Echo of the Farlands

The mod restores a customizable Farlands. Instead of a fixed patch that pins terrain at one set distance, the distance can be chosen from preset values such as 10k, 50k, 100k, 500k, 1m and 12,550,823, or set to a custom value. The choice is made on the world creation screen through a new button, and the settings can also be changed in game through the configuration. Scaling is piecewise proportional with the Farlands distance.

The world type Farlands Beyond pushes terrain further: continentalness, depth, horizontal scale and erosion are adjusted so landmasses and oceans feel larger, biomes grow bigger and the world height limits are widened. The deepest oceans can reach y=-400, a new Abyssal Depths biome with a dark fog effect appears at y=-250, and a lava infill layer sits down to y=-424. Terrain stays gentler than the amplified world type, with flatlands and rolling hills. The mod is open source under the MIT License and has one published build, for NeoForge 1.21.1.

Because the world is much larger, generation and chunk loading put a heavy strain on the computer. A distant terrain renderer is recommended to see the far horizon, and 8 GB of RAM or more is advised. Parallel threaded generation and saving help on CPUs with many cores. The author states that the mod has been personally tested.