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Lithosphere

by Jayzet · for Minecraft

Lithosphere aims to change the overworld worldgen to be more cinematic, polished and beautiful.

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About Lithosphere

From Modrinth

Lithosphere aims to change the overworld worldgen to be more cinematic, polished and beautiful.

_Lithosphere aims to change the overworld worldgen to be more cinematic, polished and beautiful._

Compatability

Most worldgen mods (like Biomes O' Plenty, Nature's Spirit, ...) should be compatible, but lithosphere changes the deafult noise_settings so worldgen datapacks that change the overworld will be incompatible.

Datapacks that change the noise_settings files can be made compatible by changing their noise_settings to refer to Lithosphere's final_density.

Recommendations

  • I highly recommend using C2ME for improved chunkgen speeds
  • Voxy/Distant Horizons/Nvidium
  • Noisium
  • Steep surface fix

Feedback, questions or screenshots

If you have some questions, suggestions or feedback, or just want to post some of your screenshots of Lithosphere you can ask/post these on discord!

Features

Continents and deeper oceans

The overworld consists of some gigantic and some smaller continents, these are seperated by deep oceans where occasional islands and archipelagos can be found.

Gradual coasts and steep cliffs

The coastlines are mostly covered in large beaches, that gradually transition into the ocean, but there are also steep cliffs near mountainous regions. These cliffs have a more realistic shape to them, than the vanilla stony shores.

Mountainous Regions

The "Onion Ring" mountains in vanilla are gone, and replaced with more cinematic looking mountain ranges, that are less pointy. These new mountains can be much higher than in vanilla.

Karst

You can find karst regions, that can sometimes look just like the Monument Valley in Arizona, or Ha Long Bay in Vietnam!

Rivers and river valleys

Rivers are much less common and carve valleys through mountainous regions. They also won't get cut off by some weird terrain generation like in some places in vanilla.

Lakes

Big lakes can sometimes appear anywhere in your world. It's quite common to also find some islands generating in them.

Unique swamp placement and terrain

Swamps now generate seperately from windswept biomes and are often located in lower regions..

Smoother terrain

The weird terrain layers and facture splines from vanilla are gone and replaced with overall smoother height transitions.

Overhauled cave generation

It's quite rare to find caves reaching the surface, but when they do, they'll most likely lead to a bigger cave system

Larger temperature and humidity regions

The size of the temperature and humidity noises has been increased to make biomes bigger and less condensed. But biomes in this datapack should still be more varied than they are like in the vanilla large biomes setting.

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 28 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.

Loaders

Runs on Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Lithosphere on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.8.2+mod, released 2026-08-28

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Data pack1.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)26.2
Fabric1.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)26.2
Forge1.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)26.2
NeoForge1.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)26.2
Quilt1.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)26.2

From 5 recorded builds of Lithosphere.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.8.2+mod2026-08-281.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
1.8.22026-08-281.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)Data pack
1.8.1+mod2026-07-171.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
1.8.12026-07-171.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)Data pack
1.8+mod2026-07-161.20 to 26.2 (23 versions)Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt

Run Lithosphere on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

World generation

Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Lithosphere as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Data packFabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.2 and 27 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorJayzet, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree

Lithosphere, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Lithosphere?

Modrinth lists Lithosphere as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Lithosphere is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Lithosphere on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Lithosphere in one click.