Minecraft:Single Biome

File:BuffetWorldCustomization.png

The customization screen for Single Biome

Single Biome (formerly known as Buffet) is a Minecraft:world type or a vanilla Minecraft:world preset in which the entire Minecraft:Overworld consists of one Minecraft:biome. It is simple to customize, albeit very limited.

Java Edition

Single Biome uses a single fixed biome source for generating the Minecraft:Overworld with the default noise generator. Similar to the Minecraft:Default world type, this configuration generates a world with a bedrock floor at the Y=-64 lower height limit, and the rest of the terrain is generated on top of it. However, in contrast to the Default world type, the Overworld in a Single Biome world consists of only one biome.

The Nether and the End are unchanged from their Default world type counterpart. The Nether uses the multi-noise biome source and the End uses the Template:Code biome source.

Additionally, players can override any dimension with the same fixed biome source generation like Single Biome using a Minecraft:custom dimension data pack.

Custom biome

Single Biome world type allows players to choose a biome that the world generates in the terrain of the Minecraft:Overworld. Biome choice determines things such as terrain, vegetation, generated structures, and to some extent, mob spawning. Single Biome worlds can be customized to use any one of the available biomes, using only that particular biome for the entire world. The player can choose any of the existing biomes, including the Nether and the End biomes, and custom biomes from Minecraft:data packs.

This customization is available in the "Buffet world customization" menu, accessible by clicking the "Customize" button beside the world type selector in the world creation settings.

Using a biome from the Nether or the End to generate the Overworld results in a world with their structures and characteristics, albeit very incomplete. For example, Minecraft:warped forest does not generate any warped trees, but still generates fogs, particles, and Minecraft:nether fortresses. This is caused by a bug where the biome surface and terrain is different from their own dimension.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Server operators can set a Single Biome world type by setting level-type=minecraft:single_biome_surface in Minecraft:server.properties.

Bedrock Edition

Code for the Single Biome world type exists in Bedrock Edition; however, it is inaccessible through the game's GUI. It can only be accessed by editing the world's level.dat file using external programs. This code supports every biome in the game, including unused biomes.

In Bedrock Edition, Single Biome has a few quirks such as:

• Minecraft:Mineshafts, Minecraft:ruined portals, and Minecraft:strongholds generate in every biome.
  • This does mean that it is possible to get wood and enter the Minecraft:End regardless of the chosen Biome, unlike Java Edition.
• Single Biome affects the Minecraft:End but not the Minecraft:Nether.
• Non-land biomes do not generate their terrain.
• Minecraft:Oceans and Minecraft:rivers when inside of a Nether biome have a checkerboard-like pattern of water and lava.
• Minecraft:Structure generation cuts off at Y-level 256 when in a Nether or End biome.

This feature is neither widely known nor is it fully developed, and is unlikely to be fully implemented into the game, but it can still be accessed.

Trivia

• If the Nether or the End is used as the sole biome, then the sky would appear as if it is a mixture of the Overworld and the Minecraft:dimensions.

Gallery

Screenshots

• A beach biome generated using Single Biome world type, showing a borderless beach that looks like a desert, but with naturally spawning Minecraft:turtles.
  A beach biome generated using Single Biome world type, showing a borderless beach that looks like a desert, but with naturally spawning Minecraft:turtles.
• A river biome generated using Single Biome world type, showing a borderless river that looks like a shallow ocean.
  A river biome generated using Single Biome world type, showing a borderless river that looks like a shallow ocean.
• A void-like biome generated using Single Biome world type, resulting in terrain made entirely of stone with a single block of cobblestone generated on the player's spawn point.
  A void-like biome generated using Single Biome world type, resulting in terrain made entirely of stone with a single block of cobblestone generated on the player's spawn point.
• The End generated using the Single Biome generation.
  The End generated using the Single Biome generation.
• The End buffet world generated using Overworld terrain.
  The End buffet world generated using Overworld terrain.
• A Minecraft:mountain edge buffet world
  A Minecraft:mountain edge buffet world
• A nether wastes biome using Single Biome type. Although the terrain is that of the Overworld, Minecraft:ghasts still spawn naturally.
  A nether wastes biome using Single Biome type. Although the terrain is that of the Overworld, Minecraft:ghasts still spawn naturally.
• A Minecraft:mushroom fields buffet world
  A Minecraft:mushroom fields buffet world

Mojang Screenshots

• A desert buffet world
  A desert buffet world
• The same terrain in different biomes
  The same terrain in different biomes

See also

• Minecraft:Old Buffet world generators
• Minecraft:Custom