Wilderness
by ketok
Forests in Minecraft gain new wilder variants, with taller oak trees, moss-covered groves and fallen trees, once Wilderness is installed on Fabric, Forge or NeoForge for 1.20.1.
What it does
Wilderness changes the vanilla forest biomes rather than adding new ones, aiming to increase variety in the places players already explore. Old growth forests appear as a variant, and a rare forest type grows tall oak trees overgrown with moss. Mixed forests combine oak and spruce trees, which usually generate between taigas and forests, and fallen trees lie across the ground in several of these biomes.
Architectury API, Fabric API and TerraBlender are required dependencies, and Fabric API is needed on Fabric only. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker. The first file was published on 2024-02-19, the last update was on 2024-04-17, and builds exist for 1.20.1 alone.
Fabric has 0.1.2 for 1.20.1, dated 2024-04-09, and Forge and NeoForge each have 0.2.0 for 1.20.1, dated 2024-04-17. All of these files are marked as alpha builds.
Key features
Old growth forest variant
Old growth forest areas are added as a variant of the existing forest biomes, changing how the woods look.
Rare mossy oak groves
A rare forest variant grows tall oak trees overgrown with moss, which stand out among the usual trees.
Mixed oak and spruce forests
Mixed forests combine oak and spruce trees and usually generate between taigas and forests.
Fallen trees
Fallen trees are placed across the forest floor, adding ground detail to the wilder variants.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players and server owners who want more variety in forest biomes without new biomes being added to the world. Because the mod alters vanilla forests, it suits existing worlds that already use those biomes.
How it compares
Wilder Wild (Forge) is a Forge-only, client and server mod under the MIT License for 1.20 – 1.20.1, and it is not open source. Big Oak Tree runs on Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.4 as a client and server mod, released under All rights reserved and not open source. Wilderness reaches Fabric as well, on 1.20.1 only, under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, which is open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilderness | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-04-17 |
| Wilder Wild (Forge) | Forge | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-02 |
| Big Oak Tree | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-02-23 |
Questions
Does Wilderness need Fabric API on Forge?
Does Wilderness have to be installed on the server?
Which game version does Wilderness support?
In the catalog
Wilderness is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
## About Wilderness is a mod that aims to improve forests and other wild areas of the game. The goal of the mod is not to change vanilla forest biomes, but rather to add new ones to increase variety.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ketok-wilderness
- Owner
- ketok
- Published
- 2024-02-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-04-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15