make your Minecraft world look & feel more coherent, expansive and interesting. It does this by combining a wide variety of hand-crafted terrain-type generators (many of which are inspired by real-life landforms) and then procedurally blending, eroding and smoothing together.

Unlike Vanilla - which generates the biomes first, and lets the biomes define how the terrain is shaped - TerraForged generates the terrain first and then decorates it with biomes that suit. Not only does this produce smoother and more natural transitions between contrasting terrains, but means that biomes are no longer fixed to a single terrain type, allowing for much more variation.

TerraForged integrates a flexible system for loading custom features into the world, replacing/modifying existing ones, and controlling when/where they get placed. For example, TerraForged provides it's own set of tree assets to replace the Vanilla ones. It modifies snow layer placement to create smooth snow drifts (which look really cool!). Chunks are decorated with randomly generated regions of strata (rock layers). This means you'll find more variety of materials whilst mining, and may also have to explore a bit more to find specific resources.

TerraForged makes use of an hydraulic-erosion algorithm to help improve the visual style of its terrain. This process traces the paths of thousands of water droplets down the slope of the terrain, simulating material erosion, carry, & deposition, and creates subtle lines and variations in the heightmap.

Data from this process is also used when decorating the terrain to expose the rock-face on highly eroded inclines, place gravel (scree) at the bottom of slopes, and to remove snow from locations where it wouldn't naturally settle.

Rivers will always lead you to the ocean, gradually increasing in width from start to finish. They can stretch for (literally) thousands of blocks carving the terrain & forming valleys as they go. You'll also find forks where two rivers meet, and the occasional lake on the way.

Love sliders? TerraForged's got you covered! Control anything from how much ocean your world has to how common volcanoes are! All this within an interactive GUI with a handy preview-map showing just how your settings will affect the world.