Highlands Mod by sdj64

Highlands aims to be a comprehensive improvement of Minecraft biomes, trees, and terrain. If you’ve ever felt bored exploring the world of Minecraft, this is your mod.

Features:

• 18 new biomes!
• 8 trees, all with their own wood, leaves and planks!
• 6 small plants!
• Custom world type and mountain generation!
• Fully compatible with customized world settings!
• Settings to disable biomes you don’t want!
• Biome rarity fix!
• Ore generation changes per biome!
• Forest generation based on height!
• Improvements to vanilla biomes!

Biomes:

• Adirondacks – Tall mountains of dirt and exposed stone, with forested foothills.
• Alps – Inhospitable mountains covered in deep snow, with pine forests in the valleys.
• Badlands – Plateaus and valleys of clay and dirt.
• Bald Hill – a tall treeless hill that provides a good lookout point over forests.
• Bamboo Forest – a dense forest of thin bamboo plants.
• Dry Forest – a low landscape covered in Aspen trees and shrubs.
• Grey Mountains – Ominous rocky crags covered in boulders and gnarled plants. The forested valleys contain many dead trees.
• Highlands – rolling hills covered in shrubs and flowering plants.
• Lake – a small body of water that appears in many inland biomes. Poplar trees can grow on the shores.
• Lowlands – Scattered lakes and low hills with stone and pine trees.
• Meadow – An idyllic plain with poplar trees and many flowers.
• Mojave – A dry semi-desert with red sand and Acacia trees.
• Pinelands – Tall but weathered hills and mountains with pine trees and shrubs.
• Poplar Hills – Lakes and hills covered in poplar trees.
• Redwood Forest – A dense forest with fir and giant redwood trees, and a podzol floor.
• Tropical Hills – Tall hills with a forest of Eucalyptus trees.
• Tropical Islands – A player lost at sea might discover one of these palm tree covered islands.

Trees and Plants:

• Aspen – A medium tree with light colored wood and autumn leaves.
• Bamboo – A small tree with a very thin stem.
• Eucalyptus – a tall straight tree that grows in the tropics.
• Fir – A tall thin pine tree with dark wood.
• Palm – A tropical palm tree.
• Poplar – A small tree that grows straight and thin.
• Redwood – A giant redwood tree that can grow to be more than 40 blocks tall.
• Dead – An oak tree that has lost all of its leaves.
• Great Oak – Oak trees can grow much more massive in the forests of Highlands.
• Shrubs – pine and oak shrubs that grow low to the ground.
• Waterflower – Small blue flowers on a dark stem.
• Cattail – Reeds that grow in the swamps and wetlands.
• Cotton – A bush with fluffy white tufts that can be spun into cloth.
• Blueberry Bush – Wild blueberries that grow in hilly areas.
• Raspberry Bush – Wild raspberries that grow in hilly areas.
• Lavender – A purple flowering plant.
• Tropical Leaf Fern – a fern-like plant with one big leaf.
• Thornbush – A bush with prickly thorns.

Screenshots:

Download Links

For Minecraft 1.8

https://dl4.cdn9mc.com/index.php?act=dl&id=1439169333