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A small Fabric Minecraft mod that returns water lakes after their removal in Minecraft 1.18.
They were removed because cave aquifers were doing good enough of a job at replacing them, but what if you have noise caves disabled by another mod?
- This mod also returns water lakes to deserts (they were removed from them in 1.6), although they are less likely to generate on the surface of them, even compared to lava lakes.
- Unfortunately water lakes don't generate exactly where they used to generate before, a lot of lake generation logic has changed.
- The mod is compatible with modded biomes, it also adds water lakes to them as well. It won't recognize modded deserts though.
- Unlike lava lakes, water lakes also generate within deepslate! Sorry, I just liked it this way, you can disable it, see Configuration below.
I made this mod because I really liked the Moderner Beta mod with its early release world generation, but it doesn't bring back water lakes, so I had to do it to complete the scenery.
Installation
Requires Minecraft 1.20.1, Fabric Loader >=0.14.25 and Fabric API.
Configuration
The mod cannot be configured, but technically you can modify properties like chance of occurrence (the less, the more common) if you unpack .json files from the data folder, modify them yourself and pack them back in.
License
WaterLakesAreBack is licensed under MIT.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as WaterLakesAreBack-1.20.1-1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 15 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.