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Last active February 26, 2023 10:40
Minecraft Heightmap Types

Heightmaps

Since I've recently been working on some Minecraft world gen stuff I came across Minecraft's internal height maps. I mainly needed them for a few placement modifiers like the surface_relative_threshold_filter. I couldn't find any documentation on the different heightmap types, so I decided to dig into Minecraft's code and write a small program that can render them. Here's a small overview:

Heightmap Types

Minecraft has 6 different heightmap types: