NovoAtlas 1.4.0 for Minecraft 1.21.9-10

• Fixed a bug where caves would be flooded in all areas of the map and surface decorations would generate on the floor of caves.
• Added fluid height maps, specified with the (optional) field fluid_height_map in the map info.

Fluid height maps

This version implements height maps for fluids. This allows for greater flexibility with lakes and rivers, allowing them to run above (or below) sea level. If there is a difference in fluid height between two blocks without land to separate them, the game will generate some wall-like structures similar to Aquifers to smooth out the transition.

If no fluid height map is provided, then the world's regular sea level will be used.

Abandoning previous versions

Due to breaking changes to the behaviour of Minecraft, this version of NovoAtlas will no longer support Minecraft versions 1.21.2-8. While this mod could have theorectically run on all versions since 1.21.2, this behaviour change to world generation is quite significant and resulted in major issues with this mod, resulting in the aforementioned bug that was fixed with this version. At this time, I do not plan to backport this update to those previous versions.

NovoAtlas for 1.21.9

• This mod now targets Minecraft 1.21.9
• Due to breaking changes in NeoForge, the NeoForge version of this mod no longer works on 1.21.4-8.
• The Fabric version of this mod should continue to work on 1.21.2-9.

• Fixed crash on world creation due to missing class

NovoAtlas 1.2.0

Horizontal Scaling

NovoAtlas now features horizontal scaling! The primary use case for horizontal scaling is to allow for large maps to be created from relatively small images, to save memory. However, downsampling is also possible.

Thanks to ANDREA-1720 for assisting with this feature.

• Added an optional horizontal_scale option to the scaling config in the map info definition.
• If not specified, the horizontal scale will be set to 1 with nearest neighbor interpolation.
• horizontal_scale can be specified as either a positive float, or as a compound containing the value and interpolation strategy.
• You can choose between three interpolation strategies: nearest_neighbor, bilinear, and bicubic.
• More detail is available on the wiki

More Image Formats

NovoAtlas now supports a wider range of image formats, including: .jpg, .tif, .tiff, .wbp, .bmp, .gif, .png, .jpeg, .wbmp, and .webp. Some of these formats support lossy compression, however I strongly recommend against utilizing this feature, especially for biome maps. Using lossy compression will result in loss of detail and incorrect biome placement (particularly around biome boundaries).

NovoAtlas 1.1.0 for 1.20.1

NovoAtlas 1.1.0 has been backported to 1.20.1 (for Fabric and LexForge) by squoshi! Thanks for your contribution!

IMPORTANT SUPPORT NOTE: This version is released as a beta because I do not plan to support it myself. I do not have time or capacity to develop new features or fix issues for old versions myself; any backports of the mod will only be supported by community contribution. If you want a feature or fix backported, please submit a PR on GitHub (or create a fork). You can also get 1.19 and 1.20.1 versions of the original Atlas mod by itsmiir (Fabric only).

Vertical Scaling

• Added a new scaling config to map info definitions.
• Currently, this only includes a vertical_scale float option, which defaults to 1.0.

• Fixed an issue with the cave biomes example pack that caused it to fail to load

• Backported to 1.21.1
• Fixed an issue with the cave biomes example pack that caused it to fail to load

Initial release for NeoForge 1.21.4+. This version is built against 1.21.5, but has been tested and verified on all versions 1.21.4+.

Due to breaking changes in NeoForge, this version does not work on 1.21.2-3. I do not plan to make a special build for that version.

Initial release for Fabric 1.21.2+. This version is built against 1.21.5, but has been tested and verified on all versions 1.21.2+.