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=== Version 5 (historic) ===
 
=== Version 5 (historic) ===
[[File:Minetest mapgen5 funky.jpeg|thumb|650px|Historic mapgen v5 in Minetest 0.3.0]]
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[[File:Minetest mapgen5 funky.jpeg|thumb|650px|Historic mapgen v5 in Minetest-c55 0.3.0]]
 
Official map generation for version 0.3.1. It is iconic for its extreme and often “blobby” terrain shapes. In the 0.3 versions, this map generator hat predefined biomes like the current v6 map generator. In Minetest 0.4, it was removed, but has been revived later (see below).
 
Official map generation for version 0.3.1. It is iconic for its extreme and often “blobby” terrain shapes. In the 0.3 versions, this map generator hat predefined biomes like the current v6 map generator. In Minetest 0.4, it was removed, but has been revived later (see below).
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This version of the map generator is also used in [[Overview_of_Minetest_forks#Voxelands|Voxelands]], a fork of Minetest-c55.
 
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=== Version 6 ===
 
=== Version 6 ===
 
[[File:Screenshot 2438759180 mapgenv6.jpeg|thumb|650px|Mapgen v6 in an early version of Minetest 0.4]]
 
[[File:Screenshot 2438759180 mapgenv6.jpeg|thumb|650px|Mapgen v6 in an early version of Minetest 0.4]]

Revision as of 18:32, 6 March 2017

Version 0

Undefinable terrain

Had horrible terrain generation. But at least terrain could be generated.

Version 0.0

The first trees
More trees

Trees were added in, but they were very basic.

Version 1

The first official mapgen

As one can see, water was added in.

Version 2 dev3

Mapgen 2 dev3

Mountains were made more pronounced and ore generation was better. Although this was a development version.

Version 2 dev4

Mapgen 2 dev4

Things were tuned a little better.

Version 2

Mapgen 2 dev3 biome

Beaches were included and sand finally spawned.

Version 3 "3d noise"

A giant cliff

3D noise is used to generate this terrain.

Version 4

Mapgen 4 biome

More tweaking.

Version 5 (historic)

Historic mapgen v5 in Minetest-c55 0.3.0

Official map generation for version 0.3.1. It is iconic for its extreme and often “blobby” terrain shapes. In the 0.3 versions, this map generator hat predefined biomes like the current v6 map generator. In Minetest 0.4, it was removed, but has been revived later (see below).

This version of the map generator is also used in Voxelands, a fork of Minetest-c55.

Version 6

Mapgen v6 in an early version of Minetest 0.4
Mapgen v6 in Minetest 0.4.13-dev

Also called “v6” or “mgv6”. As of 0.4.0, map generation is much faster. This map generator has some simple default biomes, such as grasslands, forests, oceans, jungles and deserts. In Minetest 0.4.13, support for snow biomes and ice sheets has been introduced as well. This map generator can still be selected in Minetest and support for it will not be removed anytime soon and improvements and bugfixes are still applied.

Support for multiple map generators

Since the early versions of Minetest 0.4, players are able to choose one of multiple map generators, with v6 being the default selection initially. Since then, more and more map generators have been added and old map generators have been improved over time. From this point on, there is no longer a single “version” of the map generator and the concept of a map generator “version” no longer applies. The map generator names “v5”, “v6” and “v7” were kept for historic reasons, but each of these are distinct map generators which are considered equally “valid” and are improved independently. In Minetest 0.4.15, v7 became the new default selection.

flat

flat mapgen

The flat map generation was introduced in Minetest 0.4.5 by kwolekr. It can be used with or without trees, decorations, dungones, etc.

v7

Mapgen v7

Also called “mgv7”. It was introduced in Minetest 0.4.6 by kwolekr, in which the map generator was still unusable and only had support for terrain shapes and created worlds mostly made out of stone. It has been improved ever since and became the default selection in Minetest 0.4.15. This is the first map generator which supports biomes defined by mods.

v5 (modernized version 5)

Modernized mapgen v5 in Minetest 0.4.13-dev

Also called “mgv5”. This is the modernized version of the historic map generator version 5 from Minetest 0.3. In Minetest 0.4.11, this historic map generator has been revived by paramat because of its iconic terrain shape. But it is not identical to the historic version 5. The terrain shape is identical, but the modernized v5 map generator has mod-defined biome support (like v7), rather than predefined biomes. Ironically, this makes v5 more “modern” than v6 in Minetest 0.4.15.

fractals

Introduced in Minetest 0.4.13 by paramat.

fractals mapgen

valleys

Introduced in Minetest 0.4.14 by Duane Robertson. It is notable for its “valley”-like shapes and its flowing 3D rivers. It also introduced River Water in Minetest Game for the rivers. River water was introduced because a liquid with a reduced flowing range was needed, as normal Water would flow over way too much.

valleys mapgen

See also