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Hi everyone,

I've started a new Minecraft related project - a map painter / generator. My intention was to create a tool with which you can quickly generate expansive, natural looking landscapes, with full manual control over the terrain, yet easy to use and with good performance.

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Here is an initial test release. Important: this is a test release! It is not even alpha level. It may eat your dog or steal your car. More importantly, it is nowhere near finished. Important features to be able to use it productively are missing. This is just a technology demonstration if you will, it is not meant to be actually useful.

Nevertheless, it does function, and I'm looking for people willing to play with it in its current state and give me feedback. Does it run on your OS? Run well? Any errors? Is it potentially useful in your opinion? What features would you like to see? Those sorts of things. If you do decide to try it out, just leave your comments in this thread (and please try to check if somebody else already said the same thing).

To try it, download You must login or register to view this content. file and run it. You need Java to be able to run it, but since Minecraft does too you should already have that. Depending on your OS, double clicking the file may work to run it, otherwise try this command from a command line (in the directory where you downloaded the file):


java -jar WorldPainter.jar

It should be pretty self-explanatory, and the rest you should be easily able to find out by clicking around. Don't forget to try all your mouse buttons, and try holding them down!

The Load and Save buttons save the map in WorldPainter format. This format is not guaranteed to stay the same! The next versions may not be able to load your maps any more, so don't put too much work in them.

The Export button exports the map to a Minecraft world in Beta 1.3 format (the only supported format). It will do so to a directory (named the same as the world) in the current directory (the one you started it from). Copy this directory to your Minecraft saves directory to be able to open the world in Minecraft single player.

If you start the program in your Minecraft saves directory the world will be in the right location straight away, but take care not to overwrite an existing world! The tool does not warn you if the world already exists!

Major missing features which will be there when it's finished (you don't need to report these):


Trees / vegetation
Caves / dungeons
Resources (coal, ores, etc.)
I may not add everything that standard Minecraft maps have. This tool is not meant to create ready to run single player maps, it's meant to create server levels and adventure maps. The idea is to create the basic landscape, with your mountain ranges, oceans, lakes, hills, etc. using the tool, and then go in and fill in the details with other tools.

Anyway, please take a look and let me know what you think?

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I don't suppose this is compatible with 1.4?

dont know but am making a downgrade thread Now

Does it actually work? Any pics of the program would be cool.

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would be good to use to get the terrain how u want it without spending ages great thread