Configure Terralith / Contients | Stardust Labs | Page 1

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:00 PM

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So I tried to configure my Terralith and Contients but it just wont work. I zip the folder open follow all the steps start the game and the customized terralith/contients dont work. Im using world previewer so its quick, and everytime I added them, the world didnt change, as if the mod after rezipped doesnt work. I also converted them in jar files as well, still had no impact. I have tried to configure these before but again, nothing works and im confused. I did everything right according to the guide, just zipping it back up does nothing, I've tried putting the .zips into the data packs, I've made them .jar and put them into the mods folder, nothing works

worn ridgeBOT Jan 20, 2025, 5:00 PM

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worn ridgeBOT Jan 20, 2025, 5:00 PM

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hollow relic So I tried to configure my Terralith and Contients but it just wont work. I zip ...

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:03 PM

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what did you change, and what are you expecting to see different on the map?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:04 PM

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Thats the normal unchanged continents with terralith tectonic

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I wanted the contients to be much larger, and terralith to have bigger biomes but It doesnt work if I edit them

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So with the customized versions rezipped into the datapacks, as I was told I can do that by someone else in here on my previous help post. Terralith nor continents is active, and this happens when they are jars in the mod folder aswell, thats biomesoplenty generation, there is not a single terralith biome on that map as it lets me know the biomes

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I was tired of the biomes being 100 blocks wide, really kills the feel of the world, so I wanted massive contients with a few biomes so if I lived on one, and I'd have to travel to find other biomes

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:16 PM

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i meant, which files did you change, and which values

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but also, knowing that you're using Tectonic and BOP is important

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:16 PM

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xy scale

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I dont really care for bop I just wanted to see the differene

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I followed that incendy guide for the 8th time

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oh I also tried to remove skylands and replaced them with minecraft:ocean all that stuff

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:18 PM

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hollow relic So with the customized versions rezipped into the datapacks, as I was told I can...

im a bit confused here: does it work without BOP? why are you using BOP if you don't want it?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:18 PM

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it doesnt work either way, I wanted to see how the world looked WITH unmodified terralith contients

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:19 PM

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ok, just so i make sure i know what you're trying to do:

using Tectonic, Terralith, and Continents
no BOP or any other worldgen mod
you want to increase continent and biome size

correct?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:20 PM

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and remove skylands, yes

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with distant horizons seeing like 50 flying islands is weird XD

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:20 PM

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ok, and are you using the mod or datapack versions? you mentioned both, so trying to figure out what you're trying/intending/preferring to use

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:22 PM

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this is how it looks without BOP and terrablender, Im fine with either, I tried both ways and neither worked, I dont really know the difference between data packs and mods, I know one is zipped and one is just jar, but if theres actual no difference in the game I don't have a preference

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:22 PM

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by themselves, there's no difference, but there kinda of is when you're trying to mix them

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mods: Tectonic and Continents are currently incompatible due to a bug
datapacks: Tectonic + Terralith won't work together... replace Tectonic with Terratonic for the "Terralith-compatible" version

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and don't try to turn mod version of Tectonic into a datapack

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:23 PM

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I got terratonic

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:23 PM

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so Terralith, Continents, Terratonic?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:24 PM

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yes, and I noticed the bug the continents dont work. Yes

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:24 PM

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they should work when using datapack versions

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but i digress

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when editing datapacks, it's best to do one at a time. when you did your changes to Continents, did you test with just continents?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:25 PM

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yes it doesnt do anything

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im not sure if Im zipping it up wrong, or something but thats the only thing I can think of

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:25 PM

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send your edited version of Continents

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:27 PM

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I even tried to unzip, keep the xy scale the same, rezip to see if it still works and it doesnt. theres the zip and the jar

📎 Continents_1.21.x_v1.1.7.zip 📎 Continents_1.21.x_v1.1.7.jar

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:28 PM

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yeah, not zipped correctly

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:28 PM

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because I couldn't tell if that was the vanilla generation, or just the contients are so big they were touching eachother looking like vanilla gen

worn ridgeBOT Jan 20, 2025, 5:28 PM

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When editing the mod versions of our projects, treat them like the datapacks. If needed, you can rename .jar to .zip first so your computer will recognize it correctly, then rename it back to .jar when you're done.

You must make sure you zip the datapack up correctly! Instead of zipping the main folder itself, zip the contents of the folder together. See the image below.

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:29 PM

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ok lemme try that

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I have almost no experience modding minecraft so this is all new to me with datapacks and stuff

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:29 PM

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worn ridge When editing the mod versions of our projects, treat them like the datapacks. If...

and no, this is what Continents looks like. the mod is more of "bigger oceans/spread out land" than it is "big landmasses"

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:30 PM

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yes, I want that, but the land to be bigger and the oceans to match

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:30 PM

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i replied to the wrong message, but i meant that

or just the contients are so big they were touching eachother looking like vanilla gen
this wouldnt happen

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increasing continent size also increases ocean size

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:30 PM

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ok thats good to know, I didnt know that

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just to make sure, it'll be in the datapack correct?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:33 PM

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yes, if you want to use Tectonic

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:35 PM

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so I zipped the folders contents, put the new file into the datapacks and still

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it doesn't recognize it in the mods either not sure if its supposed to be like that

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honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:36 PM

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no, if it's a datapack, it is not a mod, and wont show up there as such

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:36 PM

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ok got it

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:37 PM

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in game, you can try /datapack list, and if continents shows up there it should be loaded correctly

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:38 PM

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I do appreciate the fast assistance

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yeah not in there for some reason

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honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:41 PM

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that's the entire list? is it cut off at the top, where you can scroll?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:41 PM

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oh yeah I see, the top just has saturn radium fastload and jmi

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:43 PM

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send the new version of continents you made

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:43 PM

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📎 Continents_1.21.x_v1.1.7.zip

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:44 PM

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yep that's right

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and where exactly are you putting the file?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:45 PM

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I am on modrinth

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:47 PM

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that explains it - that's not the correct folder. (yes, it's very misleading that they put a datapack folder there, when it doesn't do anything.) to do it correctly, when creating a world, just click the "add datapack button" in the creation menu, and add the datapacks in that gui that pops up

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datapacks are not installed on your profile like mods are, they can only be installed per individual world

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:49 PM

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so this

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:49 PM

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yep

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either opening the folder button that it provides, or even drag/drop into that gui works there too. whichever's easier

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:50 PM

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Well thankfully world previewer lets me preview in game

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:51 PM

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if you ever want to preview a world without going through the creation process, you can also stick the datapack onto [[map]]

worn ridgeBOT Jan 20, 2025, 5:51 PM

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honest oriole if you ever want to preview a world without going through the creation process, ...

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:51 PM

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lets you randomize the seed and etc

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:51 PM

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I can upload my customized continents / terralith to that site?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:52 PM

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yes, any datapack

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(wont work with worldgen mods)

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:53 PM

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Well it seems to enable continents to work now, and I got one more quick question, if I enable terralith like a normal mod, my dynamic trees for terralith doesnt detect the customized one, anyway around that?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:54 PM

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what do you mean by "enable like a normal mod"?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:55 PM

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So dynamic trees terralith requires terralith, and it only works if I have the normal terralith installed and enabled, if I dont, it wont let me load the game, and if I have to manually put the terralith into the datapack in game, how could I do that with DT- Terralith, or is that not possible

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:55 PM

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gotcha

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then yeah, you would have to use the mod versions instead. however, then Tectonic is not compatible with Continents when you use the mods.

...i was originally about to say you can't use datapack Terratonic with mod Terralith/Continents. but I'm not 100% sure on it. so if you want, you can test it and see. but i have some doubts

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:58 PM

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Alright ill have to look into it then. I would love Dynamic Trees but bigger biomes is way higher on my priority

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:58 PM

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or you could edit dt-terralith to not require terralith as a dependency... but i have my doubts on if that would work or not

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:58 PM

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👀

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I know to do that in xedit you can do that for minecraft too?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 5:59 PM

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not sure what you mean?

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 5:59 PM

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how do you edit that, to remove the master file requirement

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:00 PM

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set that to false

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:01 PM

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Im assuming I have to zip that open aswell

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:02 PM

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yeah, pretend the jar is a zip and edit it as you would a zip

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(i word it like this, because some file editors/programs/etc allow you to edit files inside a zip without unzipping)

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:03 PM

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After I would rezip, like how you do with continents, then convert into a jar and re add it to the mods?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:03 PM

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yes

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make sure you directly change the file extension from .zip to .jar so it is recognized as such

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:05 PM

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I mean I just used this site, https://convertio.co/zip-jar/ would it work just aswell?

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:06 PM

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uhh i don't know

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i would just directly rename it to .jar if you can (enable "show file extensions" in your file explorer settings, then rename as if you would any filename)

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way simpler without the risk of a third party website

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:06 PM

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Alright

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:09 PM

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hollow relic I mean I just used this site, https://convertio.co/zip-jar/ would it work just a...

reason im concerned about that website, is because there's technically zero structural difference between a jar and a zip. so im concerned on what "converting" it could be doing, other than literally just renaming the extension. (which it's possible that's all it does, but)

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:11 PM

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Thats if it works to begin with 😂 but lets see

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yeah it just crashes on "Create New World"

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Its fine dynamic trees is amazing but bigger biomes are better anyway, unless I can have terralith normally installed, and remove it prior to making a world

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:14 PM

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no, won't work

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it would run into the exact same issue

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(assuming the crash is caused by dt-terralith needing terralith, and not something unrelated)

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:16 PM

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something like that, just replace it with my modified terralith

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I think it worked

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I spawned in and the terralith biome I was in had dynamic trees

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:24 PM

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honestly surprised that worked

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:27 PM

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me too tbh

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I have a ton of skyrim modding experience and its a relief when something goes right

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honeslt the normal continents would be fine but I have minecolonies so i needed massive land to build cities on so the smaller continents wouldn't fit

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that's all I need I'm smiling, now I just got to find a nice sweet spot for biome size and thats it. Thank you so much for helping me figure this out.

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:37 PM

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glad to hear!

hollow relic Jan 20, 2025, 6:37 PM

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You have a fantastic rest of your day man

honest oriole Jan 20, 2025, 6:54 PM

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you as well

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