Canalize

# Canalize Have you ever thought that Minecraft's world could be taller, grander, and more realistic? The vanilla Overworld caps out at 384 blocks. Mountains peak within a few dozen blocks — you reach the top in minutes. That's not a mountain range. That's a hill model. **Canalize** breaks that ceiling. --- ## What It Is Canalize is a NeoForge mod that completely rewrites Minecraft's Overworld terrain generation. It doesn't reskin the vanilla terrain or tweak parameters — it replaces the vanilla `ChunkGenerator` from scratch with an independent C++ noise engine, bridged back to the game via JNI. The resulting world stretches from −64 all the way up to **1744** — a full **1808 blocks** of vertical space. That's **4.7× taller** than vanilla. --- ## What the World Looks Like Picture a mountain whose base is carved by erosion into gorges and riverbeds, whose slopes are layered rocky formations, whose summit is bare stone above the treeline — and whose peak nearly pierces the cloud layer. Canalize's terrain is built from three layered noise systems: - **Ridged FBM** — builds the skeleton of mountain ranges: sharp, continuous, directional - **Domain Warping** — simulates hydraulic erosion, carving valleys and riverbeds - **Worley Cellular Noise** — blends rock texture into mountain peaks Biome transitions use `smoothstep` interpolation — no hard edges between ocean, plain, and mountain. --- ## Why C++ At 1808 blocks, noise computation multiplies dramatically. Canalize's noise kernel is written in **C++17** with **AVX2 SIMD** optimization — 8 floats per instruction, stateless, fully thread-safe. The goal: an 1808-block world that generates with no perceptible slowdown compared to vanilla. --- ## Technical Summary | | | |---|---| | World Height | −64 ~ 1744 (1808 blocks) | | Noise Stack | Simplex OS2S → Ridged FBM → Domain Warping + Worley | | Acceleration | C++17 + AVX2 SIMD via JNI | | Platforms | Windows / Linux / macOS (x86_64 + Apple Silicon) | | Loader | NeoForge 21.1.219 | | License | (http://license.coscl.org.cn/MulanPubL-2.0) | --- > **Early development.** Once enabled in a world save, that save **permanently** depends on this mod's terrain generator. Use only in dedicated test worlds. > > Requires a CPU with **AVX2** support (most CPUs from 2013+). --- *中文说明详见 (https://github.com/FORGE24/Canalize)*