Tectonic

First major update! With this update comes four new biomes and many changes, big and small. This will also be the first version of Tectonic to release for both 1.18.2 and 1.19 at the same time. Have fun!

Additions

• Huge hoodoos in the Badlands Spires biome
• Moved the custom birch trees to the Evergreen Forest and Old Growth Evergreen Forest biome
• Improved the Birch Forest biome to make it look a bit more like the concept art from Minecraft Live 2021
• Cliffs made of Calcite and Diorite in the White Cliffs biome
• Stumps in some forest biome, that can sometimes have moss carpets on them
• More oak tree variants

Changes

• Major technical changes to mountain generation. Mountains should be about 50% more common.
• Changes to terrain shaping, mainly shifting around where highlands and flat terrain generates.
• Made oceans deeper
• Made cliffs beside the ocean only sometimes generate overhangs
• Added pillar generation inside underground rivers
• Removed the Ancient River biome from generation.
  • The biome still exists in the files to ensure worlds from older versions don’t break.
• Improved the generation and placement of the Desert Dunes, Island, Lagoon, and Autumn Forest biomes
  • The Island and Lagoon biomes should be about twice as common.
  • The Desert Dunes and Autumn Forest biomes should be about as common as they were before.
• Reverted a change made in v1.0.3 that made rivers smoother.
• Attempted to improve aquifer generation around oceanside cliffs.
• Several other technical changes and tweaks.