
Topography Mod lets you create custom dimensions for Minecraft using a scripting system. This allows for new worlds with unique and interesting terrains. You can make the Nether a more terrifying place with strange land shapes and lava falling from the ceiling. The mod also lets you generate worlds full of sky islands, where each island can have a different biome or be made of random blocks like diamonds or spider webs.

Requires:
Minecraft Forge
BnBGamingCore
BNBGamingLib
Features:
- Create world presets with custom descriptions and images for players to choose from.
- Lock certain world presets, requiring players to use a command or complete an advancement to unlock them.
- Design a completely custom world creation screen for your modpack.
- Add effects to players, like taking damage if the light level is too low.
- Set up commands that run automatically when a player joins or when a world is first created.
World Appearance
- Set custom fog colors and skyboxes that can change with the time of day.
- Create dimensions that are permanently day, night, or sunset.
- Modify the brightness of light sources in a dimension.
- Disable rendering for the sky, clouds, or skylight entirely.
Gameplay Rules
- Force a world to be in Hardcore mode or lock the difficulty setting.
- Make a dimension have only a single biome.
- Disable player respawning or cause water to vaporize instantly.
Generators and Structures
- Includes many terrain generators, such as Sky Island, Overworld, Cell Noise, and Layer generators.
- Adds vanilla generators for things like caves, ravines, dungeons, and ore pockets.
- Populates custom dimensions with standard structures like Nether Fortresses, End Cities, Villages, and Strongholds.
Commands:
- Allows setting up initial command functions that run when a player first joins the world.
- Lets you run commands on the server when a world is first created.
- World presets can be designed to be unlocked with a command.
Screenshots:

Cell nether with roof

Cell nether without roof

Sky Islands

Sky Islands made of material blocks. Very balanced

Sky Islands made of glass and filled with lava
Topography Mod Download Links
For Minecraft 1.16.5
Forge version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
For Minecraft 1.12.2
Forge version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.16.5
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 202246.mcaddon
- Download size: 4.5 MB
- Download link checked 22 Jul 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.