
Only Desert by KeyToFun
A datapack that turns the Minecraft world into an endless desert and badlands, with rare oceans and smoothed terrain.
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This datapack changes world generation. Now the entire world is desert and badlands. Oceans are rare and small. Terrain is smoothed out. Rivers have been transformed into shallow oases with scattered jungle trees, oak trees, and acacia trees. Cave biomes remain unchanged and generate just like in vanilla. Also, the Nether now only has the Soul Sand Valley biome.I tried to make the world as vanilla-like as possible, drawing inspiration from my own past experience surviving in the desert, since vanilla Minecraft's single-biome preset left me genuinely disappointed.Make sure to share your impressions of your desert adventures in the comments, and follow me to see even more small datapacks that make vanilla better!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Only Desert by KeyToFun.zip
- Download size: 478 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.