So I've been playing around with the world generation settings and I've managed to come up with this which is sort of what I was going for. Oceans are very shallow, and filled with land masses. Most of the oceans look like small lakes. For the most part terrain is fairly flat, but mountains can still be quite large. Some interesting changes are that birch forests usually generate in mountains, as do swamplands.
Sea level is at 20, the average ground level is around 30. I've upped the spawn rate of iron and diamonds, as well as increased the height diamond generates at. In ravines, as well as in extreme hills, diamonds and occasionally emeralds can be seen from the surface.
Oceans
Deep ocean
More ocean "lakes"
Shallow ocean with small lakes
More small land masses in ocean
Lava ravine in the middle of an ocean biome
Ocean biome separating plains and tundra
So I've been playing around with the world generation settings and I've managed to come up with this which is sort of what I was going for. Oceans are very shallow, and filled with land masses. Most of the oceans look like small lakes. For the most part terrain is fairly flat, but mountains can still be quite large. Some interesting changes are that birch forests usually generate in mountains, as do swamplands.
Sea level is at 20, the average ground level is around 30. I've upped the spawn rate of iron and diamonds, as well as increased the height diamond generates at. In ravines, as well as in extreme hills, diamonds and occasionally emeralds can be seen from the surface.
Oceans
Deep ocean
Lava ravine in the middle of an ocean biomeMore ocean "lakes"
Shallow ocean with small lakes
More small land masses in ocean
Ocean biome separating plains and tundra
Tundra
Other biomes
Swampland Hills
Taiga
Dry Swampland
Hilly dark oak forest
Hilly birch forest
World generation settings
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