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Natural Biomes 2
Adds More Vanilla-Like Biomes

What is Natural Biomes 2? -
Natural Biomes 2 is a mod that adds more biomes that feel vanilla. On top of that this mod also adds variation to the biomes. For example I have mountain, extreme hills, and normal variants of most biomes. This mod is a rewrite of Natural Biomes which I made over a year ago. There are tons of plans for more biomes.

Compatibility -
I have wrote NB2 to be compatible with Forestry's humidity and temperature levels. This should make my biomes work fine with bees and stuff. I have also added them to the biome dictionary forge uses so it should make it work even better with other mods that access its contents.

Please READ if you are using other biome mods! -
This mod uses a config file to change biome ids. If another biome mod has the same ids as mine they will cause chunk loading issues and load together. Change the ids in the config file to fix this!

However, to make life easier for you guys I have coded NB2 to work with the following mods -

• Mystic Mods (Future release of Mystic World)
• Twilight Forest

​If there are any other mods that add biomes, let me know and I will make sure it works with NB2 or you could just use the config file.

Seeds -

If you find any cool seeds then post them on here! Make sure you write the version of the mod you are using because seeds will change as I add more biomes. All seeds will be added here.


Biomes -

As of right now a lot of the images are unavailable. I been flying around in creative collecting images for this post. It is time consuming so it will be some time before I have this completely filled out. If you are feeling helpful, you may take pictures of the missing ones and send them to me.


Biomes with villages - Any biomes that isn't unreasonable for a village to spawn. For example, extreme biomes or swamps.

Biomes with horses - grass, shrubland, meadow type biomes

Biomes with emerald - black marshes, dunes, extreme dunes, and marshes. Also Massive Hills have double the emerald then the other biomes!

Birch Forest -
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Birch Jungle -


Birch Mountains -
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Birch Woods -


Black Marsh -
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Dunes -
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Desert Mountains -
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Forest Mountains -


Empty Plains -
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Extreme Birch Woods -


Extreme Desert Hills -


Extreme Dunes -
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Extreme Forested Hills -
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Extreme Grass Hills -
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Extreme Meadow Hills -


Extreme Taiga -


Extreme Woods -


Extreme Pine Hills -
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Extreme Snow Hills -


Extreme Sparse Woods -
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Forest -
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Oak Mountains -
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Woods -


Lush Forest -


Lush Mountains -
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Lush Plains -
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Lush Swamp -
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Massive Hills -
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Marsh -


Meadows -
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Mini Jungle -
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Pine Forest -
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Rainforest -


Savannah -
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Shrublands -


Snowy Forest -
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Snowy Mountains -
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Snowy Oak Mountains -
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Snowy Shrublands -
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Snowy Woods -
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Sparse Oak Mountains -
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Sparse Woods -


Swampy Hills -


Taiga Mountains -
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Thick Oak Mountains -
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Thick Swamp -


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Changelog -

Version 0.1 - Lost

Version 0.2 (6/7/13) -
-fixed some biomes not spawning in
-fixed biomes so they can now work as spawn biomes
-fixed the amount of trees spawning in sparse oak mountains to equal the same as in sparse woods
-fixed the amount of trees spawning in thick oak mountains to equal the same as in thick woods
-fixed the birch woods and birch mountains so that they spawn in birch trees and not oak
-rewrote code to make it easier to add future biomes

Version 0.3 (6/13/13) -
-fixed marsh so they now spawn lakes instead of trees
-added lush swamps
-added lush forest

Version 0.4 (7/3/13) The Extreme Update! -
-updated to 1.6.1
-added 13 more biomes
-Extreme Birch Woods
-Extreme Deserts
-Extreme Dunes
-Extreme Forested Hills
-Extreme Grass Hills
-Extreme Meadow Hills
-Extreme Pine Forest
-Extreme Snow Hills
-Extreme Sparse Woods
-Extreme Woods
-Massive Hills - Double the Emerald!
-Lush Forest
-Lush Swamps
-added Biome Dictionary stuff

Version 0.4.1 (7/3/13) -
-fixed swamp bug with colors
-fixed lush swamps
-increased minimal heights of massive hills
-changed villlage biomes to be a certain few
-added horses to grass, shrubland, meadow type biomes

Version 0.4.2 (7/3/13) -
-fixed bug causing biomes not spawn
-fixed massive hills spawn rate by properly initializing it
-fixed swamp trees

Version 0.4.3 (7/3/13) -
-fixed config categories

Version 0.4.4 (7/3/13) -
-fixed Extreme Woods bug (id was not properly initialized)

Version 0.4.5 (7/3/13) -
-fixed Extreme Meadow Hills bug (id was not properly initialized)

Version 0.5 (7/8/13) The Moar Biomes Update! -
-updated to 1.6.2
-decreased shrubs in Shrublands
-increased tallgrass in Shrublands
-added birch trees to forest type biomes
-removed config option for villages; only reasonable biomes have villages.
-added 11 biomes
-Forest
-Snowy Forest
-Birch Forest
-Black Marsh
-Desert Mountains
-Forest Mountains
-Empty Plains
-Taiga Mountains
-Swampy Hills
-Snowy Mountains
-Mini Jungle (FEATURED)
-added in missing forestry integration for last update
-biome ids are compatible with twilight forest's biomes

Version 0.5.1 (7/8/13) -
-decreased height of jungle trees in mini jungles
-fixed bushes in mini jungles so they are now jungle instead of birch

Version 0.5.2 (7/8/13) -
-fixed marshes
-fixed black marshes

Version 0.5.3 (7/16/13) -
-reduced tall grass in grassy biomes
-Added emerald to black marshes, normal marshes, dunes, and extreme dunes.
-Added silverfish blocks underground in black marshes, normal marshes, dunes, and extreme dunes.
-decreased ammount of shrubs in forest biomes (includes snowy forests, forest mountains, lush forests)

Version 0.5.4 (7/20/13) -
-decreased tall grass in lush forests
-increased mountains a little; some mountain biomes didn't seem like mountain biomes at all.
-added tall grass to lush swamps


Future Plans -

This is what I am currently adding to the next version. This list may change as I continue working on the version.

Version 0.6 (TBA) The Island Update! -
-Added 16 biomes

• -Forested Islands
• -Desert Islands
• -Jungle Islands
• -Mountainous Islands
• -Extreme Islands
• -Arctic Islands
• -Sparse Taiga
• -Sparse Pineforest
• -Sparse Jungles
• -Spruce Woods
• -Snowy Spruce Woods
• -Swampy Jungles
• -Swampy Mini Jungles
• -Swampy Woods
• -Dry Forest
• -Dry Jungles

-Changed oak trees in some snowy biomes to be pine trees
-Changed some biome names to sound better
-Changed biome ids to work better with other mods
-Changed sparse biomes so they don't rain
-Tweaked Birch Jungles
-Improved taiga biomes
-Improved extreme biomes by increasing heights


Downloads and Installation -

Copyright -
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Cool, I like this. I'll see how it goes alongside Better Biomes.

Really looking forward to trying this mod out! Hope you get a mirror link up soon!

I am so sorry for the broken link. I didn't expect dropbox to freak out.

I fixed the link

Youre going full throttle with the grass in too many biomers. Consider putting it to 95% in some and only leave 100% for one that is literally just a grassland (even then in real life it would be 98%~)

Many seems like you're using the default MC gen and letting it go wild (extreme desert/grass) while some might like that, to me it looks tacky and needs work to normalize the land noise. Yes, there is such a good thing as good land noise, but this really isnt it in those biomes. At least in those screenshots.

Overall a solid 6/10 for a biome mod. Would try!

Quote from WorthyFoe77

Youre going full throttle with the grass in too many biomers. Consider putting it to 95% in some and only leave 100% for one that is literally just a grassland (even then in real life it would be 98%~)

Many seems like you're using the default MC gen and letting it go wild (extreme desert/grass) while some might like that, to me it looks tacky and needs work to normalize the land noise. Yes, there is such a good thing as good land noise, but this really isnt it in those biomes. At least in those screenshots.

Overall a solid 6/10 for a biome mod. Would try!

I'm going to clean up the grass biomes and some others. I have already started doing some clean up. I am not to fond of it as I'm exploring my own worlds.

Updated mod to v0.5.4! Added 8 pictures and added an old 1.5.2 release for those who want it.

Quote from ILoveGadgets

Looking great so far.

I like the fact that it keeps to vanilla materials instead of adding hundreds of new "incompatible with everything else" new blocks and items like other biome mods seem to.

If you can make it as beautiful as Biomes O Plenty while keeping it "vanilla", I think you will have a winner with this mod.

Please consider doing something in the Nether, when I saw what Biomes O Plenty has done to it, i was amazed, vanilla Nether is just boring.

Thanks! I will keep that in mind

I like the idea with nether stuff. I agree that the nether is boring so I will look into it and see what I can pull off.

Quote from oitsjustjose

I spend hours on teamspeak with Allstar602, and I can tell you that his biomes (all of them unless changed via his config) will generate villages, any biome that is mountainous will generate emeralds, and any flat biomes will spawn horses Hope this helps, and I agree, if he made a few custom trees that only used vanilla blocks but were amazing like BoP's or EBXL's, then he'd be 100% awesome!

Quote from ILoveGadgets

Spent an hour just walking around, its looking nice.

A few derpy trees on hills, 2x2 trees with one corner on a block and 3 in mid air, but apart from that it looks great.

Do villages spawn in this version? Didn't find any, but could just be a rubbish seed.

Also didn't see any horses, lots of pigs,sheep, cows and chickens.

Actually I changed the village thing a long time ago. I removed the config option, instead only biomes that make since for villages will spawn villages. I may add the config option back in later but as of right now it was bugged. Emeralds only spawn in black marshes, dunes, extreme dunes, and normal marshes since these biomes are very undesirable. I'm thinking about adding trees soon. Maybe in the update after next. Horses do spawn in flat biomes. I will update the forum post to include this information.

I like the idea of vanilla feel biomes. If this is compatable with Pam's Mods, it's a keeper! My only real dislike for vanilla is the number of ravines and caves that spawn after I settle somewhere cool.

How would I make a server with these biomes?

Quote from Wedhro

Those are the best biomes I've ever seen, better than Vanilla but still very minecrafty (as opposed to mods adding ridiculous biomes that just don't fit). Kinda reminds me of the pre-beta1.8 experience but with much better scenery. Thing I like the most: tree-sized trees; I just can't stand Notch's mini-trees anymore.

Some hint about future releases?

I will add a future release section with details about what I plan on adding and yeah I created this because I loved the old biome experience 1.7.3 had.

Quote from paramsey

How would I make a server with these biomes?

Just throw it into your server's mod folder after installing forge on your server jar like you do with your single player.

I hope one of the things you re-introduce is the extreme hills being above the cloud layer. I miss making variations of Machu Pichu and Shangri La. It was kind of cool having clouds drift around your feet.

Quote from asilyad

I hope one of the things you re-introduce is the extreme hills being above the cloud layer. I miss making variations of Machu Pichu and Shangri La. It was kind of cool having clouds drift around your feet.

They seem to vary with my current version. Some extreme biomes are really big and others are average. I have found some that touch the clouds but I will look into it and see if I can improve them.

hi i was wondering if i could add your mod to my modpack that i am releasing to the public soon? the modpacks theme is trying to model the game Terraria! please reply soon. if you wish to see the unpublic modpack go look on my channel CTC Gaming

Hey Allstar602,i found a cool seed, the seed is "7204542167307612514",this seed has two dungeon at start,i use latest version of your mod

if you want to see the dungeon is real or fake, check this out

first you will spawn here "http://postimg.org/image/ds482bsv1/"

then go straight to the down , you see a small island , look to right, there's a small cave,

"http://postimg.org/image/6ruirtg2v/"

go inside it then , you found the first dungeon! "http://postimg.org/image/ej9w9szvt/"

to the second dungeon ,go straight from the cave you entered,then you see four sugarcane in there,

"http://postimg.org/image/xsc0wxqcf/"

dig the sand like this "http://postimg.org/image/pn65qa67n/"

then you found the second dungeon! "http://postimg.org/image/ms3uomh19/"

so thats my founding,i think this seed will works , and sorry for my bad english .