Expanded World (Datapack)
Expanded World enhances your Minecraft experience by extending the world height, introducing custom caves, structures, and vegetation. Explore new depths…
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Expanded World Mod/Datapack
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### not compatible with
- Terralith </details>
Description
Expanded World is a Minecraft Mod and Datapack that extends the world's vertical limit from 384 to 640 blocks (-128 to 512) and introduces bespoke cave systems across multiple biomes. Alongside, it integrates custom vanilla-style structures and enhances the game's generation and vegetation mechanics.
Installation
Datapack Installation
Installing the datapack follows the standard procedure. Prior to installation or updating, it's advisable to create backups of your worlds.
Mod Installation
Expanded World can also function as a mod for Forge, NeoForge, and Fabric. Refer to the specific installation guidelines provided for each respective mod loader.
Features
- Elevates the world height to a minimum of Y: -128 and maximum of Y: 512
- Introduces tailored cave systems across various biomes, including ice, snow, desert, jungle, swamp, and badlands
- Augments vegetation in swamp and birch forests, and introduces fallen trees within forests and taigas
- Expands vanilla village and pillager outpost placements across diverse biomes
- Introduces new village variants in badlands, swamp, dark forest, and jungle
- Adds a novel structure: small camps featuring tents and campfires
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.4
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Expanded World (Datapack) is a free Minecraft Java datapack. Compatible with Minecraft 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.4, 1.21.3 and newer. Downloaded 27,937 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.